The efficacy and action points of Imperata cylindrica

Imperata root, also known as Imperata root and Ru root, is the underground rhizome of the Imperata plant of the Poaceae family. It is harvested in autumn and spring, dried, and broken into pieces. It can be used as a traditional Chinese medicine for dispersing blood and activating blood circulation. In addition, it also has the effects of clearing away heat, detoxifying, promoting urination, and inhibiting bacteria. Next, let’s learn in detail the functions, effects and taboos of Imperata root. Imperata root is a plant of the Poaceae family. Let’s take a look at the effects of Imperata root.

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Imperata root is the dry underground stem of Imperata cylindrica of the Poaceae family.

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It tastes sweet and enters the lung, stomach and bladder meridians. It has the effects of dispersing blood, activating blood circulation, clearing away heat and detoxifying, and facilitating urination.

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It is mainly used to treat lung heat, shortness of breath, edema, jaundice and alcohol poisoning.

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According to the Compendium of Materia Medica, Imperata root has an excellent effect on removing bad breath and sobering up.

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Modern pharmacological research shows that Imperata root has a very good diuretic and water metabolism effect, and also has sedative, antipyretic, analgesic and other effects. The effect is best eaten fresh.

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Its effects are as follows: 1. Reduce fever and promote blood circulation. If you have a fever, boil water with Imperata root and drink it. It can not only reduce fever but also relieve the patient's dry mouth symptoms. For various bleeding symptoms such as blood in urine, nosebleeds, hemoptysis, traumatic bleeding, etc., Imperata root also has a very good blood circulation effect.

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2. To sober up, as recorded in Qianjin Fang; to sober up, the poison may damage the five internal organs, drink one liter of Imperata root juice. Drinking the decoction of Imperata root can sober you up. When you are drunk, take 15-30 grams of this product and decoct it in water to sober you up.

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3. Nourish yin and moisten the lungs, and treat wind-heat cough. Anyone who has eaten Imperata root knows that its appearance is segmented and there is a hollow pattern in the middle. Imperata root can open the lungs to balance the yin and yang of the lungs and connect all the meridians. Imperata root is a good thing as a whole. It is very similar in shape to lung alveoli. Because of its white color, according to traditional Chinese medicine, white color enters the lungs, so it can have the effect of nourishing yin and moistening the lungs. It is especially effective for wind-heat cough.

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4. Clearing away heat and detoxifying effects. The diet of modern people is dominated by spicy, sweet and fatty foods. Excessive drinking causes dampness and heat in the lower abdomen, resulting in red and yellow urine, burning and stinging pain. At this time, taking Imperata root has a very good relief effect.

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5. Antibacterial effect. Modern science has conducted antibacterial tests using Imperata root, and the application of Imperata root decoction has a significant inhibitory effect on Shigella dysenteriae and Shigella sonnei in in vitro fertilization. Although Imperata root is good, it has a cold nature, so people with weak spleen and stomach, diarrhea, and loose stools should not eat it.