What are the effects of Chinese medicine papaya

Papaya is a fruit we often eat, but in some places papaya is also called longevity fruit. It is rich in vitamin A and protease, and has good therapeutic and medical effects. Chinese medicine papaya is made into a Chinese medicinal material through some production methods. It is very effective in strengthening muscles and bones and treating low back pain. It is also very effective in treating white dysentery.

1. Treat low back pain and strengthen muscles and bones

2 liang of Achyranthes bidentata (soaked in warm wine, cut and roasted), one papaya (remove the top and pith, add 1 liang of mugwort and steam until cooked), 1 liang each of Morinda officinalis (remove the core), fennel (fried) and costus root, and 0.5 liang of cinnamon heart (peeled). Grind the above ingredients into fine powder, add ripe papaya and mugwort leaves and pound them 1,000 times. If it becomes hard, add honey and make into pills as big as walnuts. Take 20 pills each time on an empty stomach with salt water. (Papaya Pills from Imperial Pharmacy)

2. Treat acute pain in the knee and foot tendons

Boil papaya until it is soft, grind it into a porridge-like paste, and wrap it around the painful area. It will get better if it is cold, wrap it at three to five degrees overnight, and it will get better if it is warm. When cooking papaya, add half the wine. (Dietary Therapy Materia Medica)

3. Treats muscle tension and stiff neck, which cannot be turned sideways

Two Xuanzhou papayas (take off the lids and remove the pulp), two liang of myrrh (grind), and one liang of frankincense (grind). Put the above two ingredients into papaya, close the lid, fix it with bamboo sticks, steam it on rice three or four times, until it is soft, grind it into a paste, take three to five spoonfuls each time, and dissolve it in Rehmannia wine (half a cup of raw Rehmannia juice, mix it with two cups of ash-free wine, use one eighth of a cup, and heat it to make a paste). (Water Melon Decoction from Ben Shi Fang)

4. Treat dysentery

Take equal parts of melon, plantain seeds and poppy shell. Grind the above ingredients into fine powder, take 2 qian each time, mixed with rice drink. (Mugua powder from Xiji Fang)

5. Antiemetic

Papaya (powder), musk, greasy powder, costus root (powder), betel nut (powder), one word each. Grind all the above ingredients together, make into pills with flour paste, as big as small yellow millet, take one or two pills each time, with licorice and water, take at any time. (Papaya Pills from "Children's Medicine Prescriptions")