The effect of marjoram, a good ‘natural antibiotic’ for F0

Ms. Nguyen (Mai Linh, Hanoi) said that 4 years ago, she had folliculitis, dry, rough skin looked very unsightly, she bought a lot of cosmetics to apply, but it didn’t work.

After that, Linh was told by her friend to use marjoram leaves to bathe. Instead of using shower gel, moisturizer, every day, Linh boils marjoram leaves to bathe with lemon. Persevering for a whole year, she saw a clear change in her skin, smooth skin, and the inflamed pores gradually faded.

Not only bathing for adults, marjoram leaves are also used by many families to bathe young children because they are cool, to avoid heat rash, and especially for babies, to help quickly change skin and remove eczema in children.

In addition to using baths to beautify the skin, marjoram leaves are also used by many people to treat infections, fevers, coughs, allergies, and colds.

BSCK II Huynh Tan Vu – Lecturer at University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Ho Chi Minh City said marjoram is very good and he evaluates it to be extremely valuable for F0. Patients can boil a handful of marjoram leaves and inhale it into their nose and throat to help cure nasal congestion and reduce nasopharyngeal inflammation when infected with Covid-19.

Patients can take the leaves and branches of the decoction of marjoram to reduce fever and reduce body aches. In Oriental medicine, people reduce fever by using 12 grams of marjoram twigs and leaves with 25 grams of tapioca powder, decoction to drink water.

Or people with body aches, headaches, and not sweating, can take 20 grams of oregano and drink water, drink it when it’s warm and drink it, 3 times a day.

Doctor Vu said that according to old folk experience, marjoram was used in people to treat colds, fever, headache, sore throat, vomiting, nosebleeds, bloody dysentery, and bandages. blood.

Dosage 6-12g in the form of decoction or powder. People often use marjoram to relieve colds. Take fresh marjoram leaves and branches along with some other types of leaves such as luong luong, perilla, lemongrass, chrysanthemum … to make a pot of cold water.

Marjoram is also a remedy for sore throats, tonsillitis, often combining marjoram with sandalwood and licorice to increase inflammation.

Marjoram leaves have many unexpected effects.

With the use of beauty, oregano is also effective in treating pimples, but it is best to use it as soon as acne starts. At this point, you should wash oregano, crush and squeeze out the water to apply to the acne-affected skin. Wait until the water dries on the surface of the skin, then rinse with clean water.

Herbalist Vu Quoc Trung – Oriental Medicine Association of Van Giang district, Hung Yen The marjoram is a herbaceous plant, 30-40 cm tall. Stem square, branched, growing upright. The stem and young branches are hairy. Leaves opposite, blade oblong, 5-8 cm long, 2-3 cm wide, serrated margins, 2-3 cm long petioles.

Flowers small, pale purple, sessile. This plant is a spice that is grown a lot in households. This is also a herb that is sold year-round and is easy to find.

According to Oriental medicine, marjoram is spicy, warm, has the effect of making sweat, diuretic, treating fever, colds, allergies, black star to stop bleeding.

Marjoram can also diagnose (promoting measles, except for itching, treating skin diseases), except for leprosy in the blood, for treating external dermatoses and leprosy in the blood vessels.

Marjoram mixed with dead mites, sand roots, mint … can cure measles, difficult to grow, also used with chain dahlia, maggots, royal cypress, white fairy skin, bitter ginseng … cure measles, chicken pox, scabies, black Laos…

For people with fever, cough, upper respiratory infection, Chinese herbalist said, patients can use it with perilla leaves. Perilla leaves are used as a very popular spice and a very common medicine to treat colds.

Oregano has a cooling effect on the body, so the decoction of these two leaves together can be used to treat coughs and runny noses. For people with Covid-19 symptoms of cough and runny nose, apply to reduce symptoms. uncomfortable, better support for patients, “said Herbal Medicine Trung.

Khanh Chi