What are the effects and functions of duckweed?

You can pay more attention to and learn more about the effects of duckweed. It can be used to treat colds, high fever, lung heat, cough and asthma. It can also clear away heat and cool blood, and promote diuresis. It can also help solve dysentery and enteritis.

1. Duck tongue grass is the whole plant of Duck tongue grass of the Pontederiaceae family. Duck tongue grass is a perennial herb, about 1 meter high. Rhizome short, nearly erect. The leaves are clustered or solitary, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 2 to 6 cm long, 1 to 5 cm wide, mucronate at the apex, and rounded or slightly heart-shaped at the base.

2. Dormancy and germination Seeds have a long dormancy period, and dormancy is released in early spring. The starting temperature for seed germination is 13-15℃, slightly higher than that of barnyard grass. Temperature change is conducive to germination. The optimum temperature is 20-25℃, and germination is inhibited above 30℃. Duck tongue grass is a typical aquatic weed that can germinate in the absence of oxygen and requires a high level of water. It germinates better under flooding or supersaturated soil conditions, and germinates more slowly under moist conditions. However, if the water layer exceeds 1 cm, germination becomes slower again.

3. Content: Every 100 grams of fresh duckweed contains 97 grams of water, 0.6 grams of protein, 0.1 grams of fat, 0.6 grams of cellulose, 40 milligrams of calcium, 80 milligrams of phosphorus, and also contains a variety of vitamins.

Efficacy: Clears heat; cools blood; diuretic; clears heat and detoxifies. Treat dysentery, enteritis, acute tonsillitis, gingival abscess, erysipelas, and furuncle.

4. Cold and high fever: cough and asthma due to lung heat; whooping cough; coughing up blood; vomiting blood; metrorrhagia; hematuria; stranguria; dysentery; enteritis; intestinal carbuncle; erysipelas; sores; sore throat; sore gums; red eyes due to wind and fire; snake bites; poisonous mushroom poisoning.

Dosage and Administration: For internal use: decoct 15-30 grams (30-60 grams for fresh product); or mash into juice. For external use: take appropriate amount and mash it for application.

5. Duckweed is a plant of the family Pontederiaceae. Its other names include duck's mouth, duckweed, fragrant head grass, pig's ear grass, and fat pig grass. It is mostly grown in humid areas or rice fields. Harvested in summer and autumn, dried and set aside. This product is cool in nature and bitter in taste, and has the function of clearing away heat and detoxifying. It is a folk herbal medicine for treating dysentery, enteritis, acute tonsillitis, gingival abscess, erysipelas and furuncle. According to the Jiangxi Herbal Medicine Handbook, fresh herbs can be pounded and applied to treat snake and insect bites; adding tung oil and pounding them can treat hemorrhoids.