The efficacy of Elsholtzia porridge

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[Functions and indications] It can induce sweating and relieve heat, promote water circulation and dissipate dampness, warm the stomach and regulate the middle. It can treat coldness in summer, headache and fever, aversion to cold and no sweating, chest fullness and abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, edema, and beriberi.

① "Bie Lu": "It is used to treat cholera, abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, and relieve edema."

② Meng Shen: "To remove heat and wind, and treat sudden cramps, you can boil the juice and drink it all at once. You can also dry it and grind it to stop nosebleeds, and drink it with water."

③ "Rihuazi Bencao": "It can relieve qi, eliminate irritability and heat, and treat vomiting and coldness."

④ "Lu Canyan Materia Medica": "It can treat colds in all seasons."

⑤ "Compendium of Materia Medica Yanyi Buyi": "It can treat heatstroke and promote urination."

⑥ "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": "It can relieve the symptoms of heatstroke and expel pathogens, treat heatstroke headaches, summer diarrhea, intestinal pain, summer heat coughs, induce sweating, warm the stomach, and harmonize the middle."

⑦ Wang Ying's "Food Materia Medica": "In summer, boil and drink it instead of tea to prevent fever, regulate the middle and warm the stomach; rinse the mouth with the juice to remove bad smells."

⑧ "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It is used to treat foot cold and heat."

The effect of Elsholtzia porridge

[Selected prescriptions] ① Treating spleen and stomach disharmony, chest and diaphragm stagnation, internal wind-cold, external cold evil, aversion to cold and high fever, body pain, limb fatigue, cholera vomiting, spleen pain and stomach upset, drunkenness, and headache caused by cold in all seasons: 2 liang of Elsholtzia (remove the soil), 1/2 liang of Licorice (roasted), 1 liang of White Lentil (fried), Magnolia officinalis (peeled and fried with ginger juice), and Poria 1 liang each. Grind the above into fine powder. Take 2 qian each time, add salt to boiling water. (Elsholtzia Soup in the Bureau of Prescriptions)

② Treat cholera vomiting and diarrhea, limb pain, cold sweat, and thirst: 2 liang of Elsholtzia ciliata, 1 liang of Polygonum aviculare. Grind and sieve the above two ingredients. Take 2 qian spoonfuls each time, add 1 cup of water, boil for 70%, remove the residue and take warm, three times a day. (Elsholtzia ciliata soup in "Shengji Zonglu")

③ Treat cholera abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea: 1 liter of raw Elsholtzia (cut), 1 liter of garlic (crushed), 6 liang of Magnolia officinalis (roasted), 10 liang of ginger. Cut the above four ingredients, add 1 dou of water, boil and take 3 liters, divide into three doses, the vomiting and diarrhea will stop, each dose must be warm. (Elsholtzia Soup in "Emergency Prescription")

④ Treating water storms, edema, or water in the sores, swelling all over the body: 1 jin of dried Elsholtzia ciliata, 7 liang of Atractylodes macrocephala. Pound the above two ingredients and sieve the Atractylodes macrocephala; boil the Elsholtzia ciliata to extract the juice, and mix it with the Atractylodes macrocephala to make pills, as big as walnuts. Take 10 pills each time, four or five times a day and night, it is very good for urination. It is also good to take the flowers and leaves together in summer. Avoid herring, seaweed, cabbage, peach, plum, and sparrow meat. (Elsholtzia ciliata pills in "Seng Shen Ji Fang")

⑤Treatment of sudden bleeding on the tongue as if a hole was drilled: Take one liter of Elsholtzia juice three times a day. (Zuo Hou Fang)

⑥ Heatstroke (sleeping in the damp and windy weather, or eating cold food without moderation, headache, fever, cramps, dry retching, cold limbs, etc.). Use one catty of Elsholtzia, Magnolia officinalis (roasted with ginger juice), and white lentils (slightly fried) half a catty each, grind into powder. Take five cents each time, add two bowls of water and half a bowl of wine, boil into one bowl, put in water and cool to medium before taking. Take two doses in a row, it is very effective. This recipe is called "Elsholtzia Drink". The lentils in the recipe can be replaced by Coptis chinensis (fried with ginger juice).

⑦ Edema: grind 50 catties of Elsholtzia ciliata into a pot, add water and cook for a long time, remove the residue and boil it again. When it is thick enough to be rolled into pills, make them into pills as big as walnuts. Take five pills each time, three times a day. The dosage can be increased a little bit every day. The disease is cured if urination is smooth. This recipe is called "Elsholtzia ciliata decoction". Another recipe: Boil 1 catty of Elsholtzia ciliata leaves and 1 dou of water until they are mushy, remove the residue, boil it into a paste, add 7 liang of white atractylodes powder and make pills as big as walnuts. Take 10 pills each time, with rice soup. This recipe is called "Shenshi Elsholtzia ciliata pills".

⑧ Heartburn and flank pain: Take one or two liters of Elsholtzia ciliata juice.

9. Nosebleeds do not stop. Grind up Elsholtzia ciliata and take one qian of it with water.