Dajiu Gu Niu, a traditional Chinese medicine. It is the rhizome of the plant Gastrodia elata, also known as Nine Bulls Root, Green Gastrodia, or Great Bone Setter. It has the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, relieving cough, and relieving pain. It can be used to treat symptoms such as lung heat cough, abscesses, boils, and injuries. Let's learn about the treatment of abscesses with Dajiu Gu Niu!
【Treatment of Abscesses with Dajiu Gu Niu】
Dajiu Gu Niu, Chong Lou, Bai Ji, Xiao Nian Yao, Wu Xiang Xue Teng, grind them into powder and mix with honey or vinegar for external application.
Chinese medicine believes that Dajiu Gu Niu has the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, relieving cough, and relieving pain. It is commonly used for lung heat cough, mastitis, parotitis, abscesses, and injuries.
"National Compendium of Chinese Herbal Medicine": "Clears heat, detoxifies, relieves pain, and stops coughing. It is used to treat lung heat cough, parotitis, mastitis, and abscesses."
1. Treatment of lung heat cough: Dajiu Gu Niu root (peeled) 5 grams, Xiang Ling Cao 2 grams, Wa Cao 2 grams. Grind them into powder and take 2 grams per dose, twice a day.
2. Treatment of mastitis, parotitis, abscesses, and boils: Dajiu Gu Niu, Chong Lou, Bai Ji, Xiao Nian Yao, Wu Xiang Xue Teng, grind them into powder and mix with honey or vinegar for external application.
【Characteristics of Dajiu Gu Niu】
Identification of characteristics
Cylindrical, 3.7-7.5cm long, grayish-white or light brown on the surface, opaque. If the outer skin is not removed completely, there may be 3-4 rings and longitudinal lines, and a layer of skin can be peeled off, resembling fibers. Obvious knife marks can be seen. There is a concave or raised stem mark at the top. It is solid and not easily broken, with an uneven surface, resembling wood. Slight odor and slightly bitter taste.
Microscopic identification of Dajiu Gu Niu
Powder characteristics: Light brown.
① Numerous starch grains, single or compound. Single grains are round, helmet-shaped, or axe-shaped, a few are irregular quadrilaterals, with a diameter of 3-8-13μm. Larger starch grains occasionally have a "cross" shaped hilum, and the stratification is not obvious. Compound grains consist of 2-4 sub-grains; sub-grains are often helmet-shaped, semi-circular, or triangular.
② Calcium oxalate cluster crystals exist in the inner layer of the cork and the thin-walled cells of the cortex, with a flower-like or pointed petal shape, with a diameter of 8-26μm.
③ The vessels are reticulated, with a diameter of up to 80μm, inclined end walls, and elongated pits; fragments of vessels with large pitted pits can also be seen.
④ The wood parenchyma is in the form of chunks, with cells elongated or rectangular, and slightly thickened walls.
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