Pinellia ternata poisoning and its treatment

Pinellia is a traditional Chinese medicine that is often used in traditional Chinese medicine. However, when using Pinellia to treat physical illnesses, you must keep in mind the doctor's instructions. Because Pinellia not only has certain pharmacological effects on the human body, but more importantly, it contains certain toxins. Taking too much Pinellia can cause poisoning. Because the main symptom of Pinellia ternata poisoning is oral numbness, what are the rescue methods after Pinellia ternata poisoning?

How to cure Pinellia ternata poisoning

Some people have done such experiments. When taking raw Pinellia, numbness will occur in the mouth, tongue, and larynx. This is a toxic reaction of Pinellia. It is a relatively common and mild toxic reaction. This reaction will soon go away as long as you stop taking Pinellia and drink more water to promote metabolism.

If it is more serious, there will be drooling from the corners of the mouth, difficulty in speaking, difficulty in swallowing, or sweating and pale face. These are early reactions to laryngeal edema and hypotensive shock, which need to be treated at this time. You can boil ginger in water and take it frequently, or chew ginger, which can detoxify.

The most serious reaction is that the patient experiences a slow heart rate, laryngeal spasm, difficulty breathing, and even suffocation and death. At this time, you should seek medical attention as soon as possible, perform gastric lavage in time, give intravenous drips, and use respiratory stimulants.

How to cure Pinellia ternata poisoning

The role of Pinellia:

1. For cough with phlegm:

Pinellia is dry in nature and has the function of resolving phlegm. The phlegm it resolves is mainly caused by the spleen's failure to resolve dampness, which accumulates and forms phlegm. It is an important medicine for treating damp phlegm and is suitable for symptoms such as stagnation of phlegm and dampness, cough and shortness of breath. It is often used in combination with tangerine peel, Poria cocos, etc.; for treating cough due to excessive phlegm, it is often used in combination with Fritillaria. Because of its warm nature, it can also be used to treat cold phlegm, and it is suitable to be used together with white mustard seeds, ginger, etc.; because of its good phlegm-resolving ability, it can also treat hot phlegm and wind phlegm, and it can be used with Trichosanthes kirilowii, Scutellaria baicalensis, etc. to treat hot phlegm; if it causes wind phlegm, it should be used together with Arisaema consanguineum, etc.

2. Used for chest tightness, chest pain, chest congestion, etc.:

Pinellia has the functions of dispersing heat, unblocking, resolving phlegm and drying dampness, so it can be used for internal phlegm obstruction, chest and abdominal distension and can be used together with tangerine peel, Poria cocos, etc.; if cold and heat are combined, it can be used together with Scutellaria baicalensis, Coptis chinensis, dried ginger, etc., to achieve the effects of pungent opening, bitter descending, dispersing stagnation and removing distension (such as Banxia Xiexin Decoction). In addition, it is often used for chest pain, and is used together with Trichosanthes kirilowii, Allium macrostemon, etc.; it can be used together with Trichosanthes kirilowii, Coptis chinensis, etc. to treat chest congestion.