White mustard dosage

White mustard is actually a very common Chinese medicinal material. There are many things to pay attention to in the treatment of this Chinese medicinal material. It cannot be taken casually, otherwise it will lead to counterproductive effects. When you often feel coughing and chest tightness, you can take this treatment method to cure it, and you can also choose targeted treatment methods to improve it, and the effect will be more obvious.

Dosage

Decoction: 3-6g; or made into pills or powder. For external use, grind into powder and apply, or make into foam.

Usage Notes

This product is pungent and warm, and it consumes Qi and damages Yin. It should not be used by people with long-term cough, weak lungs, or yin deficiency and excessive fire. It should not be used by people with gastrointestinal ulcers, bleeding, or skin allergies. The dosage should not be too large.

① "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Eating too much will cause blurred vision and irritation, and will cause loss of energy and damage to essence."

② "Depei Materia Medica": "It is contraindicated for patients with yin deficiency, excessive fire, qi deficiency, and chronic cough."

③ For patients with cold phlegm blocking the lungs, with symptoms of cough, asthma, chest tightness, and excessive phlegm, it can be used in combination with perilla seed and radish seed.

④ When cold phlegm condenses in the shoulders and back, and the meridians are blocked, with symptoms of shoulder and back pain, or paralysis, it can be used in combination with cinnamon bark, myrrh, costus root, and momordica seed.

⑤ If cold phlegm stagnates in the meridians and the symptoms include tuberculosis and scrofula, you can boil ephedra, raw arisaema, pinellia, bombyx batryticatus, etc. into a paste and apply it externally.

Prescriptions

①To treat cold without sweating: Mix mustard powder with water and fill the navel, then iron it through clothes with a hot object, which is effective in inducing sweating. (Simple single prescription)

② Treat vomiting due to shortness of breath: grind 2 liters of mustard seeds into powder, make into pills with honey, and take at 3:00 pm with well water, 7 pills such as walnut seeds, twice a day; it can also be made into powder and taken on an empty stomach; it can also be taken with wine, and can also be used to treat colic below the navel. (Qianjin Fang)

③To treat stroke in women, lockjaw and tongue retraction: grind one liter of mustard seeds, add three liters of vinegar, boil and take one liter, apply under the chin and cheek. (Sheng Hui Fang)

④Treat arthritis: 50 grams of mustard and appropriate amount of vinegar. First moisten the mustard with a small amount of boiling water, then add vinegar to make it into a paste. Spread it on a cloth, cover it with a layer of gauze, and apply it to the painful area. Remove it after three hours and apply it again every three to five days. (Xuzhou's "Selected New Medical Methods of Single Prescriptions")

⑤To treat Yin syndrome cold, abdominal pain and convulsions: Grind mustard seeds into powder, mix with water and apply on the navel. (Shengshengbian)

⑥To treat carbuncle in adults and children: mix mustard powder with soup and apply it on paper. (Qianjin Fang)