Top 12 Most Effective Uses of Perilla Leaves for Healing

1. Weather-induced discomfort

Feeling chilly, headache, sore throat, hot breath? Cook green bean porridge. When the porridge is cooked, add 20 grams of perilla leaves, 8 grams of fresh ginger, and other spices, eat hot, then lie down under a blanket to sweat, avoid drafts.

Additionally, use perilla leaves and other leaves like lime leaves, grapefruit leaves, lemongrass... boiled to make a steam pot. You can drink a bowl of water before or after steaming.

2. Nausea, loss of appetite during pregnancy

Take 20 grams of perilla leaves and stems, 16 grams of Artemisia, 20 grams of Chinese white hellebore, and 12 grams of angelica root. Decoct daily for a month, divided into two doses.

Pregnant women can use perilla leaves to brew daily drinking water or incorporate them into other dishes in their meals, and the effect will be very good.

Take fresh perilla leaves, clean them, then use the juice to dab on the itchy area. With this method, the itchy rashes will quickly disappear. After the perilla leaf juice dries out, bathe the child with warm water to keep the skin cool and clean.

Use perilla leaves 2-3 times a day, continuously for a week, the itchy rashes will quickly dry up.

Use perilla leaves to apply to the wound to stop bleeding, or dry perilla leaves until crispy, then grind into fine powder. Apply this powder to the wound to stop bleeding. The wound will heal quickly.

When the wound is bleeding, you can take young perilla leaves, crush them into small pieces, apply them to the bleeding area, cover tightly, and tie it back up. Doing so will stop the bleeding, prevent pus formation, and leave no scars when healed.

Perilla leaves are also excellent for treating bloating and indigestion. Use about a handful of perilla leaves, wash them clean, eat with rice as vegetables or crush and squeeze out the juice to drink several times a day.

You can use perilla leaves combined with some other medicines, specifically perilla leaves 20 grams, tangerine peel 10 grams, coix seed 10 grams, magnolia bark 16 grams, goldthread rhizome 20 grams, drink the extract 2 - 3 times a day.

With its warm nature, spicy taste, and abundant essential oils with high antibacterial and antimicrobial properties, some people believe that using a lot of perilla leaves can cause heat in the body. However, this is completely inaccurate. In fact, perilla leaves do not generate heat because they contain a lot of fiber, reducing their warming properties and providing excellent health benefits.

Steam bath and foot soak: Take perilla leaves along with other aromatic leaves to create a steaming pot and use it for washing and rinsing. Additionally, you can use this water for foot soaking. If the leaves are thoroughly washed, you can also drink a bowl of water before or after steaming to help alleviate fatigue.

When experiencing food poisoning, prompt treatment is essential. Mastering some simple remedies like perilla leaves, ginger... can help you quickly detoxify and recover your health.

Perilla leaves and stems 50 - 60 grams boiled in water for consumption 2 - 3 times continuously. You can also add 5 - 6 slices of ginger to this remedy. In case of allergic rashes, apply crushed perilla leaves to the itchy area, or use fresh crushed perilla leaves multiple times.

Gout occurs when the uric acid level in the blood increases, causing inflammation in the joints, resulting in swelling, redness, and severe pain. Applying mashed branches and leaves of perilla to inflamed joints reduces pain and inflammation.

For individuals with gout, consuming perilla leaves daily as raw vegetables in meals can help prevent recurrence of the disease. When experiencing swollen and painful joints, chewing and swallowing perilla leaves immediately can alleviate the pain. Additionally, drinking perilla leaf water (prepared like traditional herbal medicine) can rapidly reduce the pain. Perilla leaves contain essential oils that have pain-relieving, anti-inflammatory, vasodilatory, and antibacterial properties.

For elderly individuals and those weakened by illness suffering from constipation, take about 15g each of perilla seeds and sesame seeds. Grind both into powder, mix them into a bowl of water, stir well, strain, and cook the filtered extract into porridge, which is very effective.

You can also use perilla seeds and sesame seeds, 20 grams each, grind them into a fine powder, mix with water, boil until cooked, strain, and drink the liquid daily. Alternatively, you can use the filtered liquid to cook rice porridge, which is also very effective in treating the condition.

Drinking perilla leaf water to reduce fever in infants is one of the benefits of perilla leaves for newborns. Many breastfeeding mothers share how to brew perilla leaf water to drink or cook perilla porridge for their babies to consume a lot the day before vaccination. This helps prevent high fever in babies.

Drinking perilla leaf water has the effect of dilating the blood vessels under the skin, stimulating sweat secretion. When a baby breastfeeds containing active ingredients from perilla leaves, it helps warm the body and then sweat out toxins.

Using perilla leaves to treat acne is very effective and safe. You just need to follow two methods below:

• Method 1: Take 2 handfuls of perilla leaves, wash them thoroughly with water, drain, then crush and strain to extract the juice. Before using, wash your face thoroughly, dip a cotton ball in the perilla leaf juice, apply it to the acne-affected area. Leave it on for about 30 minutes, then rinse off with warm water. Repeat this 3 - 4 times a week, and you will see satisfying results.
• Method 2: You just need to crush fresh perilla leaves and mix them with water to wash your face or bathe. This not only treats acne but also firms the skin.

One of the benefits of perilla leaves for infants is treating cough. Traditional Chinese medicine notes describe perilla leaves as tonifying the spleen, reducing cough in infants and young children. Perilla leaves also have an expectorant effect, so they are very useful for infants with cough and phlegm. The prescription with perilla leaves for treating cough in infants is very simple and easy to implement.

Ingredients needed: 20g perilla leaves, 5-10g male papaya flowers, 5g peach blossoms, 5g rock sugar. Wash these ingredients clean with water, then grind them all in a mortar and strain to extract the juice, add 5g of rock sugar to the mixture and steam. Let it cool for the baby to use gradually.

Take 5 times a day, 2.5ml each time (half a teaspoon). This remedy is especially effective for infants with dry cough, loud coughing, and excessive phlegm. Give the baby a small amount of drops each time to allow the essential oils to gradually penetrate, helping to kill bacteria and reduce the discomfort of sore throat for the baby.