Speaking of dog tail grass, I believe that most rural people are particularly familiar with it, in fact, this plant has ornamental value and medicinal value.
Especially in the eyes of Chinese medicine, dog tail grass is a natural nutrition, in fact, in ancient medical books have been recorded, dog tail grass can remove dampness and swelling, clear liver and eyes, clear heat and fire.
Although the dog tail grass is not particularly eye-catching, but if it is used to boil water and drink, it will also bring more benefits to the body, so let's take a look at it today.
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Although the dog tail grass is inconspicuous, it is used to boil water to drink, or it will bring 4 benefits
Detoxify and detoxify
Dog tail grass can clear heat and detoxify, especially in the summer weather is particularly hot, many people will have heat and moisture in the body, which will affect the health of the body.
At this time, you can use dog tail grass to soak water to drink, can remove excess moisture and heat, but also can improve the symptoms of fire, such as mouth ulcers, when soaking water should first be cleaned, and then boiled with high heat for 30 minutes, can effectively detoxify.
Promotes wound healing
In life, some people will cause physical bumps due to carelessness, and the wound will be easy to bleed at this time. However, some people, due to their own reasons, clotting factors can not work, resulting in wounds can not heal quickly.
At this time, you can also use dog tail grass to soak water to drink, which can speed up blood circulation throughout the body, and can also remove stasis and speed up the healing speed of surface wounds.
Relieves eye strain
Most people have a mobile phone, especially when they are idle.
And many people will face the computer for a long time every day due to the relationship between work, but using electronic products for more than 8 hours will easily cause vision loss, and will also cause liver fire.
At this time, the dog tail grass can be boiled as a tea to drink, which can reduce liver fire, but also improve eye fatigue, avoid eye pain, dryness, and prevent myopia and dry eye disease.
Detoxification diuretic
In today's society, the pace of life is particularly fast, many people are not particularly concerned about diet, usually eat some roadside stalls or junk food, but some foods contain toxins, which will endanger health.
And dog tail grass can be detoxified, especially in the summer, some people do not like to drink boiled water, at this time can drink dog tail grass water, can detoxify diuretic, through the form of urination to help the body clean up toxins and garbage.
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Dog tail grass is good, pay attention to these matters
Use with caution in pregnant people
Because dog tail grass has a medicinal effect, it can not be used indiscriminately, especially if women have a special body during pregnancy, they should also avoid eating cold drugs or ingredients.
If it is used blindly during pregnancy, it will bring unnecessary trouble to the body, and it will also increase the burden on the body and affect the fetus in the abdomen.
Prevent allergy problems
If there is a wind fever and cold in the body, it can also exert its medicinal value through dog tail grass, but there are also some people who have allergies.
Because the pollen of dog tail grass is a source of allergies, especially when used, there will be symptoms of allergies, such as rashes and itching on the skin, which should be stopped immediately.
Pay attention to the amount of drinking
Dog tail grass has more effects, can clear heat and detoxification, is conducive to good health, but it is a cold ingredient, if excessive consumption, it will increase the burden of the stomach and intestines, easy to cause the problem of uterine cold, but also cause men easy to kidney deficiency.
When soaking water with the dog's tail, you should pay attention to the dosage, try to keep it at 5 to 10 grams, especially the amount of water should not exceed 500 ml.
Avoid drinking overly cold dog tail grass water
Chinese medicine said that dog tail grass is a cold plant, used to soak water to drink while hot, otherwise after cooling, it will cause cold to invade the body, which will affect the health of the stomach and intestines, and there will be adverse symptoms, such as abdominal pain, diarrhea and so on.