Healthy herbs for changing seasons

Lemon basil, coriander, perilla, dill, lemongrass... are popular spices that not only make dishes delicious but also help prevent and cure diseases during the cold weather of the changing seasons.

Specialist Doctor 2 Huynh Tan Vu (Day Treatment Unit - University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City - Branch 3) said that spices help dishes become more delicious and balance the flavor. In addition, according to traditional medicine, spices contribute significantly to disease prevention and treatment. Below are vegetables that help improve health, cure diseases and are ingredients in delicious daily dishes, especially in cold weather and changing seasons.

Vietnamese coriander

Also known as water willow, green fragrance... Vietnamese coriander has a special aroma, spicy taste, warm properties. It is an indispensable spice eaten with eel porridge, duck eggs, chicken salad, to remove the fishy smell in seafood...

"In oriental medicine, Vietnamese coriander is a medicinal herb that stimulates digestion, expels wind and cold, and is used to treat stomach aches, snake bites, eczema, hemorrhoids, and poor appetite... Usually when used as medicine, people use it fresh, without processing it," Dr. Vu shared.

Coriander

Also known as Vietnamese coriander. Coriander has a spicy taste, warm properties, is non-toxic, helps digest food, is good for digestion, treats wind, clears urination and defecation, and clears up poisonous pimples...

Coriander has a spicy, warm taste.

Dill

Dill leaves are often used in fish soup, eel soup, snail soup, helping to reduce the fishy smell. In oriental medicine, this vegetable is a very popular medicine. Dill seeds and leaves have a spicy taste, warm properties, are non-toxic, regulate food, nourish the kidneys, strengthen the spleen, eliminate bloating, treat stomachaches and toothaches, stimulate appetite and ease digestion.

Lemon basil

Also known as the perilla plant. In folk medicine, fresh leaves are often used as raw vegetables in meals. Lemon basil has a sour, spicy taste, warm properties, and is effective in relieving colds, reducing phlegm, detoxifying, and treating flu and cold lungs...

Lemon basil has a sour, spicy taste and warm properties.

Basil

According to oriental medicine, basil has a spicy, hot taste, aromatic smell, and the effect of inducing sweating, diuretic, pain relief, and stimulating digestion. The whole plant is effective in treating colds, fever, headaches, coughs, stuffy nose, bloating, and indigestion.

Basil (mint)

Related to basil, basil is a very effective remedy for treating colds and insect bites, flatulence, rheumatism, hiccups, clearing the throat, and treating mild sinusitis.

Lemongrass

Lemongrass is often eaten raw or used as a spice to marinate dishes. Lemongrass has a spicy, aromatic, warm taste, is very good for the digestive system, has the effect of stimulating sweating, is antibacterial, and cures coughs caused by colds. Lemongrass is also used to treat muscle spasms, cramps, rheumatism, headaches...

Perilla

Perilla is a medicinal herb classified by oriental medicine as a diaphoretic (inducing sweating) herb belonging to the group of cold-dissipating (cold-induced diseases) that needs to be treated by sweating to cure fever. Not only is it a delicious spice, perilla is also a medicinal plant commonly used in traditional medicine. Perilla has a spicy, warm taste, and is effective in treating colds, bloating, and vomiting. Perilla branches have a spicy, sweet taste and are effective in preventing miscarriage, preventing vomiting, relieving pain, and asthma.

Betel leaves

Piper lolot, also known as tat bat, belongs to the pepper family. Piper lolot has the effect of warming the middle burner and stomach. In folk medicine, Piper lolot is often used to treat diseases such as bone and joint pain, gynecological diseases (inflammation in the vaginal area, itching, vaginal discharge), excessive sweating of hands and feet, dyshidrosis of the hands, cold abdominal pain, loose stools, nausea, hiccups...

"Most herbs are spicy, warm, contain essential oils, and have the effect of stimulating digestion, disinfecting, and warming the stomach. Using a little more of these herbs will help protect your health on cold days, and prevent illness from unusual weather conditions when the seasons change...", Dr. Vu shared.

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