What are the effects and functions of biliary grass?

The medicinal value of dandelion is relatively high. In life, it helps us clear away heat and detoxify, improve painful urination, or has a good effect on damp-heat, deafness, ear swelling and other diseases. However, we must also pay attention to the correct formula of the medicine to avoid causing other adverse injuries.

1. Clear away heat and dampness; purge the liver and calm the nerves. Jaundice due to damp-heat; painful urination; swelling and itching of the vagina; damp-heat in the lower part of the body; headache due to excess fire in the liver and gallbladder; red and swollen eyes; deafness and swollen ears; pain in the ribs and bitter taste in the mouth; convulsions caused by febrile disease.

2. Longdan Xiegan Decoction (Yifang Jijie) is used to treat liver and gallbladder fire inflammation, headache, red eyes, flank pain, bitter taste in the mouth, deafness, ear swelling, red tongue with yellow coating, and strong and stringy pulse. Syndrome of damp-heat descending into the liver meridians. Vulva swelling, vulva itching, tendon atrophy, genital sweating, turbid urine, or yellow and smelly vaginal discharge in women, etc., red tongue with yellow and greasy coating. Gentiana 6g, Scutellaria 9g, Gardenia 9g, Alisma 12g, Akebia 9g, Plantago 9g, Angelica 3g, Rehmannia glutinosa 9g, Bupleurum 6g, Licorice root 6g. Decoction in water. You can also take pills, 6 to 9 g each time, twice a day, with warm water. In the formula, gentian is very bitter and cold, and can clear away heat and dampness, so it is the main ingredient.

3. Longdan Powder (Taiping Shenghui Fang) is used to treat jaundice due to fatigue, sweating on the forehead, heat in the hands and feet, pain in the limbs, chills and fever in the evening, and spontaneous urination. 0.6g of gentian, 1g each of ophiopogon, licorice, bupleurum, hemp and rhinoceros horn, and 30g of oyster. Grind the above 7 ingredients into powder, decoct in water, add 0.5 he of Rehmannia glutinosa juice, and drink while warm. The combination of gentian and other herbs in the formula has the effect of purging the liver and gallbladder's excess fire, and removing dampness and heat in the lower abdomen.

4. Grind it into powder and boil it into a decoction, or take it with boiled water to treat nosebleed caused by liver fire.