Green cabbage treats cough and reduces phlegm

Green cabbage is also called green mustard, mustard green. Mustard green is a very familiar vegetable in daily meals.

Green mustard is also known as green mustard, mustard green. Mustard green is a very familiar vegetable in daily meals, with a variety of ways to prepare it such as eating raw, pickling or cooking soup with fish, meat, shrimp...

Green cabbage treats cough and reduces phlegm

Chinese cabbage has a spicy, warm taste and is very effective in eliminating phlegm caused by cold.

In traditional medicine, mustard seeds are used as medicine with the name "diet", with the same effect as black mustard seeds and white mustard seeds. Mustard seeds contain fatty oil, essential oil and mucus, sinigroside. Leaves contain protein, lipid, glucid, cellulose, carotene, vitamin C, amino acids, elements Ca, P, Fe. Pickled mustard greens contain water, protein, lactic acid, fiber, vitamin B, C... According to Oriental medicine, mustard has a spicy, warm taste; enters the lung meridian. Has the effect of warming and transforming cold phlegm (warming, eliminating phlegm due to cold, promoting qi, dispersing stagnation, relieving pain. Treating cold phlegm in the lungs, phlegm and dampness in the meridians, phlegm and lymph nodes... Dosage: 4 - 8g. For external use regardless of dosage.

Phlegm-reducing, cough-relieving: 4g mustard seeds, 12g perilla seeds, 12g radish seeds. Boil and drink. Used for diseases caused by cold phlegm stuck in the lungs, cough, asthma, lots of thin phlegm, chest pain.

Treat phlegm blockage, joint pain: 4g mustard seeds, 12g gac seeds, 12g myrrh, 12g cinnamon heart, 12g costus. Make into powder. Take 2 times a day, 4g each time, with warmed white wine.

Detoxify, reduce boils: mustard seeds, onions, equal doses. Grind mustard seeds into powder, add onion and mix until smooth, apply to boils or lymph nodes. Do this once a day until cured. Treats cold abscesses (yin letter), swollen lymph nodes, long-standing boils without a head. Or grind mustard seeds into powder, add a little vinegar, mix well, apply to newly developed boils.

Pickled cabbage and cabbage juice: used when the stomach lacks acid, has rumbling stomach, loose stools or when taking many oral antibiotics to regenerate beneficial bacteria in the intestines. Because pickled cabbage produces low heat, it is used as a dish for obese and diabetic people.

Contraindications: People with weak health, fever (heat in the qi), weak lungs, dry cough should not drink.

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