What are the effects and functions of reed root?

Reed root, also known as reed, is a traditional Chinese medicine, and its dried rhizome is used as medicine. It is used for thirst due to fever, vomiting due to stomach heat, cough due to lung heat, vomiting of pus due to lung abscess, and painful and astringent stranguria due to heat. It can be seen from this that reed root is a kind of antipyretic medicine that clears away heat, detoxifies and relieves heat. Reed root is very effective in clearing lung heat. When you suffer from dry cough that does not heal, you can boil reed root in water and drink it, which has a significant effect.

1. Reed root can clear the middle and dispel wind-heat, and can be used to treat wind-heat cough. It is often combined with mulberry leaves, chrysanthemum, platycodon and other medicines to dispel wind and heat, promote lung function and relieve cough. The recipe is Sangju Drink in "Treatise on Febrile Diseases".

2. Reed root is used for fever and thirst. Reed root is sweet and cold in nature, and has the functions of clearing away heat and promoting the production of body fluid, relieving restlessness and quenching thirst. It is used to treat damage to body fluid caused by fever, restlessness and thirst. It is often combined with gypsum, ophiopogon japonicus, and root of trichosanthes to enhance the efficacy of the medicine.

3. Fresh use has stronger medicinal power and can treat severe heat and body fluid damage, with symptoms of dry mouth, thirst, spitting white sticky foam and discomfort. It is often used with water chestnut juice, pear juice, Ophiopogon japonicus juice, etc. The recipe is such as the Five Juice Drink in "Treatise on Febrile Diseases".

4. Reed root is used for hot and painful stranguria. Reed root can clear away heat, promote diuresis and relieve stranguria. To treat heat stranguria, it is often combined with Akebia, Plantago seed, Talcum powder and other drugs to clear away damp heat, relieve stranguria and relieve pain. To treat hematuria, it should be combined with Imperata root, Thistle, Ramie root and other drugs to clear away heat, relieve stranguria, cool blood and stop bleeding.

5. In the early stage of measles, if the rash is not coming out smoothly, you can use reed root with mint and cicada shell to dispel wind and heat, expel toxins and clear the rash.

6. Reed root is used for cough due to lung heat and pus vomiting due to lung abscess. Reed root can clear away lung heat and act as a diuretic, and can guide heat toxins out of the urine. Therefore, it can treat lung heat cough with thick phlegm and lung abscess cough with pus and blood. To treat the former, it is often combined with mulberry bark, scutellaria baicalensis, Fritillaria and other drugs to clear away heat, resolve phlegm and relieve cough; to treat the latter, it is often combined with platycodon, houttuynia cordata, raw coix seed, honeysuckle and other drugs to clear the lungs, discharge pus, detoxify and treat abscesses.

7. Reed root has the property of penetrating and dispersing, and can be used to treat patients with initial symptoms of febrile disease. It is often combined with honeysuckle, forsythia, schizonepeta spicate and other drugs to achieve the effects of penetrating heat, detoxifying, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst. The prescription is Yinqiao Powder in "Treatise on Febrile Diseases".

8. Reed root can also be used to treat puffer fish poisoning. Use the juice alone, or add ginger, perilla leaves, etc., and boil it in water to drink.

9. Reed root is used for vomiting caused by stomach heat. Reed root can clear away heat, harmonize the stomach and stop vomiting, but it is not greasy and harmful to the stomach. Therefore, it is an important medicine for treating vomiting caused by stomach heat. For mild cases, it can be used alone. For severe cases, it is often used with bamboo shavings, ginger, rice, etc. to enhance the effect of clearing heat, relieving adverse effects, and stopping vomiting, such as the Reed Root Drink in Qianjin Yaofang.