Chinese medicinal herb "Shengma" is also known as Longyan root, Zhouma, and Kulongyagen. It is the rhizome of the plants of the Ranunculaceae family, Shengma genus, such as Dasyphyllum majus, Xing'an Shengma, or Shengma. It is mainly produced in Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Qinghai, and other provinces. What are the functions and effects of Shengma?
【Shengma formula for treating typhoid fever】
Shengma is used to treat typhoid fever, warm epidemic diseases, wind-heat fever, headache, body pain, and eruptive skin lesions.
【Prescription】
Equal parts of dried kudzu (finely ground), Shengma, peony, and licorice (finely ground, roasted).
【Preparation】
Grind the above ingredients into coarse powder. Take four qian (about 12 grams) per dose, add one and a half cups of water, simmer until one cup of liquid remains. Adjust the dose according to the size of the patient. Take it warm without restrictions.
【Source】
(From "Yan's Pediatric Formula Theory: Shengma and Kudzu Root Decoction")
【Functions and effects of Shengma】
Shengma clears heat and detoxifies, promotes eruption, and lifts sinking. It is mainly used for epidemic fire toxins, mouth ulcers, sore throat, rash, headache, and fever, abscesses, swellings, and toxic sores, sinking of qi, spleen deficiency with diarrhea, chronic dysentery with severe diarrhea, women's excessive vaginal discharge, and uterine bleeding.
① "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It mainly resolves hundreds of toxins and prevents warm diseases and evil influences (or malaria and evil influences)."
② "Other Records": "It mainly treats abdominal pain caused by evil qi, intermittent fever, headache, wind edema, and various poisons, sore throat, and mouth ulcers."
③ "Discussion on Medicinal Properties": "It treats wind in children, epilepsy, and intermittent fever. It can treat toothache with swollen and painful gums, root decay with foul odor, and hot toxic pus and blood. It can relieve the blockage of heart and lung due to wind and heat toxins, mouth ulcers, and restlessness. It can treat abscesses, pea sores, and apply the decoction to the affected area."
④ "Rihua's Materia Medica": "It calms the mind, disperses wind edema and toxins, and relieves bad breath."
⑤ "Compendium of Tangye Materia Medica": "Secrets of Diagnosis and Treatment: It primarily treats lung deficiency cough with purulent sputum and can induce spontaneous sweating."
⑥ "Dian Nan Materia Medica": "It clears skin rashes in children, resolves toxic sores, treats swollen throat, wheezing cough, and hoarseness. It treats lung heat and relieves toothache. It treats whooping cough and mumps."
⑦ "General Outline": "It eliminates skin blemishes, promotes blood circulation, treats sinking yang dizziness, chest and hypochondriac pain, chronic diarrhea with lingering turbidity, excessive vaginal discharge, uterine bleeding, blood in the urine, and impotence with cold feet."
