What are the effects and uses of the Indian Abutilon? Read this to understand clearly
The Indian Abutilon, also known as Jinhua Cao, Tangdang Cao, Erxiang Cao, etc., is the whole plant of Abutilon indicum, a plant of the genus Abutilon in the mallow family. Used as medicine, it has the effects of dispelling wind and clearing heat, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, reducing swelling and detoxifying. It has therapeutic effects on colds, fever, cough, diarrhea, otitis media, deafness, pharyngitis, mumps, urinary tract infections, sores, carbuncles and swellings, and traumatic injuries. Let us take a look below at the effects and uses of the Indian Abutilon!
The medicinal value of the Indian Abutilon
[Nature and flavor] Sweet and bland in flavor, cool in nature.
[Meridian entry] Lung and kidney meridians.
[Effects] Dispels wind and clears heat, resolves phlegm and relieves cough, reduces swelling and detoxifies. It mainly treats colds, fever, cough, diarrhea, otitis media, deafness, pharyngitis, mumps, urinary tract infections, sores, carbuncles and swellings, and traumatic injuries.
The medicinal effects of the Indian Abutilon
1. "Sheng Cao Yao Xing Bei Yao": Disperses wind, clears heat. For tinnitus and deafness, it can also be cooked with chicken or meat and eaten.
2. "Ben Cao Qiu Yuan": Strengthens the spleen, stops diarrhea; pound and cook together with rice and eat with yellow sugar.
3. "Ling Nan Cai Yao Lu": Can raise the clear and lower the turbid, open the orifices and invigorate blood; also pound and apply to sores on the back and carbuncles.
Medicinal selected prescriptions of the Indian Abutilon
1. To treat allergic urticaria: one liang of dried whole Indian Abutilon herb, an appropriate amount of lean pork, stew with water and take.
2. To treat red and white dysentery: stir-fry and grind the seeds of the Indian Abutilon into powder, take one qian each time, three times a day, taken with honey water before meals.
3. To treat carbuncles, cellulitis and swelling toxins: grind one seed of the Indian Abutilon into powder, take with boiling water; separately pound fresh leaves with honey or brown sugar and apply to the affected area.