What are the wonderful uses of common Chinese herbal medicines such as plantain?
Plantain
Liver, intestines, bladder, urethritis; fatty liver: reduces edema, lowers blood lipids and blood pressure; parotid gland. chronic bronchitis; acute glomerulonephritis; blood in urine; inability to urinate, heat dysentery;
Plantain
White prickly amaranth
Dysentery, summer diarrhea: enteritis: sore throat; constipation: bleeding hemorrhoids: cholecystitis: damp-heat leukorrhea: infantile fetal toxin: skin damp-heat itching: lower consumption: angina pectoris; gastric and duodenal ulcers.
White prickly amaranth
Six-angle grass
Colds and fever, acute hepatitis \ red eyes and swollen painful eyes: maculopapular fever: shingles: cholera vomiting and diarrhea: bruises and chronic injuries.
Six-angle grass
False daisy
Various bleedings: deficiency damage and all kinds of diseases, blood in urine: genital ringworm: leukorrhea, nocturnal emissions.
False daisy
Frangipani
Heatstroke, dysentery, abdominal pain, cough.
Frangipani
Chicken-dung vine
Qi stagnation and chest tightness, stomach pain: heatstroke, infantile malnutrition: appendicitis: joint rheumatic pain: insomnia, chronic cough. Pesticide poisoning.
Chicken-dung vine
Pointed-leaf bitter vegetable
Clears heat, cools blood, detoxifies. Treats dysentery, jaundice, bloody strangury, hemorrhoids and fistula, boils and swelling, snake bites.
Pointed-leaf bitter vegetable
Goosegrass
High fever, cramps and clouded spirit, exhaustion jaundice, strain injuries, treats consumption: damp-heat jaundice: infantile heat accumulation, lumbar sprain and flash pain: hernia, prevention of Japanese encephalitis:
Goosegrass
Climbing groundsel
Various acute inflammatory diseases, improves eyesight. Infantile fetal toxin, scrotal wind, eczema.
Climbing groundsel
Milk thistle
Large thistle (cools blood and stops bleeding, removes blood stasis and reduces swelling, treats carbuncle and swelling) small thistle (treats acute nephritis, urinary tract infection, painful urination and edema, infectious hepatitis), milk thistle has few side effects, and can be used safely even by pregnant women; milk thistle can even help women during lactation increase breast milk.
Milk thistle
Wood sorrel
Insomnia. Infectious hepatitis, blood strangury with urination and inability to pass urine or stool. Ringworm sores with itching. Scalds and burns: fresh and old bruises and injuries: watery diarrhea. Panting cough: infantile liver heat.
Wood sorrel
Stone lotus
Liver disease, cirrhosis: treats uric acid \ gout; high blood pressure.
Stone lotus
Pearl grass
Infantile malnutrition, night blindness \ infectious hepatitis.
Pearl grass
Blood clam shell grass
Mainly treats severe heat with cholera-like abdominal pain, weight loss, removes damp-heat. Treats enlarged liver, pleurisy.
Blood clam shell grass
Beggar-ticks
Can clear heat and detoxify, invigorate blood and disperse stasis. Mainly treats colds and fever, sore swollen throat, enteritis, appendicitis, hemorrhoids, high blood pressure, bruises and injuries, chilblains, venomous snake bites, etc. For external use, pound the fresh product into a paste and apply to the affected area.
Beggar-ticks
Pot cilantro
Clears heat, promotes urination, reduces swelling, detoxifies. Treats jaundice, red and white dysentery, gonorrhea, difficult urination, eye film, swollen throat, carbuncles and boils, bruises and blood stasis swelling. Used for acute icteric hepatitis, acute nephritis, whooping cough, urinary tract stones, athlete's foot, shingles, conjunctivitis, erysipelas.
Pot cilantro
Sheep's hoof grass
Clears and resolves large intestine damp-heat, cools blood and promotes tissue regeneration, reduces swelling and draws out toxins. Treats dysentery, rectal prolapse (combined with Chinese knotweed), heat toxin trapped internally after measles, red eyes, sores and boils with swelling and toxin, eczema with itching and pain, breast sores (external wash or pounded application), infantile genital redness and swelling (external wash or oral administration). Treats pyelonephritis: one jin of Emilia sonchifolia, one jin of dog liver vegetable, half a jin of plantain. Decoct in water to 500 ml. Adults three times daily, 10 ml each time. (Guangxi "Collection of Prescriptions for New Medical Methods with Chinese Herbal Medicines").
Sheep's hoof grass
False daisy
Also called ink-stick grass, it is cool in nature and sweet and sour in taste, with the functions of nourishing yin and tonifying the kidney, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, suitable for dizziness due to liver and kidney yin deficiency, premature graying of beard and hair, vomiting blood, blood in urine, nosebleeds, blood in stool, leukorrhea, strangury and turbidity, etc. False daisy contains saponins, volatile oil, tannins, vitamin A, ecliptine and other components. False daisy ginger honey juice: fresh false daisy, remove impurities, wash, chop, pound into a mash, put into a sterilized gauze bag, squeeze out the juice, add a little honey and ginger powder to make a paste. The dosage can be adjusted. Take 2 to 3 small teaspoons each time, twice daily. It can be taken with warm boiled water or a small amount of warm yellow wine. It can treat premature graying of hair caused by kidney deficiency.
False daisy