What are the effects and functions of croton

Many people think of laxatives when they mention croton, but they don’t know its other functions and effects. Croton is widely used in clinical practice, and it is not just a laxative. Croton can also treat children's indigestion problems. Of course, the dosage of croton must be appropriate.

1. Croton can relieve cold accumulation, open the orifices, expel phlegm, promote diuresis and kill insects. It is used to treat cold accumulation and stagnation, chest and abdominal distension and acute pain, blood clots, phlegm, diarrhea, edema, and can be used externally to treat laryngeal wind, throat paralysis, malignant sores, scabies and tinea. It is used to treat cold accumulation and stagnation, chest and abdominal distension and acute pain, blood clots, phlegm, diarrhea, edema, laryngeal wind, throat paralysis, malignant sores and scabies.

2. Croton attacks phlegm and expels water: It can treat edema, constipation, chest congestion due to cold food, excessive phlegm, chest tightness, cold limbs and sweating, as well as phlegm blocking the mind and causing mental confusion.

3. Croton is a strong medicine for relieving cold and constipation: It is suitable for cold and constipation, abdominal distension and stabbing pain; or milk and food stagnation in children, excessive phlegm and palpitations.

4. Croton is used to treat summer heat stroke, cold and heat imbalance, cholera vomiting and diarrhea, dry mouth and thirst: 25 large crotons (peel and membrane removed, grind to extract all the oil, like powder), 1 liang 1 fen of yellow ochre (fry, grind, and sieve). Grind the above ingredients together, melt yellow wax to make juice, and make pills as big as sycamore seeds. Take five pills each time, soak them in water for a while, and swallow them with freshly drawn water at any time.

5. Croton is used to treat the heart knot caused by toxic cold and typhoid fever, which is extremely painful when pressed, and has constipation, but slightly warm breath: Grind ten croton seeds, add one qian of flour, roll into a cake, place it in the navel, and moxibustion it with a small moxa cone for five times. When the Qi flows smoothly, it becomes unobstructed.

6. Croton treats ascites caused by liver cirrhosis: 1 qian of croton frost; 0.5 fen of talcum powder. Place it on four or five layers of gauze, stick it on the navel, and cover the surface with two layers of gauze. When you feel itchy after one to two hours, you can remove it and wait for the water to drain. If diarrhea does not occur, apply again.