Houttuynia cordata Thunb.
English name chameleon
Alias cencao, houttuynia cordata. , Ziziphus jujuba, stinky pig's nest, broken ear root, pig's nose arch, nine-knot lotus, heavy medicine, dog's ear patch, lung grass, pearl grass, pig's ear, autumn tail beating, dog's ear, stinky grass, wild wheat, stinky vegetables, hot grass, stinky grass, stinky grass, stinky peony and so on.
Sexual taste orientation
Spicy and slightly cold. Return to lung meridian.
efficacy
Clearing away heat and toxic materials, eliminating carbuncle and discharging pus, and inducing diuresis to relieve stranguria.
/view/3097 1.html？ wtp=tt
Houttuynia cordata Thunb Also called lateral ear root, pig nostril, etc. Cold side ear root is a traditional folk dish. Houttuynia cordata Thunb As a medicine, it has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, eliminating carbuncle and expelling pus, and promoting diuresis and stranguria, and is widely used in traditional Chinese medicine. It is often used with Rhizoma Phragmitis, Radix Platycodi and Fructus Trichosanthis to treat lung abscess, pus (equivalent to lung abscess in modern medicine), phlegm-heat asthma and cough. When treating heat toxic sore, it can be used with Flos Chrysanthemi Indici, Herba Taraxaci and Flos Lonicerae, or it can be mashed with fresh products for external application. If the skin is itchy, bitten by mosquitoes, furuncle is swollen, swollen and itchy, it can also be made into liniment and applied externally to the affected area (such as Piyanning mentioned in China Drug Store). Houttuynia cordata Thunb For damp-heat in bladder and dysuria, it is often used with Plantago Seed, Imperata rhizome and Lygodium japonicum. Houttuynia cordata Thunb can also be used alone, which can not only treat heat stranguria, but also treat white turbid leucorrhea. For damp-heat and diarrhea in large intestine, it is often combined with Coptis chinensis, Cortex Phellodendri and Pulsatilla chinensis. It can also be combined with hawthorn charcoal to treat heat dysentery (equivalent to bacterial dysentery in modern medicine).
Modern pharmacological experiments show that this product has antibacterial, antiviral, immune enhancing and diuretic effects. Clinical reports are widely used to treat pneumonia, hemoptysis, upper respiratory tract infection, chronic bronchitis, whooping cough, influenza, lung abscess, cancerous pleural effusion, cold fever, lung cancer, cervical erosion, suppurative arthritis, habitual constipation, acute bacillary dysentery, acute icteric hepatitis, nephrotic syndrome, herpes simplex keratitis, rhinitis, suppurative otitis media, mumps, papular urticaria, chronic pharyngitis, etc.
Houttuynia cordata injection is a commonly used Chinese patent medicine preparation with Houttuynia cordata as the main component, which has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials and promoting diuresis, and is used for lung abscess, phlegm-heat cough, leucorrhea increase, urinary tract infection, carbuncle and furuncle. Another example is compound houttuynia tablets (composed of houttuynia cordata. Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi, Radix Isatidis, Fructus Forsythiae) has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, and can be used for treating sore throat and tonsillitis caused by exogenous wind and heat.
There are few adverse reactions of Houttuynia cordata preparation.
Several prescriptions based on houttuynia cordata Thunb.
☆ Treatment of lung abscess: Houttuynia cordata 30g. Platycodon grandiflorum 15g. Decoct in water or grind into powder and wash.
☆ Treatment of dysentery: 20 grams of Houttuynia cordata and 6 grams of hawthorn charcoal are decocted with honey.
☆ Treatment of mumps: Apply fresh Houttuynia cordata to the affected area, mash it and fix it with adhesive tape twice a day.
☆ Treatment of habitual constipation: Houttuynia cordata 5 ~ 10g, soaked in boiling water 10 ~ 12 minutes for future generations to drink tea. During the treatment, other drugs were stopped, and 10 day was a course of treatment.
☆ Treatment of acute icteric hepatitis: Houttuynia cordata 180g, sugar 30g, decoction, daily 1 dose, continuous 5 ~1dose.
☆ Treatment of nephrotic syndrome: soak Herba Houttuyniae (dried product) 100 ~ 150g in 1000ml boiling water for half an hour, and then drink it instead of tea, daily 1 dose, 3 months as a course of treatment, and the interval of treatment is 2 ~ 3 days.
☆ Treatment of cold and fever: decoct 20g of Rabdosia rubescens and Houttuynia cordata 16g in water, or grind the above medicines into fine powder, concentrate the decoction filtrate, mix with the fine powder, and tablet, 0.3g each tablet, 3-4 tablets each time, 3 times a day, and take it for children as appropriate.
Weight loss principle: Houttuynia cordata Thunb. It is the "king of hundred herbs", also known as broken ear root, smelly vegetable grass, dog ear patch and so on. Broken leaves have a fishy smell, but they are fragrant after drying, and fresh products can be eaten as miscellaneous vegetables. Houttuynia cordata Thunb Slightly cold, it has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting diuresis to reduce swelling, softening stool, regulating blood pressure and removing toxins. It has a strong diuretic effect, which can dilate capillaries and increase renal function. 1, Houttuynia cordata+Jujube
Ingredients: 75g of Houttuynia cordata Thunb. (Dry), 15 Cut red dates, 7 glasses of water.
Practice: put all the ingredients into the pot, add water, boil over high fire, and simmer for 20 minutes. Filter out the cooked houttuynia cordata and leave the juice.
2, Houttuynia cordata soaked in water
Material: 75g of Houttuynia cordata Thunb (dry).
Practice: Put boiling water into the cup and drink it after 5 minutes. Can be brewed repeatedly, insist on 8 cups a day for more than two weeks, and the slimming effect is obvious.
Houttuynia cordata slice
Ingredients: tenderloin, fresh houttuynia cordata, dried pepper, shredded ginger, mung bean starch, soy sauce, salt and oil.
Method:
1. Slice tenderloin, add mung bean starch, soy sauce and shredded ginger, and marinate for 5 minutes.
2. Wash the fresh houttuynia cordata roots and knead them into 4cm long pieces.
3. Heat the oil in the wok with high fire, and quickly stir-fry the dried peppers until cooked. Stir-fry the marinated meat slices in a pot.
4. Stir all the ingredients for 2 minutes, then add salt and stir well.