The efficacy and effects of ghost needle herb

Ghost Needle Herb is bitter, slightly cold and non-toxic. It can clear heat and detoxify the body, disperse blood stasis and reduce swelling, and is a common herb used in folk medicine to treat a variety of conditions. This article mainly introduces the efficacy and effects of ghost needle herb.

Dispersing heat from the surface

Wind-heat symptoms of colds, high fever and thirst, mildly evil wind and cold, no sweating or poor sweating, headache, red tongue, thin yellow fur, floating pulse, etc. It can be treated with Gaixin Cao with Wild Chrysanthemum, Yinhua, Huangpi leaf and Longan leaf. For summer heat, it can be used with Yu Ye Jin Hua, Shui Weng Hua, Gang Mei and Beng Da Bowl to clear heat and relieve summer heat.

Eliminate swelling and detoxification

Ghost Needle Herb is slightly cold in nature, slightly bitter in taste, and belongs to the liver, lung and large intestine meridians. It can be used to treat diseases of detoxification dysfunction in the liver, such as jaundice, boils and swellings; diseases of upper respiratory tract infection in the lung, such as colds and sore throats; diseases of excretion dysfunction in the large intestine, such as diarrhea and dysentery; it can also treat poisonous snake bites.

Dispersing blood stasis and activating blood circulation

According to Fujian Folk Herbal Medicine, Ghost Needle Herb has the effect of "dispersing blood stasis and activating blood circulation, eliminating carbuncles and detoxifying toxins". Pounded and applied externally, it can help treat iron injuries, hemorrhoids, chronic ulcers, frostbite, etc.

Lowering blood pressure

Ghost Needle Herb has a good biphasic regulation of blood pressure, hypertensive patients can take this drug to lower blood pressure, low blood pressure can be used to raise blood pressure to normal, clinical use as a blood pressure lowering. The use of red-stemmed ghost needle herb to lower blood pressure is not only safe and reliable, but also can avoid the side effects of sexual dysfunction of some antihypertensive drugs.

Analgesic

According to the "Quanzhou Materia Medica", Ghost Needle Herb has the effect of "eliminating blood stasis, relieving pain, and astringing golden sores", which is useful for acute injury pain in soft tissues and joints, migraine headaches, tumor pain, etc.

Anti-inflammatory and antiseptic

The ethanol infusion of Ghost Needle Herb has antibacterial effect on Gram-positive bacteria in vitro, and the flowers and stems also have antibacterial effect on Staphylococcus aureus. The polyacetylene compounds in Ghost Needle Herb can significantly inhibit croton oil-induced auricular swelling in mice, and egg white foot swelling, and reduce the weight of cotton ball granuloma in rats, and also significantly inhibit capillary permeability in mice and leukocyte wandering in acetic acid-inflamed rats. The flavonoid crystals in Ghost Needle Herb also have good anti-inflammatory effect.

What are the conditions that Ghost Needle Herb is commonly used to treat

Internally, it can be used to treat respiratory tract infections, sore throat, acute appendicitis, acute jaundice, gastroenteritis, pediatric diarrhea, rheumatic joint pain, malaria, migraine, and externally to treat sores, snake bites, bruises and swelling.