1. Efficacy and function of Sedum sarmentosum:

(1) Sedum sarmentosum has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, detoxicating, reducing swelling, cooling blood and stopping bleeding.

(2) For fire and water burns, fresh Sedum sarmentosum can be washed and mashed.

(3) It can be used for treating carbuncle and swelling at the beginning. Besides decoction, it can be washed and mashed with fresh grass for external application, and it can also eliminate carbuncle and relieve swelling.

(4) Sedum sarmentosum is a common drug for treating snake bites. It can be washed with cold boiled water and mashed with twisted juice once or twice a day. It can also be taken orally with Scutellaria barbata, Flos Chrysanthemi Indici, Bidens bipinnata, Plantago asiatica, Radix et Rhizoma Rhei, etc., and washed and mashed with fresh grass for external application.

(5) Sedum sarmentosum alone can treat infectious hepatitis (including acute icteric hepatitis, acute non-icteric hepatitis, persistent hepatitis and active period of chronic hepatitis), and can relieve or eliminate damp-heat symptoms such as bitter taste, poor appetite and Huang Chi in urine.

2. Taboo: People with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should take it with caution. Because Sedum sarmentosum may cause certain damage to the gastrointestinal function of human body, especially those who are cold and weak.

3. How to eat:

(1) red date Sedum sarmentosum tea.

materials: 5g of red dates (with stones removed), 5g of fresh Sedum sarmentosum, and appropriate amount of sugar.

Practice: Wash red dates and fresh Sedum sarmentosum respectively, add 1 ml of water, fry to 5 ml, pick out Sedum sarmentosum, and add sugar to dissolve. Take it many times a day, eat dates and drink tea with juice instead.

(2) Sedum sarmentosum syrup.

materials: 2g fresh Sedum sarmentosum, 2 red dates and 15g sugar.

Method: Chop fresh Sedum sarmentosum, wash red dates, add 1g of water * * * and fry into a pulp of about 6g, and add sugar.