What is the efficacy of boiling water with reed rhizome?
Recently, I've been feeling dry mouth, sore throat, and frequent coughing. I heard from someone that drinking water boiled with reed rhizome is helpful. Is that true? What symptoms can reed rhizome water actually treat, and how effective is it?
Doctor's answer (1)
Generally, the efficacy of boiled reed rhizome (Lugen) includes clearing heat and fire, promoting body fluid production to relieve thirst, alleviating irritability and vomiting, moistening the lungs to relieve cough, and promoting urination to relieve dysuria.
1. Clearing Heat and Fire: Reed rhizome is cold in nature and can clear accumulated heat in the lungs and stomach. It helps alleviate symptoms such as fever, irritability, and thirst caused by excessive lung heat, as well as halitosis and swollen, painful gums caused by stomach heat.
2. Promoting Body Fluid Production and Relieving Thirst: It nourishes body fluids and promotes their production, improving symptoms of fluid deficiency such as dry mouth and tongue, and excessive thirst. It is particularly suitable for thirst caused by fluid damage from febrile diseases.
3. Alleviating Irritability and Relieving Vomiting: It clears stomach heat and stops vomiting. It has a regulatory effect on nausea, vomiting, and irritability caused by upward-flaming stomach heat.
4. Moistening the Lungs and Relieving Cough: It has a moistening effect on the lungs and helps alleviate cough due to lung heat, reducing symptoms such as coughing and phlegm production. It is especially suitable for dry cough with little or no phlegm, or thick phlegm.
5. Promoting Urination and Relieving Dysuria: It facilitates urine excretion and helps eliminate damp-heat in the lower jiao, improving urinary symptoms such as dark, scanty urine, and painful, burning urination.
Before using any herbal medicine, it is recommended to consult a qualified physician to ensure safety and effectiveness.
