Alias: milk grass, blood sorrow, blood wind grass, Lou Jin
Sexual taste: dull; difficult
Meridian tropism: meridian tropism of liver, stomach and large intestine.
Efficacy: clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. Used for dysentery, diarrhea, hemoptysis, hematuria, hematochezia, metrorrhagia and furuncle.
Usage: oral decoction, 10~ 15g (fresh15 ~ 30g); Or turned into powder. Appropriate amount for external use, fresh tamping; Or dry grinding.
Taboo: Use with caution for people with blood stasis and spleen and stomach weakness.
Description: It often shrinks and curls with tiny roots. The stem is thin, forked, with purplish red surface, smooth hairless or sparse white fluff; Fragile, easy to break, yellow-white section, hollow. Simple leaves opposite, red short peduncle or few peduncle; The leaves are mostly shriveled or have fallen off, and they are rectangular after flattening, with a length of 5~ 10mm and a width of 4 ~ 6mm；; Green or purplish red, usually glabrous or sparsely villous; The apex is blunt, the base is oblique, and the edge is serrated or microwave-like. Cuplike cymes axillary, small. The capsule is triangular, spherical and smooth. The seeds are small, oval and brown. A slight breath, a slightly astringent taste. Like warm and humid climate, often born in fields, roadsides and courtyards.
Origin: distributed all over the country
Euphorbia humifusa is an antipyretic commonly used in clinic. Its nature is bitter, pungent and flat, and it belongs to liver, stomach and large intestine meridian. Has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood, stopping bleeding, promoting diuresis and eliminating jaundice. This medicine can be used to treat heat toxic diarrhea, carbuncle swelling, snake bite and other diseases. It can also be used to treat bleeding symptoms such as hematochezia, hematuria, metrorrhagia and traumatic hemorrhage. In addition, it also has a certain therapeutic effect on damp-heat jaundice and dysuria.
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