What are the effects and functions of Monochasma sheareri?

Monochasma sheareri, also known as Qiannianai, Qianchongta, and Ping'er Wugongcao, is a perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Monochasma in the Scrophulariaceae family. Used as medicine, it has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, and has therapeutic effects on cough, hematemesis, dysentery with red stool, leukorrhea, gingivitis, mastitis, boils, and other conditions. Let's take a look at the effects and functions of Monochasma sheareri below!

Medicinal value of Monochasma sheareri

[Nature and flavor] Bitter in taste, neutral in nature.

[Meridian tropism] Spleen meridian.

[Effects] Clears heat and detoxifies, cools blood and stops bleeding. Mainly treats common cold with vexation and heat in the heart, cough, hematemesis, dysentery with red stool, bloody stool, irregular menstruation, rheumatic bone pain, toothache, and acute mastitis.

Medicinal effects of Monochasma sheareri

1. "Hangzhou Medicinal Plant Record": Treats breast cancer, acute mastitis, hemangioma, and rotting foot sores.

2. "Jiangxi Herbal Medicine": Cools blood, stops bleeding, detoxifies, and relieves pain. Treats acute gastroenteritis, bacillary dysentery, toothache, heat strangury, and venomous snake bites.

3. "Zhejiang Common Folk Herbal Medicine": Treats high fever and convulsions in children, cough, hematemesis, and watery diarrhea.

Medicinal formulations of Monochasma sheareri

1. To treat cough: Monochasma sheareri 4 qian, decoct in water and take with rock sugar.

2. To treat rheumatic bone pain: Monochasma sheareri 1 to 3 liang, decoct in water and take.

3. To treat hematemesis: Monochasma sheareri 2 liang, Ophiopogon root 5 qian, Fritillaria cirrhosa 2 qian. Decoct in water and take, with white sugar as a guide, once daily.

4. To treat wind-cold common cold: Fresh woolly Monochasma sheareri 1 to 2 liang, decoct in water and take.

5. To treat postpartum wind invasion: Woolly Monochasma sheareri 1 liang, dried whole plant of Bai Niu Dan 1 liang. Decoct in water, mix with brown sugar and take.

6. To treat fatigue and lack of strength, and lower back pain: Fresh woolly Monochasma sheareri 1 to 2 liang, decoct with wine and water and take. For lower back pain, add sword bean shell 5 qian and one dried cuttlefish, stew with wine and water and take.

7. To treat dysentery with red stool: Liu Yue Shuang 3 qian, brown sugar 5 qian (scorched). Decoct in water and take.

8. To treat intestinal wind with bloody stool: Liu Yue Shuang 3 qian, stew together with pig large intestine until cooked, eat the intestine and drink the soup.

9. To treat irregular menstruation and uterine bleeding: Monochasma sheareri 4 to 6 qian, decoct in water and take.

10. To treat wind-fire toothache: Liu Yue Shuang, Xiu Hua Zhen, and Huang Jing root 3 qian each. Decoct in water and take.

11. To treat deficiency-fire toothache: Liu Yue Shuang 2 qian, goji root 5 qian, Mao Jiang 3 qian. Decoct in water and take, or stew 2 to 3 liang of lean pork into soup and take.

12. To treat breast cancer and acute mastitis: Shan Men Qiong 5 qian, pound into juice and mix with sweet wine lees, take 3 times a day.

13. To treat hemangioma: Shan Men Qiong and Shan Zhi root 5 qian each. Decoct and take.

14. To treat rotting foot sores: Shan Men Qiong 2 liang, decoct in water and wash the affected area.