What are the benefits of water spinach?

Water spinach is well-known for its many medicinal uses, especially for kidney diseases such as glomerulonephritis, cystitis, hematuria, and chyluria.

Overview of the water spinach plant

Water spinach, also known as water dragon plant, is a creeping plant that grows in ponds, lakes, and swamps. In some places, people eat the shoots and leaves raw for their cooling properties.

The remarkable uses of this plant were only discovered in the 1970s. According to a report by traditional medicine practitioner Pham Cong Tuyen and doctor Ta Dac Du (Hanoi Traditional Medicine Hospital), the two physicians used 100g of dried water hyacinth, boiled it in water, and drank the decoction continuously for 5 to 10 days. The results showed a reduction in symptoms of frequent urination, hematuria (blood in urine), and treatment of cystitis.

According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, water spinach has a mildly sweet taste and a cooling nature. It is known for its ability to relieve heat, detoxify, reduce swelling, and treat measles, boils, and jaundice. All parts of the water spinach plant, including the leaves, stem, and roots, are used medicinally. The plant can be harvested year-round, washed, cut into short pieces, dried, and stored for later use as medicine.

Benefits of water spinach

Treatment of glomerulonephritis

Ingredients: 80g dried water spinach, 30g dried plantain leaves.

Put the ingredients into a pot and simmer with 2 liters of water until it reduces to 600ml to 700ml. Pour the liquid into a bowl and divide it into 3 to 4 portions to drink throughout the day. Treatment should be continued for one week to see results.

Treatment of cystitis, hematuria, and chyluria.

Ingredients: 100g dried water spinach.

Boil the herbs in water and drink the decoction continuously for 2 to 3 months. Alternatively, you can combine 50g of water spinach and 50g of bloodwort and boil them in water to drink daily.

Treatment of digestive disorders

Ingredients: 100g fresh water spinach or 50g dried water spinach.

The decoction should be drunk throughout the day, and must be consumed continuously 3 to 4 times to be effective.

Heartburn, constipation

Ingredients: 100g fresh water spinach.

Wash the water spinach thoroughly, then crush it and squeeze out the juice. Add molasses and drink it. Just one dose is enough to see results, but you can continue drinking it for several more days for better results.

Improves digestion, acts as a diuretic.

Water spinach can be used to make crab soup, fish soup, or eaten raw; water spinach soup is very refreshing and good for health.

Urinary tract infection

Ingredients: 50g fresh water spinach, 20g plantain, 30g honeysuckle, 20g houttuynia cordata, 30g Gynura procumbens.

Boil the herbs in water and drink the decoction continuously for 5-7 days.

Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH)

Ingredients: 24g dried water spinach, 16g knotgrass, 12g roasted Xanthium strumarium, 20g Centella asiatica, 5g dried Vitex trifolia, 10g Scrophularia ningpoensis, 16g Astragalus membranaceus, 10g dried tangerine peel.

Drink this decoction daily for one month; one month constitutes one course of treatment.

Women with vaginal discharge (leukorrhea)

Ingredients: 40g water spinach, 30g dogwood, 20g processed oyster shell, 20g Poria cocos, 20g Phellodendron amurense, 16g Zephyranthes lanata, 16g Platycodon grandiflorus.

Put the ingredients in a pot and brew a decoction to drink daily for one month.

Premenopause syndrome

Ingredients: 24g dried water spinach, 10g Magnolia bark, 16g Leonurus artemisia, 5 jujube fruits, 16g Angelica sinensis, 12g Rehmannia glutinosa, 10g Pinellia ternata, 10g Glycyrrhiza glabra, 16g Achyranthes bidentata, 16g oyster shell, 16g Ziziphus jujuba seeds.

Boil the herbs in water and drink the decoction every day for one month.

Breast lumps accompanied by pain and fever.

Ingredients: fresh water spinach.

First, wash the water spinach thoroughly, then add a little salt and mash it. Finally, simply apply it to the breast and bandage it. After a few days, the lump will disappear.