According to traditional medicine, pandan leaves have a bitter, spicy, aromatic taste, have antiseptic, cooling, expectorant, and diuretic effects.
Pineapple is also known as wild pineapple, wood pineapple. It is a small tree, 1 – 2m high, with long secondary roots. The leaves grow concentrated at the top, narrow, hard strips, with hard thorns on the edges and midrib. The inflorescence consists of male and female flowers. The large fruit is yellow when ripe.
According to folk experience, many parts of the wild pineapple tree are used as medicine, the roots are harvested year-round. The young roots that have not yet attached to the ground are better, dug up, washed, sliced, and dried. Young shoots are harvested in spring, used fresh or dried.
According to traditional medicine, pineapple leaves have a bitter, spicy, aromatic taste, have antiseptic, antipyretic, expectorant, and diuretic effects. Pineapple roots are used more as medicine, have a sweet, cool taste, and are effective in cooling blood and diuresis. In addition, the flowers are sweet, cold, and have the effect of clearing heat, promoting urination, eliminating damp heat, and stopping heat diarrhea.
Some remedies based on experience
Recipe 1: Cure headaches and insomnia: 20g of pineapple root, stir-fried until fragrant, put in a pot, add 500ml of water, simmer until 300ml of water remains, divide into 2 doses per day. Drink the medicine while it is still warm, 15 days for 1 course.
Recipe 2: Support treatment of urinary stones: 12g of pineapple root or pineapple fruit, 12g of banana seed, 12g of cogon root, 10g of plantain flower, 20g of moneywort, 12g of reed root. Put all in a pot, add 800ml of water, simmer until 300ml of water remains, divide into 2 doses per day. Drink the medicine before meals, 15 days for 1 course.
Lesson 3: Treating painful urination, little urination due to heat: 20g of pineapple root, 20g of pineapple root, put in a pot, pour 700ml of water, simmer until 300ml of water remains, divide into 3 times to drink during the day, 15 days for a course of treatment.
Lesson 4: Supporting the treatment of glomerulonephritis, edema: 8g of pineapple root (grilled), bark of the big tree (fried until golden), si root, young areca root, basil, perilla, patchouli, each 8g, 12g of magnolia bark, all chopped finely; boil with 400ml of water until 100ml remains, drink twice, 1 course of treatment every 5 days.
Lesson 5: Clearing the mind and relieving heat: Use 20g of young pineapple shoots, 12g of red beans, 12g of Dang Tam Thao, 1 handful of bamboo buds to boil and drink. Put all in a pot, add 500ml of water, boil until 200ml remains, divide into 2 doses to drink during the day, 5 days for a course of treatment.
Lesson 6: Cure cough due to cold: Use 12g of pineapple flower, add 500ml of water, divide into 3 doses to drink during the day. Drink the medicine while it is still warm, drink continuously for 3 days.
