What are the effects and functions of Baitongcao

Baitongcao is a traditional Chinese medicinal material. Many people don’t know what its effects and functions are. Baitongcao is not unfamiliar to breastfeeding women. Many women have low milk secretion. In this case, Baitongcao is very effective in promoting milk secretion.

1. The main indications of Tongcao. Tongcao can clear away heat and promote diuresis, ventilate and promote lactation. It is used to treat red urine caused by damp heat, painful gonorrhea, edema and oliguria, lack of milk, amenorrhea and leucorrhea. Take 3 to 5 grams and decoct it. It is sweet and mild in nature, with a slight chill, and enters the lung and stomach meridians. It is used for internal accumulation of damp-heat, short and red urine, or painful and astringent urine. Because of its thin smell and slow and weak effect, it can be decocted with Akebia and Talcum. If it is used to treat damp-heat symptoms, it can be used together with cardamom, bamboo leaves, etc. If the milk is scarce, you can boil the tongcao with pig's trotters, licorice, etc.

2. If you have edema, you can use equal amounts of Tongcao and Muzhucao, grind them into powder, add a little bit of finely ground Tudilong and musk, decoct half a penny or one penny each time, and take it; if you have vomiting after typhoid fever, you can also use three taels of Tongcao, one liter of raw reed root, one tael of tangerine peel and three he of japonica rice, and boil it with five liters of water until two liters are left.

3. Tongcao can also treat nasal congestion. When you can't smell anything due to breath blockage, you can grind Tongcao, Asarum and Aconite into equal amounts, mix them with honey, wrap them in cloth and stuff them into the nose. Compendium of Materia Medica describes Tongcao as follows: "Tongcao is white in color and cold in nature, light in taste and light in body, so it enters the Taiyin Lung Meridian, draws heat downward and facilitates urination; it enters the Yangming Stomach Meridian, ventilates the upper body and promotes lactation; its nature is cold, which means it descends, and its taste is light, which means it opens the body." It can be seen that Tongcao was discovered and taken as a medicine a long time ago and has many medicinal values.