Chinese herbal medicine has different formulas for different diseases. For example, Pig's Bristle Herb has the functions of clearing heat and detoxification, antibacterial, expectorant, and dispelling wind and dampness. What are the formulas for the application of Pig's Bristle Herb in the treatment of hypertension?
【Application of Pig's Bristle Herb in the Treatment of Hypertension】
Pig's Bristle Herb contains a large amount of flavonoids, which are used in clinical practice as an adjuvant treatment for hypertension. It has effects such as preventing cerebral hemorrhage, preventing cardiovascular diseases, and anti-mutation.
1. Clearing heat and resolving phlegm, used for lung heat cough and hemoptysis.
To treat lung heat hemoptysis, it can be used in combination with Red Top Grass and Sanpi Feng. To treat lung heat cough, it can be used in combination with Scutellaria baicalensis, Houttuynia cordata, and almond.
Pig's Bristle Herb can be used to improve cough and sputum production in cases of cough and sputum.
2. Dispelling wind, treating wind-dampness arthralgia, can be soaked in wine with fresh product.
3. Diuresis, used for hot lin syndrome, bloody lin syndrome, urethral infection, and urethral stones.
To treat children's urinary stones, it can be used in combination with Coix seed; to treat hot lin syndrome and bloody lin syndrome, it can be used in combination with Calcitriol and Iron wire; to treat urethral infection and stones, it can be used alone in decoction.
Pig's Bristle Herb can be used to treat diseases of the urinary system and has diuretic and detoxifying effects.
【Cultivation Method of Pig's Bristle Herb】
1. Adequate moisture
Generally, the soil should be kept moist, and during the growth period, it is important to ensure adequate moisture and increase air humidity in dry weather. It should not lack water in summer, and daily watering should not make the soil wet and then dry, as this will cause the leaves to turn yellow.
2. Suitable temperature
Pig's Bristle Herb does not have very strict temperature requirements, but attention should be paid to high temperatures in summer and low temperatures in winter. In general, in winter, the indoor temperature should be above 5 degrees Celsius, and in summer, it should be kept around 25 degrees Celsius in a cool and ventilated place. Direct sunlight can cause leaf burn.
3. Soil requirements
The soil fertility should not be too poor. Pig's Bristle Herb generally grows in sandy soil rich in humus, or it can be cultivated with purchased potting soil. Fertilization should be applied monthly, and it should be applied to the roots. It is important to repot and change the soil in spring when it needs to grow.
【Correct Understanding of Pig's Bristle Herb】
Pig's Bristle Herb is a perennial herbaceous plant that can grow up to 20-50 centimeters. It has dense fibrous roots, light brown in color. The rhizome is horizontal, yellow-brown, and covered with light brown scales.
The leaves are close to the base; the petiole is slender and weak, with scales at the base, purplish-black in color, shiny, and about the same length as the leaf blade; the leaf is 1-3 pinnate, with 3 pinnate in the lower part, 2 pinnate in the middle part, and 1 pinnate in the upper part. There are 8-13 pairs of leaflets, alternate, with petioles, the largest pair near the base, the small pinnate of the terminal pinnate is about 3-3.5 millimeters wide; most of them are fan-shaped, wedge-shaped at the base, with small petioles, the upper edge often irregularly deeply lobed, the lobes are blunt, and the sterile lobes also have small teeth. The leaves are thin and green, smooth on both sides, and the veins are obvious.
The sorus cover is formed by the edge of the leaflet folding down, usually with 3-7 per leaflet, rectangular, brown, with white edges, membranous. The spore sorus is round to oblong, slightly curved, stalkless, and the spores are tiny and pale yellow.
Pig's Bristle Herb grows in crevices by streams at an altitude of 100-2800 meters, or near houses and walls. It is distributed in East China, Central South China, Southwest China, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, and other places.
