| Homemade herbal medicine to protect health - white grass, cat's eye grass, inexhaustible green and inexhaustible flowers and plants in the wilderness. After swimming in nature for a long time, I have mastered the medicinal uses of many grasses. I can easily pick them and make them into herbal medicines. I drink them as tea every day. It has become a pleasure to treat illnesses, maintain health when there are no illnesses, and regulate the internal organs. You should always take good care of your body. Even if you buy a car, you still need to maintain it, not to mention your own body! The following is a collection of medicinal uses of herbs shared with mountain friends. Compare them with the information on the Internet, so you won’t be too confused. Wash and dry, cut into sections and drink as tea. It is said to be the best for treating gynecological diseases and diabetes. Be careful, separate the roots from the stems and leaves. The roots are not easy to dry. Also known as azure ground white, Pulsatilla, leaf bottom white, drumstick seedlings, and knotted pears. It is the whole plant with roots of the rose family plant Potentilla discolor bge. It is distributed throughout the country, mainly produced in Hebei, Anhui and other places. Harvested in summer and autumn, dig out the roots before blooming, remove the soil, and dry in the sun. For raw use. The medicinal properties are bitter and cold. Returns to the stomach and large intestine meridians.
Effects: Clear away heat and detoxify, stop bleeding and stop dysentery.
Application
1. Damp-heat diarrhea. This product is bitter and cold, can clear away heat and detoxify, cool blood and stop dysentery, so it is often used for heat dysentery and bloody dysentery. Just use 30~60g of fresh Scutellaria baicalensis in thick soup, and take it orally three times a day to treat red and white dysentery.
2. Carbuncles and sores. This product is bitter and can reduce diarrhea. It is cold and can clear away heat, detoxify and reduce swelling. It is commonly used to treat carbuncles and sores caused by excessive heat and poison. For example, "Compendium of Materia Medica" states that it is used to decoct the white grass with wine to treat the initial onset of boils; "Baoshou Tang" Experienced Recipe: Treat ecthyma ulcers by decoction of white grass, fumigation and washing; you can also grind the dried roots of white grass with shochu and apply it to the affected area to treat acne, etc. You can also pound the fresh product and apply it to the affected area, or mix it with honeysuckle and other flowers to clear away heat and detoxify. Use together with the medicine for eliminating carbuncle.
3. Blood heat and bleeding. This product is bitter and cold, clears away heat, and has the effect of cooling blood and stopping bleeding. Therefore, it is often used to treat hematemesis, hematochezia, metrorrhagia, and traumatic bleeding caused by blood heat. It can be taken orally by decoction of white grass alone, or mashed fresh and applied externally. Bleeding areas, or used in combination with other blood-cooling and hemostatic drugs.
4. Cough and asthma due to lung heat. This product is bitter and cold, and has the effect of clearing and purging lung heat. It is often used alone or in combination with Houttuynia Cordata, Platycodon, Reed Root and other medicines to treat cough, phlegm, asthma and lung abscess due to lung heat.
Usage and Dosage: Decoct and take, 9 to 15g. Fresh product 30~60g. For external use, apply an appropriate amount to the affected area.
Abstracts of Ancient Books
1. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Treat vomiting blood, bleeding, metrorrhagia, malaria, and carbuncle."
2. "Ben Cao Shi Yuan": "It mainly refers to unknown swelling and poison, boils, scabies, and ecthyma."
3. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Clears the stomach and intestines, removes rheumatism. It can cure red and white diarrhea and malnutrition, and can be applied to bites of vicious dogs."
Modern research
1. Chemical composition: This product contains tannins and flavonoids.
2. Pharmacological effects: The whole herb decoction of this product has inhibitory effects on Shigella dysenteriae, Shigella flexneri, Staphylococcus aureus and Typhoid bacilli. Recent experimental studies have shown that administration of large doses of Scutellaria baicalensis by intragastric administration for 7 days has a significant hypoglycemic effect on normal rabbits. The mechanism is that quercetin, the main component of the flavonoids contained in whitegrass, inhibits non-enzymatic glycation and inhibits aldose reductase activity by inhibiting protein glycation.
