Xanthium sibiricum Patr is the dry and mature fruit with involucre of Xanthium sibiricum Patr. Produced all over the country, most of them are self-produced and sold. Below I will introduce to you how to use cocklebur.

Usage and dosage of Xanthium lucidum

Oral administration: decoction, 2 to 4 qian; pound into juice, boil into paste or make into pills or powder.

For external use: pound for application, burn and grind into powder for application, or decoct and wash with water.

Efficacy of Xanthium

Efficacy: dispelling wind and heat, detoxifying and killing insects.

Indications: Treatment of head wind, dizziness, dampness and spasm, red eyes, nebula, rheumatism, boils, heat-toxin sores, and skin itching.

Pharmacological effects: Leaf infusion can increase the movement of isolated rabbit intestines; inhibit the excitatory conduction of frog hearts, leading to heart block; dilate blood vessels on isolated rabbit ears; perfuse frog hind limbs , causing blood vessels to first dilate and then contract. Intravenous injection of tincture of leaves into cats can cause a temporary drop in blood pressure (20 to 40 mm Hg) and inhibit the excitability of spinal cord reflexes. All parts of cocklebur contain considerable amounts of iodine.

Clinical application: ① Treatment of leprosy

It has a good effect on improving symptoms. After taking the medicine, the patient's nodules can disappear, the skin can return to normal, or the erythema can become lighter and smaller in scope. The infiltrative damage to the face and earlobes was reduced, the swollen ulnar nerve became thinner and softer, the hands and feet moved flexibly, and some consciousness was restored. Leprae bacteria are also on the decline. Pathological infiltration also improved slightly. However, the above-mentioned curative effect mostly occurs between 3 and 4 months after taking the medication, and the progress is not obvious after that, and some patients develop new damage. A few patients continue to take the medication for 12 to 15 months and have different degrees of progress, but it is not as good as the initial effect. obvious. Therefore, it is considered that Xanthium herbium should be taken at the same time or alternately with sulfone drugs or thiosemicarbazide in order to achieve satisfactory results. Dosage and usage: There is currently no unified dosage standard. Generally, fresh cocklebur grass is used to make extract pills or tablets for oral administration. Each extract pill is equivalent to 1 to 2 taels or 4 taels of crude drug. Start with 4 taels, once a day. After 3 days, gradually increase the dosage according to the patient's physical condition and severity of the disease, up to 16 taels a day, taken 2 times; some use 8 to 24 taels a day, for 3 months. Rest for two weeks; some also recommend taking 12 taels a day, three times a day. If side effects occur, the dose can be reduced. If there are no adverse reactions but the effect is slow, the dose can be increased gradually as appropriate. Side effects include loss of appetite, constipation, fever, and neurological symptoms, but they are all mild. Some people pointed out that when taking large doses, you should pay attention to safety to avoid poisoning accidents.

②Treatment of chronic rhinitis

According to clinical observations of more than 50 cases, the effective rate is above 50%. Has anti-allergic effects. It is also effective for acute paranasal sinusitis. Usage: Xanthium lucidum whole plant injection, 2 ml each (equivalent to 2 grams of crude drug) for intramuscular injection, 1 to 2 times a day.

③Treatment of functional uterine bleeding

2 taels of Xanthium herbaceae (1 tael of dry form), decoction, 1 dose per day. It takes 3 to 5 days for mild cases and 7 to 10 days for severe cases.

④Treatment of early-stage schistosomiasis

Use 2 taels of whole cocklebur plant and 1.5 taels of betel nut, boil into 60 ml, 10 ml each time, take 3 times a day before food, and continuously 10 days. After treatment of 32 cases, the patients' appetite increased, their physical strength increased, and their general physical signs improved. After 3 months, 28 cases had their stools reexamined, and the schistosomiasis egg-negative conversion rate was 78.6%. Common drug reactions include abdominal pain, diarrhea, dizziness and nausea.

Additional prescriptions for Xanthium sibiricum

① To treat a woman’s blood and wind attacking her brain, her head spins and her head is dull, and she suddenly falls to the ground dead and does not know where she is: drink the tender heart of the grass and dry it in the shade. Drinking wine as usual costs a fortune. ("Doumen Prescriptions")

② To treat stroke, typhoid, headache, boils, swelling and severe sleepiness: Pound the roots and leaves of Xanthium striata raw, mix with children's urine to extract the juice, squeeze one liter in cold water, three times a day, (" "Dietotherapeutic Materia Medica")

③Treatment of stroke, headache, dampness, spasm and pain of limbs: one pound of Xanthium sibiricum leaves are crispy and crispy. First boil the cocklebur for three or five times, strain it out, add one cup of black soya bean, two and a half cups of water, fry the juice of one and a half cups of black soya bean, add the cocklebur fungus and five other flavors, mix it into a soup, add it into the crisp and eat it.

("Sheng Hui Fang" Xanthium Leaf Soup)

④Treatment of red and white diarrhea: No matter how much Xanthium is used, wash it, boil it with water, remove the dross, add honey, and boil it with fire to make a paste. Take one or two spoons each time with white soup. ("Medical Prescriptions")

⑤Treatment of star nebula on the eyes: mash fresh Xanthium herbaceae, apply plaster on the temples. ("Zhejiang Folk Herbal Medicine")

⑥Cure gale and various wind diseases: do not use a lot of Xanthium, grind it into fine powder, and use Gale (seed) oil to make pills, as big as sycamore seeds. Take 30 to 40 pills each time with Nepeta tea, take at any time. ("Lvyanyan Materia Medica")

⑦Cure leprosy: divide young cocklebur and lotus leaves into equal parts. At the end of the day, take two qian each time and mix it with warm wine. ("Pocket Prescriptions")

⑧Cure boils and root out: burn Xanthium lucidum into ashes and seal it with twelfth lunar month pig fat. ("Compendium of Materia Medica")

⑨Treatment of heat poison attacking the hands and feet, redness, swelling, heat, and pain that makes you want to take off: Wring the juice of Xanthium herba and soak it. ("A Thousand Gold Prescription")

⑩Treatment of otitis media: fresh Xanthium lucidum whole plant five qian (dried three qian). Dissolve half a bowl of boiled water. ("Fujian Folk Herbal Medicine")

⑾Treatment of scabies and hemorrhoids: decoction of Xanthium lucidum whole plant, fumigation and washing. ("Mindong Materia Medica")

⑿Treatment of rubella and wet itching all over the body: decoction of whole Xanthium bark for external washing. ("Mindong Materia Medica")

⒀To treat red and white sweat spots: beat the tips of the young leaves of Xanthium striata with paste and salt. Rub it in between May and June, five or seven times. ("Zhai Yuan Fang")

⒁ To treat poisonous flower spider bites: Make wild silk, pound the juice into a cup and take it, and apply it with the dregs. ("Zhiyuan Prescription")

⒂Treatment of insect bite dermatitis: Appropriate amounts of fresh cocklebur stems and leaves, alum, and Mingxiong. ***Pound into a paste, apply externally to the sting area, and fix it. (Inner Mongolia's "Selected Materials on New Chinese Herbal Medicine Treatment Methods")