What are the effects of wind millet shell?

Traditional Chinese medicine has not disappeared with the rapid development of modern medicine, but has become increasingly stronger, because Chinese medicine can treat some difficult and complicated diseases in a gentle way and has fewer side effects on the body. Traditional Chinese medicine uses a large number of natural plants as therapeutic drugs. For example, Fengsu Ke is a commonly used Chinese medicine. Let’s take a look at the effects and functions of Fengsu Ke.

The Chinese medicinal material chestnut shell is also called "chestnut hair ball"; it is also called: chestnut hair shell; chestnut thorn shell; chestnut shell cup; the Chinese medicinal material chestnut hair ball is the involucre of chestnut of the Fagaceae plant. Collect the fruits when peeling and dry them in the sun.

The efficacy and function of Fengli shell:

1. Clear away heat, dissipate stagnation, resolve phlegm, and stop bleeding. It is mainly used to treat scrofula, sputum nodules, whooping cough, erysipelas, aphasia caused by stroke, blood in stool, and epistaxis.

2. To treat leprosy caused by phlegm and fire: 1 liang of wind chestnut shell and 3 candied dates. Decoction together.

3. To treat phlegm and fire nodules: boil and drink the brocade of Fengli shell and Xia Ku Cao.

4. To treat redness and swelling caused by erysipelas: boil chestnut shells in water and wash the affected area.

5. To treat whooping cough in children: boil 3 grams of millet husk and 5 grams of sugared winter melon and drink it.

Fengli shell recipe :

Recipe for treating chicken cough: 5 cents of chestnut shell, 3 cents of corn silk, 5 cents of sugared winter melon, and two bowls of water. Boil them into one bowl and take it in three times.

(Explanation of the prescription): People use chestnut shells to treat coughs and eliminate phlegm. They are paired with candied winter melon to moisten the heart and lungs, and corn flour to clear away heat and promote diuresis. The resulting medicine moistens the heart and lungs, clears away heat, relieves coughs, and eliminates phlegm. It is effective for children's chicken cough and is a good remedy based on experience.

(Formula song): Chicken coughs frequently and the face turns red. Boil chestnut shells with corn silk, sugared winter melon and water to clear the heart and moisten the lungs, and the cough will gradually ease.

Recipe for treating mumps caused by phlegm and fire: 5 qian of Fengli shell, 5 qian of Prunella vulgaris, 3 qian of Thousand-layer paper, 5 qian of Codonopsis pilosula, and 2.5 bowls of water, boil them into 1 bowl of water and drink.

(Explanation of the prescription): This prescription contains Rhizoma Dioscoreae and Glechoma longituba to remove phlegm and reduce fire, while Prunella Vulgaris can remove phlegm and Herba Siberianis can disperse nodules, eliminate scrofula, tuberculosis, and mumps, etc.

(Formula song): Phlegm and fire nodules are combined with mumps. Cook the chestnut shells with summer grass. Cook the bent-headed chicken with thousand-layer paper. Don't wait to soften and resolve phlegm.