The efficacy, effects and contraindications of Centella asiatica

The functions and effects of Centella asiatica: Centella asiatica is a green plant of the Primulaceae family, also known as Horseshoe Gold and Passiflora. The function of Centella asiatica is to clear away cold and dampness, reduce swelling, and the effect of Centella asiatica is to treat gonorrhea, dull pain in urination, jaundice and red urine, centipede bites, liver and gallstones, and urethral stones.

The role and efficacy of money grass

Basic description

Drug name: Moneywort

Other names: Horseshoe gold, road yellow, mirror grass, green screen grass, lotus grass, meat wonton grass, golden key

Poria cocos effects: sweet, salty, cold

Meridians: Liver, gallbladder, kidney, bladder meridians

Function: Clearing away cold and dampness, reducing swelling

Indications: gonorrhea, dull pain in urination, jaundice and red urine, carbuncle, furuncle, centipede bite, liver and gallstones, urethral stones

Directions and dosage: Oral: decoction, 15-60g, double the amount for fresh; or mash into juice and drink. External application: Appropriate amount, mash and apply fresh.

Chinese medicinal material source: Moneywort is a species of the Primulaceae plant Lucyrrhiza uralensis.

Effects

The role and efficacy of money grass

1. Centella asiatica is used for edema and ascites. Both oral and external use have the effect of promoting urination and reducing swelling. It is used for wind-heat cough and high fever in children for its effect of clearing away heat and removing fire.

2. The effect of Centella asiatica is to eliminate stones: Centella asiatica can clear away heat, detoxify and facilitate urination. "Anhui Medicinal Materials" says: "It can treat bladder stones." Therefore, Centella asiatica has the effect of dissolving stones. It is an important medicine for expelling stones. Centella asiatica is commonly used to treat stranguria, symptoms include painful and difficult urination, or occasional sand and stones in the urine, or occasional intermittent urination, muddy yellow urine, or blood, or even sudden severe pain in one side of the waist and abdomen, radiating downward to the abdomen and vulva, severe sweating due to severe pain, pale face, greasy tongue coating, and deep and rapid pulse. This is due to the cold and dampness that causes stones to form in the urine. You can use the herb Centella asiatica to eliminate stones, clear away heat, detoxify and reduce urine, and all symptoms will disappear. Nowadays, the common herb Moneywort is used to treat gallstones and urinary system stones.

3. Centella asiatica treats bruises: Take fresh Centella asiatica, wash it, and mash it into a large cup of juice to drink. (Commonly used Chinese herbal medicines in Shanghai)

4. Centella asiatica relaxes muscles and promotes blood circulation: "Baicao Mirror" records that Centella asiatica "treats bruises." "Bencao Qiuyuan" says: "It eliminates rheumatism and stops bone pain. Soaking in wine relaxes muscles and promotes blood circulation, and treats injuries caused by a rebound from a sharp drop." Therefore, Centella asiatica has the effect of relaxing muscles and promoting blood circulation. Centella asiatica can be used to treat bruises, rheumatism, arthralgia, and pain in bones and tendons.

5. Centella asiatica is used to treat the initial stage of jaundice, and also to treat exhaustion and jaundice: take three leaves of Centella asiatica, three grams each of White Wallet Grass, Plantain Glehnia littoralis, and Artemisia capillaris. Decoction in water and divide into three doses, morning, noon and evening. (Bai Cao Mirror)

6. Centella asiatica clears away heat, detoxifies and promotes urination: Centella asiatica tastes slightly bitter and cold in nature, and enters the bladder and spleen meridians. It is good at clearing away damp-heat in the bladder and facilitates urination. If the symptoms include blockage in urination, acute and unbearable bloating in the lower abdomen, or poor urination in small amounts, yellow or red urine, dry and bitter mouth and tongue, thick and greasy tongue coating, red tongue, and a strong and rapid pulse. This is caused by the blockage of cold and dampness conduction in the bladder and poor vaporization. You can use Centella asiatica to clear away heat, detoxify and facilitate urination, so that the evil heat can be discharged downward, the accumulated heat in the bladder can be resolved, and all symptoms can be eliminated.

7. Centella asiatica can clear away heat, promote dampness and reduce jaundice: Centella asiatica is bitter and cool. The bitterness can eliminate dampness, and the coldness can clear away heat and detoxify. It enters the gallbladder and liver meridians, and can clear away heat, promote dampness and reduce jaundice. As Wang Anqing said in "Records of Medicinal Herbs", "It is used to treat the initial stage of jaundice." Therefore, Centella asiatica is often used to treat jaundice. If the heat is suppressed due to dampness. When the liver loses its function, bile fails to flow through the normal path and overflows onto the skin, causing jaundice. Symptoms include yellow and dull body and eyes, mild fever, dizziness, fatigue, chest and abdominal distension, poor appetite, dry mouth and little drink, loose and uncomfortable stools, short and yellow urine, thick and greasy tongue coating or both yellow and yellow tongue coating, and a weak and slow pulse. Centella asiatica can clear away heat, detoxify, promote urination, clear away heat, remove dampness and reduce jaundice, so it is most suitable for use. For example, the Zhejiang Folk Herbal Medicine uses this product to “treat jaundice and ascites.”

