Lemongrass cures diseases

Lemongrass has a spicy, aromatic taste, warm properties, and has the effect of inducing sweating, antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, reducing gas, diuretic, and expectorant to treat bloating, frequent urination, swollen legs, and coughs caused by flu.

Lemongrass is also known as lemongrass, lemongrass leaves, and lemongrass. It is a perennial grass that grows in clumps. The rhizome is white or slightly purple. The leaves are narrow and long like rice leaves, with slightly rough edges. The whole plant has a special aroma.

Lemongrass is grown everywhere in our country. People plant lemongrass around their houses, in their gardens, and around their toilets to repel flies, mosquitoes, gnats, and fleas, both to clean the environment and to prevent disease.

In addition, lemongrass essential oil also deodorizes during cleaning. In addition to being used as a vegetable, spice (people often eat it raw or marinate dishes to make them fragrant), lemongrass is also a very effective medicine. The parts used as medicine are the leaves and roots of lemongrass, used fresh, dried or sun-dried.

According to Oriental medicine, lemongrass has a spicy, aromatic taste, warm properties, and has the effect of inducing sweating, antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, reducing gas, diuretic, and expectorant to treat bloating, frequent urination, swollen legs, and coughs caused by flu...

Prescription using lemongrass to cure diseases:

Lemongrass leaves:(Often used in combination with other medicines to treat diseases).

Treatment of bloating:Lemongrass leaves, grapefruit peel, star anise, Alisma orientalis, Atractylodes macrocephala, rush grass, each 10g; cinnamon 5g; soot, saltpeter, each 2g; musk 0.05g.

Boil all ingredients in 200ml of water for 15 - 30 minutes, divide into two doses per day. Should be taken after lunch and dinner. Drink for 2 days. Note: During treatment, do not eat sticky rice or salty foods.

Cold medicine:Lemongrass leaves, grapefruit leaves, lemon leaves, chrysanthemum, basil or eucalyptus leaves (can add perilla, mint, and Vietnamese balm), 50g each, 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 herbal water, cover with a blanket, and lie down to rest.

Treatment of leg edema and frequent urination: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.

Clean dandruff, smooth hair:Lemongrass leaves, basil leaves, grapefruit leaves..., each 30g, wash clean, boil with water, let it cool and wash your hair. You should wash your hair twice a week. Lemongrass shampoo not only makes your hair fragrant, removes dandruff but also prevents hair and scalp diseases.

Lemongrass root:(Can be used alone or in combination with other herbs).

Treatment of diarrhea due to cold stomach:10g lemongrass root; 8g bear root, 8g rhubarb bark; 6g tangerine peel, 6g magnolia bark, all boiled with 3 bowls of water until 1 bowl remains, drink while the medicine is still warm, preferably in the morning. Use within 2 days. Or 10g lemongrass root, 8g guava buds, 8g old galangal, finely chopped, stir-fried, boiled with 200ml of water until 50ml remains, drink after meals.

Cure cough due to flu:Lemongrass root, tangerine peel, ginger, perilla seeds, each 200g, crushed, soaked in 40-degree alcohol (200ml of alcohol); cored and chopped fritillary bulb, dried 400g; cored ophiopogon root, 200g; honey-soaked tangerine peel, roasted until golden brown, boil these 3 herbs to concentrate into 250ml of liquid extract. Mix the liquid extract and the alcohol. Drink 2-3 times a day, 5-10ml each time. Drink for 3 days.

According to Health and Life