Alfalfa (Lucerne, Medicago sativa) can be eaten like vegetable in food therapies. It has effects to clear dampness-heat in spleen and stomach. And as a natural remedy, it helps treat bladder stones, decreased urination, threatened abortion, bleeding and edema. Here…
Alfalfa is used to treat kidney stone, urinary stone, bladder stone and edema in Chinese folk remedies. Alfalfa (Lucerne, Medicago sativa) is a flowering plant widely grown throughout the world and used as feed for cattle. In Chinese herbal medicine…
Udumbara (Ficus Racemosa) is used as an Ayurvedic Remedy to treat wounds, boils, skin ulcers, edema, mosquito and insect bites in India. Udumbara is astringent, anti-inflammatory, drying and cooling. It is said to have healing power in Ayurveda. How to…
Vamana is one of the Ayurvedic Panchakarma procedures. It can be used to treat bronchitis, asthma, wet cough, sinusitis, congestion, wheezing, nausea, food poisoning, hay fever, edema and epilepsy. According to Ayurveda, any disorders caused by the kapha toxins accumulated…
Seaweed Mung Bean Soup is a folk remedy that can be used to help treat high blood pressure, beriberi, edema, lymphadenopathy (lymph nodes), goiter, boils, phlegm heat cough, itchy skin and eczema. According to the traditional medicine and food guidelines,…
Areca catechu peel (Betel peel) is used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to treat gastric distension, chest tenderness, bowel disorders, edema, beriberi and dysuria due to uprising Qi and dampness. According to TCM, areca catechu peel is slightly warm and…
Winter Melon Adzuki Bean Soup is beneficial for edema, beriberi, nephritis, ascites, leg swelling, athlete’s foot and weight loss. According to traditional Chinese medicine, both winter melon (white gourd, ash gourd, fuzzy melon) and adzuki bean (small red bean) have…
Winter melon (white gourd, ash gourd, fuzzy melon) is a popular summer food in East Asia and South Asia. Winter melon is beneficial to relieve summer heat, thirst, hot cough, lung phlegm, edema, beriberi, nephritis, ascites and diabetes. Winter melon…
Watermelon (Water melon) is said to help treat nephritis, edema, high blood pressure, jaundice and diabetes. Watermelon has moderate diuretic properties, which help cure kidney inflammation. Its protease can convert insoluble protein into soluble protein, providing the nutrition to the…
