Pig bristle grass, also known as pig brown seven, iron wire fern, etc., is often used for cold and fever, lung heat cough. Let's take a look at its specific medicinal uses!
Clinical Applications of Pig Bristle Grass
1. Clears heat and transforms phlegm, used for lung heat cough, hemoptysis.
To treat lung heat hemoptysis, it can be combined with red top grass and three horsewind; to treat lung heat cough, it can be combined with Scutellaria baicalensis, Houttuynia cordata, and almond.
Pig bristle grass can effectively treat lung heat cough and improve cough with phlegm.
2. Dispels wind, treats rheumatic joint pain, can be soaked in wine and taken.
3. Diuretic, used for hot dysuria, bloody dysuria, urinary tract infection, urinary tract stones.
To treat pediatric urinary stones, it can be combined with Equisetum hiemale; to treat hot dysuria and bloody dysuria, it can be combined with cinnabar, wire grass; for urinary tract infection and stones, it can be taken alone as a decoction.
Pig bristle grass can effectively treat urinary system diseases and have diuretic and detoxifying effects.
