Common medicinal remedies from perilla leaves

Pharmacological effects of perilla

According to an article by physician Hoai Vu in the Health & Life Newspaper, oriental medicine classifies perilla leaves in the "tan on giai bieu" (warm and reliever) medicine group, and the medicine's name is To Diep.

- Perilla leaves: Spicy taste, warm properties; enters the lung and spleen meridians; has the effect of dispelling cold (relieving colds), regulating digestive function and stabilizing pregnancy.

Perilla is used to treat wind-cold, stagnant spleen and stomach qi (fullness, poor digestion), restless fetus, and is also used to detoxify shrimp, crab, and fish bile.

- Perilla fruticosa (perilla branch): Spicy and sweet taste, slightly warm; affects the three meridians of the lungs, spleen and stomach; has the effect of regulating qi, relieving depression, relieving pain, stabilizing the fetus, strengthening the stomach, and preventing vomiting; treats fullness in the chest and abdomen, and restless fetal movement.

Perilla is not only a vegetable but also a medicine.

According to modern medical research, perilla leaves have the effect of cooling, calming and increasing blood sugar. Distilled water and decoction of perilla leaves have a broad antibacterial spectrum, inhibiting the effect of colibacillus, dysentery bacillus, staphylococcus, and some fungi that cause skin diseases.

Perilla branches and leaves have the ability to promote the secretion of digestive juices, increase stomach and intestinal motility; reduce mucus secretion in the bronchi, delay bronchial spasms, thereby reducing cough, eliminating phlegm and stopping asthma attacks.

Medicines from perilla have anticoagulant effects, can inhibit platelet aggregation, reduce blood thickness and stickiness, protect the cardiovascular system, are anti-oxidants, and anti-cancer.

Common medicinal remedies from perilla leaves

The article on the Medlatec General Hospital website has medical consultation with BSCKI. Duong Ngoc Van points out some remedies using perilla as follows:

- Cold relief: use a handful of fresh perilla leaves with 3 slices of ginger and 2 chopped onions, put them in a bowl, then crack in an egg and ladle in porridge, mix well and eat hot.

- Cure bloating and stomachache: crush a handful of perilla leaves with a little salt and squeeze out the juice to drink.

- Cure shortness of breath and cough: use peeled mulberry root and perilla leaves, put in a pot with enough water to cover until there is one cup of water left, then strain and drink.

Hopefully the information in this article has provided you with some common remedies from perilla so you don't forget this natural, readily available and very inexpensive medicine.

Ha An (Synthesis)

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