What are the medicinal values ​​of saxifrage

Most people may not know what Saxifrage is, because we rarely touch this plant in normal times. If you are not a professional, you will not know the medicinal value of Saxifrage. Some people don’t even know that Saxifrage is a Chinese medicinal material. Most of them are distributed in China and North Korea, and are usually used as ornamental plants.

[Properties and flavors] ① "Lu Canyan Materia Medica": "Cool in nature, poisonous."

② "Compendium of Materia Medica": "slightly bitter and pungent, cold, slightly toxic."

[Functions and indications] Dispel wind, clear away heat, cool blood and detoxify. Treat rubella, eczema, otitis media, erysipelas, cough and vomiting blood, lung abscess, metrorrhagia, and hemorrhoids.

① "Lu Canyan Materia Medica": "To treat hemorrhoids, burn a small amount of dried horsetails (toilet bowls) and smoke them."

② "Compendium of Materia Medica": "To treat plague, pound it and drink it with wine. If used raw, it can cause vomiting and diarrhea, while if used cooked, it can stop vomiting and diarrhea. It can also treat ear infections, pound it and drip the juice."

③ "Essentials of Shengcao Xing Beiyao": "It is used to treat sudden heat poison in the ear, redness, swelling, pus discharge and pain. Beat the juice and drip it into the ear, or add borneol to dissipate and heal."

④ "Illustrated Records of Plant Names and Realities": "It can be used as a substitute for tea for throat blockage and loss of voice. It can also treat vomiting blood."

⑤《Classification of Herbal Properties》: "Clears lung heat, treats cough, rubella and erysipelas."

⑥ "Modern Practical Chinese Medicine": "Apply to sores, carbuncle, frostbite, and poisonous insect stings, etc."

⑦ "Jiangxi Folk Herbal Medicine": "It can treat lung heat, cough, qi reversal, vomiting blood, lung abscess, vomiting smelly pus, whooping cough, liver fire, and tuberculosis in children."

⑧ Guangzhou Army "Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicines": "It can remove dampness and swelling, cool blood and stop bleeding, clear away heat and detoxify, and treat traumatic bleeding, acute and chronic otitis media."

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decocted in water, 3 to 5 qian. For external use: mash the juice and drip it or decoct it in water for fumigation and washing.

[Selected prescription] ① Treat otitis media: Mash fresh saxifrage leaves and drip the juice into the ear.

②Treatment of urticaria: Saxifrage and Indigo. Decoction.

③ Treat wind-heat toxicity, wind-fire toothache: decocted one liang of fresh saxifrage in water and taken orally.

④Treat itching caused by rubella and eczema: 50g to 100g of fresh saxifrage. Decoction.

This article will introduce in detail the medicinal value of Saxifrage. In the past, flowers and plants were often used to treat plague. This is a prescription that has been passed down from ancient times to the present. But now it is more often used to treat coughs or frostbitten hands and feet in winter.