Blood-filled grass is a type of traditional Chinese medicine that promotes blood circulation. It has rich medicinal value and can treat various diseases. When the blood-filled grass is broken, it releases red juice, which is how it got its name. Now let's learn about the efficacy and functions of blood-filled grass.
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Efficacy and Functions of Blood-filled Grass
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that blood-filled grass has the effects of dispelling wind, promoting diuresis, activating blood circulation, and opening up the meridians. It is mainly used to treat acute and chronic nephritis, rheumatic pain, wind rash itching, sequelae of infantile paralysis, chronic lumbago and leg pain, sprains and contusions, and fractures.
1. "Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Medicinal Atlas": External use for treating ulcers, boils, and neurodermatitis. Internal use for treating rheumatoid arthritis.
2. "Plant Names and Their Realities": Soaking to relieve athlete's foot and edema.
3. "Yunnan Chinese Herbal Medicine": Dispelling wind, activating collaterals, resolving stasis, and relieving itching.
4. "Commonly Used Tibetan Chinese Herbal Medicine": Activating blood circulation, resolving stasis, strengthening tendons and bones, dispelling wind and dampness, promoting diuresis, and reducing swelling.
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Medicinal Value of Blood-filled Grass
1. Treatment of rheumatic pain
This medicine has good therapeutic effects on rheumatic pain. It can be directly decocted in water and taken orally. Applying blood-filled grass externally can also achieve analgesic effects.
2. Treatment of infantile paralysis
The treatment of this disease also requires the combination of other acupuncture methods to achieve better results. During the medication, the use of medicinal liquor can also produce good therapeutic effects.
3. Treatment of edema
It can be cooked together with other heat-clearing and mild-natured ingredients, such as tofu, to eliminate edema. In addition, it also has good effects in treating colorectal bleeding.
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Clinical Applications of Blood-filled Grass
1. Treatment of acute and chronic nephritis: Five qian (approx. 15g) of blood-filled grass, one or two liang (approx. 30g) of juglans regia root, four qian (approx. 12g) each of cortex phellodendri and herba sanguisorbae. Decoct them in water and take orally. Blood-filled grass can treat acute and chronic nephritis and also has the function of activating blood circulation. (Selected Compilation of Internal Medicine)
2. Treatment of rheumatic pain and wind rash: Take an appropriate amount of blood-filled grass and decoct it in water for external wash.
3. Treatment of infantile paralysis and trauma: First, use plum blossom needle to puncture the affected area, then crush an appropriate amount of fresh blood-filled grass stems and leaves, stir-fry with wine, and apply externally. Blood-filled grass can treat infantile paralysis and trauma, promoting tendon relaxation and activating collaterals.
4. Treatment of fractures: Take an appropriate amount of fresh blood-filled grass, mash it, and apply it with wine or boiling water.
5. Treatment of edema: Take three to five qian (approx. 9-15g) of blood-filled grass tender leaves and root bark, and cook them together with tofu. (②Referenced from "Yunnan Chinese Herbal Medicine")
