Blood Mancao is the whole plant or root bark of the honeysuckle family plant Blood Mancao. It is also known as bone-healing medicine, bone-healing grass, and blood vessel grass. It has the effect of dispelling dampness, relieving pain, clearing heat, and reducing swelling. It can be used to treat symptoms of rheumatism, infantile paralysis, and fractures. Let's take a closer look at the efficacy and function of Blood Mancao!
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1. Dispelling Dampness and Relieving Pain
Blood Mancao has a good therapeutic effect on rheumatic pain. It can be directly boiled and taken with water for joint pain, which can achieve the effect of pain relief.
3. Clearing Heat and Reducing Swelling
Blood Mancao can be cooked with other ingredients that clear heat and have a mild nature, such as tofu, to help eliminate edema. In addition, it also has a good effect on treating colonic bleeding.
2. Treating Infantile Paralysis
The treatment of infantile paralysis with Blood Mancao requires the combination of other acupuncture methods to achieve better results. During the medication process, the use of medicated wine can also produce good therapeutic effects.
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Morphological Characteristics of Blood Mancao
The stem of Blood Mancao is cylindrical with a diameter of 0.3-1.5cm. The surface is gray-green to green-brown, hard and brittle. The stem has multiple longitudinal ridges with yellow-brown to rust-colored short hairs, and the ridges are almost hairless;
The outer layer of the stem is hard and lignified; the pith is wide and white, loose and spongy, slightly glossy, with scattered brownish-red dots, mostly on the outer side of the pith.
Odd-pinnate compound leaves are opposite, with short petioles, green-brown to dark green in color, and covered with short hairs. The leaflets are wrinkled and broken, and when unfolded, they are lanceolate, 5-15cm long and 2-4cm wide, with serrated edges.
Flowers are occasionally seen, with a terminal corymbose inflorescence, small and pale yellow or white. It has a slightly fragrant smell, with a light and slightly astringent taste. The color of the stem surface, the longitudinal ridges of the stem, the hair situation, the wide pith, and the scattered brownish-red dots are the most distinctive identification points.
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Clinical Applications of Blood Mancao
1. Treatment of acute and chronic nephritis: Take 50 grams of Blood Mancao, 100 grams of Jiu Ping Hua root, and 40 grams each of Shan Pi Tiao and Shi Jiao Cao. Decoct and take orally.
2. Treatment of rheumatic pain and rubella: Take an appropriate amount of Blood Mancao. Decoct and use the water to wash the affected area.
3. Treatment of infantile paralysis and trauma: First, use plum-blossom needle to puncture the affected area, then grind the fresh stem and leaves of Blood Mancao finely, and fry them with wine for external application.
4. Treatment of fractures: Take an appropriate amount of fresh Blood Mancao, grind it into a paste, and apply it with wine or boiled water.
5. Treatment of edema: Take 9-15 grams of tender leaves and root bark of Blood Mancao, cook and take it with tofu.
6. Treatment of colonic bleeding and prolapse: Take Blood Mancao, black Lock Mei root, and Mang Zhong Hua root, cook and eat with pork.
