The taste is slightly sweet to the meridians, slightly cool, and belongs to the lung and stomach meridians.
Indications: clearing away heat and promoting fluid production, relieving vexation and vomiting, relieving botulism, constipation, gout, clearing away lung-heat and quenching thirst, and promoting diuresis and stranguria.
Usage and dosage: 20-30g；; Appropriate amount for external use, decocted in water for 30 minutes and then washed with clear water.
Basic overview Chai Ye is Chai Ye. Firewood grows in tall grass beside irrigation ditches, aquatic or wet for many years, river banks and swamps. Chai Hua, leaves, roots, stems and bamboo shoots can all be used as medicine.
Morphological characteristics There are hairs or fine hairs on the leaves of firewood. Lingual hairs, long linear or long lanceolate leaves, arranged in two rows. Leaf length1.5-45cm and width1-3.5cm..
Distribution of origin firewood grows in swamps, river banks and waters near rivers and streams, often forming firewood ponds.
The custom of making tea with firewood leaves has a long history in China. Firewood tea made of fresh firewood leaves has a unique fragrance of aquatic plants, which is soft and elegant. According to legend, in the Ming Dynasty, China made tea with firewood.
Economic value "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that Chai Ye "cures cholera and vomits carbuncle"; Compendium of Materia Medica records that all kinds of botulism can be solved. The stems and roots of firewood are the most important drugs for treating febrile diseases in traditional Chinese medicine, which can clear away heat and promote fluid production, eliminate annoyance and stop vomiting, and are recorded in detail in ancient medical books. Chaiye tea is rich in flavonoids and is a natural antioxidant, which has the functions of lowering blood pressure, lowering blood sugar and resisting cancer. The classic "Daoyuan" records the merits of "burning Tibet and treating blood"; In addition to firewood leaves, wash it with onion and pepper soup to cure hair and back ulcers. Chai Hua stops bleeding and detoxifies, and treats epistaxis, bloody collapse and vomiting and diarrhea. "Materia Medica" records that it "cooks thick juice to poison fish and crabs." It is not only a good crystal in dishes, but also can cure thirst and gonorrhea. Wang Jiu Yao Jie says that it can "clear lung, quench thirst, induce diuresis and treat stranguria" [1]