Do you know about Pigweed? Pigweed is a medicinal herb that has the functions of clearing heat, detoxifying, antibacterial, resolving phlegm, and dispelling wind and dampness. But what are the applications of Pigweed in traditional medicine?
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Effects and Functions of Pigweed
Effects: Clearing heat, resolving phlegm, dispelling wind, diuresis, and reducing swelling.
Pigweed has a bitter and cool taste and enters the liver and kidney meridians. It can clear heat from the upper body, promote urination, and relieve swelling. Therefore, it has the effects of clearing heat, resolving phlegm, diuresis, and reducing swelling.
Pigweed is a cooling herb that can clear heat and detoxify the body. It is beneficial for diuresis, reducing swelling, and eliminating dampness.
Modern Research:
1. Components: Pigweed contains volatile oils, flavonoids, sugars, and tannins.
2. Pharmacological actions: Pigweed has expectorant properties.
Applications:
1. Clearing heat and resolving phlegm: Used for lung heat cough and hemoptysis.
For the treatment of lung heat hemoptysis, it can be used in combination with redtop grass and three-leaf wind; for lung heat cough, it can be used in combination with scutellaria baicalensis, fishy smelling herb, and almond.
Pigweed can be used to treat lung heat cough and improve cough with phlegm.
2. Dispelling wind: Used for rheumatic joint pain, can be soaked in alcohol and taken orally.
3. Diuresis: Used for hot urinary disorders, bloody urine, urinary tract infections, and urinary stones.
To treat pediatric urinary stones, it can be used in combination with rhizoma imperatae; for hot urinary disorders and bloody urine, it can be used in combination with cinnabar and wireweed; for urinary tract infections and stones, it can be used alone by decoction.
Pigweed can be used to treat urinary system diseases and has diuretic and detoxifying effects.
Pigweed
Prescriptions for Treating Diseases with Pigweed
1. Pediatric urinary stones:
Take 6 grams of pigweed and 9 grams of rhizoma imperatae, decocted in water and taken orally.
2. Mastitis and blocked milk ducts:
Take 9-15 grams of pigweed, decocted in water and taken orally, with sweet wine as a guide.
3. Traumatic pain:
Take 50 grams of pigweed, soak in alcohol and take orally.
4. Cough:
Take 15 grams of pigweed and 15 grams of plantain, decocted in water and taken orally.
5. Sprains and bruises:
Take an appropriate amount of fresh wireweed, mash it and apply externally.
6. Lung heat hemoptysis:
Take 15 grams of pigweed, decocted in water and taken orally.
7. Acute bronchial asthma:
Take 15-30 grams of pigweed, an appropriate amount of golden bamboo leaves, and some shrimp, decocted in water and taken orally.
8. Common cold:
Take 15 grams of pigweed, decocted in water and taken orally.
