The efficacy and medicinal value of water onion

What are the effects and medicinal value of water onion?

Water plantain is a plant of the Cyperaceae family. The stems of water plantain are straight, a bit like the green onions we usually eat. Although they look like them, water plantain is not edible and is generally cultivated as an ornamental plant. The part of water plantain that is above the ground can be used as a medicinal material. It has certain benefits on the human body. It can promote diuresis and help with urinary problems. What are the effects and medicinal value of water plantain? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. Introduction to Water Chestnut

Water plantain (scientific name: Scirpus validus Vahl) has a thick creeping rhizome with many fibrous roots. The culm is tall, cylindrical, and the uppermost leaf sheath has leaves. Leaves linear. Bract 1, an extension of the culm, erect, subulate, often shorter than the inflorescence, rarely slightly longer than the inflorescence; long lateral cymes simple or compound, pseudo-lateral; spikelets solitary or 2-3 clustered at the top of the radiating branches, ovate or oblong, with acute or obtuse apex, with many flowers; scales elliptic or broadly ovate, slightly concave at the apex, with mucrona, membranous; stamens 3, anthers linear, connective prominent; style medium long, stigmas 2, rarely 3, longer than style. The nutlets are obovate or elliptical, biconvex, rarely triangular, and about 2 mm long. Flowering and fruiting period is June to September. It is produced in many provinces of China and grows by lakes or in shallow ponds. It is also distributed in Korea, Japan, Australia, North and South America. It is cultivated for ornamental purposes in Beijing; in Yunnan, its stalks are often used as material for weaving umbrella mats.

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The main value of water plantain is its medicinal value and ecological ornamental value. Water plantain is a perennial aquatic herb of the Cyperaceae family. The stems are tall and straight, very similar to edible onions, but they are not edible. In nature, it often grows in swamps, ditches, poolsides, and shallow waters by lakes. It is distributed both at home and abroad. The above-ground part of water plantain can be used as medicine, harvested in summer and autumn, washed, cut into sections, and dried. It has diuretic and detumescent effects.

3. What are the effects and medicinal value of water onion?

It can be used to promote diuresis and reduce swelling. It is mainly used to treat edema and difficulty urinating.