What are the effects and functions of scutellaria baicalensis?

Many people may not be familiar with scutellaria baicalensis, but if used correctly with other medicinal herbs, it can effectively help us treat coughs, pus and blood, or frequent poor sleep problems, but you must be careful to match it with other medicinal herbs.

① Treat lung congestion, cough with pus and blood, wheezing and coughing that makes it hard to sleep: 2.5 liang of sweet scutellaria baicalensis (fry through paper until purple). Grind into powder, take 2 qian each time, add a cup of water, boil until 60% of the powder is left, and drink while warm at any time. (Tingli Powder from "The Effective Prescriptions of the World's Doctors")

② Treat cough: 1 liang of Trichosanthes kirilowii (boil until black on paper), 1 liang of Anemarrhena asphodeloides, 1 liang of Fritillaria thunbergii. Pound and sieve the three ingredients together, add half a liang of jujube meat and one and a half liang of granulated sugar, and put them into the medicine to make pills as big as bullets. Wrap one pill in new cotton and hold it in your mouth each time you take it, slowly swallowing the saliva. At most, take no more than three pills. (The pills containing ointment from the box)

③For the treatment of shortness of breath and cough, long-term inability to lie down, or edema, or edema all over the body, or swelling on one side, or swelling on the feet: 3 liters of Trichosanthes seeds, simmer slightly, pound and sieve into powder, soak in 5 liters of rice wine, take a bath for 3 days in spring and summer, and 7 days in autumn and winter. The initial dose should be as big as a walnut, taken three times a day and once at night. In winter, take two doses at night according to the patient's stamina. If the patient is in a critical condition, do not wait until the whole day has passed and can crush the dose into fine cotton and take it immediately. (Secret Prescriptions of the Imperial Academy)

④ Treat cough, phlegm and wheezing: 0.5 liang of Trichosanthes, 0.5 liang of Pinellia (soaked in ginger juice and cut into slices), 49 grains of Croton (peeled and stir-fried with the above two ingredients until the Pinellia turns yellow). Except for the croton, just grind the above two ingredients into fine powder. Take one qian of it each time, mix it with ginger juice and a little honey, and drink it after meals. (Tingli Powder from Yang's Family Prescriptions)

⑤ Treat lung abscess and shortness of breath that can't lie down: scutellaria baicalensis (boil until yellow, pound and make into pills as big as marbles), 12 jujubes. First use three liters of water to boil the dates and take out two liters. Remove the scutellaria from the dates and boil it until one liter remains. Drink it all at once. (Tingli Dazao Xiefei Decoction from "Golden Chamber")

⑥Treatment of sudden ascites: 1 liang of scutellaria baicalensis and 20 pieces of almonds. Boil it until it turns yellow, pound it, divide it into ten doses, and take it with urine. The disease will be cured. (《Filling the gap at the back of the elbow》)