Functions and Indications - The functions of Sagewort are to clear away heat, reduce swelling and detoxify.

Cure sore throat, carbuncles, boils, erysipelas, burns, snake bites, jaundice and dysentery.

① "Compendium of Materia Medica": grind it into paste and apply it to decoction and fire sores.

② "Supplementary Materials to the Outline of the Compendium": Treat carbuncles, poisonous stools, jaundice, and ringworm of the throat.

③"Lingnan Medicine Collection": To treat red and white dysentery, decoct it in water and take it; smash it and apply it on sores to disperse the poison.

④ "Guangzhou Flora": Pounding the juice and taking it can reduce fever, quench thirst, relieve redness and white diarrhea; use as a gargle to reduce swelling of the throat, mouth and tongue; eye drops can reduce swelling and corneal nebula.

⑤ "Guiyang Folk Medicinal Herbs": clears away dampness and heat, and detoxifies fire.

Apply externally to corns.

⑥ "Compendium of Materia Medica": For various suppurative diseases, fever and depression, sepsis (yellow boils), poisonous snake bites, and blood poisoning, drinking a large amount of fresh grass pounded into juice has the effect of first aid and detoxification. .