What is the medicinal value of toad grass?

Maybe everyone is familiar with Toad Grass. This herb can be seen in many places and is often used as medicine. So what is the medicinal value of Toad Grass? Many times when people have external injuries and bleeding, they will crush the Toad Grass and apply it to the affected area, which can stop bleeding. In fact, it can not only cool blood and stop bleeding, but also has many other effects.

[Effects and functions of Toad Grass]:

Cooling blood, promoting diuresis, detoxifying and killing insects. Treat coughing up blood, vomiting blood, hematuria, metrorrhagia, ascites, leucorrhea, sore throat, carbuncle, and hemorrhoids.

① "Essentials of Raw Medicinal Herbs": Treats bruises, removes blood stasis, and washes hemorrhoids.

②Wang Lianshi's "Book of Collecting Medicinal Herbs": Cools blood, stops metrorrhagia, and disperses all carbuncle poisons.

③ "Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica"; "Prescriptions of Ge Zu", treat eighteen diseases of the throat, eliminate carbuncle, bayberry and hemorrhoids.

④ "Cao Mu Bian Fang": detoxification. It can be used to treat white baldness, scabies, and tinea versicolor; it can remove itchy and yellow effusions from shins and feet, kill insects, and can be mixed with oil for application.

⑤《Classification of Herbal Properties》: Treats all long-term rashes, hemorrhoids, and itchy sores.

⑥ "Drug Illustrations": Treats damp-heat urticaria, vaginal itching, scrotal wind, and reduces swelling and promotes diuresis.

⑦ "Jiangsu Plant Medicinal Records": Decoction in water to treat abdominal distension.

⑧ "Illustrated Guide to Chinese Medicinal Plants": Mash it and apply it on the navel to treat ascites.

⑨ "Sichuan Chinese Materia Medica": Clears lung heat and eliminates rheumatism. Treat cough, dysentery, toothache, rashes and sores.

【Additional prescription】：

① Treat coughing up blood, vomiting blood, and hematuria: 50 cents to 1 tael of Toad Grass root and 2 taels of lean pork. Serve in soup. (Jiangxi Journal of Chinese Herbal Medicine)

② Treat sore throat or milk moth: Mash the toad grass, add rice vinegar, wrap it with silk, tie it on the head of chopsticks, and apply it into the throat several times. (The Sea of ​​Life and Death)

③Treatment of double and single moth: take a handful of snow green, mash it into juice for half an hour, drink it with boiling water, and spit out phlegm if there is phlegm; if there is no phlegm, use chicken feathers to induce vomiting. If you have dry mouth, quench your thirst with salt or vinegar soup. Avoid green vegetables and vegetable oil. (Collected Effective Prescriptions)

④Treat toothache caused by wind and fire: hold the herb in mouth.

⑤Treat ear pain: Fill the ear with pus: mash the Herba Lycopodii and drip the juice into the ear.

A clear introduction has been given above about the medicinal value of toad grass. If you can have a clear understanding of various common Chinese herbal medicines in life and master their specific effects and functions, they can come in handy. Of course, you need to consult a doctor before use, and it is best to use the medicine correctly under the guidance and help of a doctor.