Nhot is often cultivated for fruit to eat and for cooking soup, popular in the northern provinces. The leaves, roots and fruits are used as medicine.
The flowers are not coronary, only 4 sepals. The fruit is oval in shape, bright red when ripe, on the fruit covered with numerous star-shaped hairs, the taste sour. The stems of this plant are soft, sometimes thorny. Staggered oval leaves.
When using chewing gum, it is necessary to avoid confusion with Western medicine, also known as Japanese tofu, or spleen. West Nhot at 6-8m tall, grows in the wild and is cultivated in many areas in Cao Bang, Lang Son, Hanoi … This species has 12-30cm long, serrated leaves. This is the highlight to distinguish it from the group.
In terms of chemical composition, 92% of the fruit is water and many other ingredients such as organic acids, tannins, saponins, polyphenols.
Effects in medicine
The fruit has a sour, pungent and medium taste. Therefore, this fruit has the effect of eliminating cough, asthma, anti-bleeding, treatment of poor digestion, dysentery, hemorrhage, tapeworm, hemorrhoids, ulcers.
The leaves are also acidic, neutral and poisonous. This sheet is used in the treatment of air damage, asthma, hemorrhages, boils.
The roots are usually dug in 9-10 months, dried to be used gradually. The roots of the plant have a bitter taste, are calm, have a hemostatic effect, treat coughs, except rheumatism, treat digestive disorders, laryngitis.
In addition, the roots are also effective in treating asthma, cough, coughing up blood, coughing up blood, bloody defecation, excessive menstruation, painful osteoarthritis, jaundice, cholera, malnutrition due to poor digestion, painful swelling of the pharynx. The patient can also sharpen the roots of the plant with water for washing and topical use.
How to use parts of sprouts for healing
When coughing in general, patients can sharpen about 30 g of fresh leaves, add a little sugar and drink. As for tuberculosis, coughing up blood, patients can use 24 g of fresh leaves, 15 g of sugar with boiling water to curb in the form of tea, drink 2 times a day after meals.
In case of pimples on the back, bleeding wounds: use fresh leaves, wash, crush, apply to the wound.
Bites, snakebites: use fresh leaves to wash, crush, squeeze water and add a little alcohol, then apply the residue to the wound.
Blood, sore throat, difficulty swallowing: take about 30 g of the root and sharpen with drinking water.
When you have an asthma attack from a cold: use about 30g of black star root, 15g of red sugar, drink food coloring after a meal.
Bloody vomiting, coughing up blood, bloody defecation, excessive periods: 30-60 g bag of root, drink after meals.
Phong rheumatism, aches and pains: Use 120 g of root, 60 g of prince, 500 g of sausage, pour water to cook well, in the simmered sausage. The patient eats meat and drinks medicine. In case of jaundice, drink 15 to 18 g of the roots.
The fruits and the roots and leaves of this plant can be used as a decoction to drink every day to cure illnesses.
Gynecomastia is edema (swelling, water retention): use 12g of root and herbal medicine to sharpen water, add a little red sugar to drink. With eczema (eczema), sharpen the roots of the plant with water, then wash the affected area.
Treatment of bacillary dysentery and diarrhea, chronic colitis: Use 20-30 g of fresh leaves or 6-12 g of dried leaves, yellow star, pointed with 400 ml of water. Stop until there is 100ml left.
Divide the medicated water into 2 glasses per day, take it 1.5 hours before meals and last 1 to 2 weeks until symptoms resolve.
Cough, asthma, shortness of breath: Can use 6 to 12 g of fruit / day, as a decoction, suppressor or powder. Drink for several days, until symptoms subside.
Who shouldn’t eat?
The leaves and roots are not intended for use by pregnant women. When you eat fruit, the more ripe the fruit, the finer the dust stuck to the outside, the easier it is to rub it off. When eating, you need to shave off the dust layer to avoid causing sore throat due to stickiness.
In addition, due to the sour and sour taste, people should avoid eating fruit when they are hungry, as it is easy to cause stomach irritation. The high acidity of this fruit can increase the pain and make the disease worse. Therefore, people with stomach disease or irritable bowel syndrome should not eat.
Despite many health benefits, patients should not arbitrarily use medicinal herbs from the tree, but should consult a doctor for proper treatment.
