Side effects of toad grass

Toad grass is a very common plant in rural areas and it is a plant with certain medicinal value. The flowers of toad grass are usually blue or purple and are very easy to identify. Toad grass has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, moistening the lungs and relieving cough. If you have a cough and it has not been cured for a long time, you can boil toad grass in water and drink it. The cough-relieving effect is very significant. So, what are the side effects of toad grass?

Toad grass is a biennial herb, 15-90cm tall. The stem is square, much branched, and covered with sparse soft hairs. The leaves are clustered at the roots, petiolate, oblong or lanceolate, with rounded edges, wrinkled leaf surface, glandular dots on the surface, and hairy on both sides; stem leaves are opposite. The cyme has 2-6 flowers, forming a pseudoraceme or panicle; the calyx is bell-shaped, and the cyme has 2-6 flowers, forming a pseudoraceme or panicle; the calyx is bell-shaped, covered with golden glandular dots and soft hairs, divided into 2 lips, the upper lip has 3 short tips at the top, and the lower lip has 2 teeth; the corolla is lip-shaped, lavender to blue-purple, about 4.5mm long, with hairs on the outside, and a hair ring at the base of the tube, and the upper lip is oblong.

Toad grass is another name for the traditional Chinese medicine Potentilla, which has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and stopping diarrhea. It is mainly used for abdominal pain caused by dysentery, chronic dysentery, hemorrhoid bleeding, carbuncles, sores and other symptoms. It can also be used for heat-toxic throat carbuncle, also known as acute pharyngitis. There are no obvious side effects.

Function and indications

Clears away heat, detoxifies, cools blood and promotes diuresis. Used for sore throat, bronchitis, nephritis edema, carbuncle; external treatment of mastitis, hemorrhoidal swelling and pain, and bleeding. Proven:

1. It is effective for cough. If other medicines are ineffective, eating Toad Grass will cure the cough.

2. It has obvious effects on sore throat and chronic bronchitis.

Medicinal Food

1. Collect an appropriate amount (about a handful) of fresh toad grass, wash and chop it, beat an appropriate amount of eggs and mix them evenly, fry them with oil, and eat them while hot, once or twice a day.

2. Collect an appropriate amount (about a handful) of fresh toad grass, wash and chop it, mix it with an appropriate amount of flour, make it into pancakes, eat it while hot, once or twice a day.

The above two methods of use have obvious therapeutic effects on cough, bronchitis and sore throat. Cough and sore throat can be cured in one to two times, and bronchitis can be cured in three to six times.