What are the effects of drinking water with Scrophularia?

Friends who are familiar with traditional Chinese medicine pharmacology must be familiar with Scrophularia. Scrophularia is also a kind of Chinese medicinal material and is widely used in our lives. In addition to being used as medicine, Scrophularia can also be used together with other medicinal materials to make tea directly, or it can be used alone to make tea. Drinking water soaked with Scrophularia is very helpful to our health. Today I will introduce to you the benefits of drinking water soaked with Scrophularia.

【Function and indications】

Nourish yin, reduce fire, relieve restlessness and detoxify. It is used to treat febrile disease damaging yin, tongue rash, thirst, rashes, bone steaming and fatigue fever, restless sleep, spontaneous sweating and night sweats, constipation caused by loss of body fluid, hematemesis and epistaxis, sore throat, carbuncle, scrofula, rashes caused by warm poison, red eyes, diphtheria, and sores.

【effect】

1. It is used for symptoms such as heat entering the blood, thirst, red tongue, irritability, restless sleep, unclear consciousness or rashes on the body due to febrile diseases. When warm evil enters the blood, it damages the yin and robs the fluid, causing thirst and red tongue. When it invades the pericardium, it causes irritability and coma. Scrophularia can clear away heat and cool blood, and has the effect of nourishing yin and promoting body fluid. It is often used together with fresh Rehmannia, Ophiopogon japonicus, Coptis chinensis, Forsythia suspensa, Lonicera japonica, and Bambusa longituba for the above symptoms.

2. Used for sore throat, red eyes, scrofula and tuberculosis. Sore throat can be caused by exogenous wind-heat or by yin deficiency and virtual fire. Both types of sore throat can be treated with Scrophularia ningpoensis. If you are affected by wind-heat, you must take pungent and cool antipyretic drugs such as mint and burdock seed; if you have false fire, you must use yin-nourishing drugs such as fresh rehmannia and ophiopogon japonicus. Therefore, Scrophularia ningpoensis is a commonly used drug in laryngology, especially for treating false fire. As for the symptoms of red eyes with yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire, this product can be used together with raw rehmannia, semen cassiae, herba prunellae, herba scutellariae, and buddlejac. For the treatment of scrofula and tuberculosis, it can be used together with Fritillaria, oyster, etc.

Through the introduction of the above content, we all know that drinking water soaked with Scrophularia can nourish yin, detoxify, and reduce fire. If you have too many toxins in your body or are very hot-tempered, you might as well soak Scrophularia in water and drink it for a period of time. It can not only reduce fire and detoxify, but also has a good effect on nourishing yin and promoting body fluid. It is also recommended to go to a regular Chinese medicine store to purchase Scrophularia.