The efficacy and function of living hemp grass

Live hemp is a herb that has certain conditioning and health-care effects on the body. It helps the body absorb nutrients and accelerates blood circulation. Its nutritional value is relatively high. It is good in eliminating rheumatism and relieving rheumatic bone pain. It is also often used to treat skin diseases such as eczema. Of course, you must also be careful when using live hemp, as it is slightly poisonous. Let’s find out.

The efficacy and function of living hemp grass

Baihuoma is pungent and warm in nature. Although it is slightly poisonous, modern medicine believes that it has the effects of reducing fever, relieving itching, removing venom and detoxifying. It is often used to treat sores, swellings, snake bites, pediatric scaphoids, paralysis caused by rheumatism, sciatica and other diseases, especially for rheumatoid arthritis, skin itching and rheumatoid arthritis, all of which have significant therapeutic effects.

This species is the most widely distributed one among the stipule-fused groups in my country. Its leaf margins vary greatly, generally with several shallow lobes, but some specimens in Hubei, Shaanxi and Sichuan are palmately 3-cleft or deeply fissured. Some young leaves have not yet differentiated into lobes and only have coarse teeth. This suggests that leaf division seems to be a more evolved trait; on the other hand, the fact that the trait is unstable also shows that this group of plants seems to be in the process of differentiation.

Plant Characteristics: White hemp grows easily in shady and humid places. Accidentally touching the white thorns on the plant can cause skin allergies. The specific symptoms are redness, swelling, numbness, and unbearable stabbing pain. Therefore, white hemp itself contains a small amount of poison, so you must be very careful when picking it. White hemp is an evergreen plant, so it can be harvested in all seasons and the whole plant can be used.

Main efficacy

Cold, cough, chest tightness and excessive phlegm. Used externally for skin itching and sores. Stems and leaves: Suitable for infantile convulsions, aphasia due to stroke, cough with sputum, and hemoptysis. Used externally for sores. Root: used for edema.