It's fresh on the roadside and has magical healing effects

Fresh Chinese medicinal products often have very magical effects.

1. One summer, I took several apprentices to the wild to collect Chinese medicinal herbs. One of them scratched his arm accidentally, and the wound immediately swelled up like an earthworm and oozed blood. Seeing this, I remembered the method of using fresh baby thistle to stop bleeding when one accidentally cut his finger while cutting grass in the countryside. I asked the apprentice to pick a handful of fresh baby thistle, smash it with clean stones into mud and apply it on the wound. After a while, the mud dried up, the bleeding stopped and the swelling disappeared, leaving only a green line.

2. In the summer of 2001, the Beijing-Fuzhou Expressway was built to Tengzhou. There was an engineer in the road construction team named Wang, who was in his thirties. He often came to the pharmacy to buy medicine and became a good friend. One day at noon, Mr. Wang called me and said that his crotch was itchy and his testicles were swollen like balls. He went to the municipal hospital for treatment and the hospital asked him to be hospitalized for treatment. However, the working schedule was tight and hospitalization would inevitably delay his work. He asked me if I had any good ideas? I asked him to come over and let me take a look. Mr. Wang took a taxi to my shop. He took off his pants in the back room and I saw that it was indeed horrible! Not only did the testicles swell up like balls, but there were also several cracks that oozed blood.

It is suspected to be the legendary hydrangea wind, which often occurs in hot summer weather. Traditional Chinese medicine diagnoses it as heat and toxic invasion, and Western medicine diagnoses it as fungal infection. Thistle has the function of clearing away heat, detoxifying and reducing swelling, so you might as well try it. Then tell him to go to the hotel and rest and wait for my call. After Mr. Wang left, I immediately went to the suburbs to collect about a pound of fresh chicory, removed the dry leaves and roots, and mashed them into a paste with a pestle. I put it in a large glass bottle, then asked him to come over and told him to wrap the paste in a mask and apply it to the affected area. Mr. Wang went back and did the same thing. He called me the next morning and said, "Brother, you're amazing. He's healed as new now!" Later, I used this method to treat a tractor driver with the same case.

3. Treatment of burns. One day while cooking, I accidentally burned my arm with a burn about the size of a copper coin. For usual burn treatment, I cut the blister as usual and applied Jing Wanhong. I thought there was no problem, but the summer was too hot and my sweat invaded the body and caused infection. There was no improvement after three days and the condition was getting worse. I had no choice but to pick fresh chicory from the garden and mash it to apply on my arm. The swelling went down in a moment, and the pain was gone after two hours with a scar formed. I was basically healed the next day.

4. Treatment of erysipelas. One autumn, my mother-in-law's calves were purple, red and swollen. She was in unbearable pain and couldn't sleep. She tried both Western and Chinese medicines but with little effect. When I learned about it, I went back to visit her. I was very sad to see her condition. Seeing the large area of ​​bruises, I remembered that thistle is known as blood-seeking erysipelas, and taking thistle externally should be effective. So I went to the wild to find a pound of thistle, came back to wash it and mashed it into a paste, applied it to the affected area, and fixed it with gauze. An hour later, I said goodbye and went back. My mother-in-law got up to see me off. The gauze fell off, and my mother-in-law looked down. The red spot had disappeared, leaving only a pink circle. The pain was completely gone, and she rode her bike to the street to buy vegetables the next day as usual.

5. Treatment of sprains and bruises. My daughter was admitted to university and went to the supermarket to buy some supplies. When she went downstairs, she accidentally sprained her ankle. The ankle was bruised, red and swollen, and she could hardly walk in pain. The doctor said that it would take a hundred days to heal a broken bone, so she asked her to take a leave and rest at home. I used small thistle mud for external application, and the bruises disappeared on the same day, and the swelling and pain were relieved. At the same time, I took Chinese Dijue Pills internally, and ten days later she was able to walk briskly and was as well as before.

Ancient Chinese medicine practitioners probably used fresh herbs to treat diseases. Drying the herbs should be used when there are no fresh herbs after the season. Fresh thistle can clear away heat, detoxify, stop bleeding and promote blood circulation, but the function of the dried herb is greatly reduced, and the blood circulation function is almost lost. I think this phenomenon is not limited to small thistles, there should be similar ones in other plants.