What are the effects and functions of Tripterygium wilfordii?

The effects and functions of Trillium can be understood through different methods. If you want to exert the effects of the medicine, it is more about combining it with other medicinal materials. The combination of Trillium, Atractylodes macrocephala, and Citrus aurantium can treat problems such as irregular menstruation in women.

1. Trillium is used to treat abdominal distension and swelling: Cut one stone of Trillium root, add five stones of water and boil it into three stones, remove the residue, boil it again, and cook it three times to get the juice. It becomes a paste after being separated from water, as thick as sugar. Take one teaspoon every morning with wine. Another recipe: half a liang each of Sanleng, Qingpi, Chenpi, and Muxiang, one liang each of nutmeg and areca, two qian of borax, grind them into powder, add paste to make pills as big as walnuts, take 30 pills each time, with ginger soup.

2. Sanleng is used to treat blood clots and menstrual disorders in women and virgins. If a hard lump as big as a cup is left under the navel and is not treated for a long time, it will turn into blood parasites: 100 grams each of Sanleng and Atractylodes macrocephala, 50 grams of Daphne genkwa, and 75 grams of Citrus aurantium (without the pulp). Grind the above ingredients into bean-sized pieces. Use one liter of good vinegar to boil them until dry and roast them into fine powder. Make the vinegar paste into pills as big as tung nuts. Take 50 pills each time with light vinegar soup before meals. (Sanleng Jianwan from Jisheng Fang)

3. Sanleng is used to treat lumps under the ribs (hard lumps like stone under the ribs): use 1 liang of Sanleng (fried) and 1 liang of Sichuan rhubarb, grind them into powder, add vinegar and boil into a paste. Take one spoonful daily on an empty stomach, with ginger and orange peel soup.

4. Trillium can be used to treat blisters all over the body (shaped like a pear, with water coming out of each blisters). Use 5 liang of Tripterygium wilfordii and Psoralea corylifolia, grind them into powder. Take in three doses, mixed with wine. Complete the servings continuously.

5. Sanleng can treat children's bad temper: boil the juice of Sanleng and give it to breastfeeding mothers, and also give a small amount to children. This medicine is effective for children born within 100 days and under 10 years old, regardless of whether they suffer from heat syndrome or other diseases.

6. Sanleng is used to treat milk retention: use three Sanleng plants, add two bowls of water, boil it into one bowl of water, wash the breasts, and take out the juice.

7. Sanleng is used to treat nausea and inability to swallow food and medicine: use one liang of Sanleng (fried) and three fen of raw cloves, and grind them into powder. Take one coin each time, with boiled water.

Trillium is suitable for a variety of tumors, such as ovarian cancer, cervical cancer, liver cancer, etc. Trillium is often used in combination with Cyperus rotundus, Curcuma zedoaria, Lithospermum officinale, and Rhizoma Cyperi to treat ovarian cancer, cervical cancer, and other symptoms caused by qi and blood stagnation and blood stasis. Trillium is often used in combination with Hedyotis diffusa, Piper melongena, Poria, and Curcuma to treat liver cancer caused by qi stagnation, blood stasis, and heat and toxic accumulation. In addition, Sanleng is also suitable for blood stasis and qi stagnation, abdominal lumps, hepatosplenomegaly, amenorrhea and abdominal pain, food stagnation and pain, etc.