Weeds grow everywhere but few people know that they are good for the liver and joints.

White jasmine has other names such as white jasmine grass, white trai vegetable, duck foot grass. The plant grows wild in wet places, in fields. In our country and some other countries, people pick young shoots to boil vegetables or cook soup, so it is called trai vegetable.

In traditional medicine, the whole plant of the Thai jasmine plant is harvested year-round to make medicine, used fresh or dried. According to Oriental medicine, white Thai jasmine has a sweet and mild taste, is slightly cold, has the effect of cooling, anti-inflammatory, diuretic, and reducing swelling, and the whole plant is often used as medicine.

Thai jasmine is a medicinal herb that is very effective in treating colds, respiratory infections, sore throats, acute tonsillitis, and urinary tract infections. The plant can be used fresh or dried. Dosage: 30-40g, decoction form.

According to folk experience, jasmine is also used to treat pus-filled dermatitis, detoxify venom from snake and scorpion bites, and to treat painful swelling of the knees and joints. The way to make medicine is to crush fresh jasmine and apply.

Jasmine is used to treat high blood pressure with a prescription of 60-90g fresh white jasmine, 12g fava bean flower, wash all, add 800ml of water and boil down to 300ml, drink instead of tea during the day. Each course of treatment is 10-15 days.

People with weak liver and yellow skin should use 120g fresh white jasmine and 60g lean pork to make soup and eat both the meat and the liquid. You can use it all at once or divide it into several portions to eat during the day. This remedy helps increase detoxification and keeps the liver healthy.

Thai jasmine is a benign vegetable, however when using it, you need to note that people with weak spleen and stomach should not use it.

Thai jasmine is a benign vegetable. (Illustration photo)

Some simple remedies from the jasmine plant

Cure sore throat

You can use 30g of fresh jasmine leaves to make a drink or use 90-120g of crushed fresh plants, extract the juice and drink regularly.

Treatment of acute glomerulonephritis, edema

Patients use 30g of jasmine, scratch grass, and plantain, boil and then drink.

Cure rheumatism, arthritis and heart edema

To cure rheumatism, patients should use chopped jasmine and red beans, each 40g, cook and drink the water.

Support treatment of rheumatism

40g white jasmine, washed, chopped and 40g red beans. Wash red beans, pour in 800ml water and simmer until soft. Add white jasmine and simmer for 10 minutes, add a little sugar, eat both the liquid and the beans. Each course of treatment is 5-10 days.

Treat painful, swollen pimples (not yet ruptured)

Wash fresh white jasmine, crush, add a little hot wine, apply to the swollen and painful area, then bandage for 2 hours, change the medicine once a day.

In addition, jasmine is also used as a medicine to treat inflammation of the upper respiratory tract, snake bites, hemoptysis, and dysentery.

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