The efficacy and function of the celestial peach

Regarding elderberry, I think some people may have heard of it or even taken it. It doesn’t matter if you haven’t heard of it. Next, I will introduce the bone-setting peach to you.

[Alias] Bone-setting fairy peach grass (Saving the Bitter Sea), Eight Diagrams Fairy Peach (Medical Prescription Collection), Pantao Grass, Life-Taking Pill, Blood-Activating Pill (Compendium of Materia Medica Supplement), Yingtao Grass (Compendium of Materia Medica Qiuyuan), Ant Grass, Local Crow Grass (Lingnan Collection of Medicinal Herbs), Mosquito Grass, Small-Headed Grass (Jiangsu Plant Medicinal Records), Windless and Automatic Grass (Guiyang Folk Medicinal Herbs), Blood-Activating Bone-setting Pill (Compendium of Materia Medica Tuichen), Bone-setting Grass (Hangzhou Medicinal Plant Records).

[Source] The whole herb with roots (including galls) of the Scrophulariaceae plant. Harvest the fruit between spring and summer before the parasites inside escape, and sun-dry the whole herb or steam it before sun-drying to kill the parasites inside the fruit, then store it dry.

[Original form] Fairyland Grass ("Hundred Herbs Mirror")

[Habitat distribution] Grown by rivers, wetlands and rice fields. Distributed in East China, Guizhou and other places. Produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Anhui and other places.

[Properties] The whole plant is dry with roots, and most of the leaves have fallen off. The flower branches are 10 to 12 cm long and about 1 to 2 mm in diameter. The surface is withered yellow or light reddish brown, hollow and soft. The remaining leaves are dark yellow, mostly broken and incomplete, wrinkled and curled, brittle and easy to fall off. The flowers are borne in the leaf axils at the top of the branches, and most of the corollas have withered. The capsule is withered yellow, most of them are still intact, and sometimes contain multiple yellow flat seeds. Tasteless and odorless.

[Properties and flavors] "Ben Cao Zai Xin": "It tastes spicy, is cool in nature, and is non-toxic."

【Meridian】 "Ben Cao Zai Xin": "enters the lung meridian."

【Functions and indications】Promote blood circulation, stop bleeding, clear lung heat, and harmonize the liver and stomach. It is used to treat injuries from falls, cough with blood in sputum, vomiting blood, epistaxis, sore throat, liver and stomach pain, hernia pain, and dysmenorrhea.

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoct in water, 0.5-1 liang; grind into powder or mash into juice. For external use: mash and apply or decoct in water for washing.

[Additional prescription] ① Treating cough and vomiting blood after falls, injuries, and cough and vomiting blood due to tuberculosis: Dry the herb in the sun, soak it in children's urine for one day, dry it, soak it again and dry it again, and grind it into a very fine powder. Use one to one and a half qian each time, and take with hot sweet wine. For those who suffer from cough and vomiting blood, take the medicine with warm water once a day. (Jiangxi Folk Herbs)

【Clinical application】 ①Treatment of uterine bleeding

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

The above is a detailed introduction to the effects and functions of the bone-setting peach. When choosing it, pay attention to the dosage to avoid causing harm to your body.