The role and efficacy of rock ginger

Although the name of Rock Ginger contains the word "ginger", it has nothing to do with ginger. Rock Ginger is a traditional Chinese medicinal material, which is mainly used to treat deafness, tinnitus, kidney deficiency, low back pain, loose teeth, and tendon and bone fractures, etc. It has a relatively good effect. Rock ginger is also called meat-breaking ginger, cliff ginger or climbing cliff ginger. Rock ginger tastes relatively bitter and is a relatively mild Chinese medicinal material. It can be used in combination with other medicinal materials.

The role and efficacy of rock ginger

Nourish the kidneys and strengthen bones, heal injuries and relieve pain. It is used for low back pain due to kidney deficiency, tinnitus, deafness, loose teeth, falls, sprains, fractures of tendons and bones; it is also used for external treatment of alopecia areata and vitiligo.

Selected prescriptions for the use of Rhizoma Drynariae

Treating persistent pain in waist and legs:

50g Drynaria fortunei, 75g cinnamon bark, 1.5g Achyranthes bidentata (remove the seedlings), 100g Areca catechu, 150g Psoralea corylifolia (slightly stir-fry), 100g benzoin (add walnut kernels and mash until cooked). Grind it into powder, add refined honey and benzoin, pound it with a pestle for more than a hundred times, and make into pills as big as sycamore seeds. Take 20 pills with warm wine before each meal.

Treats tinnitus and relieves various pains:

After removing the hair from the Drynaria fortunei and cutting it into small pieces, mix it with raw honey, steam it from Si to Hai, dry it quickly, grind it into powder, and eat it on an empty stomach with roasted pig kidneys.

Treats tinnitus, deafness, loose teeth and unbearable pain caused by kidney deficiency:

200 grams of Drynaria fortunei, 100 grams each of Rehmannia glutinosa, Cornus officinalis, and Poria cocos, 100 grams and 5 cents of Paeonia suffruticosa root (all fried with wine), and 40 grams of Alisma orientalis (fried with salt water). Grind them into powder and make pills with honey. Take 25 grams each time, with white soup before meals.

Treat toothache:

50-100 grams of fresh oak fern (dehaired). Crush it, add water and steam it. Do not use iron utensils to cook.

Treat wounds, broken bones, and unbearable pain:

25g each of Drynaria fortunei (remove the hair and stir-fry with bran until slightly yellow), Natural Copper (finely ground), Tiger Tibia (coated with butter and roasted until slightly yellow), and Psoralea corylifolia (coated with butter and roasted until slightly yellow), and 50g of Myrrh. Grind the above ingredients into powder. Take 5 grams each time, with half a walnut kernel, chew it into pieces, and drink it with a medium cup of warm wine. Take three to four times a day.

Treating injuries caused by beatings and blows:

The amount of monkey ginger does not matter, just use half of it: fresh ginger. Mash the above ingredients together and apply to the injured area. Wrap it with a piece of silk and replace it when it dries.

Bone and tendon repair:

Soak 200 grams of Drynaria fortunei in 500 grams of wine, take it orally in ten doses, twice a day, and dry it in the sun and grind it into powder for external application.

Treatment of frustration and flash:

Take 100 grams of Drynaria fortunei, pound it into a paste, stir-fry it with a little ginger, vegetable oil and Rhizoma Anemarrhenae, and apply it to the affected area.

Treat joint dislocation and fracture:

After joint reduction or bone-setting surgery, take oak fern (remove the hair) and elm bark, mash them, add appropriate amount of flour, mash them into a paste, apply it to the injured area, and change the dressing every two to three days.

Treat injuries from falls, back pain and joint pain:

25-50 grams of oak fern (dehaired). Decoction in water.

Treat appendicitis:

400 grams of fresh oak fern (dehaired), chopped, add 25 grams of large blood vine, and 200 grams of red dates. Decoction in water.

Treatment of alopecia areata:

25 grams of fresh oak fern, five blister beetles, and 150 grams of shochu. Soak for twelve days, filter and rub the affected area two to three times a day.

Treat chronic diarrhea caused by kidney deficiency:

Take an appropriate amount of Drynaria fortunei, grind it into fine powder, take 6 grams each time, stew it in pig kidneys, and eat it.