Also known as "Drop Hands"

Sexual orientation: salty and cold; Liver, stomach and kidney meridians entered.

Basic drugs for treating carbuncle and scrofula

Seaweed is an important drug for treating carbuncle and scrofula. According to Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica, seaweed can "cure gallbladder meridian, cervical nucleus, break qi stagnation, eliminate carbuncle and reduce swelling ..." According to famous doctors, seaweed can "cure skin accumulation, rupture, astringe qi, heat depression and facilitate urination". In traditional Chinese medicine, scabies refers to neck masses, such as thyroid diseases; Tumors refer to vegetations formed in human tissues, such as benign tumors on the body surface; Lymphadenitis refers to a chronic inflammatory disease that occurs in the neck, such as cervical lymph node tuberculosis.

Algae archives

Seaweed belongs to Sargassum family, which is mainly produced in Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Shandong and Liaoning. The medicinal part is dried algae of Sargassum or Sargassum fusiforme. Generally, it is caught in summer and autumn, washed, slightly dried, cut into sections and dried. Modern research has found that seaweed mainly contains protein, fat, polysaccharide, mannitol, alginic acid, vitamins, iodine, potassium and so on.

Efficacy indication

It has the effects of eliminating phlegm, softening hardness, diuresis and detumescence.

Indications: 1. It can be used for treating scrofula and furuncle caused by yin deficiency of liver and kidney, stagnation of liver fire and stagnation of phlegm fire. 2. It is used to treat swelling and pain caused by stagnation of liver qi, stagnation of qi and phlegm coagulation, and poor blood circulation. 3. Used for beriberi (refers to a kind of vitamin deficiency, characterized by numbness, soreness and weakness of feet and gaskin, not beriberi caused by fungal infection of western medicine), edema, edema, etc.

Identification of authenticity

1. Sargassum fusiforme, shriveled and curly, dark brown, cylindrical trunk, lateral branches axillary from the main branch, with short spines. Primary leaves lanceolate or obovate, entire or coarsely serrate. Secondary leaves striate or lanceolate. There are strip-shaped branchlets between the axils of leaves, and the air sacs are dark brown, spherical or ovoid, with blunt and round tips and some short tips. Crispy, moist and soft, swollen after soaking in water, sticky and slippery.

2. Sargassum Valsalva, with brown algae body, disc-shaped fixator, short stalk and cylindrical shape, with traces of algae branches. The lower part of the main branch is flat, the leaves are long lanceolate and ribbed, but some at the top disappear. Balloon is spherical, dome-shaped and asymmetrical. The handle of the balloon is usually flat and sometimes leaf-shaped, and the reproductive support is cylindrical.

Matters needing attention

1. It is reported that seaweed supplements should be used with caution. Some experts pointed out that some seaweed supplements have limited nutritional value, and some seaweed may even cause diseases. 2. Seaweed should not be used with licorice, which is taboo.