Medicinal effects of horse dung bags

Horse dung bag is also called puffball. It is a traditional Chinese medicine with hemostatic and bactericidal effects. It can be found in many places. For example, a kind of horse dung bag grows on the grasslands in some places. Its main therapeutic effect is wind-heat stagnation in the lungs and sore throat. It can play a good effect on cough and traumatic bleeding. It has good effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, promoting lung function and relieving sore throat, and has the effect of cooling blood and stopping bleeding. It is often used to treat sore throat.

Medicinal effects of puffball

[Nature and flavor] Spicy, neutral in nature.

【return through】Lung meridian.

[Effects] Clears the lungs, relieves sore throat, and stops bleeding. It is mainly used to treat sore throat, hoarseness, and cough caused by wind-heat in the lungs. It can also be used externally to treat epistaxis and traumatic bleeding.

The efficacy of puffball

1. Combined with mint, burdock seeds and isatis root: puffball can disperse wind-heat in the lung meridian and relieve sore throat. Mint and burdock seeds can disperse wind-heat and relieve sore throat. Isatis root is good at detoxifying and relieving sore throat. The combination of these medicines has the effect of dispersing wind-heat, relieving sore throat, reducing swelling and relieving pain. It is used to treat sore throat caused by wind-heat in the lung meridian.

2. Compatible with Indigo: Puffball tastes pungent and neutral in nature, it can clear away heat and detoxify, relieve lung function and sore throat, and is good at dispersing. Indigo tastes bitter and cold in nature, it can clear away heat and detoxify, cool blood and stop bleeding, and is good at clearing heat. The two are used together to achieve the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, relieving sore throat, reducing swelling and relieving pain. They are used to treat sore throat caused by heat evil and fire toxicity.

Discussions about puffball

1. "Compendium of Materia Medica": Clears the lungs, disperses blood heat, and detoxifies. It can clear away lung heat, cough, throat congestion, epistaxis, and aphonia.

2. "Bencao Congxin": Often I see people using cold medicines to treat sores. Although the sores are cured, the heat and toxicity will attack the inside of the body and cause other diseases, which is very harmful. Only Mabo is pungent, mild and dispersing, so it is very safe.

3. "Bencao Yanyi": Rub the film with honey, add a little water and sip, it can treat throat blockage and sore throat.

Medicinal recipes for puffballs

1. To treat sore throat and difficulty in swallowing: use a peeled snake skin (burn until all the smoke is gone), one fen of puffball. Grind the above medicines into powder, wrap one coin of it in cotton, and swallow it with saliva.

2. To treat acute throat closure: take one liang each of Ma Pi Bo and Yan Yan Xiao. Grind the above ingredients into powder, take a word or so, blow it into the throat, spit out saliva and blood, and the disease will heal.

3. To treat chronic cough: Grind any amount of Ma Pi Bo into fine powder, add refined honey to make pills as big as sycamore seeds, take 20 pills each time, with soup.

4. To treat loss of voice: take equal parts of Ma Pi Bo and Maya Xiao, grind them into powder, mix with sugar and make into pills the size of water chestnuts, and hold in your mouth.

5. To treat vomiting blood: grind Ma Pi Bao into powder, make into sugar pills as big as marbles, take half a pill each time with cold water.

6. To treat persistent vomiting and bleeding during pregnancy: Grind up puffball into powder and take half a penny of it with thick rice drink.

7. To treat ecthyma that does not heal: wash it with scallion and salt water, wipe it dry, and apply Ma Pi Bo powder on it.

8. To treat carbuncle: Rub puffball into powder, mix with rice vinegar and apply it on the affected area to eliminate the carbuncle. Add a little Forsythia suspensa and decoct it for oral administration.

9. Hematemesis due to accumulated heat: Grind the puffball into powder, add sugar and make into pills as big as marbles. Take half a pill each time, dissolve in cold water.