The role and efficacy of Imperata root

Imperata root is quite common in our daily life. This substance has certain medicinal value and can be used as medicine to treat many diseases. Thatch grass roots also have certain effects and functions on people's physical health. Of course, when applying them, you must also consider your own situation. White grass roots can be used to regulate the body and solve some diseases. So what are the specific functions and effects of white grass root?

1. Cooling blood and stopping bleeding

Imperata root is sweet in taste, cold in nature, and good at cooling blood and stopping bleeding. It is mainly used for blood disorders caused by external evils such as wind, heat, and dryness invading the human body, evil heat damaging the blood vessels, forcing blood to flow abnormally, or long-term illness or fever.

2. Clear away heat and relieve stranguria

It is often caused by eating too much spicy, hot, fatty and sweet food, or drinking too much alcohol, which leads to damp heat, which flows into the bladder and causes bladder qi transformation disorder. It is also caused by uncleanness of the lower body, which allows dirty damp evil to invade the bladder, causing damp heat and resulting in stranguria. The main symptoms of hot stranguria are: short and frequent urination, burning and stinging pain, yellow and red urine, cramps and distension in the lower abdomen, or chills and heat, bitter taste in the mouth, nausea, pain in the waist and abdomen, etc. Using Imperata root has the effect of clearing heat and promoting diuresis.

3. Damp-heat urinary retention

One of the effects of Imperata Root is clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, so it can be used for excess heat syndrome with difficulty urinating due to heat evil.

4. Diuresis and jaundice

As dampness and heat invade the human body, the body fails to discharge its energy and the heat overflows into the skin, causing jaundice. Or it may be due to the evil of epidemic heat, which fumigates the liver and gallbladder, making it unable to release the heat, causing stagnant heat to fail to transform and resulting in jaundice. Symptoms include bright yellow body and eyes like oranges, fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension, abdominal and flank pain, and yellow urine like strong tea. The application of Imperata root can clear away dampness and heat, promote diuresis, and reduce jaundice.

5. Dispel wind and promote diuresis

Wind-water edema is caused by external invasion of wind-heat evil, which lodges in the lungs. The lungs fail to descend and the water channels are blocked, resulting in wind blocking the water. The wind and water fight each other and overflow into the skin, causing edema. Its symptoms are: swollen eyelids, followed by swelling of the limbs and the whole body, with rapid onset, soreness and heaviness in the joints, difficulty urinating, or chills, fever, sore throat, yellow tongue coating, and rapid pulse. Use Imperata root to clear away wind-heat, promote diuresis and reduce swelling.