Medicinal recipes from roselle plant

What is roselle?

Hibiscus sabdariffa is a precious medicinal plant originating from West Africa. It improves digestive system, reduces blood pressure, cures coughs, clears heat, detoxifies, and regulates blood glucose.

Roselle is an annual plant, 1.5 - 2m tall. The plant branches at the base, the stem is light purple-red, the leaves are intact, the leaf blade is ovate and the edge has small serrations.

Flowers grow in leaf axils, without stalks, pinkish yellow or purple. Fruit is a capsule, ovoid.

The whole roselle plant can be used as a medicinal herb to support the treatment of high blood pressure and obesity.

Medicinal recipes from roselle plant

Health & Life Newspaper quoted Traditional Medicine Practitioner Bui Dac Sang - Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi Oriental Medicine Association, instructing some medicinal recipes from hibiscus as follows:

- Hibiscus tea

Effects: Detoxification, cooling, lowering blood pressure, diuretic, laxative, reducing blood fat and weight loss.

How to make: Wash 70 grams of fresh hibiscus flowers, 30 grams of dried hibiscus flowers, put them in a pot with 650 - 700ml of boiling water, steep for 3-5 minutes then filter the water. To add flavor, you can add a little sugar, stir well and use as a substitute for daily tea.

- Dishes made from roselle leaves

Effects: Diuretic, sedative.

Lesson 1 - Use in Vietnam: Young roselle leaves, in varying amounts, are used to cook sour soup with fish, chicken or pork.

Lesson 2 - Used in Southern Europe: Use enough roselle leaves and enough fish to cook fish soup.

- The whole plant cures high blood pressure

Use the whole roselle plant 10g, decoct and drink daily.

- Medicine from flower calyx

+ Support for lowering blood sugar: 02g dried roselle flower, decoct to drink or steep to drink instead of tea.

+ Anti-obesity: 10g of hibiscus tea, brew and drink after meals.

Note , although hibiscus has many useful effects, the effectiveness of use also depends on age, health status, and type of disease. You should choose to buy products with clear origin, read the instructions on the packaging carefully and consult a doctor, especially when using drugs to treat other acute and chronic diseases.

Ha An (Synthesis)

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