Fishwort is a commonly used? It is a common medicine for clearing away heat and removing toxins.

The history of fishy grass is also very long, Li Shizhen in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" said, this thing? Its leaves have a fishy smell, so commonly known as fishy grass, can dissipate heat and detoxification canker sores. And in "Diannan Materia Medica" in the record of fishy grass time said that this material can be solved? Lung carbuncle cough with pus and blood, phlegm with a fishy odor, colon fever and poison? And to the practical application of modern medicine, fishy grass is mainly the following aspects of the role.

1, the fish can relieve lung heat cough.

Fish grass into the medicine go lung meridian and good at clearing the lungs in the heat and fire, for the lung heat and lung dryness caused by coughing and asthma and other conditions have a better improvement effect.

In addition, like some common acute and chronic bronchitis, pharyngitis, tonsillitis, inflammation of the lungs and other conditions, fishy grass in medicine have a very good effect. Clinical use of fishweed with mulberry white skin, before Hu, Scutellaria, Platycodonopsis, and other medicinal herbs used together, can play a clear lung heat and protect the lungs, but also can play a phlegm and cough function.

2. Fishweed can relieve carbuncles.

Fishsbill has a good effect of eliminating canker sores and pus, and fishsbill's medicine can go to the lung meridian, so for the canker sores have a good effect of relief.

For example, if the lungs are full of heat and toxicity for a long time, resulting in phlegm and pus in the lungs, or because of the cough with pus and blood caused by the lung carbuncle, fishy grass is often used as a medicine to see good results.

Ancient records, to fish with the side of cypress leaves, smallpox and other medicinal herbs with the decoction of internal use, there is a carbuncle guest pus and blood of the good effect; or direct use of fresh fish with the internal use of mashed juice, also has a good effect.

3, the fish can alleviate the fever canker sores.

In addition to the main into the lung meridian and clear the lungs in addition to heat, for a body of skin coupled with the heat of the body have a very good clear function. For example, because of the heat of the congestion caused by the skin red sores, carbuncles, boils, mumps and other cases, fishy grass into the medicine is also can be effective.

For example, in some of the ancient records, to fresh Fishweed crushed in the carbuncles and boils, one or two days can be healed; or canker sores and poisons, to dry Fishweed ground into a fine powder, with the honey mixing external, have the effect of eliminating the swelling of the discharge of pus. In addition, for some common because of insect and snake bites and other causes of redness, swelling and venom, fish can also be used in medicine.

4, the fish can relieve the body of dampness and heat.

In addition to the fish grass has a very good heat detoxification effect, there is a certain diuretic and dehumidification effect, for some of the common symptoms of dampness and heat also has a very good role in alleviating.

For example, because of dampness and heat in the bladder and the gonorrhea caused by the fish to fish grass with Hai Jinsha, money grass, psyllium and other herbs used together, have a good effect. In some places in folklore, people directly use fishweed boiled water instead of tea, for damp-heat gonorrhea, urinary tract infections and other conditions also have a very good effect of relief.

And for some of the intestinal dampness and heat caused by damp-heat dysentery, the fish can also play a role in the effect. Chinese medicine is often used with cypress, yellow dock, etc. with the alleviation of dysentery, and in some of the prescription, the fish with hawthorn charcoal decoction, for dysentery also has a good effect on the alleviation of dysentery.

There is also the more common damp-heat jaundice, fritillary can also be used in conjunction with the use of various medicines. Folk some places directly with a large number of fishweed decoction soup with sugar, even serve a week or so can see the effect; And traditional Chinese medicine inside is commonly used fishweed with gardenia, chen, scutellaria and other medicinal herbs with the use of damp-heat jaundice is also a very good role.