Born in the roadside wilderness or beside the house, most areas of the country have distribution. It is harvested in summer and fall and dried for use.
Taste and attribution: warm, bitter taste, non-toxic, attributed to the liver meridian.
Functions: clearing away heat, detoxifying, dispersing blood stasis, subduing swelling and relieving pain.
Indications: liver cancer, cirrhosis, malaria, diarrhea, dysentery, hepatitis, acute nephritis, stomachache, choking, intestinal carbuncle, sore throat, bruises, snake bites.
Dosage and Use: Internal: decoction, 20-50 grams (100 grams of fresh). Pregnant women should not take.
Composition: The whole herb contains alkaloids, tannins, saponins, flavonoid glycosides. Stem and leaves contain volatile oil, tannin, bitter, choline and so on.
Folk use this product to treat cirrhosis of the liver, there are some therapeutic effects.
After the author got the folk method, the drug was carefully studied, first of all, a large dose of trial service, to ensure that there are no side effects, began to discuss with patients with cirrhosis of the liver trial service, in the patient's consent, so that the patient to stop all the medicines, alone with the decoction of the product to be served, and it is true that the patient with the drug was happy to inform, feel comfortable, and then expanding the experimental surface, all the patients with a sense of comfort, and did not see any of them. Afterwards, the test surface was expanded, and all the patients felt comfortable after using it, and no side effects were seen. The author was greatly encouraged, and made further efforts, and then did tests on liver cancer patients, and got the same effect. From this, we know that the shrimp pincushion herb can treat early, middle and late cirrhosis and liver cancer.
Shrimp pincer grass in the country so far did not enter the pharmacy drugstore, is often said to be herbal medicine, in the general information, there is no treatment of cirrhosis of the liver cancer records, the therapeutic effect of the drug on liver cancer, it is worth further study (Chen Zhenfeng)
It is young and tender when the whole plant can be eaten, the eating method to the general vegetables in general, can be fried and can be boiled, the texture of the soft and tasty, but also a kind of top grade wild food.