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        H. cordata aka JiCai give ear, rotten vegetables, roots, for saururaceae perennial herb JiCai take root grass, all from the provinces south of the Yangtze river basin in China. The earliest name to see the doctors don't record. Song dynasty pharmacologist Su Song said: "born wetland, the valley in the shade can sprawl, such as buckwheat leaves and fat, stems purplish red, jiang left people produce food, the guanzhong of Zu dishes, lobe is obliged, therefore, commonly known as h. cordata." Su Gong song dynasty in the "Sue Shen Liangfang" also said: "born JiCai wetland valley in the shade, also to sprawl. Like buckwheat fat, leaves in stems purplish red. Shannan, jiang left people produce food. The guanzhong of Zu food." The story about the legend of h. cordata has multiple versions, including from GuYuan chau (now zhijiang) with such a story. 
 
        From the song dynasty XiNing six years in the summer, the rain, the water surged, sediment siltation, destroyed houses and flooded farmland, make the river the villagers displaced, the homeless. Rain water back, along the river on both sides of the villagers and even livestock mostly suffer from the same kind of disease, diarrhea all day. Due to poor health condition at that time, no one knows what illness, and at that time, make people nervous. 
 
        In zhijiang new ping town beach charming village has a name later, the family also suffer from the disease. In that year, neighbors pigs were ill, but there was nothing in his pig disease, the whole family feel very strange. It turns out that commonly used his home of h. cordata pigs behind the house. Is the pig to eat with herbahouttuyniae's sake? Then, the whole family also try to dig h. cordata. Indeed as expected within three days, the whole family was improved. 
 
        Just as people had about this disease, zhang epigenetic carrying a pair of h. cordata, said to the people in the village, "the grass can cure the disease, probably you might as well give it a try." The villagers with a grain of salt, the idea of holding a try, "dead horse as a living horse medicine", as a result, all the villagers of swallowing its big see better. The news soon spread throughout the yuan continent villages, all people infected with herbahouttuyniae all get better. 
 
        Since then, local villagers of h. cordata renai ance, although it has a fishy smell, but a little processing can be as the smell of food materials, or cold, or cooked, stew, or with other ingredients made into all kinds of delicious food, eat, and qingrejiedu, have very good medicinal effect. In this way, herba houttuyniae as medicine and food market has been in use today. 
 
        H. cordata more stem leafiness flowers ear long harvest in the summer, after wash them with fresh or use. The small cold, bitter taste, into the lung, bladder, colon. , according to the determination of containing the new cordate houttuynia element, carbohydrates, dietary fiber, carotene, vitamin A, vitamin C and calcium, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, iron, zinc and other trace elements, with qingrejiedu, abscess carbuncle, diuresis effect of tube used in the treatment of pulmonary abscess spit pus, asthmatic cough phlegm heat, malaria, heat flow field, carbuncle swollen chuangdu, edema, and gonorrhea, hemorrhoids, rectocele, eczema, itching, etc. Cure a wood code to load: its "line of water, engines, dysentery, soared. Cure snake insect poison, beriberi, ulcer, to stagnant blood." Classification herbs also carry its: "five drench, eliminate edema, dyspepsia, weak and inflation." 
 
        Modern pharmacology has confirmed that its can enhance the phagocytosis of white blood cells, improve the body's immune function; Can be extracted from herba houttuyniae a yellow oil, hemolytic streptococcus, staphylococcus aureus, influenza bacillus, catarrh, pneumonia coccus aureus, escherichia coli, shigella, salmonella typhi has obvious inhibitory effect; Cordate houttuynia element of derivatives also have strong antiviral effect; Can expand capillaries, increase blood flow and urine secretion, have the effect of diuresis. Studies have also shown that contain the new cordate houttuynia element of airy ascites carcinoma has good inhibition effect, antitumor effect. Also have anti-inflammatory, anti-radiation effect, and has analgesic, antitussive, composed, anticonvulsants, hemostatic, inhibit the secretion of serum and promoting tissue regeneration and wound healing, and so on. Han Decheng (tianjin)
 
 
 
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