What are the benefits of boiling water with knotweed?

The appearance of knotweed is very similar to bamboo, but it is a smaller version of bamboo. In many areas, knotweed can often be seen in the wild. However, due to people's understanding of Chinese medicinal materials, it is difficult to recognize that it is something that can help people relieve their symptoms. In life, some friends like to boil water with knotweed to drink. So, what effect can the boiled water of knotweed have?

The effects of knotweed:

"Cao Mu Bian Fang": "It can ventilate the air, improve eyesight, benefit the nine orifices, treat falls, eliminate stagnation, stop cough and resolve phlegm."

"Classification of Herbal Properties": "It calms stomach fire in men and replenishes blood and qi in women."

"Tianbao Materia Medica": "It can treat red and white cloudiness, remove wind, clear fire, remove dampness, and relieve stranguria."

Fujian Folk Herbal Medicine: "It improves eyesight, improves the mind, clears away heat and promotes urination."

"Sichuan Chinese Medicine Annals": "It can clear the heart fire, remove hot flashes, and disperse cloudiness. It can treat sudden eye inflammation, astringent pain, excessive tears, red and swollen eyes, and nosebleeds."

"Hunan Pharmacopoeia": "It is used to treat women's hemorrhage, muscle and bone pain, and toothache caused by fire."

"National Compilation of Chinese Herbal Medicines": epistaxis, hemoptysis, gonorrhea, menorrhagia, intestinal bleeding, urethritis, hemorrhoidal bleeding, bruises, knife wounds, and fractures.

1. To treat conjunctivitis: 50 cents each of pen holder grass, money grass, four-leaf clover, pearl grass, and coix seed. Decoction in water for oral administration. (Chongqing Herbs)

2. To treat eye fog: decoct the herb in water, wash with it and take it internally. (Chongqing Herbs)

3. To treat acute stranguria: 1 liang of knotweed and 0.5 liang of rock sugar. Add water and decoct. (Fujian Folk Herbs)

4. To treat intestinal bleeding, leucorrhea, and injuries from falls: 2 qian of knotweed. Decoction in water. (Hunan Pharmacopoeia)

5. For the treatment of chronic infectious hepatitis: 3 grams each of knotweed, clematis, and toosendan, 4 grams each of gardenia root and schisandra chinensis. Decoction in water.

6. To treat hematuria: 50 cents each of knotweed, sheep's hoof, and snakehead intestine, 1 liang of loblolly flower, and 4 liang of Imperata root. Decoction in water.

7. Treatment of pyelonephritis: 50 cents each of knotweed, a pack of needles, plantain, and horseshoe beetle, and 1 liang each of yellow ear grass and radix scutellariae. Decoction in water. (⑤The following prescriptions are from "Commonly Used Herbal Medicines in Zhejiang Folk Medicine")

8. To treat malaria: one qian of knotweed. Decoction in water, or mash and apply on Dazhui acupoint. (Hunan Pharmacopoeia)

9. To treat bruises and fractures: After recovery, take a handful of fresh knotweed, mix it with brown sugar, mash it and apply it externally. (Fujian Folk Herbs)

10. Urinary tract infection: decoct in water and drink. (Folk remedy)