Can children eat Houttuynia?

Houttuynia cordata can effectively help our female friends relieve endocrine disorders during menstruation, and can effectively reduce the abdominal pain caused by menstruation. Children can also eat more Houttuynia cordata, which can effectively help us promote the bone development of children. Let me introduce to you in detail whether children can eat Houttuynia cordata.

Houttuynia cordata is used for bladder damp-heat, dribbling and painful urination, and is often used together with Plantago seed, Imperata root, and Lycopodiella cernua. Houttuynia cordata can also be used alone, not only to treat hot stranguria, but also to treat leucorrhea and leucorrhea. When used for damp-heat in the large intestine, diarrhea and dysentery, it is often used with Coptis chinensis, Phellodendron chinense, Pulsatilla scabra, etc. It can also be used with Hawthorn charcoal to treat heat dysentery (equivalent to bacterial dysentery in modern medicine). Modern pharmacological experiments have shown that this product has antibacterial, antiviral, immunity-enhancing and diuretic effects. Clinical reports show that it is widely used to treat pneumonia, hemoptysis, upper respiratory tract infection, chronic bronchitis, whooping cough, influenza, lung abscess, cancerous pleural effusion, cold and fever, lung cancer, cervical erosion, suppurative arthritis, habitual constipation, acute bacterial dysentery, acute icteric hepatitis, nephrotic syndrome, herpes simplex keratitis, rhinitis, suppurative otitis media, mumps, papular urticaria, chronic pharyngitis, anorectal disease, prostatitis, lupus erythematosus, hemangioma, and prevent leptospirosis, etc. Commonly used Chinese patent medicine preparations with Houttuynia cordata as the main ingredient include Houttuynia cordata injection, which has the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying and promoting dampness, and is used for lung abscess, phlegm-heat cough, leucorrhea, urinary tract infection, carbuncle, etc. For example, compound houttuynia tablets (composed of houttuynia, scutellaria, isatis root, and forsythia) have the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, and are used for sore throat and tonsillitis caused by exogenous wind-heat. Adverse reactions to Houttuynia preparations are rare. Several convenient prescriptions with Houttuynia cordata as the main medicine☆ Treatment of lung abscess: 30 grams of Houttuynia cordata, 15 grams of Platycodon grandiflorum, decocted in water or ground into powder and taken orally. ☆ Treatment of dysentery: 20 grams of Houttuynia cordata, 6 grams of hawthorn charcoal, decocted in water and added honey. ☆ Treatment of mumps: Take appropriate amount of fresh Houttuynia cordata, mash it and apply it to the affected area, then fix it with adhesive tape, twice a day.

Children can also eat more Houttuynia cordata, which can effectively help our children promote their own bone development. At the same time, during the development process of children, we must pay attention to increasing some physical exercise, which can effectively help us better improve our physical fitness and effectively fight the cold air in winter.