A Detailed Explanation of the Benefits, Effects and Medicinal Value of Trumpet Vine

Trumpet vine is one of the famous garden flowers. During its blooming period, its flowers are funnel-shaped. Trumpet vine not only has high ornamental value, it also has certain medicinal value. Next, let us take a look together!

Benefit and Effect One of Trumpet Vine

Trumpet vine has the benefit of treating blood stasis amenorrhea and abdominal masses. Trumpet vine is pungent and dispersing in moving blood, and has the effect of resolving blood stasis, unblocking the meridians and dispersing abdominal masses. Used together with angelica, safflower and red peony, it can effectively treat blood stasis amenorrhea; used together with turtle shell and tree peony bark, it can effectively treat blood stasis abdominal masses.

Benefit and Effect Two of Trumpet Vine

Trumpet vine has the benefit and effect of treating traumatic injuries. The specific method is to take an appropriate amount of trumpet vine, mash it and apply it to the affected area, or take 10 grams of trumpet vine, 15 grams of garden balsam, 50 milliliters of yellow rice wine, add an appropriate amount of water and boil together until it comes to three to five boils, take the juice and drink it, and at the same time mash the dregs and apply them to the affected area.

Benefit and Effect Three of Trumpet Vine

Trumpet vine can effectively treat symptoms such as rubella, skin tinea, acne and skin itching. Trumpet vine is cold in nature and clears heat, cools the blood and dispels wind, and is suitable for those with heat in the blood aspect. It can also be used together with raw rehmannia, tree peony bark and tribulus fruit to treat generalized itching; ground into powder with realgar, coptis and arisaema and applied externally, it has the effect of treating rubella and skin tinea.

Edible Methods of Trumpet Vine:

1. Trumpet Vine and Donkey-Hide Gelatin Porridge

[Ingredients] 10 grams each of trumpet vine and donkey-hide gelatin, 50 grams of glutinous rice, an appropriate amount of brown sugar.

[Preparation] First decoct trumpet vine with water to obtain juice, remove the dregs and take the juice, add donkey-hide gelatin and glutinous rice and cook together into porridge.

[Usage] 1-2 times daily, taken warm.

[Therapeutic Effect] Suitable for amenorrhea due to blood deficiency, with sallow complexion.

2. For blood stasis obstruction, cessation of menstruation, fever and abdominal distension: 9 grams of trumpet vine, 15 grams of red peony, 9 grams of tree peony bark, 6 grams of safflower, 9 grams of peach kernel, 10 grams of angelica. Decoct in water, 1 dose daily.

3. For chronic malaria with splenomegaly, and enlargement of the liver and spleen: 9 grams of trumpet vine, 9 grams of ground beetle, 10 grams of turtle shell, 10 grams of rhubarb, 6 grams of safflower, 9 grams of peach kernel, 10 grams of angelica. Decoct in water, 1 dose daily.

4. For generalized itching due to blood heat and exuberant wind: trumpet vine alone may be used, 9 grams, decocted in water; or a powder may be taken mixed with wine; or 9 grams of trumpet vine, 30 grams of raw rehmannia, 10 grams of red peony, 9 grams of angelica tail, 10 grams of dictamnus bark, 9 grams of schizonepeta, 9 grams of saposhnikovia, 6 grams of licorice. Decoct in water, 1 dose daily.

Dietary Contraindications of Trumpet Vine:

Those with weak qi and blood and pregnant women should avoid taking trumpet vine.

1. "Treatise on the Nature of Medicinal Herbs": "It is antagonistic to salty brine."

2. "Essentials of Materia Medica Classification": "It must not be taken during pregnancy."

3. "Commentary on the Materia Medica": "It excels at breaking blood and dispersing stasis. For any woman with deficiency of qi and blood, it should never be used at all, and it is certainly unsuitable for use before treatment."

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