Xia Ku Cao, a Chinese herb that clears heat and removes fire. The textbook of “Traditional Chinese Medicine” introduces: it is the fruit spike of the perennial herb Xia Ku Cao, family Labiatae, produced all over China, mainly in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Henan and other places. It is cold in nature, bitter and pungent in taste, and belongs to the liver and gall bladder meridian. Its effects: clearing liver fire, dispersing depression, applied to: red eyes and swelling pain, headache and dizziness, scrofula and gall tumor, and is commonly used in modern times for hypertensive diseases with evidence of liver heat and hyperactivity, with the effect of clearing the liver and lowering blood pressure. Generally, plants sprout and grow in spring, and wither in autumn and winter, but Xia Ku Cao grows in winter and withers in summer, so it gets its name because of its special growth cycle. In summer, the fruit spikes of Xia Ku Cao are harvested when they are half withered and dried for medicine, but in Taiwan market, the whole herb is mostly used. (Research found that the stems, leaves, flowers and whole herbs of Xia Ku Cao have antihypertensive effect) Xia Ku Cao is an inexpensive herbal medicine that can treat diseases. I introduced in the clinical hypertension patients with Xia Gu Cao Cao boiled water as water to drink, as a complementary therapy, especially in summer, both as herbal tea, but also can lower blood pressure, after the summer, can also continue to drink as water, fine water to lower blood pressure, the effect is good, with the postponement of time, some hypertensive patients can also gradually reduce the dose of Western medicine to completely do not eat Western medicine, and finally use Xia Gu Cao tea to maintain the consolidation of blood pressure. Now introduce homemade Xia Gu Cao herbal tea: Xia Gu Cao 3—6 roots (a day’s dose), add the right amount of cold water (according to how much water to drink plus or minus), soak for about 1 hour, open a large fire and boil, switch to a low fire and cook for 30 minutes, add sugar or rock sugar in the right amount, then cook until the sugar melts and remove the slag to take the juice, you can drink at will. (outside advertising, supermarkets have to buy Wang Laoji herbal tea is made with Xia Ku Cao ingredients, a can of 4 yuan, a meal, do it yourself, cheap and clean, pure sugar without preservatives) Note: the spleen and stomach cold, you can add 1 – 2 red dates cooked together, can not drink cold, not too much at once; such as suspected Xia Ku Cao is not clean, you can use tap water to quickly rinse, never soak with water to wash, otherwise its hypotensive diuretic effect will be the same. Otherwise, its antihypertensive diuretic effect will be significantly reduced; Xia Gu Cao is susceptible to dampness and easy to mold and turn black after sweltering, where the color is black can not be eaten. Xia Ku Cao is available in hospitals and Chinese medicine stores, but you should go to a big Chinese medicine store to buy it, for quick turnaround and relatively good quality. Xia Ku Cao, people with high blood pressure can eat and people without high blood pressure can also drink it, only that people with high blood pressure should insist on it every day and people without high blood pressure can feel free. In addition to hypertension, atherosclerosis, hyperlipidemia, high blood viscosity, coughing and coughing with unpleasant mucus and phlegm, cysts, hemangioma, etc., can be tried.