Fishweed is a heat-clearing traditional Chinese medicine, even if the brew can not replace the drug, and can not be used arbitrarily, cold deficiency and yin sores and ulcers should be avoided.
Fishweed in the clinical medicinal use of the choice is mainly the fresh grass or dry aboveground parts of the plant Houttuynia cordata of the family Sambucusaceae, there is a heat detoxification, elimination of carbuncle pus efficacy, can be used for the treatment of heat and toxicity caused by coughing, coughing phlegm, phlegm yellow and thick, chest pain, coughing and spitting pus and blood foul odor, sores and swelling and poisoning and other diseases.
Although the role of fishweed in water to drink is limited, can not replace the drug, but the drug is cold, so, can not be used arbitrarily, especially the cold and Yin sores and ulcers are strictly prohibited.
Specific medication should consult a doctor’s opinion.