The efficacy and effects of cockscomb

Cockscomb is sweet, astringent and cool. It is attributed to the liver and large intestine meridians. It is mainly used to stop bleeding, stopping bandages and dysentery. It is used for vomiting blood, leakage, blood in the stool, hemorrhoids, red and white bandages, prolonged dysentery, etc. Here are the effects and contraindications of Cockscomb.

Astringent to stop the belt

Cockscomb is astringent and cool in nature, good at astringent to stop the belt, and is commonly used in the treatment of hypospadias. For the treatment of spleen deficiency, it is often used together with Atractylodes, Poria, Gorgonian, etc. For treating damp-heat dysbiosis, it is often used together with Phellodendron, Plantago ovata and Atractylodes macrocephala.

Cooling the blood to stop bleeding

Cockscomb is sweet, astringent and cool in nature, with astringent and cooling function to stop bleeding. It is often used in combination with Danpi, Radix Paeoniae, Ramie Root and Cyperus; if combined with Radix Codonopsis, Radix Astragali, Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum and Ginger, it can be used in treating blood-heat and delusional leakage. It is often used with Diyu, Sophora and Scutellaria charantia for treating blood-heat, blood in stool and hemorrhoids.

Cooling the Blood and astringing the intestines to stop dysentery

Cockscomb has the function of cooling the Blood and astringing the intestines to stop dysentery. It can be taken in decoction with wine alone, or with Huang Lian, Huang Bai, Qin Pi, Bai Tou Weng, etc. It is often used with Tsubaki Bark, Pomegranate Bark, Poppy Shell, etc. in the treatment of prolonged dysentery.

Pharmacological effects

Action on Trichomonas vaginalis

The test tube method proved that the decoction has good effect on human Trichomonas vaginalis. Experiment: 10% Cockscomb injection had a significant mid-term induction of labor on pregnant mice and rabbits by intrauterine administration. The test tube method proved that the decoction of Cockscomb has good effect on Trichomonas vaginalis in humans.

Treatment of gynecological inflammation

The decoction was administered intra-muscularly once a day with 2 ml of 10% Cockscomb injection. A total of 60 cases of chronic gynecological inflammation were treated, including chronic inflammation of fallopian tubes, ovaries, uterine body and uterine cervix. All of them obtained good results (New Journal of Medicine, 1975, 11: 27).

The role of greening the environment

Cockscomb has ruthlessly greened your home. Cockscomb has good resistance to sulfur dioxide, hydrogen chloride, can play a greening, landscaping and purification of the environment of multiple roles, suitable for plant, mine greening with, called a kind of anti-pollution environment of the public ornamental flowers.

Contraindications of cockscomb

Because of its astringent taste and cold nature, it should be used with caution for people with weak spleen and stomach, otherwise it may cause abdominal pain and diarrhea.