Houttuynia cordata

Also known as: Houttuynia cordata

Sex and flavor: pungent flavor, slightly cold in nature; belongs to the lung meridian.

The essential medicine for treating lung carbuncle

Fishwort is the essential medicine for treating lung carbuncle, and its fresh stems and leaves rubbed and crumbled have a strong fishy smell, hence its name, but when dried in the shade and decocted in water, the color is like black tea and the gas is like cinnamon. Diannan Materia Medica" records, fishy grass "treatment of lung carbuncle cough with pus and blood, phlegm has a fishy odor, colon fever hemorrhoids." "Medical forest compilation to explore the source - medicinal properties" records, fish can "water, attack, remove miasma, relief of summer heat. Treatment of snake and insect poison, treatment of foot fungus, ulceration of canker sores, and removal of bruises and blood." Modern pharmacological studies have shown that fishweed can also enhance immunity, increase serum interleukin, enhance leukocyte phagocytosis, anti-cancer, especially for the treatment of gastric cancer has a miraculous effect. The medicinal part is the whole grass of Houttuynia cordata, a perennial herb in the family of Sambucus, which matures from August to March every year. It is usually harvested in summer and fall, dried and used raw. Its leaf blade has obvious small glandular dots, and the base of the petiole is sheathed with the stipules. The stem is compressed columnar, dark brown, tan, nodal ring, with longitudinal wrinkles. The fruiting spikes are terminal, and the capsule is distal with three inwardly curved stigmas. Studies have found that the young leaves of Fritillary contain proteins, fats, carbohydrates and other components.

Effects

Effects clearing away heat and removing toxins, eliminating carbuncles and draining pus, diuretic and diuretic.

It is used in the treatment of lung carbuncle, coughing, vomiting pus and blood caused by phlegm-heat congestion of the lungs, etc. It is also used in the treatment of damp-heat gonorrhea and pain in urination, etc. It is also used in the treatment of pneumonia, acute and chronic bronchitis, intestinal inflammation, and urinary tract infection, etc. It is also used in the treatment of diarrhea and other diseases.

Identification and purchase

Fishwort is a wonderful medicine and good vegetables, but the medicine and vegetables are different. Spring fishweed, fresh and tender contains more water, rich in vitamin C and calcium, iron, zinc, etc., is very rich in nutritional value of wild vegetables, both fresh food, but also can be processed into health food. Fishweed in summer, containing higher oil, crude fiber content is also more than the spring, the food value is reduced, but the medicinal value has increased, and can be made into a variety of fishweed preparations, such as fishweed injection.

Precautions

1. Fishy grass contains volatile oil, can not be decocted for a long time. 2. Some patients taking fishy grass preparations caused skin itching, erythema, nausea, palpitations, lips cyanosis, limbs syncopated cold and sweat, such as allergic reactions or anaphylactic shock.