The efficacy, effects and edible methods of cockscomb

The efficacy, effects and edible methods of cockscomb

The effects and functions of cockscomb are very extensive, especially in traditional Chinese medicine, where it is used in more fields. It can not only treat hemorrhoids, but also treat a series of symptoms such as vomiting blood and coughing up blood. However, it can only play an auxiliary treatment role, but there is no way to completely achieve the effect of cure. It can not only be taken orally, but also applied externally. The therapeutic effect of this medicine is one of the higher among Chinese medicinal materials.

① "Compendium of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan": It is cold in nature, bitter and slightly spicy in taste.

② "Compendium of Materia Medica": sweet, cool, non-toxic.

③ "Sichuan Chinese Materia Medica": cool in nature, sweet and astringent in taste, non-toxic.

Meridians

① "Yuzhuo Yaojie" says: enters the foot Jueyin liver meridian.

② "Bencao Zaixin": enters the kidney meridian.

Function and indications

Cool blood and stop bleeding. It is used to treat hemorrhoidal bleeding, dysentery, hematemesis, hemoptysis, hematuria, metrorrhagia in women, and leucorrhea.

① "Compendium of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan": Stops intestinal bleeding, metrorrhagia, leukorrhea and dysentery in women.

② "Compendium of Materia Medica": Treats hemorrhoids, bleeding, leucorrhea, metrorrhagia, and leucorrhea. It can be used in red and white forms.

③ "Yuzhuo Yaojie": Clears away wind and reduces fever, stops nosebleed and replenishes blood. Treats vomiting blood, metrorrhagia, hematuria and other blood loss symptoms.

Dosage

For internal use: decoct in water, 1.5-3 qian; or make into pills or powder. For external use: decoction for fumigation and washing.

Additional prescription

① Treat five types of hemorrhoids, swelling and pain around the anus, or swelling and pain in the breast, or swelling in the acupoints, or sores that do not heal for a long time and turn into fistulas: one liang each of Cockscomb and Wind Eye Grass. The top is coarse. Use half a liang of coarse powder and half a bowl of water, boil it for three to five times, and wash the affected area with the hot water. (Linxiu Jiguansan from "Health Treasure Mirror")

②To treat red and white diarrhea: boil cockscomb in wine and drink it, use red for red and white for white. (Binghu Collection of Simple Prescriptions)

③Treatment of rectal prolapse caused by bleeding: equal parts of Celosia cristata and Saposhnikovia divaricata. Grind into powder, make into pills the size of walnuts. Take 70 pills each time on an empty stomach with rice water. 2. White cockscomb (fried), ash of euphorbia pulcherrima, and Notopterygium wilfordii (each), one liang. Grind into powder, take 2 qian each time, with rice water. (Yongleiqianfang)

④Treatment of vomiting blood: Soak white cockscomb in vinegar and boil seven times, then grind into powder. Take 2 qian each time, with hot wine. (Experience Prescription)

⑤For treating coughing up blood and vomiting blood: add 5-8 qian of fresh white cockscomb (2-5 qian of dried one) and pig lung (do not add water), add boiling water and stew for about one hour, take in two or three times after meals. (Quanzhou Materia Medica)

⑥Treatment of continuous menstruation: Red cockscomb flower, dried and ground into powder. Take 2 qian each time, mixed with wine on an empty stomach. Avoid fishy and pork. ("Sun Tianren's Collection of Effective Prescriptions")

⑦To treat postpartum blood pain: boil white cockscomb in wine and drink it. (Strange Evidence and Prescriptions)

⑧Treat leucorrhea and sand stranguria: white cockscomb and bitter pothos equal parts. Burn it to preserve its properties, and take it on an empty stomach with liquor. (From "Zhai Yuan Fang")

⑨Treat hematuria: burn one or two liang of white cockscomb into charcoal and drink with rice soup. (Hunan Pharmacopoeia)

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