The benefits of eating horseweed

Every year in late spring and early summer, you can see many people picking horseweed in the fields or forests. Horseweed is a green herb belonging to the Portulacaceae family. It has a very strong vitality. It can be eaten as a vegetable or used as medicine. It is now the most commonly eaten wild vegetable. So what are the effects of horseweed? What diseases can it cure as medicine? I will tell you in detail later.

Efficacy and function

1. Edible effects

Now, horseweed can be eaten directly after harvesting. People blanch it in boiling water, cut it into sections, add garlic paste and seasonings, mix well and then eat it. It not only tastes fresh and tender, but also can supplement a variety of beneficial nutrients for the human body, especially carbohydrates, dietary fiber and vitamins. After eating, people can supplement nutrition, promote metabolism, and have great benefits for improving physical fitness.

2. Medicinal effects

After being harvested and dried, horseweed can be used directly as medicine. It can clear away heat and detoxify, disperse blood and reduce swelling. It is usually used to treat common diseases such as diarrhea, dysentery, hematuria and hot stranguria in humans, and the therapeutic effect is very obvious. In addition, horseweed has an excellent hemostatic effect after being used as medicine. People can also use horseweed to treat bloody stools and uterine bleeding in women, which can quickly improve or eliminate bleeding symptoms.

Medicinal value

1. Prevent bacillary dysentery

Qian is the peak season for bacillary dysentery. People who eat more spicy dishes can effectively prevent the occurrence of this disease. When eating, you can take fresh horseradish, wash and chop it, then add 1500 grams of water to every 500 grams of horseradish, put it into a pan and boil it. Take out the decocted medicine and take it three times a day. Take it continuously for 5 to 7 days, which can effectively prevent the occurrence of bacillary dysentery.

2. Treatment of acute appendicitis

Horseradish also has a significant therapeutic effect on acute appendicitis in humans. During treatment, you can take 2 taels of dried horseradish and dandelion, put them together in a pot, add water to boil them to get the medicinal liquid, and then take it twice a day. For most patients, the abdominal pain caused by appendicitis can be significantly improved after three days of medication, and the body temperature and the number of white blood cells in the body will return to normal after another 8 to 10 days of taking it.