The sepsis herb, named for its odor, has a strong sour rot, like the smell of the sauce rotting, so it is called sepsis.
Septica chinensis: from the yellow-flowered septica and septica, septica family plants, the dried above-ground parts of the medicine. Perennial herbs, often born on mountain slopes in the undergrowth, forest edge and scrub, as well as roadside, ridge side of the grass.
Septica chinensis: cool flavor pungent, bitter; attributed to the liver, stomach, large intestine meridian; its efficacy: clearing away heat and relieving pus, expelling blood stasis and draining pus. Used for appendicitis, dysentery, enteritis, hepatitis, conjunctivitis, etc., postpartum blood stasis abdominal pain, carbuncles, boils.
The sepiola and dahuangteng are known as the "essential medicine for intestinal carbuncle", intestinal carbuncle (acute abdominal pain, pathogenic bacterial infection and inflammation) in the early stage of the unpurulent, sepiola with dahuangteng, rhubarb, mudanpi, etc.; pus, sepiola with coix lacryma, smallpox pollen and other carbuncle pus-expelling medicines; sepiola can be accompanied by fritillaries, platanum, reed root, etc. for the treatment of lung carbuncle. It can also be combined with Fishweed, Platycodonopsis, Rehmannia, etc. to treat the fever of carbuncle (carbuncle: a disease caused by Staphylococcus aureus infection).