Functions and IndicationsReturning yang to save reversal, tonifying fire and assisting yang, expelling wind-cold and dampness. Used for the death of yang deficiency, cold limbs and pulse, impotence, cold uterus, cold pain in the heart and abdomen, cold vomiting and diarrhea, cold edema, yang deficiency, cold and damp paralysis, yin gangrene sores and ulcers. In fact, the efficacy of epiphyllum, the main treatment is very wide, such a generalization is far from reflecting the whole picture.
Dosage 3~15g .
Note that pregnant women are prohibited. It is not suitable to be used together with Semen xia, Psidium guajava, smallpox pollen, shellfish, Ampelopsis japonica, Bai He.
Remarks (1) This product is prone to poisoning due to improper concoction or decoction, or excessive dosage. Symptoms: burning in the mouth, numbness (starting from the fingertips and gradually reaching the whole body), salivation, nausea, possible vomiting, fatigue, dyspnea, dilated pupils, irregular pulse (weak and slow), cold and sticky skin, white color, possible sudden death. Rescue: 1 to 2% ellagic acid gastric lavage, give emetic as appropriate; take activated charcoal (mixed in water and taken down); intravenous glucose saline. Symptomatic treatment; timely use of stimulants such as niclosamide; attention to heat preservation; if necessary, give oxygen or artificial respiration; slow and weak heartbeat can be subcutaneous injection of atropine.
Important: the antidote to epiphyllum
The juice of radish pounded in a big bowl, into the yellow rhizome licorice five money, rhinoceros horn two money, decocted to eight minutes to drink, the poison will be dissolved
Honey can also be antidote epiphyllum poison, acute poisoning does not apply
Baked licorice, Lysimachia decoction, antidote epiphyllum toxicity of the special effect