The efficacy, function and medicinal value of Tiankui seeds

Tiankuizi, a Chinese medicine name. It is the dried root of Semiaquilegia adoxoides (DC.) Makino, a plant of the Ranunculaceae family. It is distributed in Sichuan, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, northern Guangxi, Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, and southern Shaanxi. It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, reducing swelling and dispersing nodules. It is often used for carbuncle, furuncle, mastitis, scrofula, and snake and insect bites.

The efficacy and function of Tiankuizi

1. Clear away heat and dampness

It can be used for edema, stranguria, leucorrhea and other symptoms.

2. Detoxification and swelling

For example, "Bai Cao Jing" says: "It can clear away heat, treat pain, reduce swelling and poison, and cure sores, leprosy, falls, mad dog bites, hemorrhoids, and injuries caused by overwork."

3. Relieve cough and asthma

It is suitable for exogenous pathogenic heat. Fumigation of lung metal, combined with stagnant heat in the lungs, lung qi upward, resulting in cough and asthma. Because Tiankuizi is good at clearing heat and purging fire, and can also relieve cough and asthma, it is particularly suitable for heat asthma.

4. Disperse stagnation and promote lactation

It is suitable for internal blood heat or breast pain caused by nipple obstruction, external evil fire poison, or milk obstruction. For example, "Yunnan Materia Medica" says: "It can treat women's milk knots, milk obstruction, redness, swelling and pain, breast pain, and breast rock as hard as stone. It can be dispersed or ulcerated after taking it."

5. Effect of clearing away heat and extinguishing wind

For example, "Guiyang Folk Herbs" says: "It can treat epilepsy." It is suitable for epilepsy caused by excessive liver and gallbladder fire, and phlegm and fire blocking the orifices.

Medicinal value of Asparagus cochinchinensis

【Nature and flavor】

Sweet, bitter, cold.

"Compendium of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan": It is cold in nature and bitter and spicy in taste.

"Bencao Qiuyuan": sweet, mild, neutral.

"Zhejiang Folk Herbs": cold in nature, sour in taste, and poisonous.

【Meridian】

"Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine Records": enters the spleen, small intestine, and bladder meridians.

【Function and indications】

Clears away heat, detoxifies, reduces swelling, disperses stagnation and is a diuretic.

It is used to treat carbuncle, scrofula, furuncle, stranguria, leucorrhea, cough due to lung deficiency, hernia, epilepsy, infantile convulsion, hemorrhoids, traumatic injury and snake bite.

"Compendium of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan": It can disperse all kinds of sores and swellings, attack carbuncles, discharge pus and relieve pain, treat scrofula, dissipate tuberculosis, treat milk knots in women, milk obstruction, redness, swelling and pain, breast abscess, and breast rocks as hard as stone. It can disperse or ulcerate after taking it.

"Baicao Jing": Clears away heat, treats carbuncle, swelling, furuncle, falls, mad dog bites, hernia, hemorrhoids, and strain.

"Bencao Qiuyuan": It is used to treat internal injuries of phlegm and fire, and eliminate scrofula and malignant ulcers. It is best to soak it in wine.

Guizhou Folk Prescriptions and Medicines: Anti-inflammatory, improving eyesight, removing eye cataracts; can also dispel wind, treat cold, treat convulsions in children and madness in sows

Guiyang Folk Herbs: Clears away heat and detoxifies. Treats epilepsy and snake bites.

"Sichuan Chinese Medicine Records": It can promote diuresis and relieve stranguria, and detoxify. It can treat uric acid stones and unclear urination.

"Guizhou Herbs": calms the nerves, relieves pain, relieves asthma, and detoxifies.

"Shaanxi Chinese Herbal Medicine": Treats snake and insect bites, bruises, urinary tract stones, and dry skin.

Side effects of Gastrodia elata

Side effects are caused by poor drug selectivity and are inherent in the drug itself. Whether it is a prescription drug or an over-the-counter drug, it should be used under the guidance of a doctor or pharmacist. If you feel uncomfortable while taking the drug, you must stop taking it in time and consult a doctor or pharmacist to avoid unnecessary damage.

Contraindications of using Tiankuizi

It is not recommended for patients with spleen deficiency, loose stools or clear urination.