What are the effects and actions of Luru Cao, how is it eaten, and what should pregnant women note about consuming it?
Luru Cao is the dried whole plant of the Scrophulariaceae plant woolly Luru Cao, which mostly grows in low mountain sandy areas and among grass, and is a precious Chinese medicinal herb. So what are the effects and actions of Luru Cao? How is it eaten? Can pregnant women eat it?
I. Effects and actions of Luru Cao
Luru Cao is bitter in taste and cool in nature, and has the effects of clearing heat and removing toxin, dispelling wind and relieving pain, and cooling blood to relieve pain and stop bleeding. It mainly treats cough, pneumonia with fever, thrush in children, toothache, rheumatic bone pain, sores and boils with swelling and pain, irregular menstruation, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, red and white vaginal discharge, blood in the stool, traumatic bleeding and other disorders. It treats common cold with restlessness and heat in the heart, cough, vomiting blood, red dysentery, blood in the stool, irregular menstruation, rheumatic bone pain, toothache, and acute mastitis.
II. How to eat Luru Cao
1. Internal use: decoct in water, 10-15g, fresh product 30-60g.
2. External use: appropriate amount, decoct in water for washing or pound the fresh product for topical application.
3. Supplementary formulas:
(1) To treat cough: Luru Cao four qian, decoct in water and mix with rock sugar to take. (Hunan Materia Medica)
(2) To treat rheumatic bone pain: Luru Cao one to three liang, decoct in water to take. (Hunan Materia Medica)
(3) To treat vomiting blood: Luru Cao two liang, Ophiopogon root five qian, Sichuan fritillary two qian. Decoct in water to take, with white sugar as a guide, one dose per day. (Jiangxi Herbal Medicine)
(4) To treat wind-cold common cold: fresh woolly Luru Cao one to two liang, decoct in water to take.
(5) To treat postpartum wind affliction: dried woolly Luru Cao one liang, dried whole plant of Bai Niu Dan one liang. Decoct in water, mix with brown sugar and take.
(6) To treat fatigue and lack of strength, and low back pain: fresh woolly Luru Cao one to two liang, decoct with wine and water to take; for low back pain add sword bean shell five qian and one dried cuttlefish, stew with wine and water to take. (Formulas 4 and below are from Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine)
(7) To treat red dysentery: Liu Yue Shuang three qian, brown sugar five qian (fried until scorched). Decoct in water to take. (Experimental Research on Chinese Medicine)
(8) To treat intestinal wind with blood in the stool: Liu Yue Shuang three qian, stewed with pig large intestine until cooked, eat the intestine and the soup. (Experimental Research on Chinese Medicine)
(9) To treat irregular menstruation, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis: Luru Cao four to six qian, decoct in water to take. (Hunan Materia Medica)
(10) To treat wind-fire toothache: Liu Yue Shuang, Xiu Hua Zhen, and Huang Jing root three qian each. Decoct in water to take. (Experimental Research on Chinese Medicine)
(11) To treat deficient-fire toothache: Liu Yue Shuang two qian, goji root five qian, hairy ginger three qian. Decoct in water to take; or stew with lean pork two to three liang and take the soup. (Experimental Research on Chinese Medicine)
(12) To treat breast cancer and acute mastitis: Shan Men Qiong five qian, pound to extract juice and mix with sweet fermented rice wine to take, three times a day.
(13) To treat hemangioma: Shan Men Qiong and gardenia root five qian each. Decoct and take.
(14) To treat foot sores: Shan Men Qiong two liang, decoct in water for washing. (Formulas 12 and below are from Hangzhou Medicinal Plant Records)
III. Can pregnant women eat it
They cannot eat it; it is forbidden for pregnant women.Medication should not be used during pregnancy, to reduce harm to the fetus, especially in early pregnancy. In addition, it is forbidden during menstruation.