Croton is a plant whose roots, leaves and fruits can be used as medicine. Many people know croton through costume dramas because they often appear as a laxative when watching them.
Laxative for cold accumulation
The medical Qiyuan records that croton: "guide gas to eliminate accumulation, to remove the internal organs stop cold, digest cold and cold hard things injured, to remove cold dampness in the stomach." Ba Dou is pungent and hot in nature, and has the effect of warming the intestines and removing cold stagnation in the stomach, which can treat cold constipation, abdominal fullness and stabbing pain, and stagnation of milk and food caused by stagnation of food and cold stagnation in the stomach and intestines.
Clearing the Passage of Qi
Ba Dou has a strong qi-movement effect, which can remove stubborn stagnant qi and open up the joints where internal qi runs, and has the therapeutic effect of breaking up stagnation, detoxifying and clearing ligaments, and helping to dispel evil.
Expelling phlegm
The Materia Medica Gleaning records croton: "Mainly fetish, flittle gas, fullness, accumulation in the abdomen, cold gas and blood clots, persistent food does not disappear, phlegm drink and spitting water." Because of its strong aerobic effect, croton can also be used to attack and expel stubborn phlegm while clearing the orifices, and is used to treat cold food knotted in the chest, phlegm and saliva congestion, chest and diaphragm stagnation, cold and sweaty limbs; as well as phlegm confusion and mental confusion.
Promoting water circulation and diuresis
In the Treatise on the Nature of Medicines, it is written that croton: "It is used to break the accumulation of Qi in the heart and abdomen, and to treat ten kinds of edema, impotence and paralysis, and the large abdomen." Therefore, croton also has the function of promoting water and diuresis, and can treat edema and fullness, and obstruction of the bowels.
Detoxifying and killing worms
According to "The Materia Medica", croton: "Promotes all diseases, drains congestion, removes wind and tones labor, strengthens the spleen and opens the stomach, eliminates phlegm and breaks blood, drains pus and swelling, and kills worms in the abdomen. Cures malignant sores and polyps and scabies and furuncles." That is to say, croton has the effect of detoxifying and killing worms.
External treatment of sores and ulcers
Croton also has the efficacy of eroding sores and draining pus, and it is written in the "Materia Medica" that Croton: "Cures malignant sores and polyps and scabies and furuncles." Therefore, croton can also be used externally to treat carbuncles and pus that do not collapse, scabies and malignant sores, warts and moles.
Contraindications of Croton
1. Croton is a prescription medicine and should be taken under the guidance of a doctor.
2、Croton is a poisonous plant included in the Chinese plant atlas database. Its toxicity is that the whole plant is poisonous and the seeds are highly toxic; after eating it, it causes burning sensation in the mouth, throat and esophagus, nausea, vomiting, severe pain in the upper abdomen, violent diarrhea, blood in the stool in severe cases, headache, dizziness, dehydration, respiratory distress, spasm, coma, kidney damage, and finally death due to respiratory and circulatory failure.
So do not learn from the TV series to others Ba Dou ah, a careless will be killed.
3, "the nature of medicine" in the record of croton: "can fall fetus." Pregnant women can cause miscarriage after eating, do not use.
4. In the "Supplement to the Derivatives of the Materia Medica", it is written that croton: "It is contraindicated for those who do not have cold stagnation." It is contraindicated for those who do not have cold stagnation or physical weakness.
5, accidental consumption of croton can be used rhubarb, Huanglian, cold water, black beans, mung bean juice to detoxify its poison.
