Efficacy, Function and Taboo of Phragmites communis

Reed root is the underground stem of Gramineae perennial grass reed. It is distributed in the north and south of China, and it is more common in shallow water areas along rivers and ponds. Let me introduce the efficacy, functions and taboos of reed, hoping to help you.

Efficacy and function of reed root: clearing away heat and promoting fluid production.

This product can clear lung heat, eliminate phlegm and turbidity, and can be used for cough due to lung heat caused by wind-heat invading the lung, and it is difficult to produce thick phlegm. This taste is sweet, can produce fluid, cold can clear away heat, and can be used for those who are thirsty due to heat. If fresh reed root juice is used, the power of clearing away heat and promoting fluid production is even greater.

Clearing stomach and stopping vomiting.

This product is used with bamboo shavings to treat vomiting and hiccup caused by stomach heat.

Produce liquid.

The traditional classification of reed roots has the effect of clearing heat in the section of clearing heat and purging fire. But in fact, it is weak in purging fire, but the effect of nourishing stomach and promoting fluid production is obvious. Therefore, reed rhizome is moved to the section of nourishing yin drugs. In ancient times, there was no infusion condition, so the prescription for treating fever was put into reed root to help solve the problem of fluid injury and fluid loss. Modern febrile diseases correct water-electrolyte balance by infusion. The patient still has dry mouth, loss of appetite, red tongue and insufficient body fluid. Reed root nourishes the stomach and produces body fluid, replacing tea with soup, which can not only eliminate the symptoms of dry mouth and loss of appetite, but also improve immune function and accelerate physical recovery.

Treat xerostomia.

To treat Sjogren's syndrome with dry mouth and dry eyes, adding Rhizoma Phragmitis to the compound prescription is helpful to saliva secretion and improve the symptoms of dry mouth and throat, which seems to be more effective than Dendrobium. Fresh reed rhizome is superior to dry reed rhizome, so it should be used together with Radix Rehmanniae and Radix Ophiopogonis.

Make drinks and medicated diets.

Decocting soup instead of tea can clear away heat and quench thirst in summer and moisten dryness in autumn. Reed root soup is sweet and moist, and can be soaked with tea.

It has inhibitory effect on skeletal muscle.

Coix lachryma-jobi has inhibitory effect on skeletal muscle, can inhibit the contraction reaction caused by electrical stimulation of frog neuromuscular specimens, oxygen uptake and anaerobic glycolysis of rat diaphragm, can inhibit the reaction of actin-adenosine triphosphate system, and has weak central inhibitory effect, indicating that it has sedative effect on rats and mice and can antagonize caffeine.

Treat heat stranguria and astringent pain.

Phragmites communis has the function of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, and can be used to treat heat stranguria pain and short and red urine. Often used with cogongrass rhizome and plantain seed.

People with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should not eat reed roots.

Materia Medica: "Do not take it because of cold cholera."

The formula of reed rhizome is 1. Quenching thirst: reed rhizome15g, Ophiopogon japonicus, Lycium barbarum bark and Poria cocos 9g each, and dried tangerine peel 4g, decocted and taken. (Anhui Chinese herbal medicine)

2. Treatment of pertussis and hemoptysis: (reed) 30g, Selaginella 6g, butterfly 6g, cowhide jelly 7.5g, decocted in water. (Hunan Pharmacology)

3. Treatment of lobar pneumonia, high fever, polydipsia, asthma and cough: reed rhizome 30g, ephedra 3g, licorice 6g, almond 9g, gypsum 15g. Decoct with water. (Ningxia Handbook of Chinese Herbal Medicine)

4. Treatment of hematemesis due to lung abscess: fresh reed rhizome 1000g, stewed pig heart and lung. (Chongqing herbal medicine)

5. Treatment of lung abscess, cough, foul smell and purulent sputum: 30g of reed rhizome, 9g of coix seed, 9g of winter melon seed, 9g of peach kernel and 9g of platycodon grandiflorum. Decoct with water. (Ningxia Handbook of Chinese Herbal Medicine)

6. Treatment of bone steaming, lung flaccidity and dysphoria: 500g of Phragmites communis (descaling), 500g of Ophiopogon japonicus (removing heart), 500g of Lycium barbarum bark, 500g of ginger (cutting together), 250g of dried tangerine peel and poria cocos.

