8 Benefits of Taking Reed Root Chinese Herb

Reed root, also known as reed head, grows in rivers, lakes, ponds, ditches, and low wetlands. Reed root is the fresh or dry rhizome of monocot grass Phragmites reed. It can be excavated in late spring, early summer and autumn, wash the soil, cut off the residual stems and fibrous roots, peel off the film, cut into sections and dry in the sun, or use fresh, or pound the juice for consumption.

Modern medicine has proved that fresh reed root contains protein, vitamins B1, B2, C, asparagine, polysaccharides, furfural and water-soluble sugars. It has the effects of antipyretic, analgesic, improving immunity, lowering blood pressure, sedation, and antitumor. It can be used for fever, polydipsia, pneumonia, lung abscess, bronchitis and other diseases.

The efficacy and function of reed root

1. Improve digestion

Reed root is rich in mucopolysaccharides. After this substance is absorbed by the human body, it can promote the secretion of various glands in the human body, and can significantly increase the amount of digestive juices such as saliva, gastric juice, and intestinal juice in the human body. At the same time, it is mild to the human stomach. Stimulating effect can speed up gastrointestinal motility, regular consumption can improve human gastrointestinal digestive function, and can prevent and relieve human indigestion and loss of appetite.

2. Clear heat and promote body fluid

Clearing heat and promoting body fluid is an important effect of traditional Chinese medicine reed rhizome. It can not only clear away lung heat, but also reduce phlegm and relieve cough. In addition, people can take the traditional Chinese medicine reed rhizome in time when they have fever, polydipsia and body fluid loss due to fever, which can quickly relieve the discomfort symptoms caused by fever.

3. Clear heat and relieve summer heat

Reed rhizome is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine with slightly cold nature. Its main function is to clear away heat and relieve heat. In summer, people use it to boil water and drink it directly, which can prevent the symptoms of heatstroke. It can make the weakness and nausea and chest tightness after heatstroke disappear quickly.

4. Stone removal, detoxification

Modern pharmacological studies have found that reed root contains a large amount of asparagine, sugar, protein and other nutrients, and has the function of dissolving gallstones, and can also relieve fish, crab, and puffer fish poisoning. The specific method for treating stones is: select 3-4 white shoots from fresh reed rhizomes, wash them, chew and swallow them carefully, and 4 hours after eating, decoct 50 ml of water with 30 grams of Mu Tong, and take it twice, and after 6 hours Stones can be expelled. If the stones are not discharged, take it in the same way, once a day, and the stones will be discharged after taking it for 3-5 days.

5. Anti-inflammatory and sterilizing

Anti-inflammatory, bactericidal and anti-virus is also an important effect of traditional Chinese medicine reed rhizome. It has a clear effect on eliminating Staphylococcus aureus in the human body. It has certain therapeutic effects on upper respiratory tract infection, sore throat and hoarseness caused by this bacteria. In addition, when people have dry mouth and throat, sore mouth and tongue, and swollen gums, taking Chinese medicine reed rhizome in time can also play a certain therapeutic effect.

6. Treat dry mouth and eyes

To treat dry mouth and eyes in Sjogren's syndrome, adding reed rhizome to the compound recipe can help saliva secretion and improve the symptoms of dry mouth and throat, which seems to be more effective than dendrobium. Fresh reed root is better than dry reed root, and should be used together with raw land and radix japonicus.

7. Make drinks and medicinal meals

Decocting soup instead of tea can be used to clear away heat and quench thirst in summer, and to moisten dryness in autumn. The reed rhizome soup is sweet and moist, and can be brewed with tea leaves as a drink.

8. Inhibitory effect on skeletal muscle

Coixin contained in it has an inhibitory effect on skeletal muscle, can inhibit the contraction response caused by electrical stimulation of frog neuromuscular specimens and the oxygen uptake and anaerobic glycolysis of rat diaphragm, and can inhibit actin-adenosine triphosphate The reaction of glucoside system, and relatively weak central inhibitory effect, manifested as a sedative effect on rats and mice, and can be antagonized with caffeine.