Seeds: clear away heat and stop bleeding, purge the lungs and relieve asthma, promote water and reduce swelling. It is used for phlegm and saliva blocking the lungs, cough and asthma with excessive phlegm, chest and hypochondrium distension, inability to lie down, pneumonia, high fever, excessive phlegm and shortness of breath, pulmonary heart disease, edema, thoracoabdominal edema, and painful urination. The 70% ethanol extract of the seeds contains cardiotonic ingredients.
Aerial parts: The decoction concentrate is made into dry syrup, which is used for enteritis, diarrhea and bacillary dysentery. Traditional Chinese medicine is used raw or stir-fried. It tastes bitter and pungent and is cold in nature. It purges the lungs and relieves asthma, eliminates phlegm and relieves cough, and promotes water circulation and swelling. Mongolian medicine is used raw, with pungent and bitter taste, cool, dull, thin, light and rough nature. Cough-relieving, expectorant, asthma-relieving, heat-clearing, detoxifying.
The seeds of Lepidium sativum have cardiotonic effects and are clinically used to treat chronic pulmonary heart disease complicated by heart failure. They also have antiasthmatic and diuretic effects. Chinese medicine treats phlegm and saliva blocking the lungs, coughing and shortness of breath, fullness in the chest and hypochondrium, lung abscess, hydrops in the chest and abdomen, edema, difficulty in urination, and cor pulmonale. Mongolian medicine treats wheezing and cough, lung sensation, throbbing heat, visceral heat, poisonous heat, "Xieri" heat, blood heat, and pulmonary heart disease.
Functions include reducing swelling and relieving pain. Mainly used for Gangba disease, yellow water disease and fractures.
"Jiangxi Folk Herbal Medicine": "Treatment of poisonous snake bites: Mix the whole plant of fresh unicorn lotus with a little water, pestle it and apply it to the injured area." Tibetan medicine Chazhuoba: the whole plant or seeds treat high blood pressure. Rheumatism, edema, conjunctivitis, chyluria, chronic dysentery and various types of bleeding, indigestion in children "Zang Materia Medica". Check the turbidity: The roots or the whole plant (seedlings) can be used to treat visceral blood stasis, bone disease, rheumatoid arthritis and the edema caused by it (Qinghai-Tibet Medical Journal).
Mongolian medicine Guntuge-Buru, Habubil, Dariyagan: seeds are used for gallbladder heat, lung heat, blood heat, botulism, edema, chest fullness, wheezing and cough, and chest and rib distension. Pain, pulmonary heart disease "Mongolian medicine". Hanpili: The seeds are mainly used to treat coughs where blood and excess heat are fighting, chest tightness, whooping cough, tuberculosis, blood fever, detoxification heat, scrapie (sinusitis), indigestion caused by eating too much meat, and indigestion caused by not eating fresh meat. Poisoning "Ethnomedicine 2".
Chao Yao Seeds treat difficulty urinating and heart disease "Pi Chao Yao". Tinglizi: Seeds are used to treat lung abscess, cough due to upper gas, asthma, drinking in the chest, overflow of pathogenic water between the skin, edema of the face, chronic bronchitis, cough, tracheal wheezing, cirrhosis, ascites, difficulty in urination, nephritis and edema. "Chao Yao Zhi" 》. (gotd-ji): The seeds are mainly used to treat lung abscess, cough, asthma, phlegm in the chest, overflow of evil water between the skin, and edema in the face. "Ethnomedicine Chronicles 2".
Uyghur medicine Tudari: The seeds enhance appetite, nourish and strengthen yang, warm the body, dispel cold, moisten dryness and relieve cough, reduce swelling and detoxify "Ethnomedicine 2". Characteristics: The seeds are flat and oval, 1 to 1.5 mm long and 0.5 to 1 mm wide. The surface is brown or reddish brown, slightly shiny, and has 2 longitudinal grooves, of which the first one is more obvious. One end is blunt and rounded, the other end is pointed and slightly concave, off-white, and the hilum is located at the concave end. Odorless, slightly spicy, and highly sticky.
Identification (1) Take a small amount of this product, soak it in water, and observe with a magnifying glass. The transparent mucus layer is thick, and the thickness can exceed 1/2 of the width of the seed. (2) The surface view of the skin of this variety: the lower epithelial cells are polygonal, with a few long polygonal cells having a diameter of 15-42 microns and a wall thickness of 5-8 microns. Lepidium seeds have cardiotonic effects. In the cardiopulmonary preparation experiment of cats, the weakened heart formed by chloral hydrate can strengthen the contractility, increase the output, slightly increase the blood pressure, and decrease the venous pressure; seed alcohol The extract has cardiac glycoside-like effects in the human heart (frog, rabbit, cat), cat electrocardiogram tracing and heart and lung preparation specimen experiments. Large doses can cause symptoms of cardiac glycoside poisoning such as tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation. Clinically used to treat chronic pulmonary heart disease complicated by heart failure. The minimum lethal dose for intravenous injection into pigeons is 4.36 g/kg. In addition, this product has antiasthmatic and diuretic effects. It should not be used in patients with asthma, cough, spleen deficiency, swollen and fullness.