What are the effects and contraindications of summer grass?

Xia Gucao is a plant with certain medicinal value, especially in clearing the liver and improving eyesight. It can prevent dizziness and is also effective in treating lymph tuberculosis and goiter. It has a good effect in clearing urination and lowering blood pressure. It has a good anti-inflammatory and bactericidal effect. When using Xia Gucao to make tea, you should be aware of some taboos.

Effects of Prunella Vulgaris

1. Clear the liver and improve eyesight

Used for symptoms such as night pain in the eyes, photophobia and tearing, and dizziness.

2. Disperse stagnation and relieve pain

It can treat diseases such as lymph tuberculosis, goiter, scrofula, goiter, mastitis, breast cancer, etc.

3. Diuretic

Prunella vulgaris can clear urination and has a good effect on turbid urine and prostatitis.

4. Clear the brain and lower blood pressure

The water extract, ethanol-water extract and 30% ethanol extract of Prunella vulgaris have the effect of lowering blood pressure on anesthetized animals.

5. Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory

The decoction of Prunella vulgaris has inhibitory effects on Shigella dysenteriae, Salmonella typhi, Vibrio cholerae, Escherichia coli, Proteus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus, and has a broad antibacterial spectrum.

Taboos of drinking water soaked with Prunella vulgaris

First: Make the body resistant to drugs

We have told you that Prunella Vulgaris is a traditional Chinese medicinal material, so if taken for a long time it can easily cause side effects to the body and lead to drug resistance in the body, so the efficacy of Prunella Vulgaris will be reduced after taking it. Therefore, if there is no problem with your body, the editor does not recommend that you take Prunella Vulgaris for a long time.

Second: It is irritating to the stomach

Modern scientific research has found that Prunella Vulgaris contains saponins. If we take summer cypress for a long time, the saponin component will irritate the gastrointestinal tract, causing diarrhea or stomach pain.

Third: Side effects of Prunella Vulgaris on the body

Drinking summer cypress tea is not suitable for everyone, so some people will have allergic reactions after taking it, such as papules, erythema, itching all over the body, palpitations, shortness of breath, dizziness, and even some patients will experience gastrointestinal discomfort.