The nature and flavor of Scrophularia ningpoensis

Regarding the nature, flavor, meridians, efficacy and functions of Adenophora Root, the editor has professionally sorted out the following. Please read it carefully, junior and intermediate Chinese medicine students.

Efficacy and function

Nourish yin, reduce heat, relieve restlessness, and remove toxins. It is used to treat heat syndrome damaging yin, tongue rash, thirst, rashes, bone steaming and fatigue fever, restless sleep, night sweats, constipation caused by loss of body fluid, vomiting blood, epistaxis, sore throat, carbuncle, scrofula, rashes caused by warm poison, red eyes, diphtheria, and sores.

Step 1 "Ben Jing": "It treats heat and cold accumulation in the abdomen, postpartum diseases in women, replenishes kidney yang, and clears the eyes."

Step 2 "Bie Lu": "It is used to treat sudden stroke, fear of cold due to typhoid fever, fullness and madness, sudden loss of consciousness, fever, blood clots and cold blood, remove qi in the heart, drain water, quench thirst, disperse nuclei under the neck, carbuncle, heart and stomach pain, hard diseases, and stabilize the five internal organs."

Step 3 "Medicinal Properties": "It can treat sudden heat, headache caused by heat, typhoid fever, fatigue, and tumors, goiters, and scrofula."

Step 4 "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Treats wind in the head, heat toxins, wandering wind, nourishes yin and blood, muscle strain, palpitations, irritability, fatigue, bone steaming, transmission of corpse dampness, stops memory loss, and eliminates swelling and toxins."

Step 5: "Medical Origin": "It treats heart annoyance and insomnia, mental confusion and anxiety, blood stasis and urinary obstruction."

Step 6 of "Essentials of Pinhui": "It can reduce swelling in the throat and relieve the fire at the root."

Step 7 "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can quench thirst, remove toxins, relieve sore throat, and relieve urinary stasis."

Step 8 "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Treats heat evil in the chest, heart and lungs, clears heat in the bladder and kidneys. Treats sore throat caused by wind-cold and wind-heat, relieves red eyes caused by liver yang, stops night sweats, treats vomiting blood and nosebleeds

Step 9: Clear heat and cool blood. This product has a cold effect and can clear away heat in the blood. It is used to treat febrile diseases with heat entering the blood.

Step 10: Nourish yin and produce body fluid. This product is moist and fluid, can clear away heat, detoxify evil and replenish yin fluid, and is used to treat symptoms such as dry mouth and throat, dry and hard stool, and thirst caused by heat syndrome damaging body fluid.

Step 11: Eliminate heat and toxins. It is used for various heat syndromes with intense heat and toxicity, taking advantage of its effects of clearing away heat, promoting dampness and removing toxins, and treating fever, swollen throat, red eyes, furuncle, gangrene, etc.

Step 12: Dissolve the knot. The salty taste of this flavor can dissolve stagnation and relieve depression, and treat swellings and lumps caused by phlegm and fire.