Underground Bull, the root or branches and leaves of the plant Lycopodium clavatum. It can be harvested all year round, cleaned, sliced, and dried. The compatibility and side effects of Underground Bull are as follows:
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Functions and Indications of Underground Bull:
It dispels wind, promotes blood circulation, reduces swelling, and relieves pain. It is used to treat rheumatism, sore throat, scrofula, stomach pain, toothache, and injuries from falls or burns.
① "Ben Jing": It is used to treat wind, cold, and damp rheumatism, pain in the joints, and weakness in the limbs.
② "Qian Jin Fang": It is used to treat edema throughout the body. Boil the leaves and branches of Pig Pepper until they become like cakes, take one spoonful on an empty stomach three times a day. For itching, use the juice to wash.
③ "Shi Liao Ben Cao": It is used to treat sudden severe muscle cramps caused by thieving wind.
④ "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": It can promote the circulation of meridians, remove wind toxins, and relieve dampness and rheumatism.
⑤ "Ben Cao Qiu Yuan": It is used to treat phlegm-fire coughing up blood, and urgent closure of the throat. Remove the outer skin and boil it in water to drink.
⑥ "Ling Nan Cai Yao Lu": It is used to treat injuries from falls and snake bites. For toothache, boil it in water and use it for gargling.
⑦ "Lu Chuan Ben Cao": It is used for bone setting, reducing swelling, relieving pain, and removing blood stasis. It treats fractures and injuries with swelling and pain, rheumatism, stomach and heart pain, and toothache. It also treats snake bites.
⑧ "Common Chinese Herbal Medicine Manual of Guangzhou Troops": It dispels wind and activates collaterals. It is used to treat lumbar muscle strain, tetanus, burns, and scalds.
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Compatibility and Applications of Underground Bull:
1. Combined with Ephedra: It is used to treat wind, cold, and damp rheumatism. Ephedra is pungent and bitter, and it enters the qi division. It disperses wind and opens up the pores.
Ephedra specializes in inducing sweating and dispersing cold pathogens. Underground Bull is pungent and warm, and it enters the heart meridian and blood division. It disperses and warms, penetrates and nourishes the meridians, and has the power to open collaterals. When these two herbs are combined, they enter the protective and nutritive divisions, promoting the dispersal of wind and the dispersion of cold, opening collaterals, and relieving pain.
2. Combined with Achyranthes Root: It promotes blood circulation and removes blood stasis. If there is a fall or a blow, which damages the blood vessels, causing blood stasis and obstruction of meridian qi, these two herbs can be used together for treatment.
Underground Bull disperses stagnation and obstruction, warms and opens up the meridians, and moves horizontally; Achyranthes Root is bitter and flat, it activates blood circulation and removes blood stasis, strengthens tendons and bones, and has a downward action. They complement each other, smooth the flow of qi and blood, remove blood stasis, and relieve pain.
3. Combined with Floatingheart: It promotes lung function, induces sweating, and promotes diuresis and reduces swelling. If wind and water are causing the disease, with the lungs losing their ability to disperse and promote, resulting in facial edema and urinary retention, it is appropriate to promote lung function, induce sweating, promote diuresis, and reduce swelling.
Floatingheart is pungent and cold, light and floating, it induces sweating and disperses the surface; Underground Bull is pungent and warm, it promotes and benefits lung qi, penetrates and nourishes the lungs. When these two herbs are combined, cold and warm are balanced, promoting lung function, inducing sweating, promoting diuresis, and reducing swelling. There is no fear of excessive cold or heat.
4. Combined with Coptis Rhizome: It harmonizes the stomach, suppresses rebellious qi, promotes qi circulation, and relieves pain. If the spleen and stomach are not healthy.
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When external pathogenic factors invade when the body is weak, causing a mixture of cold and heat, disorders in ascending and descending functions, and a mixture of clear and turbid, resulting in distention and fullness in the stomach region, nausea due to warmth, intestinal rumbling, and frequent pulse. When these two herbs are combined, pungent opens and bitter suppresses, cold and heat are used together, evil is expelled and righteousness is restored, and distention and fullness are naturally relieved.
5. Combined with Gypsum: It is used to treat external wind, cold, and heat evils, or internal heat in the stomach. Both can cause swollen gums and toothache. Gypsum is cold and heavy, it sinks and descends; Underground Bull is pungent and warm, it disperses wind. When these two herbs are combined, they can dispel wind evil, reduce internal heat, clear heat internally and externally, reduce swelling, and relieve pain.
6. Combined with Saposhnikovia Root: It dispels wind, removes dampness, opens collaterals, and relieves pain. If wind, cold, and dampness obstruct the meridians and collaterals, causing poor circulation of qi and blood and swollen and painful joints. When these two herbs are combined, they can expel wind internally, penetrate externally, remove stasis, promote blood circulation, treat wind as well as blood, remove dampness, open collaterals, and relieve pain.
7. Combined with White Peony Root: If there is a disorder in the liver and spleen, stagnation of qi and disharmony, pain in the epigastric region, heavy diarrhea, treatment should focus on soothing the liver and regulating the spleen.
Underground Bull promotes the circulation of qi and relieves liver depression; White Peony Root harmonizes and nourishes blood, soothes the liver, and relieves urgency. When combined, the liver depression is resolved, the spleen is regulated, pain is relieved, and diarrhea is cured.
Side Effects of Underground Bull:
Side effects: This substance has certain toxicity. Excessive dosage or long-term use can affect liver function. Symptoms of toxicity include dizziness, blurred vision, vomiting, abdominal pain, and diarrhea.
Remedial methods: Induce diarrhea, drink sugar water, or inject hypertonic glucose.
