The surprising medicinal uses of the yellow flowered tamarind plant

According to folk medicine, yellow flower tamarind has a sour taste and cold properties, has the effect of clearing heat, benefiting the lower body, cooling blood, dispersing blood stasis, reducing swelling, and detoxifying.

Image of yellow flower sorrel plant.

Sorrel is a grass that grows on the ground, often found in wet places (field edges, wild grasslands). The plant originates from Europe but is widely distributed, present in most countries.

There are many types of tamarind, however the yellow-flowered tamarind is often used as medicine. The yellow-flowered tamarind has a slender stem, usually light red in color, hairy stem, leaves with long petioles, usually bearing three thin heart-shaped leaves, flowers grow in clusters of two to three flowers, sometimes four yellow flowers. The fruit is oblong, the seeds are oval, dark brown.

The part used as medicine is the whole plant, usually used fresh, rarely used dried.

Yellow flower tar is often used to treat a number of diseases such as runny nose, sore throat, hepatitis, urinary tract disease, nervous breakdown, high blood pressure.

Simple remedies from the sorrel plant can be used to treat diseases:

1.Cure high fever, restlessness and thirst: Wash a handful of yellow tamarind flowers, crush, add boiled water to cool, squeeze to get the juice and divide it into portions to drink gradually.

2. Sore throat: 50g fresh yellow flower tamarind, wash, add a little salt (2g), chew and swallow slowly.

3.Sedative, cure insomnia: use 20g of yellow flower tamarind, 6g of horsetail pine leaves (put in a pot to boil, divide into 3 times to drink during the day).

4.Cure high blood pressure: 30g of yellow flower tamarind, 10g of dried grass, 15g of yellow chrysanthemum, boil and drink during the day.

5. Cure jaundice due to hepatitis: 30g of fresh yellow flower tamarind, boil to get the water, divide into 2-3 times, drink during the day.

6.Cure dysentery: Dry yellow flower tamarind, grind into fine powder, drink 3 times a day (9g - 12g each time), use boiling water to drink the medicine.

7.Prickly heat, itching: take tamarind leaves, wash, crush, rub on itchy area.

Although it has many effects, there are also some notes: When using it for a long time, you need to be careful because it can cause kidney stones, so people with kidney stones should not use it.

According to Alobacsi.vn