Gangban Gui is a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine in Chinese medicine. It has the effects of eliminating phlegm and relieving cough, lowering blood pressure, and promoting diuresis. When combined with other herbs, it can treat edema and accelerate the elimination of excess water in the body. Let's learn more about the efficacy and functions of Gangban Gui!
【Efficacy and Functions of Gangban Gui】
Taste and Meridian Attribution: Sour in taste, cool in nature. Slightly toxic. Enters the liver, kidney, lung, and small intestine meridians.
Efficacy: Eliminates phlegm and relieves cough, lowers blood pressure, promotes diuresis, detoxifies, and stops diarrhea.
Functions: Used for fever and cold, enteritis and diarrhea, edema, whooping cough, suppurative infection, hypertension, herpes zoster, itching skin, sore throat, snake bite, bee sting, and leukocytosis.
Taboo: People with weak constitution and pregnant women should use it with caution.
【Methods of Using Gangban Gui】
Fungal bone ulcer: Take 20-30g of Gangban Gui, decoct twice with equal parts of alcohol and water, divide and take, and apply the mashed residue to the affected area.
Chronic eczema: Take 120g of fresh Gangban Gui, decoct with water for external washing, once a day.
Snake bite: Take the leaves of Gangban Gui, no matter how much, grind them into juice, mix with alcohol, and take as needed. Apply the residue to the wound.
Treat acute tonsillitis: Take 1 liang of Shidoulan, 2.5 liang of Gangban Gui, and 5 qian of Huanghua. Decoct with water, divide into two doses, take once a day.
【Pharmacological Actions of Gangban Gui】
This product contains ingredients such as caffeic acid, methyl caffeate, catechin, quercetin, and betulinic acid.
It has strong antibacterial and antiviral effects. It has antihypertensive effects on hypertensive rats, significantly affecting their myocardial contraction and blood pressure.
It has certain anti-mutagenic effects, inhibits experimental animal tumors, and also has hemostatic effects.
The decoction has inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus hemolyticus type B, as well as dysentery caused by Shigella, Escherichia coli, and Salmonella. It also has inhibitory effects on experimental animal tumors.