8. Centella asiatica is used to treat swelling caused by liver ascites: Take an appropriate amount of fresh Herba Lycopodii, mash it and apply it on the navel. (Commonly used Chinese herbal medicines in Shanghai)

9. Centella asiatica treats edema due to kidney deficiency: Sichuan Centella asiatica, fennel. Stewed pig's trotters. (Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine Records)

10. Centella asiatica is used to treat bone fractures: Sichuan Centella asiatica, Erlangjian, Jianxuefei, and Big Blood Twig bark. Grind into powder, mix with color and apply with oil to the injured area. (Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine Records)

11. Centella asiatica is used to treat stranguria: decocted 1 liang of Radix Glehniae in water and taken orally. (Hunan Pharmacopoeia)

12. Centella asiatica is used to treat gallstones: Centella asiatica, Centella asiatica. Grind into powder and take with steamed beef liver. (Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine Records)

13. Centella asiatica reduces swelling and removes toxins: Centella asiatica has a bitter and cool taste. "Cao Mu Bian Du" says: "It can eliminate wind poison, epilepsy and bites. Mash it into wine and drink it. It can also treat leprosy and erysipelas. Take it raw or apply it externally." "Baicao Jing" says: "It can treat hemorrhoids and fistula, rub it on goose foot wind; rinse with juice to relieve toothache." Therefore, Moneywort has the effect of reducing swelling and removing toxins. It can be used to treat carbuncles, ulcers, snake bites, ringworms, eczema and other symptoms. It is usually applied externally.

14. Moneywort is used to treat poisonous scorpion bites: Mash the grass into juice and drink it, then apply the residue to the wound. (Zhu Mu's Trial Prescription)

15. Centipede grass is used to treat sores, carbuncles, breast abscesses, acne, centipede bites and bruises: Centipede grass has the function of removing toxins, dispersing blood stasis and quickly reducing swelling. It is commonly taken orally or applied externally fresh. The fresh grass can be used alone to make juice to drink, or it can be mashed and applied to the wound. It can also be used together with wild chrysanthemum, dandelion flower, lily bamboo, etc. to enhance the effect of clearing away heat and removing fire.

16. Centella asiatica can resolve phlegm and relieve cough: "Modern Practical Chinese Medicine" says: Centella asiatica can relieve cough. Centella asiatica is slightly cold and its bitterness can resolve dampness, and phlegm is caused by dampness, and dampness accumulates into phlegm. If the dampness is gone, the phlegm will have no way to go away. Therefore, Centella asiatica has the effect of resolving phlegm and relieving cough. If the symptoms include coughing with yellow sputum, uncomfortable coughing up, fullness in the chest, red and yellow urine, red tongue, greasy yellow tongue coating, and slippery and rapid pulse. This is caused by evil fire burning the body fluids and phlegm and qi stagnation inside the body. This product can be used to clear away heat, detoxify, resolve phlegm and relieve cough.

17. Centella asiatica is used to treat carbuncle: Mash the Herba Lycopodii into juice and mix it with rice water or wine for drinking. (Hunan Pharmacopoeia)

18. Centella asiatica is used for liver and gallstones, urethral stones, gonorrhea, and jaundice: Centella asiatica has excellent effects in clearing away heat, promoting the removal of dampness, relieving jaundice, and expelling stones. Centella asiatica is used to treat liver and gallstones and jaundice. It can be used alone as a decoction instead of tea, or it can be combined with Artemisia capillaris, Curcuma aromatica, Coptis chinensis, etc. to enhance the effects of clearing the gallbladder and liver and expelling stones.

19. For the treatment of stranguria and stranguria, Centella asiatica can be used alone or together with Lycopodiella cava, Gallus gallus domesticus, Pyrola serrata, etc., to enhance the effect of clearing damp-heat from the lower part of the body and expelling stones. For stranguria and patients with symptoms of kidney deficiency, it can be used in combination with mistletoe and walnut meat, which can nourish the kidney and strengthen yang.

20. Centella asiatica can cure all hernias: Centella asiatica, Aucklandia lappa. Mash the two ingredients into juice and take it with wine. (Liu Yuyi's Experienced Prescriptions)