1, Xanthium sibiricum can clear the top, dispel cold and clear the nose.
According to Compendium of Materia Medica, Xanthium sibiricum can relieve headache caused by exogenous cold and stuffy nose.
Xanthium sibiricum is pungent and warm, which can dispel wind and cold. For example, people have headaches, body heat, stuffy nose, sneezing, runny nose and so on caused by the invasion of exogenous pathogenic wind and cold in daily life. Xanthium sibiricum has many good effects as medicine.
As for the nose, Xanthium sibiricum is the best medicine. For example, the nose often has a runny nose, a stuffy nose and a headache on the forehead. Taking Xanthium sibiricum as medicine can play the role of dispersing lung and dispelling cold, and unblocking nasal congestion. The ancients directly ground Xanthium sibiricum, Flos Magnoliae, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae and Herba Menthae into fine powder, and then took it with onion ginger tea, which had a good effect of dredging nasal orifices.
There are also some problems of nasal allergy, which are often accompanied by symptoms such as itchy nose, stuffy nose, runny nose and sneezing. At this time, Xanthium sibiricum can be used with drugs for strengthening the body resistance and eliminating evil. For example, the ancient people used Xanthium sibiricum together with Radix Astragali, Radix Saposhnikoviae, Atractylodis Macrocephalae, Fructus Schisandrae Chinensis, Periostracum Cicadae and other medicinal materials, which can effectively relieve nasal allergy.
2. Xanthium sibiricum can reach the knee, eliminating dampness and relieving pain.
Xanthium sibiricum is pungent and warm, which can relieve all kinds of damp-evil arthralgia syndrome. Ancient doctors once said Xanthium sibiricum is? Is it an essential medicine to treat all diseases caused by dampness? Especially good at lowering the knee to relieve the pain of lower energizer dampness.
For example, in some common cases, due to wet and cold invading the muscles and joints of the lower focus, the joints are tight and even it is difficult to walk independently. Xanthium sibiricum combined with various drugs can play the role of eliminating dampness, dispelling cold, removing arthralgia and strengthening tendons.
When the ancients relieved some mild lower energizer arthralgia, they directly decocted Xanthium sibiricum or made it into pill powder, and the effect was remarkable. For severe arthralgia, it can be used in combination with Radix Clematidis, Radix Saposhnikoviae, Notopterygii Rhizoma, Herba speranskiae tuberculatae, Herba Epimedii, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae and Rhizoma Chuanxiong. It can not only eliminate dampness and relieve pain, but also promote blood circulation and dredge collaterals, strengthen yang and strengthen bones.
3, Xanthium sibiricum directly to the skin to relieve itching and pain, except rubella.
The dispersing power of Xanthium sibiricum can also penetrate deep into the skin and enlighten people's hair, thus playing a role in eliminating exterior evils of the skin. For example, skin redness, rash, itching and pain caused by cold pathogen invading the exterior, dampness pathogen accumulating on the exterior and wind pathogen dispersing on the exterior are also effective.
When the ancients relieved some symptoms such as redness, rash and itching, they used Xanthium sibiricum together with its flowers and leaves to grind into fine powder and took it with brown sugar water to cure it. In modern times, for the sake of drug safety, Fructus Xanthii is often used to wash the skin with the decoctions of Herba Menthae, Herba Schizonepetae, Radix Saposhnikoviae, Fructus Kochiae, Fructus Cnidii, etc., which also has a good effect on this kind of skin surface diseases.