The flowers, fruits, leaves, roots are used for medicinal purposes. Its flowers contain floridosides and flavonols, are flower pigments. Taste sweet and slightly sour. The Materia Medica was planted: "Sour flavor, non-toxic." The medicinal properties are calm, can harmonize blood, regulate menstruation, and dispel wind-dampness. The Dictionary of Chinese Medicine contains, "Azalea treats menstrual disorders, amenorrhea, disintegration, bruises, rheumatic pain, vomiting blood, epistaxis." If you want menstruation to be due or blood to overflow, you can pick 5 grams of fresh flowers and add water to take a decoction. Folk usually also pick white flowers, and pig's hooves with boiled, treatment of excessive leucorrhea. Its leaves and shoots contain flavonoids, coumarin, triterpenoids, organic acids, amino acids, cardiac glycosides and so on. It can be used to treat urticaria, internally and externally. Fresh young leaves, pounded and applied externally to treat pain, swelling, sores and boils, trauma and bleeding, can reduce swelling and detoxification, but also to remove pain and stop bleeding. Rhododendron root, also known as tumbleweed, contains 7% tannin, sour and sweet flavor, warm, its efficacy and blood, stop bleeding, dispel wind, relieve pain. It is used in the treatment of hematemesis, epistaxis, irregular menstruation, intestinal wind and blood, dysentery, and menstrual leakage of women, and is taken internally in decoction. The fresh root is sliced, dried in the sun, soaked in wine and taken internally to treat rheumatoid arthritis and bruises. If the pain caused by bruises is not healed for a long time, the seeds can be taken and powdered, and the wine soaked in the root is sent to serve, which has a very good effect. Fujian Chinese herbal medicine" reported that the treatment of breast pain at the beginning, take the rhododendron dry root 15 ~ 30 grams, water stewed service, external fresh leaves with fragrant adenosine mashed compress, the efficacy is very satisfactory.
According to modern pharmacological research, azalea decoction has a cough suppressant effect, also has a cough suppressant effect. Treatment of chronic bronchitis, the welcome mountain red leaves powder, made of 1:1 tincture, each serving 10 to 20 ml, 2 times a day, the efficiency of 80%. Currently commercially available anti-cough asthma syrup, azalea tablets, that is, with the mountain red leaves as the main raw material, refined by modern science, is a better treatment of bronchitis drugs. This product also has a strong cardiac effect, used in the treatment of consumptive Keshan disease, take 10 grams of red mountain, 15 grams of rose hips, 0.3 grams of Fuchsia grass, 10 grams of cucumber skin, water decoction, can also receive better results.