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1. Treating acne with watercress and aloe vera
Watercress possesses remarkable abilities to cool the skin, regulate moisture, detoxify, and fight bacteria. Besides being used as a culinary herb or medicinal remedy, you can create an effective homemade acne mask with watercress.
Watercress exhibits excellent antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties, coupled with 19 essential amino acids found in aloe vera such as: vitamin B12, vitamin C, vitamin E, and essential minerals. These are the best nutrients for acne-prone skin. Moreover, aloe vera contains seval essence that reduces acne, brightens the skin, and exfoliates dead cells. Therefore, combining these two ingredients will expedite acne healing and result in smoother, brighter skin.
How to make:
- Mix watercress with aloe vera gel and blend until smooth, then apply evenly onto the skin.
- Relax for 15-20 minutes before rinsing off with cold water.
- Apply the watercress and aloe vera acne treatment method 2-3 times a week.
2. Treating acne with watercress juice
3. Anti-aging with watercress and honey
Honey is a versatile ingredient with many beneficial effects on acne-prone skin. Its antibacterial properties help prevent acne formation and reduce existing ones. Moreover, honey also moisturizes, prevents aging, brightens the skin... effectively. When combined with watercress, it quickly brings you smooth, acne-free, and bright skin.
How to:
- After cleaning and draining watercress, put it in a blender with some water and blend thoroughly, then squeeze out the juice.
- After cleansing your face, mix the watercress juice and honey in a 1:1 ratio, use a cotton ball to gently apply the solution evenly on your face or other acne-prone areas of the skin.
- Wait for about 20 minutes for the nutrients to be absorbed into the skin, then rinse off with warm water.
- Repeat this homemade watercress acne treatment 2 - 3 times per week.
4. Treating Fever in Children
Watercress is considered a mild and healthy natural antibiotic. Reducing fever with watercress is a safe yet highly effective method. Watercress is gentle, with a cool sour taste that helps cool the body and detoxify it. Treating illnesses with watercress is safe and effective for children. In addition to its effectiveness in treating coughs, reducing fever with watercress is very effective, mothers should remember this remedy for children to avoid having to take many antibiotics that affect their health.
How to:
- For infants, simply take a handful of watercress leaves, crush them and apply them to the forehead, then wrap with a bandage. Leave it for 30 minutes before removing. Watercress leaves will help infants quickly reduce fever.
- For those over 6 months old, when feverish, a quick way to reduce fever for children is to crush watercress leaves, add a little water and strain to get the juice. Applying the residue to the solar plexus will help the child reduce fever quickly.
Drinking watercress leaf juice has a slightly sour taste, so it is advisable to add sugar to make it easier for children to drink. Additionally, you can cook watercress leaves for the child to drink to eliminate the sour taste and ensure hygiene.
5. Treating Hemorrhoids
To treat hemorrhoids in the early stage at home, patients can apply folk remedies, using everyday foods and medicinal herbs to treat hemorrhoids in the early stage. Some effective home remedies passed down from ancient times include: treating hemorrhoids with watercress.
Modern medicine has found in watercress Quercetin, a flavonoid that effectively protects blood vessels. Watercress oil contains decanonyl acetaldehyde, a powerful antibiotic that kills even green pus bacteria, thus effectively anti-inflammatory. If you have internal hemorrhoids, simply squeeze out watercress juice to drink or eat it raw. If you have external hemorrhoids, you need to combine eating, drinking, and applying according to the method below.
How to:
- Similar to the way of drinking watercress to treat internal hemorrhoids, clean the watercress and then soak it in diluted saltwater to ensure the ingredients. Put watercress into a blender and blend.
- Take a portion and apply it to the external hemorrhoid. Use gauze or clean cloth to wrap the area around the anus to ensure watercress contacts the hemorrhoid.
- Leave it for 1 hour, then remove. Do it twice a day, morning and evening. After about 2 weeks, you will feel the disease significantly reduced, the pain sensation will disappear completely. Note before applying watercress, patients need to clean the hemorrhoid with diluted saltwater for best results.
- The remaining part (about 200g) is used to make a drink by filtering out the residue. You can add sugar and filtered water to make it easier to drink for detox. Combining applying and drinking watercress helps directly treat the wound while cooling and detoxifying the body, preventing external hemorrhoids from growing.
6. Treating Vaginal Inflammation with Watercress + Loofah + Garlic
Watercress is often used as a raw vegetable side dish with grilled dishes or eaten alone. This vegetable stimulates the digestive system, enhancing the flavor of the food. Treating gynecological diseases with watercress is a common method that many people apply for safe and effective treatment.
How to:
- 20g watercress + 10g loofah fruit + 1 clove of garlic, put all into a pot with 5 bowls of water and boil well.
- Let the patient steam in the hot steam to the painful area, when the water cools down, use it to wash the painful area.
- Wash again with clean water.
- Do it once a day and continuously for 7 consecutive days, the patient will feel significantly reduced.
