The Medicinal Uses of Wuzhao Feng: A Traditional Chinese Herb for Heat, Swelling, and Detoxification

January 22, 2024

  Wuzhao Feng is a traditional Chinese medicine, a perennial creeping herb that can be used as medicine. It has the effects of clearing heat, promoting diuresis, and detoxification. It is mainly used for treating symptoms such as lung heat cough, difficult urination, gonorrhea, urinary blood, abscesses, and swelling. Below, we will introduce some applications of Wuzhao Long's prescription.
 


 

  1. Treatment for various urinary disorders

  Take one ounce of fresh Wuzhao Jinlong stem and leaves. Boil the soup and remove the residue, add rock sugar and stew for consumption.

  2. Treatment for abscesses, back pain, breast abscess, fecal toxins, and early-stage ulcers

  Take one vine or root of Wuye Teng and one piece of fresh ginger. After mixing and grinding, add a cup of good wine, squeeze the juice and take it hot, sweat it out, and use the residue for compress. Garlic can be used instead of ginger.

  3. Treatment for neck and lower heat swelling

  Apply crushed Wuye Teng to the affected area.

  4. Treatment for back pain, buttock abscess, and fecal toxins

  Boil the whole herb of Wulianmei twice, filter the decoction from both times and combine them, then decoct and concentrate the solution over boiling water to make a paste. Apply the paste to the affected area with gauze and change it once a day.

  5. Treatment for unknown abscesses

  Crush the leaves of Wulianmei, heat them with fire, pour vinegar over them, and apply them to the affected area.

  6. Treatment for perianal abscess

  Apply crushed fresh Wulianmei leaves to the affected area, tie it with a wide cloth strip, and change it once a day.

  7. Treatment for throat bi

  Take one plant of Marigold, Wuzhao Longcao, and Plantago asiatica. Crush these three plants and take them orally.

  8. Treatment for itchiness caused by Jiuzi

  Take one plant of Mother Pig Vine, Jiuzi Lianhuancao, and Polygonum multiflorum. Stew and consume with meat.

  9. Treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis with coughing up blood

  Take three to four qian of Wulianmei root and slowly decoct. You can also add three qian of Cibotium barometz, Sanguisorba, and Qing Shi Dan together and decoct and consume.

  10. Treatment for rheumatic joint pain

  Take one liang of Wulianmei root and soak it in wine.

  11. Treatment for hematuria

  Dry and crush the Wuye Teng leaves into powder, and take two qian daily with boiling water.

  12. Treatment for snake bites

  Crush the fresh whole herb of Wulianmei, squeeze out two liang of juice, mix it with rice wine and drink it. Apply the crushed whole herb to the wound externally.

  13. Treatment for bee stings

  Boil the fresh leaves of Wuzhao Long and wash with the water.

  14. Treatment for bruises and injuries

  Crush Wuzhao Long and mix it with child urine and hot wine for consumption to induce sweating.

  15. Treatment for bone fractures caused by falls

  Dry the root of Blood Wujia, grind it into powder, and wrap it with rock sugar dissolved in boiling water to apply to the affected area.

  16. Treatment for hematuria

  Dry the Wulianmei in the shade, grind it into powder. Take two qian each time and swallow it with boiling water.

  17. Treatment for neck and lower heat swelling

  Apply crushed Wulianmei to the affected area.

  18. Treatment for breast abscess and early-stage ulcers

  Take one handful of Wulianmei vine or root, and one piece of fresh ginger. Crush them together, add a bowl of good wine, squeeze out the juice, and take it hot to induce sweating. At the same time, use the residue to apply to the affected area. Garlic can be used instead of ginger.

  19. Treatment for bruises and injuries

  Crush Wulianmei and mix it with child urine, and take it with hot wine.

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