The stems and leaves are bitter and sour in flavor, flat and non-toxic.
Efficacy main treatment of cold and dampness caused by limb weakness, numbness, the elderly paroxysmal chills, high fever, urinary astringent pain and all kinds of sores, spasm of the limbs, knee pain can not be flexed and stretched. It can chase the blood and qi, cure injuries, heat and fire rot, and abort fetus. Long-term use of light body and resistance to old age. It is also used to treat deficiency of qi in injuries, impotence of men's genitals, and urinary incontinence in the elderly. It can replenish the deficiency of middle qi, benefit essence and yin qi, solidify bone marrow, stop hair from turning gray, remove headache and lumbar spine disease, and irregular menstruation in women. It can cure impotence, tonify the kidney, help the twelve meridians, expel bad blood; cure lumbar and knee weakness, break abdominal lumps, drain pus and relieve pain. Postpartum heart and abdominal pain and bleeding, fall stillborn. It also strengthens the tendons and replenishes the deficiency of liver qi and blood. The stems and leaves of hyssop and Cistanche can be used in wine to benefit the kidneys. If a bamboo or wood is pierced into the flesh, it can be chewed and put on top of it, so that the thorns will come out. It is used in treating prolonged malaria, malignant cold and fever, five gonorrhea, blood in urine, pain in the penis, diarrhea, sore throat and sore tongue, swollen and painful teeth, and bad sores and fractures. Very weak patients, add the amount of use.
Annexed prescription for the treatment of cysticercosis: use eight taels of cow's knee, one heap of sunflower seeds, nine liters of water, decocted to three liters, taken in three doses.
The treatment of thirst, the lower element of the deficiency: five two research for the end of the hyssop, with the raw rhubarb juice five liters of soaking, sunshine and night immersion, in order to dry the degree of the juice, made of paulownia honey pills, each time on an empty stomach, warm wine to send down thirty pills.
The treatment of women's pubic swelling and pain: five taels of hyssop, three liters of wine, boiled to one and a half liters, remove the dregs and then divided into three times to serve.
Abortion: a handful of hyssop pounded, with a liter of ashless wine decoction to seven minutes, fasting. Then the one-root earth hyssop is coated with musk and inserted into the jade house.
The treatment of tonsillitis, fresh hyssop root a handful, seven slices of mugwort leaves, and human milk together after pounding the juice, into the nose, a moment of phlegm and saliva from the mouth and nose, the disease will be cured. No leaves can also be. Another method is to pound the hyssop juice, and vinegar into the throat.
To cure the fracture and flash bruise: crush the hyssop and cover the affected area. It can also cure nameless sores. Treatment of blood in urine with hyssop root decoction thick juice, drink five times a day will be good. In the past, Ye Chaozhi's relatives suffered from this disease, flow of urine in the basin, and even condensed as gelatin, some into the shape of a mouse, just no feet only, the doctor did not see the effect for a long time. A country doctor told this prescription a served although not immediately good, but the blood in the urine has gradually become lighter, after a long time to restore. After ten years, the disease attacked again, still according to this prescription, and was cured.
Metallurgical women's abdominal blood clots for pain: hyssop roasted and pounded into a powder, with a wine decoction after warm service, the effect is very good. Fuzhou people treat this disease only use this formula.