Cure sunstroke, heatstroke with pennywort

Boiled pennywort, cooked into soup, or blended to make a refreshing drink on hot days... is very good because pennywort is a medicinal herb with a cooling effect, a slightly bitter taste and a fragrant aroma.

Gotu kola helps cool the blood, reduce heat, nourish the liver, detoxify, stop bleeding, disinfect, and is diuretic. Treats liver disease, heat in the blood, nosebleeds, hemoptysis, dysentery, constipation, pimples, and prickly heat. Use 20-30g or more per day.

Medicines with pennywort

- Sunstroke: 60g fresh pennywort, 16g basil, 16g bamboo leaves, 16g kudzu leaves. 600ml water. Boil down to 300ml, divide into 2 doses a day, drink hot.

- Children with high fever and convulsions: 60g gotu kola, 60g eclipta prostrata. Crush and squeeze the juice to drink. Apply the pulp on the forehead and inside of the wrists.

- Stomach ache and heartburn: 500g pennywort, 160g turmeric, 16g licorice, 320g cuttlefish bone. Roast all until golden brown, grind finely, mix with honey and make pills the size of corn kernels. Take 40-50 pills per day.

- Treatment of bloody stools: Boil pennywort and lean pork in water and drink twice a day; 50ml each time.

- Treating edema: 80g of whole gotu kola plant, 80g of rush grass (dan tam thao). Boil enough water until 1/3 remains, drink twice a day before meals.

- Treatment of kidney and pyelonephritis: Gotu kola 600g, moneywort 300g, water 700ml. Boil down to 300ml. Drink 3 times a day, 2 tablespoons (30ml) each time.

- Treat constipation, dysentery: 30-40g fresh pennywort. Boil to drink, or crush to squeeze the juice, add a little lemon juice, drink.

- Cough, painful urination: Squeeze 30g of gotu kola to get the juice to drink or boil to drink.

- Frequent urination, difficult urination, little urination, hot, red and painful: 120g fresh gotu kola, 50g fresh bamboo shoots, wash and crush, add 1 cup of water, squeeze the juice and drink, twice a day.

- Inflammation, rash, prickly heat, boils, impetigo: Squeeze gotu kola juice and mix with a little sugar to drink.

- Back pain, stomachache, loss of appetite, lethargy: Gotu kola 30g, motherwort 8g, Cyperus rotundus 12g, Magnolia officinalis 12g. Boil 600ml of water down to 300ml, divide into 2 doses to drink during the day.

- Nosebleeds, bleeding gums: Gotu kola 30g, Eclipta prostrata 15g, Thuja orientalis 15g. Boil in water and drink twice a day.

- Boils, falls, injuries, sprains: Crush enough gotu kola and apply.

- Red eyes with pus, due to hot liver: 1 handful of pennywort, 1 handful of fish mint. Wash clean, add a little salt, crush, use tissue paper or gauze to wrap the medicine and apply to the eyes. At the same time, drink pennywort juice.

- Breast swelling and pain: 1 handful of pennywort, add a little brown sugar, crush and heat, then apply.

- Menstrual cramps (dysmenorrhea): Pick gotu kola when it is in bloom, dry it, grind it finely, store it in a sealed jar, and use gradually. Drink 2 teaspoons (10g) per day in the morning.

- Irregular menstruation: 300g gotu kola, squeeze to get the juice, 3g crushed alum. Mix all with coconut water (just enough) and drink during the day.

- Vaginal discharge: Grind dried pennywort into powder, drink 2 teaspoons every morning.

- Burns from fire or boiling water: Boil gotu kola into a paste and apply to the burn. Very effective, leaves no scars when healed.

- Treats hot, red, painful hands and feet, blisters, and itching all over the body: Crush pennywort and rub on the painful area, change the application once a day and night, and it will heal quickly.

According to Health & Life - NT