In summer, we eat thorn mustard with gluten, and put a handful of thorn mustard in a bowl of noodles. However, you may not be clear that the thorn mustard as a traditional Chinese medicine, widely used in Chinese medicine. It is used to relieve epidemics and dispel wind, penetrate rashes, and eliminate sores.

Quickly recognize the thorn mustard:

The thorn mustard is in irregular segments. The stem is square and cylindrical, the surface is yellowish green or light purple-red, pubescent. The cut surface is white, and the leaves are mostly deciduous. Spikelike whorls, corolla more off, persistent calyx campanulate, gas aromatic, taste slightly astringent and pungent. Thuja charcoal all black-brown, shaped like thuja, slightly aromatic, bitter and pungent flavor.

From the point of view of flavor and utility, thuja is pungent and slightly warm. Commonly used in colds, headaches, measles, rubella, sores and ulcers. Jingwu charcoal is pungent, astringent, slightly warm, with the efficacy of astringency and hemostasis, commonly used in blood in the stool, leakage, postpartum hematemesis. The common dosage is 5 to 10 grams.

Source Origin:

Thornywort is the dried above-ground part of Thornywort, family Labiatae, mainly produced in Hebei, Jiangsu, Zhejiang Hangzhou, Jiangxi and other places.

Selected remedies:

1. Sore throat: 5 grams of Jingwu, 4 grams of Platycodonopsis pilosula, 3 grams of licorice, decoction with water.

2. Measles impenetrable: 6 grams each of thorn mustard, fengfeng, pimpernel, 9 grams each of rehmannia, comfrey, decoction.

3. Itchy skin: 15 to 30 grams each of thorn mustard, bitter ginseng, decoction of water to wash the affected area.