Leaves like lettuce, flowers like single chrysanthemum. There are flowers at all times of the year, and the flowers fly away. Broken stems have white juice. Zheng Fang Sheng said: a stem of two flowers, feet high, dig down a few feet, the root is as big as a fist, next to a human-shaped arch embrace.

Prescription name dandelion (alias: yellow flowers, dicotyledonous, Borneolum): first recorded in the "Famous Medical Doctors".

Sex and flavor attributed to the meridian cold, bitter taste, sweet. It belongs to the stomach and liver meridians.

Basic effect Clearing heat and removing toxins, subduing swelling and dispersing lumps, diuretic and detoxicating.

Clinical application

1, used for carbuncle, breast carbuncle, lung carbuncle

This product is bitter, cold and draining, can clear away heat and detoxification, eliminate swelling and dissipate lumps, and treat internal and external heat and poisonous sores and carbuncles, and also can pass through the menstruation of lactation, as a good medicine for the treatment of breast carbuncle (mastitis).

① canker sores and poisons are often used with wild chrysanthemum, purple honeysuckle, honeysuckle, such as five flavors disinfectant drink ("Medical Zong Jinjian");

② carbuncle, can be used alone in the thick decoction of the internal service, or to freshly pounded juice for internal service, residue compressed on the affected area, but also with the guarling, honeysuckle, burdock, etc.;

③ carbuncle (appendicitis), abdominal pain, and often with the rhubarb, moutain, peach kernel, etc.;

③ canker sore, often with the rhubarb, moutan, peach kernel, and so on.

④ Lung carbuncle (lung abscess) vomiting pus, often with fish, winter melon seeds, rehmannia, etc.;

⑤ sore throat, and the blue root, Xuan Shen and other products to clear heat and benefit the pharynx with the use of;

⑥ snake bites, the fresh external application of the affected area.

2, used for heat drench, damp-heat jaundice

This product is bitter and cold, not only can clear heat and dampness drenching, but also can relieve gallbladder and jaundice.

It is used to treat: ① hot drenching and astringent pain, often used together with Bai Mao Gen, Qian Cao Zi, Psyllium; ② damp-heat jaundice, often used together with Yin Chen, Gardenia, Rhubarb.

In addition, this product also has the function of clearing the liver and eyesight, with the treatment of liver fire on the inflammation of the eyes red swelling and pain, can be used alone to take the juice of the eyes, or concentrated decoction of internal use, can also be used with chrysanthemums, Xia Gu Cao and other products to clear the liver and eyesight.

Dosage and application: Decoction, 9-15g; externally, fresh product can be used in appropriate amount of pounding or decoction of the affected area can be smoked.

Pharmacological effects of the decoction or infusion of this product on Staphylococcus aureus, hemolytic streptococcus, diplococcus pneumoniae, meningococcus and other bacteria have a certain degree of inhibition; some viruses, fungi and leptospirosis also have an inhibitory effect; the aboveground part of the extract of anti-tumor effect; there are also choleretic, hepatoprotective, diuretic, gastric and diarrheal effect.

Modern use of modern clinical decoction of this product or made into tablets, internal or external use, can be used to treat hyperthyroidism eye protrusion, upper respiratory tract infection, mumps, acute jaundice hepatitis, uremia, constipation, a variety of infectious diseases.

Summary of the Materia Medica:

Dandelion

A yellow-flowered dandelion. Diarrhea, detoxification. Sweet, flat.

Flowers yellow is earth, into the Taiyin, Yangming. Spleen, stomach.

It is used to remove heat and toxins, detoxify food, eliminate swelling and nuclei, and treat breast carbuncle, nipple belongs to the syncopated yin, breast belongs to the yangming. Decocted with Lonicera japonica, less into the wine service, pounded compress is also good. It is also a good product for treating poison, and it is also a good product for clearing gonorrhea. It is not mentioned in all schools as a treatment for gonorrhea, but it is very effective. It is also used to clean teeth and hair. Ruizhutang" has a return to less Dan formula, take it to pass the kidney.

Dongguan said: bitter cold, kidney meridian gentleman medicine. White juice coated evil thorns. Where the hall postal insects, summer breeding, swimming on things, will leave the essence of juice, dry for a long time is poisonous. Hand touched by the disease, the name of fox urine prick, dry pain, sleepless, a hundred treatments can not be effective, take the juice thick coated that is cured, the "Thousand Gold Formula" very much said its function.

Pound juice wine service, the treatment of choking diaphragm as God.

P.S.: Now many people like to use dandelion water to drink to fire, but it should be noted that dandelion is cold, not a large amount of long service, especially the spleen and stomach cold class of people, long time, large doses will cause damage to the spleen and stomach, causing spleen and stomach weakness, stomach, stomach, stomach pain, diarrhea and other symptoms.

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