What are the medicinal values ​​of Herba Potentillae

Dietary supplements are a good way for people to regulate their physical condition and replenish their nutrition. Food supplements will not cause serious harm to people's bodies. Many wild vegetables in daily life, although seemingly unknown, have very important medicinal value and food supplement effects. Herba Potentillae Discolor is one of them. So what are the medicinal values ​​of Herba Potentillae Discolor?

Clears away heat and detoxifies; cools blood and stops bleeding. It is used to treat lung heat, cough and asthma, diarrhea, malaria, hemoptysis, blood in the stool, metrorrhagia, carbuncle, ulcer, ringworm and tuberculosis. Used for enteritis, bacterial dysentery, amoebic dysentery, hematemesis, epistaxis, bloody stool, leucorrhea; used externally to treat trauma, carbuncles, boils and swellings.

① "Compendium of Materia Medica": Treats vomiting blood, bleeding, metrorrhagia, malaria, and carbuncle.

② "Bencao Yuanshi": It is used to treat unknown swelling, carbuncle, scabies, and ulcers of ecthyma.

③ "Herbal Prescriptions": Clears the intestines and stomach, and eliminates rheumatism. It can be used to treat chronic dysentery causing malnutrition and can be applied to dog bites.

④ "Fujian Folk Herbs": removes blood stasis and promotes new blood, relieves depression and stops bleeding.

⑤ "Compilation of Commonly Used Folk Herbs": Treats cough and measles.

⑥ "Guangxi Chinese Materia Medica": Root: Treats weak legs after childbirth and miscarriage. Leaves: can dispel wind.

【Additional prescription】：

①For the treatment of bacterial dysentery and amoebic dysentery: Take 1 to 2 taels of fresh dried whole herb or root of Herba Dioscoreae, boil it into a concentrated decoction, and take it two to three times a day. (Common Chinese Herbal Medicines in Nanjing)

②For treating malaria, chills and fever and unknown swellings: Take five to seven roots of Scutellaria baicalensis, decoct them in wine and drink it. (Compendium)

③Treat lung abscess: 1 liang of fresh smilax glabra root, 5 qian each of rat thorn root and radix smilax root. Add water and boil it into half a bowl. Take it before meals, twice a day. (Fujian Folk Herbs)

④Treat cough: root of scutellaria baicalensis. Cook pig lungs and eat them. (Hunan Pharmacopoeia)

⑤Treat phlegm and asthma: whole herb of Rhizoma Cynomorium. Boil it and drink it with rock sugar. (Hunan Pharmacopoeia)

The medicinal value of Herba Potentillae is very extensive. It can not only be taken internally to treat cough, vomiting blood, and other diseases, but also has the effect of clearing away heat when consumed on a daily basis. If there are symptoms of bleeding wounds after falling, you can also use Herba Potentillae to treat it. This can effectively stop bleeding and prevent further bacterial infection that affects wound recovery.