What does Chonglou look like?

Paris polyphylla is a plant with a nodular, flat cylindrical shape and a yellow-brown or gray surface. Its rhizome is mainly used as medicine and has a good effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying. Moreover, for problems such as sore throat or snake or insect bites, the proper use of Paris polyphylla can help you quickly relieve pain, but you should also pay attention to its scientific way of consumption and abide by some consumption taboos.

Paris polyphylla, the name of a traditional Chinese medicine. It is the dried rhizome of Polygonum multiflorum or Polygonum multiflorum of the Liliaceae family. It tastes bitter and is slightly cold in nature; it is slightly poisonous. It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, reducing swelling and relieving pain, cooling the liver and calming the nerves. It is often used for furuncles, carbuncles, sore throat, snake and insect bites, injuries from falls, and convulsions.

Effects of Paridis

Clears away heat and detoxifies, reduces swelling and relieves pain, cools the liver and calms the nerves.

Indications

Furuncles, carbuncle, sore throat, snake and insect bites, injuries from falls, convulsions

Taboos of Chonglou

1. People with weak constitution, no real fire, heat or toxicity, yin syndrome or external ulcer and pregnant women should not take it.

2. "Bencao Huiyan": It is contraindicated in cases of heat damage to the Ying-Yin and vomiting and epistaxis.

3. "Ben Jing Feng Yuan" states: It is forbidden for those with weak vital energy to use.

Preparation method of Paris polyphylla

Remove impurities, wash, soak, cut into thin slices, and dry.

This product is nodular, flat and cylindrical, slightly curved, 5-300px long and 1.0-112.5px in diameter. The surface is yellow-brown or gray-brown, and the peeled-off part is white; it is densely covered with coarse ring patterns with layered protrusions, one side has obvious nodules with oval sunken stem scars, and the other side has sparse fibrous roots or warty fibrous root scars. The apex has remnants of scale leaves and stems. The texture is solid, the cross section is flat, white to light brown, powdery or horny. It has a faint smell and tastes slightly bitter and numb.

Although Paris polyphylla has many medicinal values ​​and applications in life, we should also pay attention to abide by some of its principles. For example, pregnant women or people with weak constitutions are not recommended to use Paris polyphylla. After all, if the body is not suitable and these things are used, it will bring other harm to the health of the body.