Medicinal effects of celandine

Greater celandine, also known as Rehmannia glutinosa, Coptis chinensis, Babujin, and Gastrodia elata, is a perennial woody plant of the genus Greater celandine in the Papaveraceae family. It is distributed in most provinces of my country. It grows on hillsides with an altitude of 500 to 2200 meters, lawns on the edge of canyons or roadsides, and cracks in rocks. Greater celandine is used as a medicine to calm diseases, relieve cough and reduce phlegm, facilitate urination, and remove toxins. Let's take a look at the effects and functions of Greater celandine!

The efficacy and function of celandine

The effects of Poria cocos are limited, fluctuating, slightly bitter in taste, cool in nature, and toxic.

Limited meridians include the lung, heart and spleen meridians.

It has limited effects and can calm diseases, relieve cough and reduce phlegm, promote urination and remove toxins. It mainly calms diseases, relieves cough and reduces phlegm, promotes urination and removes toxins. It is mainly used to treat stomachache, abdominal pain, enteritis, dysentery, chronic bronchitis, whooping cough, cough, jaundice, edema, ascites, scabies, sores, snake and insect bites.

Medicinal value of celandine

1. "Chinese Medicinal Plants": Treats gastrointestinal pain and ulcers. For external application, it is used as medicine for scabies and swelling, and is applied with raw juice.

2. "Shanxi Traditional Chinese Medicine Records": It can reduce internal heat, reduce fever, eliminate inflammation and bacteria, and relieve pain and calm the nerves.

3. "Sichuan Chinese Materia Medica": Treats liver cirrhosis, skin tuberculosis, beriberi, gallbladder disease and edema and jaundice.

4. "Shaanxi Chinese Materia Medica": Treats centipede bites, relieves pain and reduces swelling.

5. "Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicines in the North": It has the functions of relieving pain, relieving cough and reducing phlegm, removing bacteria, promoting urination, and relieving sores. Treat acute and chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, abdominal pain, diarrhea, cough, and ascites due to liver cirrhosis.

6. "Choi Ya Zhi": Chooi Ya Ma is used to treat stomach pain caused by gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, and chronic gastritis.

7. "Tuchao Yao" says: Wolf grass is used for duodenal ulcer, hepatic ascites, and rice field dermatitis.

8. "Ethnic Pharmacopoeia Volume III": Mongolian medicine Sutu Hongnen: The root and wolf grass are used to dry yellow liquid, remove sores, epidemics, diarrhea and abdominal pain, high fever due to blood heat, paroxysmal stabbing pain, chronic bronchitis, whooping cough, acute and chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, ascites, Chinese medicine external treatment of scabies, carbuncle, insect bites, and rice field dermatitis. Some of the Ewenki medicines are mainly used to treat esophagitis and stomach problems.

Medicinal Value of Greater Celandine

1. Treatment of edema and jaundice: Greater celandine, dandelion flower, pokeweed, stinkweed root, Artemisia capillaris. Decoction in water.

2. Treat gastrointestinal pain: Greater celandine, clove, cuttlefish bone, Fritillaria thunbergii, Arisaema consanguineum, and wax gourd seeds. Decoction in water.

3. To treat stubborn ringworm: soak fresh Greater celandine in 50% ethanol and rub the wound.

4. To treat sores and swellings: mash fresh Greater Celandine and apply it to the wound.

5. To treat stomachache, diarrhea, abdominal pain and cough: take 5 fen to 2 qian of Greater Celandine, decocted in water and taken orally.

6. To treat rice field dermatitis, poisonous insect bites, and scabies: crush the Greater Celandine and apply externally or make it into a Chinese medicine extract and apply to the wound.