We know that there are many types of Chinese medicine, and one of them is lungwort. So, what diseases can lungwort treat? Besides the known effects, what are the other medicinal uses of lungwort?
【What diseases can lungwort treat?】
Lungwort can clear heat and moisten the lungs, and also reduce swelling and relieve pain. It can be used to treat pulmonary tuberculosis, parotitis, lymphadenitis, pharyngitis, leukorrhea, hot and toxic sores, and injuries from falls and blows.
Lungwort is a perennial herbaceous plant that grows 10 to 45 centimeters tall. The basal leaves are thick and paper-like, kidney-shaped or heart-shaped, measuring 2.5 to 6 centimeters long. The leaf stems can grow up to 16 centimeters long. There is one stem leaf that is round in shape, with a heart-shaped base and clasping the stem, with an entire margin.
The flowers are white and solitary at the top of the stem. There are 5 sepals, ovoid or broadly ovoid, with a blunt rounded apex. There are 5 petals, spoon-shaped, inverted-ovate, or inverted-lanceolate, up to 2.5 centimeters long, with an entire margin, sometimes with sparse ciliate-like divisions in the lower or basal parts.
There are 5 stamens, alternating with the petals, and brown-colored staminodes that project like diamonds above the anthers. The staminodes in the middle and above are deeply divided into 3. The ovary is superior, with 3 fused carpels, and the style is slightly longer than the ovary, with a 3-lobed stigma. The fruit is ellipsoid in shape.
The flowering and fruiting period is from June to September.
It grows on mountain slopes, forest edges, under trees, or on grassy slopes. It is distributed in Yunnan, Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei, Shaanxi, Henan, and other places.
【Methods to treat cough with lungwort】
Take 50 grams of young leaves and tips of lungwort, chop them with a knife, add one egg and mix well, add a little salt, stir-fry in a pan with vegetable oil, and consume after it is cooked. This can treat cough.
Additional medicinal uses of lungwort:
1. Treat chronic cough that leads to consumption.
Take 2 qian (about 6 grams) of white Ceylon moss and 2 qian (about 6 grams) of Cervi Cornu Pantotrichum. Stew them with pig lungs and consume.
2. Treat chronic cough with blood-streaked sputum and white vaginal discharge in women.
Take 5 qian (about 15 grams) to 1 liang (about 30 grams) of lungwort, decoct or stew with chicken and consume.
3. Treat dysentery and anal pain with heat and bleeding after prolonged diarrhea.
Take 7 to 8 qian (about 21 to 24 grams) of dried lungwort, 4 to 5 qian (about 12 to 15 grams) of Xianhe grass, half of a Semiaquilegia adoxoides, Tianqingdi white grass, and Muhlenbergia root. Decoct in water and consume on an empty stomach in the morning and evening. Avoid eating raw, cold, greasy, sour and spicy foods.
4. Treat tinea versicolor.
Take 1 liang (about 30 grams) of fresh lungwort roots, slightly roast them on fire for a moment, rub them into a ball, and apply to the affected area.
