In rural areas, this grass is called "hungry locust" mainly because it looks like a leech when it blooms. This grass is traditionally used to treat poor appetite in children, while traditional Chinese medicine uses it to treat snake bites, urinary tract infections, etc.
1. Treating abdominal pain
Grind the seeds of the mountain bean to a fine powder and take it; or take 15 grams of the root, boil it in water and take it.
2. Treating women with dry blood consumption
Take 30 grams of the root of the mountain bean. Take the first dose with wine, and the second dose with stewed meat.
3. Treating retained placenta
In many areas, when some women cannot expel the placenta after giving birth, the elderly use hungry locusts to make medicinal recipes to help with treatment.
Nowadays, hungry locusts are widely used in clinical practice. You can use wild beans, yellow solid leaves, roasted lotus pods, boil them in water and take them to treat retained placenta.
4. Treating postpartum joint pain
Stew chicken with wild beans and brown sugar. Hungry locusts are also suitable for the limb or joint soreness, pain, and numbness that women experience during the puerperium. Postpartum joint pain is a very common disease for women.
This disease is also known as "postpartum body pain", commonly known as "postpartum wind". In some places, it is also called "postpartum body pain", "postpartum joint pain", "postpartum paralysis", "postpartum gout". For this condition, we can also use hungry locusts for treatment.
5. Treating wind-heat eye disease
Wild beans, Coptis chinensis, cold water stone, chrysanthemum, cassia seed, mulberry leaf, and night-blooming cereus. Boil in water and take. According to the "Sichuan Chinese Medicine Journal," hungry locusts also have very good therapeutic effects on eye diseases caused by wind-heat. You can follow this prescription and boil it in water for consumption, and the effect is very good.
