Lemongrass - Antibacterial, anti-inflammatory
Lemongrass has a spicy, aromatic taste, warm properties, has the effect of inducing sweating, antiseptic, anti-inflammatory...
Lemongrass is widely grown in rural areas, especially in family medicinal gardens and commune health stations, from the plains to the mountains. The plant is also grown on a farm scale in Thai Nguyen, Vinh Phuc, Dak Lak, and Tay Ninh to extract essential oils for export.
In food, lemongrass is a familiar spice used raw or marinated to add flavor to dishes made from pork and dog meat. In medicine, lemongrass has two uses: prevention and treatment.
In terms of disease prevention, people in mountainous areas often pickle lemongrass shoots to prevent malaria and malaria. Women also boil lemongrass leaves to wash their hair to make it fragrant, remove dandruff, and smooth hair, preventing hair and scalp diseases. People plant lemongrass around their houses, in their gardens, and around their toilets to repel flies, mosquitoes, gnats, and fleas, both cleaning the environment and preventing disease. In addition, lemongrass essential oil also eliminates odors during cleaning.
In terms of treatment, in traditional medicine and folk experience, lemongrass is used with the medicinal name of huong mao or huong thao. The medicinal herb has a spicy, aromatic taste, warm properties, and has the effect of inducing sweating, disinfecting, anti-inflammatory, lowering gas, diuretic, and expectorant.
Leaf:Often used in combination with other drugs in the following cases:
Cure bloating, skinny limbs: Lemongrass leaves 12g; grapefruit peel, star anise, Alisma orientalis, Atractylodes macrocephala, rush grass, each 10g; cinnamon 5g; soot, saltpeter, each 2g; musk 0.05g. Boil all in 200ml of water for 15-30 minutes, then drink twice a day. Avoid eating sticky rice and salty foods. Eat a few pieces of sugarcane before taking the medicine to avoid a sore throat.
Cold medicine: Lemongrass leaves, grapefruit leaves, lemon leaves, chrysanthemum, basil or eucalyptus leaves (can add perilla, mint, and Vietnamese balm), each 50g, put in a pot, cover tightly, boil for 5-10 minutes. Take out, open the lid, cover with a blanket, steam to sweat, dry, then drink a bowl of medicinal water, cover with a blanket, and lie down to rest.
Treatment of leg edema, little urination, and low back pain:100g lemongrass leaves, 50g each of scratchgrass roots, cogon grass roots or plantain flowers. Wash all, chop finely, dry, boil with 400ml of water until 100ml remains, drink twice a day. Use for 3-4 days.
Root:Used separately, take fresh roots, crush, rub on eczema to treat facial eczema in children.
Use in combination
Cure diarrhea: 10g lemongrass root; 8g each of bear root and rhubarb bark; 6g each of tangerine peel and magnolia bark; decoct to drink. Or 10g lemongrass root, 8g guava buds, 8g old galangal, finely chopped, stir-fried, decoct to concentrate and drink.
Treatment of stomach and duodenal pain:10g roasted lemongrass root; 10g burnt rice bran; 8g roasted Cyperus rotundus; 6g roasted Magnolia bark soaked in ginger juice; 4g each of Atractylodes Rhizome and roasted galangal; 1 crispy dried pig stomach. Crush all ingredients, sift into fine powder, take 12g per day with warm water.
Cough treatment: Lemongrass root, tangerine peel, ginger, perilla seeds, each 250g (crushed these 4 ingredients, soaked in 40o alcohol to get 200ml); cored and chopped fritillary bulb, dried 500g; cored ophiopogon japonicus 300g; honey-soaked tangerine peel, roasted until golden brown 200g (boil and concentrate these 3 ingredients into 300ml of liquid extract). Mix the liquid extract and medicinal alcohol. Drink 2-3 times a day, 10ml each time.
For external use, thinly slice lemongrass roots, dry, grind into powder, mix with alum and apply to treat gum ulcers and underarm odor.
Essential Oils: Extracted from lemongrass leaves and roots, used orally, 3-6 drops each time mixed with milk and water to form an emulsion, has the effect of clearing flatulence, preventing vomiting, reducing pain, treating bloating, abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea. In some European countries, sweetened lemongrass water is a refreshing, cooling drink that many people love.
Used externally, lemongrass essential oil combined with many other essential oils for massage to relieve bone pain, body aches, and fatigue. Applied to the skin or sprayed indoors, lemongrass oil is a mosquito, flea, and tick repellent.
According to foreign documents, in India, lemongrass is used to flavor food, and lemongrass leaf water is used to quench thirst.
According to Health & Life - NT
