What are the effects and uses of the traditional Chinese medicine Bai Rui Cao (Thesium chinense)?

I. Value

1. It can treat difficult urination.

Difficult urination is a condition that is relatively hard to cure well. Most people use traditional Chinese medicine to regulate the body and relieve the symptoms, and this plant happens to be a kind of traditional Chinese herbal medicine with relatively high value in this respect. Its effect in treating difficult urination is very good.

2. It can treat restlessness and difficulty falling asleep.

Sometimes children cry in the middle of the night and refuse to sleep. These situations are often caused by heart heat. Heart heat makes children's faces turn red and their mouths and tongues feel dry and hot. If in addition they cry constantly at night or often, we can use this plant to regulate the condition. This plant can not only be taken internally, but can also be boiled in hot water. After the hot water cools to lukewarm, it can be used to bathe the child, and in this way the child's body can slowly be regulated back to health. Then the symptom of refusing to sleep in the middle of the night and crying constantly will gradually ease and then improve.

3. It can treat insomnia and restlessness.

Insomnia and restlessness are not only experienced by children; adults have them too, and this plant can very well improve our symptoms of insomnia. Especially for neurotic insomnia caused by restlessness, we can use this plant to boil soup and slowly regulate the condition. This plant can be used either boiled for internal use or steeped in water, and it can effectively relieve our insomnia and also calm the nerves and settle the mind. Modern people's stress and anxiety are becoming more and more serious, and insomnia causes our memory to decline, our minds to become restless, and our work efficiency to drop along with it. So, if this herbal medicine can have such a miraculous effect, why not give it a try?

II. Clinical application

1. Treating various acute inflammations.

We can take this plant after drying it in the sun and decoct it for oral use. If this herbal medicine is collected in spring and summer, a daily dosage of about 0.5 to 2 liang is enough; if it is collected in autumn, about 2 to 3 liang per day is enough.