Pinyin name Di Guā Gēn

The source is the root of sweet potato of Moraceae.

Sexual taste

Bitter and cold.

1 southern Yunnan herbs: cool in nature and bitter in taste.

2 "Caocao is convenient": bitter, slightly cold.

Functional indication

Clearing heat and promoting diuresis. Treat diarrhea, dysentery, jaundice, scrofula, nocturnal emission, leucorrhea and hemorrhoids.

4 "Chongqing Materia Medica": Treating damp-heat dysentery, jaundice and hemorrhoids.

Usage and dosage: decocted, 1 ~ 2.

Additional prescription

1 Treatment of diarrhea and dysentery: 2 sweet potato roots, 2 red clover roots and 2 Ailanthus altissima roots. Decoct with water.

2. Cure water-based jaundice that can't be cured for a long time: 22 sweet potato roots, 22 wheatgrass, and 22 Buddha's top beads. Stewed pork heart and lung with sugar.

3 Treatment of internal hemorrhoids and external hemorrhoids: one catty of fresh sweet potato root, two ounces of Sophora flavescens and two ounces of Parthenocissus tricuspidata fruit. Braised pork intestines.

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