Efficacy: clearing away heat and toxic materials, killing insects and improving eyesight. Senecio scandens can be used to treat various acute inflammatory diseases, such as wind-fire red eye, conjunctival congestion, typhoid fever, bacillary dysentery, lobar pneumonia, tonsillitis, enteritis, jaundice, influenza, toxemia, septicemia, carbuncle, dry and wet tinea, erysipelas, eczema, scald and trichomonal vaginitis. Dose 15-30g.
Abstract of ancient books of Senecio scandens
Compendium of Materia Medica: "Treat epidemic qi, jaundice, malaria, poison, vomiting after cooking, and also apply wounds, insects, snakes and dogs."
Materia Medica: "Boil and drink with licorice to clear away heat and improve eyesight."
Compendium of Materia Medica: "Clear your eyes and remove the star barrier. Decoction bath sore. Apply Li Qian ointment mixed with powder ointment to the place bitten by the dog. Treat snake wounds. "
Treat various infectious diseases, including respiratory tract, digestive tract, skin and other infectious diseases. External use can treat trichomonal vaginitis and chronic cervicitis.
Can be used for treating various ocular infectious diseases, and can be made into eye drops for treating conjunctivitis, keratitis, trachoma and viral ophthalmia.
Fumigation and washing are used to treat allergic dermatitis and scrotal eczema.
Treatment of rotten eyelids and wind eye: cook bamboo shoots wrapped in nine grass and screw them into the eyes. (Experience Prescription)
Treatment of rheumatic eye pain: Senecio scandens 100g, decocted in water and smoked. (Jiangxi folk herbs)
Treatment of chicken blindness: 50 grams of Senecio scandens, chicken liver 1 piece. Wearing stew clothes. (Jiangxi folk herbs)
Treatment of carbuncle and sore poison: 50 grams of Senecio scandens (fresh), decocted in water; In addition, use a proper amount of Senecio scandens (fresh), decoct in water and wash outside; Then mash it with proper amount of Senecio scandens (fresh) for external application. (Jiangxi herbs)
Treatment of long-standing tinea pedis and eczema: Senecio scandens, decocted in water twice, filtered, mixed with decoction, concentrated into paste with slow fire, diluted into thin paste with a little boiled water or sesame oil, and rubbed on the affected area twice a day; Do not use infant fetal ringworm. (Jiangxi folk herbs)
Treatment of wet itching between toes, anal itching and vaginal itching: appropriate amount of Senecio scandens, decoct and wash the affected area. (Jiangxi folk herbs)
Treatment of Liriodendron chinense, tinea capitis, dry and wet tinea sores: Senecio scandens and Xanthium sibiricum are equally divided. Concentrate the decoction into paste and apply it to the affected area. (Jiangxi folk herbs)
Treatment of scrotal pruritus: Mash Senecio scandens, decoct with water to remove residue, then decoct with slow fire into thick paste, mix with Chinese tallow oil, and apply to the affected area. (Common Folk Herbs in Zhejiang)
Treatment of scabies and swelling with poison: decoct Senecio scandens with water for external application, and take Senecio scandens with 50 grams of water. (Common Folk Herbs in Zhejiang)
Cure the flu; Fresh whole grass of Senecio scandens 50-100g. Decoct with water. (Jiangxi Handbook of Materia Medica)
Decoction for fire injury: eight parts of Senecio scandens and two parts of Bletilla striata. Decoct with concentrated juice for external use. (Jiangxi herbs)
Prevention and control department: Senecio scandens 25-40g. Soak in boiling water instead of drinking water. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)
Malaria treatment: Senecio scandens, brown sugar, sweet distiller's grains, decoction. (Jiangxi Handbook of Materia Medica)
Treating acute inflammatory diseases, bacillary dysentery, toxemia, septicemia, mild enterotyphoid and Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection: 25g of Senecio scandens, dandelion, Cymbidium hybridum, Centella asiatica, lalang grass rhizome, Phyllanthus urinaria and honeysuckle vine leaves. Decoct in water every six hours. (Jiangxi Handbook of Materia Medica)