What are the medicinal values ​​of Scutellaria barbata?

As the competition in the workplace becomes more and more intense, more and more friends choose sales jobs in order to earn a better living. Therefore, they spend more time talking in their daily lives. If they are not careful, they will suffer from sore throat. In serious cases, it will affect their work. So some friends will use Scutellaria barbata to make tea to relieve this symptom. So what are the medicinal values ​​of Scutellaria barbata? Let's take a look.

Clears away heat and detoxifies; disperses blood stasis and stops bleeding; promotes diuresis and reduces swelling. It is used to treat carbuncle caused by heat toxin, sore throat, lung abscess, intestinal abscess, scrofula, snake bite, traumatic injury, hematemesis, epistaxis, hematuria, edema, ascites and cancer. Clears away heat, detoxifies, removes blood stasis and promotes diuresis. Used for carbuncle, sore throat, snake bites, injuries from falls, edema, and jaundice.

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

② "Guangxi Medicinal Plant Atlas": Anti-inflammatory, dispersing blood stasis, and stopping bleeding. Treat bruises and bloody diarrhea.

③ "Nanning City Pharmacopoeia": Reduce swelling and relieve pain. Treat bruises, knife wounds, and sores.

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

⑤ Guangzhou Army's "Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicines": clears heat and detoxifies. Cancer treatment has shown improvement in symptoms; appendicitis, hepatitis.

⑥ Chengdu "Handbook of Commonly Used Herbal Treatments": Treats esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, and uterine cancer.

【Additional prescription】：

① Treating vomiting blood and coughing up blood: Take 1 to 2 liang of fresh narrow-leaved Hanxin grass, mash it and squeeze out the juice, add a little honey, stew it and drink it warm, twice a day. (Quanzhou Materia Medica)

②Treat urethritis and painful urination with blood: wash and decoct one or two liang of fresh narrow-leaved Hanxin grass, add rock sugar and drink twice a day. (Quanzhou Materia Medica)

③Treatment of bloody dysentery caused by heat: decoct 2 liang of small Hanxin grass and take orally. (Guangxi Medicinal Plant Atlas)

④Treat dysentery: 3-5 liang of fresh narrow-leaved Han Xin grass, mash and squeeze out the juice to drink; or 1 liang of dried whole grass, decoct in water and drink. (Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine)

⑤Treat hepatitis: 50 cents of fresh Scutellaria barbata and 5 red dates. Decoction in water. (Commonly used herbal medicines among Zhejiang folks)

⑥ Treat stomach pain: 1 liang of dried narrow-leaved Hanxin grass, and a pig's stomach or chicken (minus the head, toes, and internal organs), stewed with half water and half wine, and taken in two or three times. (Quanzhou Materia Medica)

⑦Treat sore throat: 8 qian of fresh narrow-leaved Hanxin grass, 8 qian of fresh verbena, and a little salt. Decoction in water. (Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine)

⑧Treat pharyngitis and tonsillitis: 3 grams each of Scutellaria barbata, Deer antler grass, and Solidago asiatica. Decoction in water. (Commonly used herbal medicines among Zhejiang folks)

⑨Treat lung abscess: Scutellaria barbata and Houttuynia cordata each one liang. Decoction in water. (Commonly used herbal medicines among Zhejiang folks)

⑩Treatment of snake head carbuncle and lymphadenitis: fresh narrow-leaved Hanxin grass - up to 2 liang, add a little salt, mash and apply externally. (Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine)

The above paragraphs have given us a good introduction to the medicinal value of Scutellaria barbata. I believe that many friends who have read the above content carefully will love Scutellaria barbata even more. Because a small plant like Scutellaria barbata can bring so many benefits to our body, this really brings us more surprises. Therefore, we should share what we have learned with our friends around us.