Effects of Huoxiang soaked in water

Huoxiang is a relatively common herb and a common Chinese medicinal material. Its fruit can be made into spices, and its leaves and stems can be made into volatile aromatic oils, which are very effective in regulating qi and digesting food in the stomach. It also has the effects of stopping vomiting and diarrhea. For pregnant women, it can prevent vomiting during pregnancy. The Huoxiang we know generally has the effect of eliminating and preventing heatstroke.

The effects and functions of Patchouli soaked in water.

1. Eliminate dampness from the spleen, regulate qi and harmonize the stomach: used for dampness blocking the spleen and stomach, abdominal distension, and the initial onset of damp-heat. If dampness blocks the middle burner, causing abdominal distension and poor appetite, use it together with Perilla frutescens and others. If dampness-heat is just beginning, use it together with peppermint, Artemisia capillaris, Scutellaria baicalensis and others.

2. Anti-vomiting and anti-diarrhea: used for vomiting, diarrhea, etc. If you suffer from filthiness, vomiting, and diarrhea, you can use it together with perilla leaves, pinellia, magnolia bark, and tangerine peel. If you have stomach cold and vomiting, you can use it together with pinellia. If you have damp heat, you can use it together with coptis root and bamboo shavings. If you have weak spleen and stomach, you can use codonopsis and licorice. If you have vomiting during pregnancy, you can use it together with amomum.

3. Relieve heat: Used for summer-heat and dampness syndrome. It can be used to treat summer-heat and dampness, regardless of whether the condition is cold or hot. It is often used together with Perilla frutescens in clinical practice.

4. Diaphoresis and diaphoresis: used for fever and chills, fever and chills, chest and abdominal fullness and stuffiness. Combined with perilla and tangerine peel.

5. Improve eyesight: Vitamin A plays a very important role in the development of the eyes, synthesizing photosensitive substances in retinal rod cells. Improve the eyes' disease resistance and prevent night blindness.

6. Other effects: For the treatment of nasal sinusitis, it can often be used together with pig bile.

How to eat

Patchouli can not only be used to make tea and medicine, but also to cook. I remember a snack called Patchouli Fish, which was made by wrapping red bean paste with Patchouli leaves and then frying it in oil. In other places in Nantong, there seemed to be desserts made with Patchouli. No one grows Patchouli on purpose; it grows in the streets and alleys of small towns and can be seen everywhere. Although it is inconspicuous, it is a part of people's lives.

In the hot summer, drinking a cup of Patchouli tea can not only cool you down and relieve heat, but also has the aromatic effect of removing dampness, soothing the stomach, stopping vomiting, and treating dizziness, chest tightness, and loss of appetite. Pick a few Patchouli leaves and brew them with boiling water. A unique fragrance will rush into your nasal cavity, and then the tea will slowly begin to turn light green, which is very beautiful.