Does half lotus have great medicinal value?

Traditional Chinese medicine uses some common foods and plants such as flowers and plants in our daily lives as medicines to treat diseases. Sometimes some animals can also be used as medicine. Choosing appropriate medicines according to the condition of the disease can achieve the effect of curing the disease. So many medicinal herbs are things that we think are insignificant, such as Scutellaria barbata. Let us now introduce the medicinal value of Scutellaria barbata in detail.

【Prescription】 30g of rat tooth half lotus

【Functions and indications】 Clears away heat, detoxifies, relieves swelling and eliminates carbuncle. It is used to treat back rashes, mouth rashes, carbuncles and furuncles.

[Usage and Dosage] Mash the above medicine into juice and take it with aged wine. Apply the residue to the head to induce sweating and recovery.

[Excerpt] "Bai Cao Jing" quoted from "Ben Cao Gang Mu Shi Yi" Volume 5

[Prescription] 1 liang of Rat-tooth Scutellaria barbata.

[Functions and indications] It can treat carbuncles such as severe poison, back carbuncle, mouth carbuncle, winter melon carbuncle, and horse carbuncle. Those that are just beginning will disappear, and those that are already established will ulcerate, with little pus discharged.

[Usage and Dosage] Mash the juice and take it with aged wine. Apply the residue to the head to induce sweating and heal.

[Excerpt] "Compendium of Materia Medica" Volume 5 quoted "Baicao Jing"

【Function and indications】

1: "Nanjing Folk Herbs" breaks blood and unblocks menstruation.

2: "Guangxi Medicinal Plant Atlas" has anti-inflammatory, blood stasis dispersing, hemostasis, treatment of bruises and bloody diarrhea.

3. "Nanning Pharmacopoeia" reduces swelling, relieves pain, treats bruises, knife wounds, and sores.

4: "Quanzhou Materia Medica" clears away heat, detoxifies, dispels wind, disperses blood, promotes qi, promotes diuresis, dredges meridians, breaks up blood, and relieves pain. It can be taken internally to treat hematuria, hematemesis, and nosebleed. It can be used externally to treat snake bites, carbuncles, furuncles, and unknown swellings.

5: Guangzhou Army's "Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Medicines" clears away heat and detoxifies, treats cancer, appendicitis, and hepatitis, and has shown results in improving symptoms.

6: Chengdu's "Handbook of Common Herbal Treatments" treats esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, and uterine cancer. [Usage and Dosage] For oral administration, decocted into water, 0.5-1 liang (1-2 liang for fresh product), or mashed into juice. For external use: mash and apply.

Any medicine can have a very good therapeutic effect as long as it is used for the right symptoms. This kind of medicine is the best for patients. So the value of the medicine depends on the patient's condition. Choosing the wrong medicine will not be of much use to the patient even if it is more expensive than gold. Therefore, the treatment of diseases should be based on the right medicine.