What is the medicinal value of willow?

Many plants and even trees have many functions and effects, and have great medicinal value. Some Chinese herbal ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine are relatively common in life. If you can fully grasp these medical knowledge issues, you can make full use of them, and you can also adjust and improve them according to your health status to avoid the threat of disease. So what is the medicinal value of willow?

Other names: willow twigs (from "Zhai Yuan Fang"), willow twigs (from "Zhiyuan Yicao").

Medicinal part: The branches of the weeping willow of the Salicaceae family.

Ingredients: The xylem contains salicin.

Functions and indications: dispel wind, diuretic, relieve pain and reduce swelling. Treat rheumatic pain, gonorrhea, leucorrhea, urinary obstruction, infectious hepatitis, edema, furuncle, erysipelas, tooth decay, and gingival swelling.

① "Supplement to Materia Medica": "To treat children with chills and fever for one to five days, boil willow branches and bathe them."

② "Rihuazi Bencao": "It can help digestion."

③ "Illustrated Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": "It is mainly used to treat blood stasis and qi stagnation, wind-cold and external binding; children with smallpox, with Aconitum sunken on the top of the head and the pus not rising, decoction or bathing."

④ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Decoction, treatment of jaundice, leucorrhea; wine boiling, ironing all pain and swelling, remove wind, relieve pain and swelling."

⑤ "Depei Materia Medica": "Removes wind-heat, removes dampness and arthralgia."

Usage and Dosage: For internal use: decoct in water, 1-2 liang. For external use: decoct in water for gargling or fumigation.

Choice:

① Treat turbid urine: a handful of willow branches and three grams of licorice. Decoction and drink it. (Behind the Elbow)

②To treat incontinence caused by fetal fire in children: Take a handful of dry willow branches and boil them into a decoction for drinking. (Emergency Remedies)

③Treat urinary infarction: a large handful of dead willow branches. It was crushed and boiled into a soup, then poured into a bucket and surrounded by smoke. Then take it orally. (Supplement to Gangmu)

④Treat jaundice: 3 liters of willow twigs. Use one dou of water, boil it to get the thick juice, squeeze out half a liter, and drink it all at once. (Outside the stage)

⑤Treat acute and chronic hepatitis: add 2 liang of tender willow branches within one inch in length to 1000 ml of water, boil until 200 ml remains, take once a day, divided into two doses. (Selected Proven Single Prescriptions of Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine in Xinjiang)

⑥ Treat carbuncle and ulcer: decoct willow branches and leaves into a paste and apply it. (《独行方》)

The above article gives a clear introduction to the medicinal value of willow twigs, and I believe everyone has a clear idea of ​​it. If you can improve your awareness of health care and constantly improve your living habits, when you feel unwell, you can also take some Chinese medicine under the guidance of a doctor. It is not only safe but also effective.