What are the effects and functions of Cremastra appendiculata
Cremastra appendiculata is also known as Jindeng flower, Lu Ti Cao, Shan Ci Gu, and so on. It is the dried pseudobulb of the orchid plants Cremastra appendiculata, Pleione bulbocodioides, or Pleione yunnanensis. As a medicinal herb, it has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, reducing abscesses and dissipating masses, and has therapeutic effects on conditions such as carbuncle swelling and furuncle toxin, scrofula and phlegm nodes, snake and insect bites, and abdominal masses. Now let us take a look at the effects and functions of Cremastra appendiculata!
Medicinal effects of Cremastra appendiculata
[Nature and taste] Sweet in taste, slightly pungent, cool in nature.
[Meridians entered] Liver and spleen meridians.
[Effects] Clears heat and detoxifies, transforms phlegm and dissipates masses. Mainly treats carbuncle swelling and furuncle toxin, scrofula and phlegm, snake and insect bites, and abdominal masses.
Medicinal discussions of Cremastra appendiculata
1. "Supplementary Records of Materia Medica": Mainly treats carbuncle swelling and sore fistula, scrofula and nodules, etc. Grind with vinegar and apply, and it also removes facial dark spots.
2. "Materia Medica of Southern Yunnan": Dissipates phlegm in the yin aspect, stops cough, treats throat impediment, and stops throat pain. Treats toxic sores, attacks carbuncles and deep-rooted sores, and is applied to various sore swellings and toxic swellings. Those with pus will rupture, and those without pus will be reduced.
3. "Compendium of Materia Medica": Mainly treats furuncle swelling, attacks toxin and breaks the skin. Relieves various toxins, snake and insect bites, and mad dog injuries.
4. "Materia Medica Renewed": Treats vexing heat and phlegm-fire, sores, furuncles, measles, and smallpox, and scrofula and nodules. Kills various insect toxins.
Prescriptions and preparations of Cremastra appendiculata
1. Zijin Ding: Cremastra appendiculata, Chinese gall, Qianjinzi, red sprout knoxia, and musk. Grind the above medicines into fine powder, cook glutinous rice into a thick drink and mix with the medicine, then grind and take with mint soup. Its function is to relieve various toxins, treat various sores, disinhibit the front orifices, and treat hundreds of diseases.
2. Jiehe Pill: Cremastra appendiculata, Forsythia suspensa, Rhaponticum uniflorum, Smilax glabra, red knoxia, and honeysuckle. Grind into fine powder and make into pills. Treats carbuncle and deep-rooted sores on the back, erysipelas, and lymph node tuberculosis.
3. Tumor-treating formula: Cremastra appendiculata, zedoary, Sanleng, Bupleurum, dandelion, Chonglou, loofah sponge, Trichosanthes, and raw licorice. Decoct in water and take. Treats breast cancer and other malignant tumors.
4. Jiusanqi Powder: Cremastra appendiculata, Shanleigua, Paris polyphylla, indigo naturalis, and borneol. Grind together into fine powder, blow a small amount into the throat. Treats pharyngitis, tonsillitis, diphtheria, etc.
Selected medicinal formulas of Cremastra appendiculata
1. To treat furuncles and toxic swellings: an appropriate amount of Cremastra appendiculata, grind into powder. When using, take a small amount, mix with rice vinegar, and apply externally.
2. To treat epilepsy in children: an appropriate amount of Cremastra appendiculata, grind with tea water into a paste, 3 grams each time, taken 1 to 2 times a day. Stop once phlegm and saliva are vomited out.
3. To treat red and swollen throat: Cremastra appendiculata 6 grams, Sophora tonkinensis root 6 grams, Belamcanda chinensis 6 grams, Arctium lappa seed 9 grams, Isatis indigotica leaf 9 grams. Decoct in water and take.
4. To treat scrofula and nodules: Cremastra appendiculata 15 grams, Forsythia suspensa 30 grams, calcined oyster shell 30 grams, Fritillaria cirrhosa 20 grams, Bupleurum 15 grams. Grind into powder and make honey pills, 6 grams each time, taken 2 times a day.
5. To treat breast hyperplasia: Cremastra appendiculata 10 grams, Prunella vulgaris 15 grams, Leonurus japonicus 15 grams, Fritillaria thunbergii 10 grams, Trichosanthes kirilowii 10 grams. Decoct in water and take.
6. To treat carbuncle and deep-rooted sore swelling and pain: Cremastra appendiculata 15 grams, dandelion 30 grams, honeysuckle 30 grams. Decoct in water for external washing.