The efficacy of drinking water infused with lantern grass
Jan 09, 2025
Source: Cainiu Health
Dr. Zhang Xiuhong
Introduction
The lantern plant (Physalis alkekengi L.) has a cold and cool nature and enters the lung meridian, among others, exerting significant heat-clearing and detoxifying effects. It effectively removes internal heat toxins and alleviates various symptoms caused by excessive heat toxicity, such as sore throat and swollen gums. Drinking an appropriate amount of lantern plant-infused water can reduce local redness, swelling, heat, and pain, assist the body in eliminating pathogenic heat toxins, and promote recovery. Additionally, lantern plant has the effect of resolving phlegm and relieving cough.
Drinking water infused with lantern grass generally has effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, promoting diuresis and relieving dysuria, reducing swelling and dissipating nodules, improving vision and removing eye opacity.
1. Clearing Heat and Detoxifying
Lantern grass is cold in nature and enters the lung meridian, possessing effective functions of clearing heat and detoxifying. It can efficiently eliminate internal heat toxins and alleviate various symptoms caused by excessive internal heat, such as sore throat and swollen gums. Drinking lantern grass-infused water appropriately can reduce local redness, swelling, heat, and pain, assist the body in expelling heat toxins, and promote recovery.
2. Resolving Phlegm and Relieving Cough
Lantern grass helps resolve phlegm and relieve cough, effectively alleviating symptoms such as cough due to lung heat and yellow, thick phlegm. Drinking lantern grass-infused water can clear heat from the lungs, promote free flow of lung qi, thin phlegm, and facilitate its expulsion, thus relieving cough symptoms.
3. Promoting Diuresis and Relieving Dysuria
Lantern grass promotes diuresis and relieves urinary discomfort by increasing urine production and excretion. For symptoms such as frequent urination, urgency, and painful urination caused by damp-heat accumulating in the bladder, drinking lantern grass-infused water can clear damp-heat from the bladder, alleviate burning sensations and pain in the urethra, promote smooth urination, and aid recovery.
4. Reducing Swelling and Dissipating Nodules
Lantern grass has effects of reducing swelling and dispersing nodules and can be used to treat various swellings and lumps. Drinking lantern grass-infused water can help alleviate local swelling and lumps through actions of clearing heat and toxins, resolving phlegm, and dispersing blood stasis, thus promoting the dissipation of swellings and relieving local discomfort.
5. Improving Vision and Removing Eye Opacity
Lantern grass improves vision and removes eye opacity, useful for conditions caused by liver heat rising upward or wind-heat disturbing upward, such as red, swollen, painful eyes and blurred vision. Drinking lantern grass-infused water appropriately can clear liver fire, disperse wind-heat, relieve redness, swelling, and pain in the eyes, promote the resolution of eye opacities, improve vision, and support eye health.
It is recommended to use lantern grass-infused water under the guidance of a physician, avoiding excessive intake. Maintain a light diet and avoid consuming spicy and irritating foods such as chili peppers, hot pot, and mustard.
