Do you need to shell Luo Han Guo in water?

Luo Han Guo should be crushed when used, without removing the shell. However, the medicinal efficacy of the drug can be played in the water is limited, and single drug treatment effect is not good, it is recommended by a professional physician to identify the evidence after the preparation of the prescription group of drugs, and other medicines with a reasonable combination to improve the efficacy of the drug. Luo Han Guo is sweet in taste and cool in nature, belonging to the lung and large intestine meridian, with the effect of clearing heat and moistening the lungs (removing heat to moisturize the lungs), facilitating the pharynx to open up the voice, and lubricating the bowels to pass stools, which is used for the treatment of lung-heat and dry cough, sore throat and loss of voice, and intestinal dryness and constipation. This taste is sweet and cool, can clear lung heat, phlegm, diaphoretic pain, commonly used in phlegm cough, asthma, can be a single decoction, or often used with Baibu, Sangbai Pi, etc.; the treatment of sore throat and loss of voice, can be used alone to make tea to drink. In addition, this product is sweet and moist, into the large intestine meridian, can nourish yin and promote fluid, lubricate the intestines and laxatives, can be used for intestinal dryness and constipation. The adverse reactions and contraindications of this product are not clear. Discomfort should seek medical advice in a timely manner, under the guidance of the physician’s diagnosis and selection of medication, not self-medication, so as not to delay the condition.