The Effects and Benefits of Anti-Tumor Rehmannia and Four Great Benefits of Drinking It as an Infusion Plus the Best Ways to Eat It
Rehmannia is a common herb in daily life with anti-tumor benefits. In everyday life, many people buy Rehmannia from pharmacies to eat. So what are the effects and benefits of Rehmannia? How is it best eaten? What are the benefits of drinking it as an infusion?
1. The Effects and Benefits of Prepared Rehmannia
Prepared Rehmannia is mainly produced in Henan, Zhejiang and other places in China, and is used as medicine after steaming and sun-drying.
1. The Effects and Benefits of Prepared Rehmannia
(1.1) The effects and benefits of Prepared Rehmannia: nourishing yin and enriching blood
(1.2) The effects and benefits of Prepared Rehmannia: benefiting essence and replenishing marrow
(1.3) The effects and benefits of Prepared Rehmannia: soreness and weakness of the waist and knees
(1.4) The effects and benefits of Prepared Rehmannia: steaming bone and tidal fever
(1.5) The effects and benefits of Prepared Rehmannia: night sweats and seminal emission
(1.6) The effects and benefits of Prepared Rehmannia: internal heat and wasting-thirst
(1.7) The effects and benefits of Prepared Rehmannia: blood-deficiency sallow complexion
(1.8) The effects and benefits of Prepared Rehmannia: palpitations and severe palpitations
(1.9) The effects and benefits of Prepared Rehmannia: irregular menstruation
(1.10) The effects and benefits of Prepared Rehmannia: abnormal uterine bleeding
(1.11) The effects and benefits of Prepared Rehmannia: dizziness, tinnitus, and premature greying of hair and beard
2. The Effects and Benefits of Raw Rehmannia
(2.1) The effects and benefits of Raw Rehmannia: clearing heat and promoting fluid production, cooling blood, and stopping bleeding.
(2.2) The effects and benefits of Raw Rehmannia: used for yin damage from febrile disease.
(2.3) The effects and benefits of Raw Rehmannia: used for a crimson tongue with restlessness and thirst.
(2.4) The effects and benefits of Raw Rehmannia: used for skin eruptions and rashes.
(2.5) The effects and benefits of Raw Rehmannia: used for vomiting blood, nosebleeds, and sore, swollen throat.
(2.6) The effects and benefits of Raw Rehmannia: clearing heat and cooling blood.
(2.7) The effects and benefits of Raw Rehmannia: nourishing yin and promoting fluid production.
2. How Is Rehmannia Best Eaten
1. Honey Rehmannia Congee
Cooking method: Take 5000 grams of fresh Rehmannia unearthed in October, wash and mash it for juice; for every 500 grams of juice add 120 grams of white honey, simmer into a paste and store it sealed, using 10 grams each time. Cook about 50 grams of rice into congee; when the congee is done, add 10 grams of Rehmannia paste and a little ghee.
Usage: Eat on an empty stomach every morning and evening.
2. Ginger Juice Rehmannia Congee
Ingredients: 50 ml Rehmannia juice (or 50 g dried Rehmannia), 50 g rice, 3 slices ginger.
Method: Wash fresh Rehmannia, cut into sections, and squeeze out the juice; or decoct dried Rehmannia in water and take the juice for later use. Rinse the rice clean, put it in a pot with the ginger, add an appropriate amount of clear water and cook into congee; when nearly done, stir in the Rehmannia decoction or fresh Rehmannia juice, bring to one or two more boils, and it is ready. Take 1 dose daily for 3 to 5 consecutive days.
3. What Are the Benefits of Drinking Rehmannia as an Infusion?
1. Boosting immunity
Studies have shown that Rehmannia soaked in liquor has the effect of promoting the synthesis of lymphocytes and DNA proteins, improving the function of immune cells, and strengthening the immune system's ability to resist viruses. Moreover, Rehmannia's Zengye Decoction can reduce hyperactive humoral immunity and has an immunosuppressive effect; its active components are sterols. Therefore, Raw Rehmannia can improve the human body's immunity, enabling our immune system to better resist viruses.
2. Lowering body temperature
A substance in Rehmannia can control our body temperature center, and by controlling the body temperature center it achieves the effect of lowering body temperature. In addition, it can be used together with herbs such as Dendrobium and Phragmites root, restoring to normal the condition of yin-deficiency internal heat caused by hyperactive metabolic function and excessively high endocrine function, regulating the body's temperature, and reducing fever.
3. Strengthening the heart and nourishing blood
Drinking Rehmannia soaked in liquor has a cardiotonic effect, strengthening the heart for patients with poor heart function or heart failure. At the same time, Rehmannia can also promote urination; its diuretic principle is related to cardiotonic dilation of the renal blood vessels. After soaking in liquor, some components of Rehmannia can stimulate the bone marrow, increasing red blood cells, hemoglobin, and platelets, stimulating the function of the hematopoietic system, and improving the blood's metabolic capacity.
4. Clearing heat and reducing internal fire
Rehmannia liquor can help the body reduce internal fire. For problems such as difficult or dry stools caused by excessive internal fire - many people's facial acne and pimples are mostly caused by excessive internal fire - in addition to using Rehmannia soaked in liquor, we should not usually eat overly spicy food, so as to reduce fire without generating more of it. Fried foods from street stalls should also be eaten less.