7. Treatment of five choking, qi stagnation in the heart diaphragm, boredom and vomiting, no food: 250 grams of reed rhizome, three cups of water, two cups of boiling water, and warm clothes from time to time. (synopsis of the golden chamber jade letter)

8. Vomiting and nausea after typhoid fever, retching can't be eaten: raw reed rhizome (cut) and green bamboo ruge 1 liter, three-in-one japonica rice, ginger150g. Four flavors, five liters of water, two and a half liters of water, and you can drink whatever you want. ("Qian Jin Fang Yao" Lugen Drink)

9. Treating vomiting and upset fever in children: 50 grams of raw reed root. Clean, use a liter of water, fry for seven times, remove me and Redmi once, and cook porridge in the juice. ("Physician's Heart Guide" raw reed root porridge)

10. For the treatment of pregnancy vomiting, do not eat and spit water: raw reed rhizome is ten points, dried tangerine peel is four points, ginger is six points, and betel nut is two points. Take two liters of water, fry for seven times and take it on an empty stomach. (Economic Efficiency Produces Wealth)

1 1. Rhizoma Phragmitis radically cures postpartum vomiting, cholera and abdominal pain: 50g of Rhizoma Phragmitis, 50g of ginseng and 50g of loquat leaves. Put it on a sieve, take 25 grams each time, a glass of water and a half, fry for eight minutes, remove me, and take it warm, regardless of time. ("Puji Fang" Lugen Drink)

12. Sour water for treating epigastric pain: reed root 15g, camphor tree root 9g. Boil water twice a day. (Guizhou herbs)

13. Measles cannot be cured:

① 30g reed rhizome and 9g tamarisk. Decoct with water. (Shandong Handbook of Chinese Herbal Medicine)

② Proper amount of reed root and coriander. Fry yourself with thick liquid. (Qingdao Handbook of Chinese Herbal Medicine)

14. Treatment of scarlet fever: 30g of fresh reed rhizome and fresh cogongrass rhizome, and appropriate amount of sugar. Decoct with water and drink as tea. (Handbook of Chinese Herbal Medicine in Henan Province)

15. Treatment of sore throat: fresh reed rhizome, mashed and juiced, and mixed with honey. (Quanzhou materia medica)

16. treatment of aphtha: reed rhizome 200g, cortex phellodendri 150g, cimicifugae Rhizoma 150g, five or two. Cut four flavors, use four liters of water, boil two liters, get rid of my things and get a cup. It contains extreme cold vomiting and more. ("Wei Tai" quoted "Ji Jianfang")

17. Treatment of gingival bleeding: (Phragmites communis) decocted in water without drinking tea. (Hunan Pharmacology)

18. Wind-fire tooth treatment: fresh reed root 60g, willow root 60g, Vitex negundo root 30g, roadside ginger 30g, and February soaking root 18g. Decoct with water. (Chongqing herbal medicine)

19. eye swelling treatment: reed rhizome 250g, licorice (fried) 50g, three-in-one millet, and sweet bamboo shavings as big as chicken eggs. Serve in four flavors and file like beans. Every 25 grams, two glasses of water, fry one cup, except me, and take it warm after meals for three days. (Lu Gentang's "Sheng Ji Zong Lu")

20. Treatment of dry stool: Rhizoma Phragmitis, Prunella vulgaris, honey 15g, Radix et Rhizoma Rhei, Fructus Gleditsiae Abnormalis and Flos Lonicerae 6g. Cook clothes. (Guizhou herbs)

According to legend, there was once a poor family named Tian. One year at the turn of autumn and winter, because the child was cold and flushed, he couldn't sleep. The poor man hurried to the drugstore in the town to buy medicine. The drugstore owner nicknamed "Black Heart with Knife" said slowly to the poor. If you want to reduce your fever, you have to eat antelope horn. Without antelope horn, the fever can't be reduced. ? The poor quickly asked:? How much is antelope horn? Black-hearted knife said? A fever costs five cents antelope horn, precious medicinal materials, one cent and one liang, and five cents and five liang of silver. ? How can the poor get so much money? Ask for less money from the black-hearted knife. The dirty knife's face fell and said, poor guy, don't come if you can't afford medicine. I don't want to sell it to you yet! ? The poor are very angry, but there is nothing they can do. In desperation, they had to submit to humiliation and walk out of the drugstore. The poor man met a beggar as soon as he walked out of the drugstore.