Fishweed is mainly used for clearing heat and removing toxins (removing heat and toxins from the body), diuretic and diaphoretic (improving the problem of incomplete urination and small amount of urine), and so on, and its use in boiled water also has the above effects.
Fishweed can be used as a traditional Chinese medicine, and its source is the dried above-ground part of Houttuynia cordata, family Sambucus, which mainly has the effects of clearing heat and removing toxins, inducing diuresis and diuresis, and eliminating canker sores and discharging pus (eliminating canker sores and discharging pus).
This product can be used for lung carbuncle spitting pus, lung-heat cough, heat sores and carbuncles (sores and carbuncles appearing on the surface of the skin due to excessive heat and toxicity in the body), damp-heat gonorrhea (increased frequency of urination, drenching and astringent pain), damp-heat diarrhea (diarrhea caused by the feeling of damp-heat), and so on.
It should be noted that the cold nature of fishweed, there is a cold syndrome and Yin evidence of sores and ulcers should be avoided, and part of the population to take, there may be dizziness, burning sensation in the heart and stomach upset and other adverse reactions, so it is not recommended to blindly drink water boiled with fishweed.