3. Clinical research: This product is mostly used clinically for bacterial dysentery, amoebic dysentery and acute enteritis. According to reports, it can also be used for other diseases. For example, fresh Scutellaria baicalensis can be mashed and juiced into the throat, which can treat acute laryngitis, tonsillitis, and stomatitis; useful Scutellaria baicalensis 15g and Dibu 12g can be decocted in water and taken to treat acute laryngitis, tonsillitis, and stomatitis. Chronic rhinitis; 45g of Scutellaria baicalensis (roots) and 10g of Motherwort are also used to decoct in water and add brown sugar and rice wine to treat dysmenorrhea (Chinese Materia Medica 1998: 782); others use Scutellaria baicalensis together with rice wine and brown sugar to treat dysmenorrhea. There were 11 cases of cervical lymph node tuberculosis. In 8 cases, the inflammation around the cervical lymph nodes subsided and the masses disappeared. In 2 cases, the symptoms were relieved (Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine 1986: 2706); ⑤ In recent years, it has been reported that a mixture made of Pleurotus leucophylla as the main ingredient was used to treat B. type diabetes, with good curative effect (Shandong Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2001, 5: 588). In addition, white grass can be used for acute bronchitis, acute pneumonia and lung abscess cough and vomiting pus and blood, acute mastitis, functional uterine bleeding, menorrhagia, traumatic bleeding and hemophilia. Wash and dry cat's eye grass and drink it as tea. It is said to be poisonous. Drinking it in small amounts is the best way to treat pharyngitis and is very effective in treating cancer. Online information has the same names as Maoeryan ("Chinese Medicinal Plant Illustration"), Dawanhua, Dawan tree, Dawan Dawan ("Hebei Traditional Chinese Medicine Manual").
The source is the whole plant of Euphorbiaceae cat's eye grass.
Plant form cat's eye grass, also known as: Euphorbia ear-leaf, thin-leaf cat's eye grass.
Perennial herb, more than 30 cm high.
The stem is thin and round, branches from the base, and contains white milk.
Single leaves alternate; the leaves are linear, about 3 cm long and less than 3 mm wide, the apex is slightly pointed or blunt, the base tapers into an inconspicuous short stalk, and the entire edge.
Cup-shaped cymes terminal; flower branches branched 3 times; bracts ovate-triangular or broad-triangular, with 2 involucres, round in shape; ovary with 3 cells, style 3, separated, 2 at the top Shallow.
The capsule is triangular and spherical, about 2 mm in diameter, with a yellow surface.
Seeds are oblong-ovoid, yellow.
Growing on the hillside roadside.
Distributed in Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Xinjiang, Northeast and other places.
Chemical components: Stems and leaves contain flavonoid glycosides, sterols, volatile oils, phenolic substances, organic acids, amino acids and waxes.
Catspathins ⅰ～ⅵ are isolated from the above-ground parts; the seeds also contain spathins ⅴ and ⅵ.
Pharmacological effects ① Antitussive, expectorant, and antiasthmatic effects. The flavonoid glycosides extracted from the aerial parts of Euphorbia auriculata have antitussive effects on mice cough caused by ammonia. The phenol red method in mice also showed expectoration. effect, but has no preventive effect on histamine-induced asthma in guinea pigs.
② Antibacterial alcohol infusion (1:1000) and water decoction (1:300) have inhibitory effect on Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the test tube. It is said that it is effective against Streptococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus A, and Coccus catarrhalis. , influenza bacilli also have inhibitory effects.
Nature and flavor are slightly cold, bitter and poisonous.
Functions and Indications - Cat's Eye Grass has the functions of eliminating phlegm, relieving cough, relieving asthma, removing toxins and relieving itching.
Choose a prescription: 1. Treat cervical lymph node tuberculosis that has broken into tubes: boil cat's eye grass into a paste and apply an appropriate amount to the affected area.
("Hebei Traditional Chinese Medicine Manual") ② To treat itchy tinea sores: Grind cat's eye grass into powder, mix it with sesame oil, peanut oil, and lard and apply it to the affected area.
("Hebei Traditional Chinese Medicine Manual")
Clinical application in the treatment of chronic bronchitis Dosage forms and usage: One tablet: each tablet contains 0.25g of cat's eye crude drug, 6 tablets each time, daily Take it 3 times, 20 days as a course of treatment; or grind cat's eye grass (roots removed), Tili seeds, Adenophora adenophora into powder, without adding auxiliary agents, to make 0.5g tablets.
Take 4 tablets each time, 3 times a day, 10 days as a course of treatment, and the treatment interval is 7 to 10 days.
Two injections: 30% and 80% injection, 4 ml intramuscularly each time, once a day, 10 days as a course of treatment, with an interval of 5 to 7 days; 50% injection, daily Inject 2 ml intramuscularly, once a day, with a 15-day course of treatment, and a 10-day interval between courses.
Efficacy: Through clinical observation of 545 cases, the short-term control rate of various dosage forms was 72.7% for single-flavor tablets, 68.9% for compound tablets, and 20 to 62 men for injections.
Side effects: Some patients may experience dizziness, nausea, vomiting, drowsiness, appetite discomfort, etc. after taking the medication, which does not affect continued treatment.