Can Toad Grass Cure Pharyngitis?

Toad grass is a common Chinese medicine. It has certain effects in treating diseases and can play a certain therapeutic effect on pharyngitis. Because toad grass is a substance with cold nature, it can achieve the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying and reducing swelling and relieving pain. We know that pharyngitis is relatively common in life. We often feel discomfort in the throat and symptoms of dryness and itching. At this time, we can also use medication under the guidance of a doctor.

What are the effects of toad grass?

1. Toad grass is cold in nature and can clear away heat, detoxify, reduce swelling and relieve pain

. According to the customs of some areas, toad grass is a main dish during the Qingming Festival. Generally, poor families mix toad grass with batter to make pancakes, while slightly wealthier families mix it with eggs and stir-fry it into a dish, with the intention of clearing away the foul and negative energy accumulated in the winter and welcoming the spring. Usually, people use toad grass to boil juice, or take it orally or use it for washing, or apply it on the skin to treat oral ulcers, pharyngitis, sores, and swellings, which is very effective.

2. The whole herb of Toad Grass is used as medicine

It is effective for bruises, swellings, influenza, etc. Some people say: "If you have skin sores, just wash them and they will be fine."

3. It has an antiasthmatic effect

The decoction of Toad Grass can prolong the latent period of cough in mice caused by sulfur dioxide, but has no antitussive effect. However, it can prolong the time of guinea pigs falling over caused by histamine, that is, it has an antiasthmatic effect. The volatile oil extracted from Toad Grass, when made into an emulsion, has neither antitussive nor antiasthmatic effect. However, if it is used together with the extract of Populus tomentosa Carr., it has an antitussive effect. Its alcohol extract can inhibit Staphylococcus aureus, Sarcina, and Bacillus subtilis in test tube. The decoction can inhibit or kill Leptospira in vitro (1.9 mg/ml by direct microscopy, 3.9 mg/ml by culture).

4. Toad grass is used for sore throat

Bronchitis, nephritis edema, carbuncle; external treatment of mastitis, hemorrhoidal swelling, pain and bleeding. Toad grass is very effective for cough. If eating other toad herbs does not work, eating toad grass will cure the cough. Toad grass has obvious effects on sore throat and chronic bronchitis. Pharyngitis itself is a chronic disease and needs to be treated with medicine for a period of time. Toad grass is only an anti-inflammatory and you cannot rely on it completely. You can use western medicine such as erythromycin in combination with Chinese patent medicine for the treatment of pharyngitis.

Toad grass is also known as water sheep's ear (Essentials of Raw Medicinal Herbs), wintergreen, Yaomingjing (Collection of Experiences), wind eye grass, Lai Shi grass, and wintergreen (Wang Lianshi's Book of Collecting Medicinal Herbs), etc. Toad grass is a plant of the genus Salvia in the family Lamiaceae. It is an annual or biennial herb with many branches and covered with sparse, soft hairs. The leaves grow in clusters from the roots and are petiolate. The leaves are oblong or lanceolate with round teeth on the edges, wrinkled on the leaf surface, with glandular dots, and hairy on both sides. The corolla is light pink, light purple, purple, bluish purple to blue, rarely white. The flowering period is April-May, and the fruiting period is June-July. Except for Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, and Tibet, it is produced almost all over the country, on hillsides, roadsides, wastelands, and moist soil by rivers. It can grow everywhere, up to 2,800 meters above sea level.