Note: The formula for treating gynecological diseases with watercress should only be used for external washing and should not be inserted or soaked in a basin to avoid bacterial infections from the anus entering the vagina. Before using watercress, it must be thoroughly cleaned. Do not overuse this method too many times a day.
7. Treating Irregular Menstruation
Treating irregular menstruation with watercress is a very effective treatment that many women are using. According to traditional Chinese medicine, watercress has a spicy, slightly cold taste, very good for clearing heat, detoxifying, and promoting urination. This is a method that many women apply and it has good results. Mugwort has a bitter, spicy taste, warm properties, has the effect of warming, stimulating circulation and blood circulation in the body, helping to regulate menstruation. Therefore, combining these two types will give you a more regular menstrual cycle.
How to:
- Watercress 40g, mugwort 30g, both are used fresh.
- Clean and crush watercress and mugwort, filter with boiling water to cool, make a bowl of medicine, drink throughout the day.
- Drink continuously for 5 days, and drink 10 days before menstruation.
8. Treating Constipation
Watercress is widely grown in our country for both consumption and medicinal purposes. Its name, watercress, comes from its fishy smell, which can deter many people from trying it for the first time. However, overlooking watercress would be a mistake because this plant is used as medicine to treat many diseases, especially considered a 'miracle drug' in treating constipation. You can eat it raw, juice it, or dry it for later use.
How to make dried watercress tea:
- Wash the watercress thoroughly.
- Then let it dry or sun-dry.
- Use 10g of dried watercress to infuse with boiling water for about 10 minutes, drink as tea daily. Drink continuously for 10 days and you will see results.
9. Treating Cough with Watercress and Rice Water
In traditional medicine, watercress is used as a medicine known as fish grass. This medicinal herb has a cool nature and sour taste, with the ability to enter the meridians of the liver and lungs, helping to cool the body, support liver detoxification, promote urination, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and diuretic. Therefore, watercress is often present in prescriptions for skin diseases, hemorrhoids, constipation, and some respiratory diseases such as cough, sore throat, and pneumonia.
How to make:
- Firstly, grind watercress and extract the juice.
- Put watercress juice into a clean glass and mix with prepared rice water.
- Boil the mixture for about 10 minutes until cooked.
- Let the water cool slightly, divide it into 3 equal portions and drink in the morning, noon, and evening.
Note: Drink it about 60 minutes after meals to avoid affecting digestion. Just do this after meals 2-3 times to recover. This mixture is also very cooling for the body, so you should drink it 5 times or more to fully recover.
10. Treating Kidney Stones
Many people know about the excellent hemorrhoid treatment of watercress without realizing that this vegetable can also effectively treat kidney stones. For those with kidney stones, you can apply a daily drinking regimen of watercress to dissolve the stones without the need for surgery. However, the duration of treatment may vary depending on the size of the stones.
How to make:
- 20g watercress, 15g water spinach, 10g licorice root.
- Infuse and drink daily for one month. Each treatment course lasts for one month.
- Alternatively, take 100g of watercress, roast until golden, steep in 1 liter of boiling water for 20 minutes, and drink instead of water daily. Repeat the treatment course every two months, with each course spaced 7 days apart.
11. Treating Breast Engorgement Causing Swelling, Pain, and Fever
Watercress plants are a common vegetable in the Northern region of our country. This plant has a very unpleasant smell, so there will be people who cannot eat this type of vegetable. However, watercress has many wonderful benefits for our health, especially for women. For women, watercress not only beautifies, treats irregular menstruation, vaginal infections but also treats breast engorgement caused by blocked milk ducts.
How to prepare:
- Take 30g of watercress, 30g of Codonopsis pilosula leaves, 16g of safflower (roasted), 12g of ke (roasted), 12g of Agastache rugosa, 12g of silver flower, 12g of Chinese arborvitae leaves, 12g of peony, 20g of dandelion, 10g of croton, and 16g of licorice.
- Brew three times, drink three times a day, and finish each time you brew.
You can also combine external herbal remedies: 50g of fish scales, 40g of Rubus leaves, 30g of young lemon leaves. Grind them together, apply to the swollen and painful area, and wrap it with a bandage.
12. Treating Dengue Fever
In traditional medicine, dengue fever is classified as a heat syndrome and treated with various methods, including folk remedies. One of the folk remedies used to treat dengue fever is watercress.
Watercress has a spicy, sour taste and a pungent smell. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, the sour taste enters the liver, and the spicy taste enters the lungs, so the vegetable has a strong effect on these two meridians. Its cool nature helps reduce heat and heat exhaustion from the blood. Additionally, Traditional Chinese Medicine also indicates that watercress stimulates digestion, detoxifies, reduces inflammation, diuretics, and reduces edema. Therefore, watercress is suitable for treating dengue fever.
How to prepare: Watercress leaves, lettuce leaves, ink grass leaves, each 100g, washed, brewed and drink concentrated with 500ml of water throughout the day.
