What are the benefits of drinking sour grass soaked in water?

Sour grass is also called nightshade. It is a plant with a particularly sour taste and is highly edible. It is a taste that most people have experienced as children. Nightshade appears sour because it contains active ingredients, vitamins. Therefore, this plant has certain health-care effects. Using sour grass to make tea is a good choice. Let’s take a look at the effects of drinking sour grass soaked in water.

Oxalis: A perennial herb with sparse, soft hairs all over the body; the stems are creeping or ascending and have many branches. Leaves are alternate, palmately compound with 3 leaflets, obcordate, and sessile.

The flowers are yellow and prefer a sunny, warm and humid environment. Semi-shade is suitable for hot areas in summer. It has strong drought resistance and is not cold-resistant. It can grow in general garden soil, but grows vigorously in sandy loam rich in humus. It has a short period of dormancy in summer. The whole plant is used as medicine, which has the effects of clearing away heat, detoxifying, reducing swelling and relieving diseases.

【Nature and flavor】 Sour, cold.

[return through] liver, lung and bladder meridians.

[Effects] Clears away heat and dampness, cools blood and disperses blood stasis, detoxifies and reduces swelling. It is mainly used to treat damp-heat diarrhea, dysentery, jaundice, stranguria, leucorrhea, hematemesis, epistaxis, hematuria, irregular menstruation, bruises, sore throat, carbuncles, erysipelas, eczema, scabies, hemorrhoids, measles, burns, snake and insect bites.

Clinical Application of Oxalis Sorrel

1. Treatment of insomnia: Take 10 jin of Physalis and 2 jin of pine needles, add 8000 ml of water, boil for 1 hour, filter and remove the residue. Take another jin of jujube, mash it, add 2000 ml of water and boil for 1 hour, filter and remove the residue. Mix the two liquids, add appropriate amount of sugar and preservatives and set aside. Take 15-20 ml each time, 3 times a day. After observing more than 5,000 cases, it was found to have certain sedative and hypnotic effects.

2. Treatment of infectious hepatitis: Take 1 liang of Oxalis and 1 liang of lean pork and stew them. Take 1 dose daily for 1 week. More than 20 cases were treated (some cases were treated with Chinese medicine compound), and all achieved certain therapeutic effects.

The above is an explanation of the benefits of drinking sour grass soaked in water. I hope you can understand it. The nutritional value of sour grass is high and can be eaten as a leisure and health product for people.