What is the medicinal value of Xanthium sibiricum

Xanthium sibiricum is a Chinese medicinal material with great medicinal properties. It is an annual herb and its origin is very wide. This plant can be found in many places in my country. How much do you know about Xanthium sibiricum? The medicinal value of Xanthium sibiricum is very high, but Xanthium sibiricum plays a very important role in actual life. Improper consumption is most likely to cause poisoning, and once poisoned, it will cause great harm to the patient.

① Treat women with blood-wind attacking the brain, dizziness, fainting, sudden death and falling to the ground without knowing what is happening: pick up the young heart of the grass, dry it in the shade and grind it into powder, take one large coin of it with normal wine.

② Treat headache caused by stroke, cold and typhoid fever, and carbuncle and swelling: Crush the roots and leaves of Xanthium sibiricum, add the urine of children and squeeze out the juice, take one liter of juice with cold water, three times a day.

③ Treat stroke, headache, dampness, and cramps and pain in the limbs: 1 jin of young shoots and leaves of Xanthium sibiricum, 1 liang of crispy cake. First boil Xanthium sibiricum for three to five times, strain it out, use one cup of fermented black beans and two and a half large cups of water, boil the fermented black beans and take out one and a half cups of juice, add Xanthium sibiricum and five flavors, mix into a soup, add butter and eat.

④Treatment of red and white diarrhea: Wash any amount of Xanthium sibiricum, boil it in water until it is soft, remove the dregs, add honey, and boil it over high heat into a paste. Take one or two spoons each time, with plain water.

⑤Treatment of star-shaped opacities on the eyes: Mash fresh Xanthium sibiricum and apply it as a plaster on the temples.

⑥For treating gale and various wind diseases: Grind any amount of Xanthium sibiricum into fine powder, and use Xanthium sibiricum oil to make pills as big as sycamore seeds. Take 30 to 40 pills each time, with schizonepeta tea, at any time.

⑦To treat leprosy: Take equal parts of young Xanthium sibiricum and lotus leaves. Grind it into powder, take 2 qian each time, mixed with warm wine.

⑧To treat carbuncle and its root: burn Xanthium sibiricum into ashes, and mix with lard from the twelfth lunar month to seal the ashes.

⑨To treat heat toxicity attacking the hands and feet, with redness, swelling, burning heat, and pain that may cause extremity pain: squeeze the juice of Xanthium sibiricum to soak the hands and feet.

⑩Treat otitis media: 50g of fresh whole herb of Xanthium sibiricum (3g of dried one). Take with half bowl of boiled water.

⑾Treat scabies, hemorrhoids and fistula: decoct the whole herb of Xanthium sibiricum into a decoction for fumigation and washing.

⑿Treat urticaria and itching all over the body: decoct the whole herb of Xanthium sibiricum into a decoction and use it for external washing.

⒀Treatment of red and white pityriasis versicolor: pound the young leaf tips of Xanthium sibiricum with salt paste. Rub it five to seven times in May or June.

⒁ To treat the venom of flower spider bites: Mash wild silk and drink a cup of juice, and then apply the residue to the affected area.

⒂Treatment of insect bite dermatitis: appropriate amounts of fresh Xanthium sibiricum stems and leaves, alum, and Mingxiong. Mash them into a paste and apply it to the sting and fix it.

The above introduces in detail the medicinal value of Xanthium sibiricum. Because it has many pharmacological effects, and the usage and dosage need to be paid attention to. Sometimes, once the patient takes an excessive amount of Xanthium sibiricum, it is easy to be poisoned. Because Xanthium sibiricum is different from other Chinese medicinal materials, once taken in excess, it is easy to have some poisoning reactions, and timely medical treatment is needed.