What are the benefits of drinking Acorus calamus soaked in water?

Soaking Acorus calamus in water can eliminate dampness, stimulate the appetite and enhance the appetite. For people with poor appetite, soaking Acorus calamus in water can enhance the appetite. Soaking Acorus calamus in water can also refresh the mind and help the brain to a certain extent. Acorus calamus is helpful for abdominal distension, lack of hunger, coma, epilepsy, etc. Soaking Acorus calamus in water has many benefits to the human body. Let’s take a closer look at the benefits of drinking Acorus calamus soaked in water.

1. Functions and indications of Acorus calamus

Open the orifices, eliminate phlegm, regulate Qi, activate blood circulation, disperse wind and remove dampness. It is used to treat epilepsy, syncope with phlegm, coma due to fever, forgetfulness, deafness due to qi stagnation, chest tightness, stomachache, abdominal pain, wind-cold-dampness arthralgia, carbuncle, swelling and infection, and injuries caused by falls.

2. [Characteristics]

This product is flat cylindrical, mostly curved, often branched, 3 to 20 cm long and 0.3 to 1 cm in diameter. The surface is brown or gray-brown, rough, with unevenly dense segments, internodes 0.2-0.8 cm long, with fine longitudinal lines, and residual fibrous roots or dot-shaped root scars on one side; the leaf scars are triangular, arranged alternately left and right, and some have hairy scaly leaf base remnants on them. It is hard, fibrous in cross section, off-white or slightly red, with obvious endothelial rings, and many vascular bundle dots and brown oil cells can be seen. It has a fragrant aroma and tastes bitter and slightly spicy.

3. [ Growth habits ] It likes a shady and humid environment and can grow under densely populated trees; but it cannot tolerate excessive sunlight, otherwise the leaves will turn yellow. Not drought tolerant. It is slightly cold-resistant and can grow in the open air in the Yangtze River Basin. It is commonly found in dense forests at an altitude of 20-2600 meters, growing on rocks beside streams.

4. Geographical distribution

Produced in provinces and regions south of the Yellow River. It is also found from northeastern India to northern Thailand.

V. Morphological characteristics

Perennial herb. The rhizome is aromatic, 2-5 mm thick, light brown on the outside, with internodes 3-5 mm long, fleshy roots, with many fibrous roots, and the upper part of the rhizome is densely branched, so the plant grows in a clumped state, and the branches are often covered with fibrous persistent leaf bases. The leaves are sessile, thin, with membranous sheaths on both sides of the base up to 5 mm wide, extending almost to the middle of the leaf blade, gradually narrowing and falling off; the leaves are dark green, linear, 20-30 (50) cm long, folded in half at the base, flat above the middle, 7-13 mm wide, gradually narrowed at the apex, without midrib, with many parallel veins, slightly raised. Inflorescence stalk is axillary, 4-15 cm long, triangular. The leafy spathe is 13-25 cm long, 2-5 times or longer than the spadix, rarely nearly as long; the spadix is ​​terete, (2.5) 4-6.5 (8.5) cm long, 4-7 mm thick, gradually pointed at the top, erect or slightly curved. The flowers are white. The mature infructescence is 7-8 cm long and up to 1 cm in diameter. Young fruits are green, turning yellow-green or yellow-white when ripe. Flowering and fruiting period is from February to June.