Dosage of Sophora flavescens

Many people often feel very uncomfortable and have obvious loss of appetite. The functions of their bladder, stomach, large intestine and small intestine are not very good. So at this time they will think of using some medicine for conditioning. Sophora flavescens is a very good medicinal material. It can clear away heat and toxins, remove wind, kill insects and act as a diuretic. It has a very obvious effect in treating toxic eczema in many people. However, everyone needs to pay attention to the dosage and usage of Sophora flavescens, as well as how to use it.

The efficacy and effects of Sophora flavescens, the usage, dosage and contraindications of Sophora flavescens

【Nature and flavor and meridians】Bitter, cold. Enter the heart, liver, stomach, large intestine, small intestine, and bladder meridians.

【Effects】Clears away heat and dampness, dispels wind and kills insects, and promotes diuresis.

[Efficacy and characteristics] This product has the functions of clearing away heat and dampness, dispelling wind and killing insects, and settling downward, and is specially used to treat damp-heat sores in the lower body.

【Effects】

1. Clearing away heat and drying dampness: It is used for leucorrhea, vulvar itching, damp-heat diarrhea and eczema of the lower part of the body, and can also be used for damp-heat jaundice.

2. Dispel wind and kill insects: used for skin itching, impetigo, eczema, etc., can be taken orally or applied externally.

【Identification Application】

1. Ginseng nourishes the spleen, Adenophora nourishes the lungs, Purple ginseng nourishes the liver, Salvia miltiorrhiza nourishes the heart, and Scrophularia ningpoensis nourishes the kidneys. Sophora flavescens is not among the five ginsengs, but all ginsengs with the name are tonic. Sophora flavescens is used to clear dampness and heat, and Sophora flavescens charcoal is used to stop bleeding.

2. The efficacy of this product is similar to that of Phellodendron chinense and Gentiana scabra, but Sophora flavescens is more bitter and its drying effect is particularly intense. It is good at drying dampness and killing insects. It is good at treating skin itching and vaginal trichomoniasis.

3. This product and Coptis chinensis have similar effects, but Coptis chinensis goes upward and is mainly used to remove the monarch fire, while this product goes downward and is mainly used to remove the ministerial fire.

【Compatibility Application】

1. Combined with Schizonepeta: The pungent taste of Schizonepeta can disperse wind. The two medicines can be used together to dispel wind and dampness. They can treat unbearable itching of skin scabies, occasional discharge of yellow fluid, leprosy, rotten hands and feet, loss of eyebrows, and all kinds of wind diseases.

2. Combined with costus root: costus root can promote qi and relieve pain, while sophora flavescens can clear away heat and dry dampness. The two medicines are used together to treat diarrhea caused by damp-heat, abdominal distension and pain, and tenesmus.

3. Combined with Huangbo: Both medicines are bitter and cold, can clear away damp heat, and purge fire toxicity. The two medicines are combined together to help each other, and the effect of purging fire and removing dampness is greatly enhanced, and it is used to treat scabies.