The Yashong has the functions of treating heat-toxic boils and swellings, erysipelas, orchitis, burns and scalds, and damp sores. Let's learn about the efficacy and functions of Yashong as well as its plant morphology together.
【Efficacy and Functions of Yashong】
Efficacy of Yashong:
Taste: Sour and astringent, Cold in nature. Meridian: Lung and Large Intestine. Functions: Clearing heat and detoxification.
Functions of Yashong:
Heat-toxic boils and swellings, erysipelas, orchitis, burns and scalds, damp sores, bacterial dysentery, amoebic dysentery.
【Related Combinations】
1. For treating erysipelas in children: Yashong 15g, honeysuckle, forsythia, Isatis indigotica, dandelion, cortex moutan, red peony, and lithospermum each 9g. Boil in water and take orally. ("Qinling and Bashan Natural Medicinal Plants")
2. For treating orchitis: Appropriate amount of Yashong. Grind and apply externally. ("Qinling and Bashan Natural Medicinal Plants")
【Dosage】
Oral administration: Decoction, 15-30g; or mashed juice, fresh product 50-100g. External use: Appropriate amount, grind and apply; or apply mashed juice; or boil and wash with water.
【Plant Morphology of Yashong】
Annual herb, entirely hairless, with fibrous roots. Stems single or clustered, 5-30 cm tall. Leaves 3-5 whorled, lanceolate to spatulate, 8-20 mm long, 2-4 mm wide, acute at the apex, gradually narrowed at the base, entire margin, sessile or nearly sessile. Inflorescence conical or umbellate, with long branches, with inflorescences also in the axils of lower leaves; flowers sparse; pedicels 5-8 mm long, slender; sepals 5, narrowly triangular to ovate-lanceolate; petals 5, white, rectangular-ovate; stamens 10; scales broadly spatulate, deeply notched at the apex; carpels 5, nearly erect, fused at the lower part, with small nipple-like protrusions. Mature ones are oblique and spreading in the upper half; seeds few, tiny.
