Description

Descrpition: stems square and frequently branched, 50-70 cm long, nodes slightly swollen; texture fragile, easily broken. Leaves simple, opposite, short petioled or nearly sessile; lamina crumpled and easily broken, when whole, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 3-12 cm long, 2-5 cm wide, with acuminate apex and cuneate-decurrent base, margin entire or undulate; the upper surface green, the lower surface greyish-green, glabrous on both surfaces. Odour, slight; taste, extremely bitter.

Action: to remove heat, counteract toxicity, and induce subsidence of swelling.

Indications: influenza with fever, sore throat, ulcers in the mouth or on the tongue; acute or chronic cough; colitis, dysentery; urinary infection with difficult painful urination; carbuncles, sores, venomous snake bite.

Advice: 1.Reducing intense heat to remove heat toxics:to treat cough and dyspnea due to lung-heat, lung abscess or sore throat, it may be used in combination with flos lonicerae, radix scutellariae, etc.; To treat furuncles, carbuncles or skin pyogenic infections, with flos lonicerae, flos chrysanthemi indici, rhizoma of helminthostachys zeylanica (l.), Herba oldenlandiae diffusae, etc.
2.Reducing intense heat and resolving dampness:the herb can be used to treat diarrhea or dysentery due to damp-heat, stranguria due to heat, eczema, etc. To treat, eczema, etc. To treat dysentery due to damp-heat, it can be used singly or in combination with rhizoma coptidis radix scutellariae, herba portulacae, etc.; To treat pain urination with dribbling, with semen plantaginis, spora lygodii, folium pyrrosiae, etc. Having the effects of promoting diuresis and relieving stranguria; to treat eczema, the powder of the drug mixed with glycerin may be used.

Tips: it has been found and used as an effective new species of reducing intense heat to remove heat toxics and treating infection; therefore it can be widely used in treating various infections of respiratory system, digestive system, urinary system or pyogenic skin infections.

Pharm. Action:
1. Anti-bacterial-infibit the growth of staph,aureus,hemolytic semolytic streptococci,
pneummococci, shigella flexneri, spirochetes, etc.
2. Anti-viral
3. Antipyretic and anti-inflammatory
4. Increase the phagocytic ability of the white blood cells against bacteria
5. Dilation of blood vessels, but it has no effect on the decrease of the blood presure.

This statement has not been evaluated by the food and drug administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Unless used under instructions by a licensed herbalist.