Tiger grass benefits and effects

I don’t know if you have seen tiger grass in your life. Tiger grass is a common and important Chinese medicine. It generally grows in relatively shady and humid places, or on large rocks by the streams. Its medicinal value is also very high. It can treat a variety of diseases. In summer, it can also play a role in clearing away heat and detoxifying. So what are the effects and functions of tiger grass?

Tiger grass, also known as stone lotus leaf, golden thread hanging hibiscus, tiger ear, and tie leaf, etc. It grows in shady and damp places or in the shade of trees beside streams or on rocks. It tastes bitter and spicy, is cold in nature and is slightly toxic. It can enter the lung, spleen, and large intestine meridians. It has the functions of dispelling wind, clearing heat, cooling blood and detoxifying. It can be used to treat otitis media, wind-heat cough, lung abscess, vomiting blood, wind-fire toothache, urticaria itching, carbuncle erysipelas, hemorrhoidal swelling and pain, poisonous insect bites, traumatic bleeding and other diseases.

The whole plant of tiger grass can be used as medicine and can be picked throughout the year, but it is best to pick it after flowering. The reason why tiger grass is also called tiger ear is that it looks very similar to tiger ears. The common method of using tiger grass is internal administration: decoction, 3-5 coins. For external use: mash the juice or decoct it in water for fumigation and washing.

1. "Compendium of Materia Medica" states: Tiger grass can cure plague, and it can be taken with pounded wine (pounded wine: put tiger grass into a container and grind it together with wine, then take it). If used raw, it can cause vomiting and diarrhea, but if used cooked, it can stop vomiting and diarrhea. It can also treat otitis media by mashing the juice and dripping it into the affected area. "

2. The Sichuan Central Herbal Book "Classification of Herbal Properties" in the Qing Dynasty states: Tiger grass can clear lung heat, treat cough, rubella and erysipelas.

For the treatment of wind-damp heat poison, wind-fire toothache, urticaria itching, and eczema: you can use one or two liang of fresh tiger grass and boil it in water.

3. To treat whooping cough: use 1 to 3 grams of tiger grass, add 3 grams of rock sugar, and decoct in water.

Sitting

4. Treatment of hemorrhoids: Take one or two grams of tiger grass, boil it in water, add a little salt, put it in a pot, sit and smoke, twice a day.

Tiger grass external application

5. To treat frostbite: Mash fresh tiger grass leaves and apply to the frostbite.

Indigo

6. To treat urticaria: use tiger grass and indigo, decoct them and take orally.