Taking Fishweed can have the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying the body, and is not recommended for long-term use.
Fishweed is the whole grassy upper part of Houttuynia cordata, family Sambucus, is a Chinese herbal medicine, belongs to the clearing of heat and detoxification medicine, mainly produced in Zhejiang, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangsu. Fishweed is slightly cold in nature and pungent in flavor, and can enter the lung and bladder meridians.
Long-term use of Fishweed can help remove heat, detoxify, dissipate carbuncles and swellings, expel pus and poison, and diuretic and diaphoretic (improve the problem of dribbling in the urine, and the problem of insufficient and inaccessible urine volume). It can be used to treat phlegm-heat cough, carbuncle, boil and poison, feverish drenching (burning and stinging pain when urinating, accompanied by frequent urination and urgency, and discomfort of traction in the abdomen), lung carbuncle and vomiting of pus and other conditions.
Fishweed is slightly cold in nature, so it should not be taken by people with deficiency cold syndrome or yin sores, nor should it be used for a long time. In order to avoid taking it improperly and producing adverse reactions such as nausea and vomiting, please take it under the guidance of a professional doctor and do not take it on your own.