Sour-sour-earth leaves cure

Ground sour me leaves chewing with salt to treat sore throats. Shredded leaves are covered with pimples. Chua me land has another name is sour me three keys, carved in a similar way, attempting to create a relationship.

Tamarind soil with yellow flowers - Oxalis corniculata
(Photo: mytho-fleurs)

There are two types of earth sour. Yellow flowers (Oxalis corniculata), have three small leaflets and larger rose leaflets.

Tamarind soil has a sour taste, cold properties, has a thermal effect, refreshment, cough relief, diuretic (yellow flowers are more commonly used):

- Cure urinary incontinence: Chua me soil, code (30g each) used fresh, crushed, squeezed juice, add sugar (Nam pharmacy god).

- Cure cough: Tamarind soil with yellow flowers (20g), newly sprouted bamboo shoots (20g), mulberry root (only take the white rind in, 10g, golden starburst), ginger (8g). Crush, add some sugar or honey, steam rice, drink.

It is possible to use yellow-leaf tamarind leaves alone, wash, chew with salt, swallow water gradually to cure sore throats. Use outside, crushed leaves to heat, treat swelling, pimples.

In the stems and leaves of sour tamarind soil there is oxalic acid and especially potassium oxalate with high content, so the tree has sour taste. In the summer, many people pick up sour tamarind leaves to boil and eat with spinach instead of lemon, crocodile or tamarind leaves. Boiled vegetables are sour, cool aroma. Occasionally eating a few meals is okay, but always used daily, can produce oxalate stones in the bladder that produce gravel disease. People with this disease should not use tamarind leaves because oxalate can increase the amount of stones.

In addition, it is not advisable to use sour and sour leaves with too high doses because of toxic oxalate salts at doses of 20-30g.

DO HUY BICH pharmacist