Blood-filled herb, also known as bone-setting medicine, bone-healing pill, blood vessel herb, etc., refers to the whole herb or root bark of the honeysuckle family plant blood-filled herb. Its medicinal value is high and it can be used to treat fractures and sprains. Let's take a look at the efficacy and functions of blood-filled herb!
Blood-filled herb has the effects of dispelling wind, promoting diuresis, activating blood circulation, and opening up collaterals. It is mainly used to treat acute and chronic nephritis, rheumatic pain, rubella itching, sequelae of infantile paralysis, chronic lumbago and leg pain, sprains and contusions, fractures, and other conditions.
1. "Illustrated Handbook of Medicinal Plants in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau": Used externally to treat acne and furuncles, neurodermatitis. Taken internally to treat rheumatoid arthritis.
2. "Plant Names and Facts": Used to soak feet for dampness and swelling.
3. "Yunnan Chinese Herbal Medicine": Dispels wind, activates collaterals, disperses stasis, and relieves itching.
4. "Commonly Used Tibetan Herbal Medicine": Activates blood circulation, dissipates stasis, strengthens tendons and bones, dispels wind and dampness, promotes diuresis, and reduces swelling.
Blood-filled herb is also commonly used in combination with other herbs for specific applications:
1. Treatment of acute and chronic nephritis: Take 15 grams of blood-filled herb, 30 grams of Hedyotis diffusa root, 12 grams each of Cortex Dictamni and Herba Lysimachiae. Decoct and take orally. Blood-filled herb can treat acute and chronic nephritis and also has a blood-activating effect.
2. Treatment of rheumatic pain, rubella: Take an appropriate amount of blood-filled herb. Decoct and use the liquid to wash the affected area.
3. Treatment of infantile paralysis, contusions: First, use plum blossom needle to prick the affected area, then pound the fresh stems and leaves of blood-filled herb into a paste, stir-fry with wine, and apply externally. Blood-filled herb can treat infantile paralysis and contusions, and has the effect of relaxing tendons and activating collaterals.
4. Treatment of fractures: Take an appropriate amount of fresh blood-filled herb, pound it into a paste, and apply it externally with wine or boiled water.
5. Treatment of edema: Take 9-15 grams of tender leaves and root bark of blood-filled herb, cook with tofu, and take orally.
6. Treatment of rectal bleeding, prolapse: Take blood-filled herb, black lock plum root, and peony root, cook with pork and eat. Blood-filled herb has a hemostatic effect and is beneficial for relieving prolapse.
Blood-filled herb not only has a good effect on treating lumbago and back pain but also has great benefits in promoting menstruation and activating collaterals. It can also effectively alleviate nephritis.
