Description

Pharmaceutical name:
herba oldenlandiae

botanical name:
oldenlandia diffusa (willd.) Roxb.

chinese name:
bai hua she she cao

common name:
oldenlandia; spreading hedyotis herb

property: cold
flavour: sweet and bitter

function 1:
1.To clear heat and dampness
2.To neutralize the toxin
3.Meridian heart, liver and spleen

function 2:
1. Reducing intense heat to remove heat toxics, removing stasis to eliminating carbuncles:
it can be used in treating appendicitis, lung abscess, furuncles, carbuncles, snake-bite by poisonous snake, etc. By oral or local administration; to treat appendicitis, it can be used with flos lonicerae, caulis sargentodoxae, etc.; To treat lung abscess, with herba houttuyniae, radix platycodi, rhizoma phragmitis, etc.; To treat furuncles or carbuncles, with flos lonicerae, fructus forsythiae, flos chrysanthemi indici, etc.; To treat snake-bite, it can be used as a local medicine or with herba violae, herba lobeliae radicantis, etc., In making decoction.

2. Promoting diuresis to relieve stranguria:
it can be used to treat stranguria with painful urination in combination with flos lonicerae, herba plantaginis, cortex phellodendri, folium pyrrosiae, etc.

besides, to treat acute nephritis with edema and proteinuria it can be used in 15g and with herba plantaginis 15g, rhizoma imperatae 30g, fructus gardeniae 9g, folium perillae 6g in decoction; this decoction has got good effect on nephritis of children especially on the symptom of edema. Moreover, it has been tried to treat various cancers including the cancers of the stomach, esophagus, rectum or the other organs; yet the effect of treatment is waiting for further identification.

dosage: 30-60gm

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.