Beginning in the summer season, you can catch the flowers are sold throughout the market. Besides the attractiveness of blue salted chili peppers, cook sour soup, spice nine sweet eaten .., spices are also processed into very effective healing dishes.

Leaves contain tannins, saponosides, polyphenols.

According to medicine of Vietnam, the fruit is sour, chát, calculated average, on the colon, cough effect only cough, except sputum, asthma, only description. Leaves have a cough effect only cough, asthma, fever.

Human granules have antiseptic effect, helminthic. Root, hemostatic, analgesic, often used in the form of decoction, used alone or in combination with other drugs. Daily dose: 8-12g (5-7 dried), fresh leaves 20-30g, leaves and roots (dry) 12-16g. Use as a shower, wash boils, regardless of dosage.

According to biological experiments, leaves have antibacterial effects on many Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria; Particularly for dysentery: Shigella dysenteria, Shigella shiga, Shigella flexneri, Shigella sonnei. In experimental animals, the leaves are effective against acute and chronic inflammation; The effect of strengthening the contraction of the uterus.

Drugs are often used to treat the following diseases:

Bacterial dysentery and diarrhea, chronic colitis:
Take 20-30g fresh leaves or 6-12g dried leaves, yellow star, sharp with 400ml water to 100ml, divided into 2 times a day, before meals 1.5 hours. Can be taken immediately 1 to 2 weeks until symptoms disappear. Or use in the form of dry powder, 2 to 3 times a day, 8-12g each, drink with rice; or co-ordinate with the powder of pea bark. Note: when the diet should be eaten cold, cold fish: crab fish, snails, frogs.

Cough, multiple phlegm, asthma:

Leaves 16g yellow star, apple leaves (apple sour) 12g yellow star; radish seeds, shredded seeds, each 6g, gold star, crushed. Pickled cabbage, cabbage wrapped in clean cloth, put in the same color with the leaves and apple leaves. Dilute 2 - 3 times, add water color, divide 3 times a day before meals 1.5 hours. Immediately take 2-3 weeks until symptoms improve.

Cough, asthma, difficulty breathing:

You can use 6-12g / day, in the form of decoction, brake, or powder. Drink for several days, until the symptoms improve.

Coughing blood, or vomiting blood, nosebleeds:

Root 16g black stars, sharp drink on a ladder. May combine with hay, pot, gerbera, vetiver. All black star, ritual drink on a thang, divided 3 times before the meal 1.5 hours. While taking medication, you should abstain from hot spices: alcohol, beer, chili ...

Toxins: Leaves and roots are not used in pregnant women.

When used, avoid being confused with pills, also known as Japanese, or spleen. Plover is growing wild and is grown in Cao Bang, Lang Son, Hanoi ... went to the height of 6-8m. Leaves have thorns, lanceolate, serrate, 12 to 30cm long, 3 to 8cm wide, on the underside of leaves are more gray or yellowish. This is a special feature to distinguish the goods. Leaflets are also used to treat coughs, asthma.