The efficacy and function of brocade lanterns

Brocade lantern is a unique medicine of traditional Chinese medicine. So do you know the traditional Chinese medicine brocade lantern? What are the efficacy and functions of brocade lantern? What are the usage, dosage and contraindications of brocade lantern? Follow me below Get up and take a look.

Introduction to brocade lantern

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Plant form: Perennial herb, the whole plant is densely pubescent, 25-60cm tall. The stems are much branched. The leaves are alternate, ovate to ovate-heart-shaped, 4-8cm long. It is 2 to 6cm wide and has serrated edges of varying sizes. The flowers are solitary in the leaf axil; the calyx is bell-shaped, with 5 lobes; the corolla is bell-shaped, light yellow, 6 to 10 mm in diameter, 5 lobed, with purple spots at the base of the lobes; stamens are 5, with yellow anthers; the ovary has 2 cells. The berries are spherical, green, about 1.2cm in diameter, surrounded by an enlarged green calyx; the calyx is ovate or broadly ovate. Distributed in most parts of the country.

Collection: Harvest in autumn when the fruits are mature and the calyx is red or orange-red, and dried.

Nature and flavor: cold in nature and bitter in taste.

Effects and functions of brocade lanterns

1. Clear away heat and detoxify

Brocade lanterns are bitter in taste, cold in nature, and enter the lungs. It has the functions of clearing away heat and detoxifying, relieving sore throat and reducing phlegm. It is often used to treat swelling and pain in the throat, hoarseness and other symptoms. It is often used in combination with mountain beans, platycodon, and burdock. It can also be used alone. During treatment, grind the brocade lantern into powder and take it with boiled water. Note that when taking it, mix the powder with vinegar and apply it directly. On the outside of the throat, symptoms will be relieved after taking it a few times.

2. Diuretic and Tonglin

Brocade lantern is bitter and cold, reduces diarrhea, and has the effect of diuretic and Tonglin. It is often combined with Plantain Seed, Akebia Akebia, Bianzhu, and Desmodium Desmodium to treat symptoms such as short and red urine or painful stranguria.

How to eat Golden Lantern

1. Grind the Golden Lantern into powder and take it with boiling water. At the same time, mix the powder with vinegar and apply it to the outside of the throat. It can cure cough and sore throat caused by heat.

2. Apply the brocade leaves directly to the sores to treat hemorrhoids.

3. Use 5 liang of brocade lantern fruit, 3 liang of amaranth fruit, 2 liang each of horsetail seeds (fried), large salt elm white bark (fried), Bupleurum, ***, qinqin, and Chinese oak. One or two each of Lougen and Luru, grind the powder into powder, add refined honey to make balls, as big as Wuzi. Take 30 pills every time and give it with woody scented soup, which can cure gastrointestinal fever.

4. Pemphigus can be treated by mashing the fresh fruit of Jinlantern and applying it externally, or grinding the dried fruit into powder and mixing it with oil for external application. 5 brocade lantern fruits, 4 papaya slices, 10 jujubes, 2 plantains, decoction in water, 1 dose a day for 7 days, then 1 dose every other day, to treat chronic nephritis, usually 20 doses Can be cured.

Taboos of Jin Lantern Medication

Jin Lantern medicine is cold in nature and should not be used by pregnant women to avoid causing abortion; in addition, it should not be used by those with spleen deficiency, diarrhea and excessive phlegm and dampness.

The benefits of drinking brocade lanterns soaked in water

If you have a sore throat, hoarse voice, or cough due to lung heat, you might as well try drinking brocade lanterns soaked in water. It is a good choice and can provide quick relief. Symptoms, in addition, Pangda Dahai, Ophiopogon japonicus, etc. are also good choices for nourishing yin and clearing away heat.