In the countryside, there are many flowers and plants that we can't name. They are either used as feed for livestock or admired as flowers. Few people associate them with medicine. However, it is precisely these inconspicuous plants that have the ability to cure diseases and save lives, such as the powerful medicinal plant, Ground Ivy. Let's take a closer look at its medicinal value together!
Picture of Ground Ivy
Medicinal Value of Ground Ivy
Functions and Indications
It clears heat and detoxifies. It is used to treat high fever, restlessness, influenza, infectious hepatitis, nephritis, scrofula, mumps, boils, and other suppurative infections.
① "Common Medicinal Plants in Liaoning": "Clears heat and detoxifies. It is used to treat abscesses, boils, lymph node tuberculosis."
② "Handbook of Chinese Medicine in Hebei": "Used to treat acute infectious hepatitis."
③ "Handbook of Traditional Chinese Medicine for the Plateau": "Anti-inflammatory and detoxifying. Used to treat jaundice hepatitis, high fever, restlessness."
Administration and Dosage
Oral administration: Decoction, 5-15 grams (or 50-100 grams fresh); or mashed juice. External use: Mashed poultice.
Pharmacological Effects
In the cultivation of human embryonic kidney primary epithelial cells, the water extract (1:80) of Ground Ivy has inhibitory effects on herpes simplex virus and can delay the cellular lesions caused by orphan viruses.
Ground Ivy is made into injections, with its main active ingredient being alkaloids.
It has an antibacterial effect in vitro, inhibiting Streptococcus pyogenes, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus, Shigella dysenteriae, Escherichia coli, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa (in vitro method);
