Application of loofah in clinical medicine

Here is an introduction to the application of loofah in clinical medicine:

Clinical application:

1. Used for chest and flank pain, rheumatic pain, meridian cramps, milk blockage, etc. Luffa is good at entering the meridians, can dispel wind and activate blood circulation, dredge the meridians and relieve pain. Because of its mild medicinal effect, it is often used in combination with other drugs in clinical practice.

2. If used to treat chest and flank pain caused by qi stagnation and collateral obstruction, it is often used together with chest-expanding and qi-regulating drugs such as turmeric, platycodon, and aurantium.

3. It is used for rheumatic pain and meridian spasm, and is often used in combination with mulberry twig, Gentiana macrophylla, and Piper mesenteriae to dispel wind and dredge the meridians.

4. To treat breast swelling, breast pain and poor milk secretion in women, it can be used together with other lactation-promoting drugs such as pangolin, Rhizoma Smilacis Glabrae, and Vaccaria Segetalis.

5. This product is sweet and cool in nature, clearing away heat, resolving phlegm and relieving qi, so it is also often used to treat phlegm-heat cough. It can be used together with other products that clear away heat and resolve phlegm, such as Trichosanthes, Morus alba, and Fritillaria.

6. Used for carbuncle, sore and breast abscess. Luffa can detoxify and reduce swelling, and is often used together with forsythia, honeysuckle, dandelion and other heat-clearing and detoxifying products.

7. Stir-fried loofah into charcoal can stop bleeding and is used to treat bleeding symptoms such as bloody stool and metrorrhagia.