Anthracene...of course can be used as medicine, but it depends on what medicine you mix it with. Some medicines cannot be mixed randomly. They will not offset each other's medicinal properties, or will have another effect. The best thing to do is ask. Go through the doctor first.
Its medicinal properties and effects:
It tastes bitter and pungent, and is warm in nature. It enters the liver, spleen, and kidney meridians. Its greatest effects are to remove dampness and cold, stop bleeding and relieve pain, and regulate qi. Blood, dispelling cold and dampness; warming menstruation, stopping bleeding, and relieving miscarriage. It is used to treat cold and pain in the heart and stomach, diarrhea, diarrhea, chronic diarrhea, epistaxis, bleeding, irregular menstruation, metrorrhagia, vaginal discharge, fetal movements, carbuncles, scabies, etc.
① "Bie Lu": Mainly moxibustion for all kinds of diseases. It can be decoctioned to stop diarrhea, vomiting blood, sores in the lower part, and bleeding in women. It can benefit yin energy, produce muscles, ward off wind and cold, and make people have children.
② Tao Hongjing: Pounding the leaves and using them for moxibustion can also stop bleeding. The juice also kills roundworms. Decoction the leaves with bitter wine to treat ringworm.
③"Treatise on Properties of Medicine": Stops metrorrhagia, relieves fetus and relieves abdominal pain. Stops redness, whiteness, diarrhea, and Wuzang hemorrhoids. Take it for a long time to stop cold dysentery. If you have bad qi in your heart, take the leaves and pound the juice to drink.
④ "Tang Materia Medica": Mainly used for bleeding, epistaxis, pus and blood dysentery, boiled in water and powdered in pills.
⑤ "Dietotherapeutic Materia Medica": Treats sores, metrorrhagia, cholera, and stops fetal bleeding.
⑥ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": It can stop cholera and tendons, treat heartache, nasal congestion, and leukorrhagia.
⑦ "Pearl Sac": Warms the stomach.
⑧ "Lv Yanyan Materia Medica": For the treatment of sore throat, heat congestion, and dietary problems, pound the juice and rinse it.
⑨ "Wang Haogu": Treats diseases with pulse, abdominal distension, and waist dissolving as if sitting in water.
⑩"Compendium": Warming, cooling, and dehumidifying.
⑾ "Compendium of Materia Medica": ward off wind, cold, nirvana and miasma.
⑿ "Compendium of Materia Medica": regulates menstruation and relieves depression, regulates qi and promotes blood circulation.
Treatment of postpartum convulsions and umbilical sores in children. Oral administration: decoction, 1 to 3 yuan; take into pills, powder or puree. External use: Pound velvet to make a stick or make moxa sticks for fumigation and moxibustion, pound for application, boil in water for fumigation and washing, or stir-fry and warm for ironing.