The role and efficacy of Imperata root

Medicine is very helpful in treating diseases, so the choice of medicine cannot be done arbitrarily, otherwise it will not help the treatment of diseases. If you want to treat your own diseases well, you need to choose medicines that are suitable for you. Therefore, you need to understand the diseases that can be treated by medicines. Imperata root is a common medicine in life. What are the functions and effects of Imperata root?

There are many aspects to the functions and effects of Imperata root. When choosing it, you need to be careful not to choose it casually, otherwise it will not be of any help in the treatment of human diseases. People also need to pay attention to this.

The role and efficacy of Imperata root:

The efficacy of Imperata root

Cooling blood, stopping bleeding, clearing away heat and promoting diuresis. It is used to treat fever, thirst, vomiting blood, epistaxis, rapid wheezing due to lung heat, hiccups due to stomach heat, gonorrhea, difficulty urinating, edema, and jaundice.

① "Ben Jing": "It is used to treat fatigue, weakness, replenish qi, remove blood stasis, blood stasis, cold and heat, and promote urination."

② "Bie Lu": "It can relieve the five types of stranguria, eliminate exogenous heat in the intestines and stomach, quench thirst, strengthen tendons, and treat metrorrhagia in women."

③ "Rihuazi Bencao": "It is used to treat irregular menstruation in women and to relieve blood flow."

④ "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": "It can stop vomiting blood, nosebleed, treat hematuria, promote urination, and stop metrorrhagia in women."

⑤ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can stop vomiting, bleeding, hiccups caused by typhoid fever, shortness of breath caused by lung heat, edema, jaundice, and detoxification of alcohol."

⑥ "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": "It treats stomach reflux, five types of stranguria, fever and dry purple pox."

⑦ "Folk Medicine of Animals and Plants": "Treats athlete's foot."

The role of Imperata cylindrica

1. Used for fever, thirst, vomiting due to stomach heat, and cough due to lung heat. Imperata root can clear the heat from the lungs and stomach, so it is suitable for the above-mentioned symptoms and is often used as an auxiliary medicine. During the rash and recovery period of measles, you can use Imperata root decoction as a drink to take advantage of its effect of clearing away heat and promoting salivation.

2. Used for symptoms such as blood heat, vomiting, nosebleed and hematuria. This product has the effect of cooling blood and stopping bleeding, and can treat symptoms of blood heat. It can be used alone or in combination with small thistle, lotus root nodes, etc.

Through the above introduction, we have a good understanding of the role and efficacy of Imperata root. When choosing it, we also need to base it on our own disease condition. There are some particularities in the use of such medicines. If you don’t understand something, you also need to consult in detail so that you can use it correctly.