What are the benefits and effects of Golden Thread Grass? This article will give you a clear picture

Golden Thread Grass, also known as Luosu, Yellow Hair Grass, Furry Grass and so on, is a herbaceous plant of the genus Pogonatherum in the grass family. The whole plant is used medicinally and has the effects of cooling and dispersing heat, removing toxins, and promoting urination to treat strangury. In folk medicine it is used to treat hematemesis, hemoptysis, epistaxis, metrorrhagia and other conditions, and it can also ward off miasma, resolve miasma, and neutralize the toxins of various medicines. Let us take a look together at the benefits and effects of Golden Thread Grass!

The medicinal value of Golden Thread Grass

[Nature and flavor] Sweet and bland in taste, cool in nature.

[Meridians entered] Heart and Liver meridians.

[Effects] Clears heat, relieves summer heat, and promotes urination. It mainly treats febrile disease with vexing thirst, hematemesis, epistaxis, hemoptysis, hematuria, metrorrhagia, jaundice, edema, strangury with turbid discharge and leukorrhea, diarrhea and dysentery, infantile malnutrition with fever, and boils and carbuncles.

The medicinal effects of Golden Thread Grass

1. "Fujian Folk Herbal Medicine": Promotes urination, relieves strangury and urinary retention, quenches thirst, and eliminates vexing heat.

2. "Guangdong Traditional Chinese Medicine": Clears heat, promotes diuresis, relieves strangury, and cools the blood. It mainly treats strangury with turbid discharge, liver heat, malnutrition with indigestion, and scanty urine in children.

3. "Mindong Materia Medica": Treats fever with thirst, intestinal wind diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, difficult urination, and red eyes.

4. "Manual of Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicines": Treats urinary tract infection, nephritis, edema, high fever from colds, icteric hepatitis, and diabetes.

Ethnic medicinal uses of Golden Thread Grass

1. She medicine: The whole plant treats colds and fever, heatstroke, urinary tract infection, nephritic edema, icteric hepatitis, diabetes, and infantile malnutrition with fever.

2. Yao medicine: The whole plant treats low back pain, hematemesis, and irregular menstruation.

3. Zhuang medicine: The root treats restless fetal movement, and the whole plant treats difficult urination.

4. Jinuo medicine: The flowers are soaked in water and dripped into the ear to treat otitis media; the tender tips are applied externally to treat cuts and wounds; the whole plant treats diabetes.

Medicinal formulas of Golden Thread Grass

1. For cold with fever: Golden Thread Grass 15 g, Houttuynia cordata 12 g, Night-scented Ox 9 g, fresh Petroleum Cress 10 g. Decoct in water and take, 1 dose per day.

2. For unresolved vexing heat in children: Golden Thread Grass 1 liang. Add an appropriate amount of boiling water and stew to take.

3. For seminal emission during dreams and white turbid discharge: Fresh Golden Thread Grass 1 to 2 liang, fresh Lygodium japonicum 7 qian. Decoct in water and take.

4. For scanty urine in children: Golden Thread Grass with Juncus effusus, Plantago asiatica, and Dry-loving Fleabane, decocted and taken.

5. For scanty dark urine, strangury with turbid discharge, and heat strangury: Golden Thread Grass and Plantago asiatica 30 g each, add candied winter melon slices, decoct in water and take.

6. For acute nephritis: Golden Thread Grass 30 g, dandelion and Cirsium japonicum root 15 g each. Decoct in water and take.

7. For hematuria: Golden Thread Grass 50 g, decocted in water. Take mixed with brown sugar.

8. For hepatitis with jaundice: Golden Thread Grass 90 g, Gardenia root and Clinopodium chinense 30 g each. Decoct in water and take, 1 dose per day.

9. For urethritis: Golden Thread Grass 30 g, purslane, Orthosiphon aristatus, and Viola philippica 15 g each. Decoct in water and take, 1 dose per day.

10. For leukorrhea: Golden Thread Grass 30 g, ginkgo 15 g. Decoct in water and take, 1 dose per day.

11. For diabetes: Fresh Golden Thread Grass 30 to 60 g, 1 pig pancreas. Add water and stew together; drink the soup and eat the meat.