Medicinal value of saxifrage

Saxifrage is a kind of herb and also a common Chinese medicinal material. Saxifrage is cold in nature and also contains some toxins. Friends who are not familiar with Chinese medicine pharmacology should not be frightened by its toxins. As a kind of Chinese medicinal material, as long as it is used properly, the medicinal value of saxifrage is quite high. So what are the medicinal values ​​of saxifrage? Let’s take a look at it together below!

[Effects and functions of saxifrage]:

Dispel wind, clear away heat, cool blood and detoxify. Treat rubella, eczema, otitis media, erysipelas, cough and vomiting blood, lung abscess, metrorrhagia, and hemorrhoids.

① "Lu Canyan Materia Medica": To treat hemorrhoids and swelling, use a small amount of dried human horse seeds to burn and fumigate in the toilet.

② "Compendium of Materia Medica": For the treatment of plague, pound it into powder and drink it with wine. If used raw, it can cause vomiting and diarrhea, while if used cooked, it can stop vomiting and diarrhea. It can also be used to treat ear infections by mashing the blood and dripping the juice onto the affected area.

③ "Essentials of Raw Medicinal Herbs" says: It can treat sudden heat and poison in the ear, redness, swelling, pus and pain. Beat the herb and drip the juice into the ear, or add borneol to dissipate the poison and heal the disease.

④ "Illustrated Catalogue of Plant Names and Realities": It can be used as a substitute for tea to block the throat and make it speechless. It also treats vomiting blood.

⑤ "Classification of Herbal Properties": Clears lung heat, treats cough, and cures rubella and erysipelas.

⑥ "Modern Practical Chinese Medicine": applied to sores, carbuncles, frostbite, and insect bites, etc.

⑦ "Jiangxi Folk Herbs": Treats lung heat, cough, gas reversal, vomiting blood, lung abscess with smelly pus, whooping cough, liver fire, and tuberculosis in children.

⑧Guangzhou Army "Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicines": dispels dampness and swelling, cools blood and stops bleeding, clears away heat and detoxifies, treats traumatic bleeding, acute and chronic otitis media.

【Additional prescription】：

①Treat otitis media: Mash fresh saxifrage leaves and drip the juice into the ear.

②Treatment of urticaria: Saxifrage and Indigo. Decoction.

③ Treat wind-heat toxicity, wind-fire toothache: decocted one liang of fresh saxifrage in water and taken orally.

④Treat itching caused by rubella and eczema: 50g to 100g of fresh saxifrage. Decoction.

⑤Treat eczema and skin itching: Chop one pound of fresh saxifrage into small pieces, add 95% alcohol to wet it, then add 1000 ml of 30% alcohol to soak it for a week, remove the residue, and apply it to the affected area.

⑥ Treat lung heat, cough and gas reverse: 3 to 6 qian of Saxifraga herb and 0.5 liang of crystal sugar. Decoction in water.

⑦Treat whooping cough: 1 to 3 grams of saxifrage and 3 grams of crystal sugar. Decoction.

Through the introduction of the above content, I believe everyone has a deeper understanding of Saxifrage! The main medicinal value of Saxifrage lies in its ability to clear away heat, detoxify, dispel wind and cool blood. It can play a good therapeutic role in the treatment of eczema, otitis media, coughing and vomiting blood and other symptoms. Saxifrage can be used externally to treat eczema itching, and taken internally to treat lung heat and cough.