Is Patrinia scabra a bitter herb?

We often see some Chinese herbal medicines in our daily life, but we can't call out their names immediately. Do you know about Patrinia salsa? Is Patrinia salsa a bitter vegetable? Let’s take a look together!

Is Patrinia salsa a bitter vegetable?

Patrinia salsa is also known as mountain bittercress, bittercress, joint lotus, small bittercress, bitter leaf seedling, Patrinia salsa, bittercress, yellow rat grass, small bittercress, blood-activating and stasis-removing grass, blood-trapping dan, small bittercress, bitter vegetable, bitter dish, light-leaved bittercress, and swallow's clothes. It is the wolf grass or root of the green plant Alpinia scoparia of the Asteraceae family.

Picked in early spring, washed, and used fresh or dried. It grows on hillsides and wilderness, and is a weed in the fields. Distributed in the north, east and south of my country. It is the dried wolfberry of the red flowered Patrinia and white flowered Patrinia of the Patrinaceae family. It is distributed in most regions of the country, with the main producing areas in Sichuan, Hebei, Henan, and the three northeastern provinces. It is harvested in summer and autumn, the whole plant is pulled out, the fine sand is removed, it is washed, and dried in the sun or in the air. Cut into strips and used raw.

Gum specific application

1. Intestinal carbuncle, lung carbuncle, carbuncle and sore

This product is pungent, bitter and cold-relieving in nature. It can clear away heat and fire, eliminate carbuncle and discharge pus, and promote blood circulation and relieve pain. Therefore, it is the preferred medicine for treating intestinal carbuncle and abdominal pain. It is used to treat the initial stage of intestinal abscess, abdominal pain and constipation, but no suppuration. It is often used together with honeysuckle tea, dandelion flower, peony bark, peach kernel, etc.; if it is used to treat intestinal abscess with pus, it is often used together with coix seed and rhubarb, such as Coix Seed and Rhubarb Baijiang Powder (Golden Chamber Synopsis). This product can also be used to treat lung abscess with cough and vomiting of thick blood, and is often used together with Houttuynia cordata root, reed root, and Platycodon grandiflorum. It can be used to treat carbuncles and ulcers, whether they have ulcerated or not. It is often used with honeysuckle tea, lotus forsythia and other medicines. It can also be crushed and used externally fresh, and it is also effective.

2. Abdominal pain caused by blood stasis after childbirth

This product has the effects of dispersing blood, removing blood stasis, unblocking meridians and relieving pain. For example, the "Weiwei Yitong Recipe" uses this product alone for oral administration, or combines it with other medicines such as Atractylodes macrocephala, Cyperus rotundus, and Chuanxiong to treat blood stasis and stomach pain after childbirth. In addition, this product can also be used to treat red, swollen and painful eyes caused by liver heat and red and white dysentery.

How to use for gums: Dosage: 6-15g. Appropriate external application.

When using gums, please note that those with spleen and stomach deficiency, coldness, food stagnation and diarrhea should not take it.