Malantou is also known as Malan, Malay, Malang, braised cabbage, chicken dish, roadside chrysanthemum or altar chrysanthemum. Chicken intestines in the south and loach skewers in Sichuan. It is a perennial herb of Compositae. The stems are erect, sometimes reddish, with veins usually 3 from the base, rough surface and short hairs on both sides. In spring, tender stems and leaves are picked as vegetables, which is called Malantou. According to analysis, the tender stems and leaves of Malantou contain water, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene, potassium, vitamin B, nicotinic acid and so on. Chinese medicine believes that Malantou is pungent and slightly cold, and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood to stop bleeding, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. It is mainly used for treating sore throat, furuncle, jaundice, edema, dysentery and stranguria.

Taste: sweet, flat, slightly cold, nontoxic.

Ingredients: protein, fat, vitamin C and organic acid.

Function: clearing away heat and stopping bleeding, resisting bacteria and diminishing inflammation. It is suitable for suppurative inflammation such as hematemesis, nosebleed, acute hepatitis, throat, tonsillitis, parotitis and mastitis.

【 Hematemesis, nosebleed, nosebleed, subcutaneous hemorrhagic purpura, etc. ]

Red stem Malania root or whole grass, washed and mashed to get juice, taken with warm boiled water, or taken with a large amount of whole grass boiled juice. You can also cook duck eggs with green shells and Malantou, break their shells after cooking, and then cook until the color of duck eggs, eat eggs and drink soup.

[icteric or non-icteric acute hepatitis]

30~60 grams of red-stemmed Malan root, decocted in water, or combined with other drugs, suit the remedy to the case.

[Acute pharyngitis, tonsillitis, fever, acute ophthalmia, stomatitis, periodontitis]

Decoct fresh whole grass 60-120g (hay 30-60g) with water.

[Prevention of influenza, diphtheria]

Appropriate amount of Malantou, honeysuckle and licorice are decocted instead of tea.

30~60 grams of Malan whole grass, decocted in water, a little yellow wine.

[Mastitis, carbuncle, furuncle, swollen poison]

Mash a little fresh Malan with salt, make it into paste with rice vinegar, apply it to the affected area, and decoct it with 30-60g Malan root with water and wine.

[Infantile malnutrition, eye malnutrition, night blindness]

Fried pork liver (or sheep liver) with Malantou.

[Hypertension, fundus hemorrhage, glaucoma, eyeball pain]

Malange root 30g, Radix Rehmanniae 15g, Radix et Rhizoma Rhei for constipation 6-9g, decocted in water twice a day.