Effects and side effects of Houttuynia cordata

Houttuynia cordata is a dish that people love to eat very much. It can stimulate the appetite when eaten after being mixed with cold dishes, especially for people with poor appetite. But in fact, Houttuynia cordata is not just a food ingredient, but also a Chinese medicinal material. It can be used to treat many common diseases, such as gastritis, or some cough symptoms. These therapeutic effects are very significant, but some people cannot take it.

Indications

Heat stranguria is mainly caused by lung abscess with vomiting pus, hot phlegm and cough, sore throat, hot dysentery, carbuncle, swelling and ulcer, and heat stranguria.

effect

Clears away heat and detoxifies, promotes diuresis and reduces swelling. Treat pneumonia, lung abscess, febrile dysentery, malaria, edema, gonorrhea, leucorrhea, carbuncle, hemorrhoids, rectal prolapse, eczema, baldness, and scabies.

① "Bielu": It is used to treat earwig-induced drowning sores.

② "Bencao Gangmu" (Bencao Gangmu): Simmer in a light bamboo tube and apply to sores and white baldness.

③ "Lu Canyan Materia Medica": It is very effective in treating heatstroke, hidden heat, stuffiness, confusion and unconsciousness.

④ "Compendium of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan": Treats lung abscess, cough with pus and blood, fishy-smelling sputum, heat and toxicity in the large intestine, and hemorrhoids.

⑤ "Compendium of Materia Medica": Dissipates heat, poisons, carbuncles, sores, hemorrhoids, prolapse of the anus, stops abscesses, and detoxifies nitrile poison.

⑥ "Medical Collection": It can promote water circulation, attack strong targets, remove miasma, and relieve heat. It can treat snake and insect poison, athlete's foot, carbuncle, and remove blood stasis.

⑦ Guangzhou Army's "Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicines": clears heat and detoxifies. Treat mastitis, cellulitis, otitis media, and enteritis.

⑧《Classification of Herbal Properties》: Treats five types of stranguria, eliminates edema, removes food accumulation, replenishes weakness, and eliminates swelling.

⑨ "Records of Medicinal Herbs in Lingnan": Leaves: applied to large and malignant sores, can disinfect; decocted and taken, can remove dampness and heat, and treat dysentery.

⑩ "Modern Practical Chinese Medicine": Raw leaves: Heat and apply externally, it is a foaming medicine that can treat sores and ringworms. It can be used as a bath ingredient for scabies, swelling, eczema, low back pain, etc. Chewing its roots raw can prevent angina attacks caused by coronary heart disease.

⑾ "Illustrated Guide to Chinese Medicinal Plants": It can be used as an emetic for emergency treatment of poison.

Houttuynia cordata can enhance the phagocytic ability of WBC and increase serum properdin. In the treatment of chronic bronchitis, synthetic houttuynia cordata can significantly improve the phagocytic ability of WBC of patients against Staphylococcus aureus and significantly increase serum properdin. Rabbits were given 8 mg of houttuynia cordata intramuscularly daily. After three days of continuous administration, the level of properdin in serum also increased significantly. Houttuynia cordata improves the body's immunity and is of great significance in the treatment of infectious diseases.