Fritillary root can be eaten raw and is a medicinal plant. Folding Ear Root is an alias of the Chinese medicine Fishweed, which can be either dried for medicine or fresh for medicine or food.
Fishweed is the whole grass with roots of Houttuynia cordata in the genus Houttuynia of the family Houttuyniaceae. It is pungent in taste and slightly cold in nature, and has the effects of clearing heat and detoxification (removing heat and toxicity from the body), clearing lymph and diuresis, eliminating carbuncle and discharging pus (eliminating carbuncle and discharging pus), and so on.
Clinically used in the treatment of lung carbuncle cough pus, lung fever cough, sores carbuncle heat poisoning, damp-heat gonorrhea (increased urination, drenching astringent pain) and damp-heat diarrhea (diarrhea caused by feeling damp-heat evil) and so on.
Fishweed contains volatile oil, should not be fried for a long time, cold syndrome and yin evidence of sores and ulcers should not be served. Side effects are relatively mild, a small number of patients may occasionally experience dizziness, stomach discomfort, burning sensation in the heart socket, etc., and the symptoms will disappear on their own after stopping the medicine.
If you need to consume the root, you should be guided by a professional Chinese medicine practitioner in conjunction with the patient’s condition and constitution, and should not consume a large amount of it on your own or for a long period of time, so as to avoid any adverse effects.