What are the effects and functions of ground ivy?

Ground ivy is a medicinal herb that can dispel wind, detoxify, promote diuresis and stop bleeding. Different drug formulas have different therapeutic effects. It can be used to treat snake bites, herpes zoster, or bloody diarrhea.

1. Ground ivy is used to treat red and white toxicity in the internal organs: After picking the ground ivy, wash it, dry it quickly, grind it into powder, and take 5 grams with rice water. (Experience Prescription)

2. Use ground ivy to treat snake bites: mash fresh ground ivy and apply it. (Hunan Pharmacopoeia)

3. Treatment of shingles: Mash fresh ground ivy, add vinegar, stir well, extract the juice and apply it to the affected area. (Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine)

4. Treatment of bacterial dysentery: 50 grams of ground ivy, 50 grams of Amaranthus tricolor, and 50 grams of Phenix tail grass. Decoction in water. (Selected Investigation Materials on Single-ingredient Prescriptions)

5. Ground ivy is used to treat bloody dysentery: Grind the ground ivy in the sun, take 10 grams each time, on an empty stomach with rice water. ("Qian Kun Business")

6. Ground ivy is used to treat herpes zoster: Mash fresh ground ivy. Add vinegar and stir well, then apply the juice to the affected area. (Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine)

7. Ground ivy is used to treat sore and swollen throat: 50 cents of fresh ground ivy and 25 grams of salty, sour and sweet grass. Mash the medicine and squeeze out the juice, then add honey and drink it. Take three times a day. (Quanzhou Materia Medica)

8. To treat coughing up blood, vomiting blood, bloody stool, and metrorrhagia: 50 grams of fresh Herba Lycopodii. Decoction in water or with honey. (Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine)

9. Herba Lycopodii used to treat hematuria in urine: Herba Lycopodii, pounded with well water and taken orally. (Liu Changchun's Experience Prescription)

10. To treat continuous bleeding from wounds: grind the herb into a paste and apply it on the wound. (The Effective Prescriptions of World Doctors)

11. Ground ivy can treat bleeding teeth: wash fresh ground ivy, boil it into a decoction and use it to rinse your mouth. (Quanzhou Materia Medica)

12. Herba Dichroae is used to treat milk obstruction: 7 qian of Herba Dichroae. Use a boar's front hoof to make soup, decoct the medicine with the soup, remove the residue, add 100 grams of sweet wine, and drink it warm. (Jiangxi Folk Herbs)