What are the medicinal values ​​of Toad Grass?

When talking about toad grass, some friends easily think of toads. In fact, there is no connection between the two, and they are even very different. Toad grass is a plant that is called toad grass because its surface is very similar to the skin of a toad. Toad grass is not just a simple plant, it has great medicinal value. Next, we will introduce to you the medicinal value of Toad Grass.

[Effects and functions of Toad Grass]:

Cooling blood, promoting diuresis, detoxifying and killing insects. Treat coughing up blood, vomiting blood, hematuria, metrorrhagia, ascites, leucorrhea, sore throat, carbuncle, and hemorrhoids.

① "Essentials of Raw Medicinal Herbs": Treats bruises, removes blood stasis, and washes hemorrhoids.

②Wang Lianshi's "Book of Collecting Medicinal Herbs": Cools blood, stops metrorrhagia, and disperses all carbuncle poisons.

③ "Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica"; "Prescriptions of Ge Zu", treat eighteen diseases of the throat, eliminate carbuncle, bayberry and hemorrhoids.

④ "Cao Mu Bian Fang": detoxification. It can be used to treat white baldness, scabies, and tinea versicolor; it can remove itchy and yellow effusions from shins and feet, kill insects, and can be mixed with oil for application.

⑤《Classification of Herbal Properties》: Treats all long-term rashes, hemorrhoids, and itchy sores.

⑥ "Drug Illustrations": Treats damp-heat urticaria, vaginal itching, scrotal wind, and reduces swelling and promotes diuresis.

⑦ "Jiangsu Plant Medicinal Records": Decoction in water to treat abdominal distension.

⑧ "Illustrated Guide to Chinese Medicinal Plants": Mash it and apply it on the navel to treat ascites.

⑨ "Sichuan Chinese Materia Medica": Clears lung heat and eliminates rheumatism. Treat cough, dysentery, toothache, rashes and sores.

【Additional prescription】：

① Treat coughing up blood, vomiting blood, and hematuria: 50 cents to 1 tael of Toad Grass root and 2 taels of lean pork. Serve in soup. (Jiangxi Journal of Chinese Herbal Medicine)

② Treat sore throat or milk moth: Mash the toad grass, add rice vinegar, wrap it with silk, tie it on the head of chopsticks, and apply it into the throat several times. (The Sea of ​​Life and Death)

③Treatment of double and single moth: take a handful of snow green, mash it into juice for half an hour, drink it with boiling water, and spit out phlegm if there is phlegm; if there is no phlegm, use chicken feathers to induce vomiting. If you have dry mouth, quench your thirst with salt or vinegar soup. Avoid green vegetables and vegetable oil. (Collected Effective Prescriptions)

④Treat toothache caused by wind and fire: hold the herb in mouth.

⑤Treat ear pain: Fill the ear with pus: mash the Herba Lycopodii and drip the juice into the ear.

⑥ Treat hemorrhoids, fecal poisoning, oral leucorrhea, and dental caries; one large gallnut. Make a hole through the hole, dry the paralysis grass on a hot bed, grind it into powder and inject it in, fill the hole and seal it, calcine it over fire and grind it into powder, add borneol, mix with sesame oil and apply to the affected area. (The following prescriptions are from Chongqing Herbal Medicine)

⑦Treat hemorrhoids: Snowberry juice, stir-fried Sophora japonica beans into powder, pound persimmon cake, and make pills as big as tung nuts. Take three grams each time, boiled with Chinese snow green decoction. (The Book of Living People by Cihang)

⑧Treat hemorrhoids: 1-2 taels of Toad Grass (or add seven black plums). Decoction in water, fumigate first and then wash. It also treats rectal prolapse. (Jiangxi Traditional Chinese Medicine (6): 57, 1957)

⑨To treat rat sores: Put five or six wintergreens and crucian carp into a pot and cook until done. Remove the weeds and fish and drink the juice several times. ("Experience Collection" Wintergreen Juice)

⑩Treat redness, swelling and carbuncle: mash fresh toad grass with fermented rice dregs and apply to the affected area; or dry it in the sun, grind it into powder and mix it with egg white for application. (Jiangxi Traditional Chinese Medicine (6): 57, 1957)

⑾To treat the initial stage of mastitis: ㈠ 1 liang of snow primrose with roots. Boil the medicine in a mixture of half wine and half water, and apply the residue to the affected area. (Jiangxi Folk Herbal Medicine Prescription) ㈡ Rub two leaves of Toad Grass until soft and then plug them into the nose. If you have right-sided mastitis, plug them into the left nostril, and if you have left-sided mastitis, plug them into the right nostril. Insert the needle for 20 minutes each time, twice a day. (Xuzhou's "Selected New Medical Methods of Single Prescriptions")

⑿ Treat scabies and various itchy sores: Crush the tender and pointed leaves of the Herba Lysimachiae and apply the juice. (Chongqing Herbs)

⒀To treat bruises and sprains: Take one or two grams of Toad Grass, mash the juice, and drink it with boiling sweet wine. Pound the residue and apply it to the wound. (Jiangxi Traditional Chinese Medicine (6): 57, 1957)

⒁ To treat snake bites, dog bites and tetanus, take a handful of toad grass, about three liang, add two bowls of wine, boil it into one bowl and drink it, induce sweating, it is effective. (《Healthy and Simple Recipes》)

⒂Treat leucorrhea: decoct snowgrass with raw white wine. (Supplement to Gangmu)

⒃To treat sudden shock: add half an hour of toad grass juice and half a fen of cinnabar to water, mix well and drink it. (《Medical Prescription Collection》)

⒄ Treat infantile malnutrition: Pour the juice of toad grass into a teacup, use a soft liver of a chicken that has not seen water, drill several holes with a silver needle, dip the needle into the juice, let the juice float on the liver, put it on the rice cooker and smoke it before eating. (《Medical Prescription Collection》)

⒅Treatment of red and white dysentery: 2 liang of Herba Lycopodii (whole herb with flowers), 1 liang of Herba Polygoni Multiflori, and 1 liang of Herba Lycopodii. Decoction in water, take three times a day. If you experience heaviness or swelling, add one liang each of Radix Ulmus Pumila and Ailanthus Toon root bark. (Chongqing Herbs)

The above is a detailed introduction to the medicinal value of Toad Grass and some of its prescriptions. I believe everyone has a better understanding of Toad Grass. Friends who are interested can learn some, which will be more convenient when used in the future. This plant is also very common in our lives, but we rarely pay attention to it. Finally, I wish you all good health and a happy life!