The agastache is very useful

Agastache rugosa, a characteristic Chinese herbal medicine of South of the Ridge, was used to treat cholera in ancient times. Its leaves are like bean leaves, and the ancients called bean leaves "Huo", and its strong aroma was called "Huoxiang".

Agastache rugosa is a perennial herb of the Lip-shaped family, alias agastache rugosa, green stem mint, herb, cat tail incense, artemisia, water ma leaf, etc. Mainly distributed in the northeast, East China, southwest and other places. Agastache is suitable for spring sowing in the north and autumn sowing in the south. Agastache rugosa is called new agastache rugosa when it is cut after flowering in the first year. It has high efficacy and good quality. The second year can grow again, called the old huoxiang, the efficacy is not as good as the new huoxiang.

Huoxiang taste spicy, mild temperature, lung, spleen, stomach meridian. Its aboveground part into medicine, function aromatic turbid, dispel heat surface, dampness and stomach. Agastache rugosa is also a kind of food ingredient, with unique flavor and nutritional value. The edible parts of agastache rugosa are generally tender stems and leaves, which are good for wild vegetables. They can be mixed in cold, fried and fried, and can also be used as porridge. You can taste the rugosa porridge.

Ingredients: 15 grams of rugosa leaves (fresh 30 grams), 50 grams of japonica rice.

Practice: Wash the agastache leaves, put into a casserole (not iron pot), add water for 5 minutes, discard the residue and take the juice to be used; Washing the japonica rice, into the pot add appropriate amount of water, when the porridge is cooked, add the agastache juice, and then boil one or two boiling can be eaten.

Efficacy: AROMATIzing wet, heat release, and stop vomiting, suitable for summer heat stroke prevention, or gastrointestinal cold caused by loss of appetite, vomiting.

Note: Yin deficiency, fire and constipation are forbidden to take this medicinal food.