Chinese medicine believes that Didingcao has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying. It is mainly used to treat high fever and restlessness, influenza, infectious hepatitis, nephritis, scrofula, mumps, carbuncle, and other suppurative infections. Now let's take a look at the pictures of Didingcao and its accompanying prescriptions.
【Nature and Meridian Tropism】
Didingcao has a bitter taste and is cold in nature. It enters the Heart and Spleen meridians.
1. "Liaoning Common Chinese Herbal Medicine Handbook": "Bitter and pungent, cold."
2. "Plateau Chinese Herbal Medicine Treatment Handbook": "Cold in nature, bitter in taste, slightly toxic; enters the Heart and Spleen meridians."
【Dosage and Administration】
Orally: Decoction, 0.5-1 liang of Didingcao (2-3 liang for fresh herbs); pounded into juice or ground into powder. Topically: Pounded for application or boiled into a paste for plaster.
【Effects and Actions of Didingcao】
Chinese medicine believes that Didingcao has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying. It is mainly used to treat high fever and restlessness, influenza, infectious hepatitis, nephritis, scrofula, mumps, carbuncle, and other suppurative infections.
1. "Liaoning Common Chinese Herbal Medicine Handbook": "Clears heat and detoxifies. Treats abscesses, boils, and swollen lymph nodes."
2. "Hebei Chinese Herbal Medicine Handbook": "Treats acute infectious hepatitis."
3. "Plateau Chinese Herbal Medicine Treatment Handbook": "Anti-inflammatory and detoxifying. Treats jaundice hepatitis, high fever and restlessness."
【Application of Didingcao in Prescriptions】
1. Treats carbuncle and swelling: Pounded juice of Zi Hua Didingcao for oral administration. ("Qian Jin Fang")
2. Treats boils and unidentified swellings on the back: Zi Hua Didingcao, collected during the third Fu period, mixed with flour, soaked in salt and vinegar overnight, and applied to the affected area. ("Sun Tianren's Collection of Effective Prescriptions")
3. Treats all kinds of ulcers: Dried roots of Zi Hua Didingcao, burned in a jar to produce smoke, used to fumigate the ulcers, which will discharge yellow fluid and heal. ("Weisheng Yijian Fang")
4. Treats mastitis and all kinds of toxins: Eight liang each of Huang Hua Didingcao (dandelion) and Zi Hua Didingcao. Wash with running water, boil to extract the juice, remove the residue, and boil into a paste for plaster. ("Huizhitang's Empirical Prescription for Diding Gao")
5. Treats all kinds of suppurative infections and lymphadenitis.
【Pictures of Didingcao】
Picture of Didingcao
Picture of Didingcao
