The efficacy of cattail porridge

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Cattail porridge

【Source】 "Porridge Recipe"

[Ingredients] 15 grams of cattail and 100 grams of japonica rice.

[Preparation] First fry the cattail, remove the residue and take the juice, add rice to cook porridge.

【Usage】 Take on an empty stomach.

The efficacy of cattail porridge

【Efficacy】 It can regulate blood circulation, promote blood flow and stop bleeding. It is suitable for various bleeding diseases and abdominal pain caused by blood stasis after childbirth.

Clears away heat, cools blood, promotes diuresis and reduces swelling. Treats fatigue fever in pregnant women, bleeding during fetal movement, thirst, mouth sores, dysentery, gonorrhea, leucorrhea, edema, scrofula.

① "Ben Jing": It treats evil spirits in the five internal organs and under the heart, bad breath, strong teeth, bright eyesight and sharp hearing.

② "Daily Materia Medica": Removes heat and dryness, and promotes urination.

③Wang Ying's "Food Materia Medica": Eat it raw to stop thirst.

④ Yao Kecheng's "Food Materia Medica": "It can stop diarrhea, cough, lung wheezing and insomnia.

⑤ "Sui Xi Ju Diet": clears away heat, nourishes blood, eliminates carbuncle, relieves sore throat, and promotes bowel movements.

⑥ "Kaibao Materia Medica": Treats stranguria and swelling.

⑦ "Sichuan Chinese Materia Medica": It can eliminate edema, water accumulation, and relieve toothache.

① Treating maternal fatigue and fever, fetal bleeding, and restlessness in the hands and feet: squeeze the root of Typha lachryma-curcuma and take one or two liters of juice. (Collected Effective Prescriptions for Breastfeeding)

②Treatment of heat dysentery: 2 liang of cattail root (filed), 2 he of millet (washed). Add the above two ingredients to 3 cups of water, boil until 1.5 cups are left, remove the residue, divide into two portions and take warm, on an empty stomach, and take again at noon. (Cattail root soup in Shengji Zonglu)

③Treat spermatorrhea and leucorrhea: 1 liang each of pollen root and radix pollicis, 5 qian each of radix pollicis and radix millet, 4 qian each of radix scutellariae and radix scutellariae. Decoction in water, avoid taking during menstruation. (Commonly used herbal medicines in Zhejiang folk)

④ Treating damp-heat leucorrhea: stew chicken with cattail sprouts. (Sichuan Chinese Medicine Annals)