1, the main treatment of Tongcao. Tongcao can clear heat and diuretic, pass qi and lower breast milk, used to treat damp-heat urine and redness, gonorrhea and astringent pain, edema and urination, lactation, menstrual dysmenorrhea, etc. Take 3 to 5 grams of decoction and you can take it. It is sweet and light in flavor, with a slight cold, and is attributed to the lung and stomach meridians. Used for dampness and heat, short and red urination or dripping and astringent pain, because of the thin smell, the effect is slow and weak, you can choose to match with mouton and slippery stone decoction; if it is the treatment of dampness and warmth of the disease can be used with cardamom, bamboo leaves, etc.; if it is the scarcity of breast milk, you can take Tongcao together with pig's trotters, licorice and so on in a decoction soup.

2, if edema, you can use Tongcao and wood pigweed equal amount, usually ground into powder, add a little bit of finely ground land dragon and musk, each time to decoction half a penny or a penny amount, decoction; if it is a typhoid fever, vomiting, you can also use the Tongcao three taels plus raw rehmannia one liter, orange peel one or two and round-grained rice three, with five liters of water boiled to two liters will be able to.

3, Tongcao can also treat nasal congestion, when the breath can not smell things, you can use Tongcao, fine Xin and appendicia in equal quantities to grind into a mill, mixed with honey, wrapped in a cloth and stuffed into the nose.

"Compendium" on the grass so described: the grass, white and cold gas, taste light and light, so into the Taiyin lung meridian, lead to heat down and facilitate urination; into the yangming stomach meridian, through the gas up to and under the breast milk; its gas cold, down also, its taste light, open also. As you can see, Tongcao was discovered and taken as medicine a long time ago, and has very much medicinal value.