Chinese herbal medicine Smilax glabra

The Chinese medicinal herb Smilax glabra is usually washed and soaked before being cut into slices and dried thoroughly before becoming a common medicine. This is because many medicines are first picked, processed and then sold in pharmacies. The main function of the Chinese medicine Tubulin is to remove dampness and detoxify, as well as to dredge the relationships. It has a good anti-scar effect on many bone and muscle diseases, as well as syphilis.

[Processing] Remove impurities; if not sliced, soak, wash, soak thoroughly, cut into thin slices, and dry.

【Nature and flavor and meridians】Sweet, light, neutral.

It enters the liver and stomach meridians.

【Functions and indications】Dehumidifies, detoxifies, and unclogs joints.

It is used for limb cramps and muscle and bone pain caused by damp-heat stranguria, leucorrhea, carbuncle, scrofula, scabies, syphilis and mercury poisoning.

1. Syphilis.

Use four ounces of wild yam and seven soap beans, boil them in water and drink as tea.

2. Bone spasm and carbuncle (pain in the tendons and bones, which ulcerate and become carbuncle, which lasts for years and causes lifelong disability).

Use one or two liang of wild yam. If there is heat, add Scutellaria baicalensis and Coptis chinensis. If there is qi deficiency, add Sijunzi Decoction. If there is blood deficiency, add Siwu Decoction. Boil them in water and drink as tea.

Another recipe: Use 4 liang of wild yam, 1 liang of Siwu Decoction, 7 soap beans, 49 Sichuan peppercorns, and 7 rushes, boil them in water and drink as tea.

3. Scrofula ulceration.

Slice the wild yam, or grind it into powder, decoct it in water or add it to porridge.

It’s better to eat more.