drug name | Tokyo Violet Herb |
[Variety Source]
This product is the whole root of Tokyo Violet Herb (Viola yedoensis Makino), a perennial herbaceous plant of the Violaceae family. Produced from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River to the southern provinces in my country. Harvest the fruits when they are ripe in summer, wash them and use them fresh or dry them and cut them into sections for raw use.
Foxtail millet pocket (Gueldenstaedtia verna (Georgi) A.Bor.) foxtail millet pocket (G. pauciflora (Pall.) Fish.) Violaceae Viola joponica (Viola joponica Langsd.) or Viola long-calyx (V. inconspicua BI.) and Viola viola V. Patrinii DC. Corydalis (V. oxycentra Juz.) Corydalis of the chestnut family (Corydalis bungeana Turcz.) Chinese Gentian (Gentiana Griseb.) of the family Chinese Gentian It is also used as Tokyo Violet Herb in different regions.
[Property]
bitter and acrid, cold. act on heart and liver channels.
[Efficacy]
clearing heat and removing toxin, eliminating carbuncle and dissipating stagnation.
[Indications]
- It is used to treat carbuncle, acute mastitis intestinal abscess, and erysipelas swelling and pain. This product is bitter and pungent powder, which can clear away heat due to cold, enters the blood aspect of the heart and liver meridian, so it can clear heat and remove toxin, eliminate carbuncle and dissipate stagnation, and is a commonly used medicine to treat stagnation of heat and blood, redness, swelling, heat and pain, carbuncle and sore, especially He specializes in treating poison. It is used to treat carbuncles, sores, erysipelas, etc. The fresh product can be pounded into juice and taken internally, and the residue can be applied externally. It can also be used with Lonicera, Dandelion, wild chrysanthemum flower and other heat-clearing and toxin-removing products, such as Five-Ingredient Toxin-Eliminating Decoction; Used to treat acute mastitis, often used together with Dandelion, decoction orally taken, or used as residue for external application, all have good effects; used to treat intratestinal abscess, often used with Rhubarb Rhizoma, sargenrgloryvine stem, Hedyotis etc. are used,
- is used for snake venom bites. This product can also detoxify snake venom and treat poisonous snake bites. You can use the fresh product to make juice and take it internally. You can also mix it with a little Realgar and mash it for external application.
- In addition, it can also be used for liver heat red eye tumors and is often used medicinally with Chrysanthemum Flower and Cicada Slough.
[Documentation]
- Bencao Gangmu: "Cure all Yongju back gangrene, cure sores scrofula, innominate swelling pain, malignant sores."
- Bencaozheng Yi : "Dibing is specially used as a general medicine for treating carbuncle and swollen." "However, it is pungent and cool to disperse swelling and is good at reducing fever. However, blood heat is stagnant, causing redness, swelling, and expelling pathogens from exterior. It is suitable for treating external ulcers. It is inappropriate to treat back gangrene and cold syndrome."
[Usage and Dosage]
Decoct and take 15-20g. Appropriate amount for external use.
[Precaution]
People with constitution deficiency and cold should not take it.
[Modern Pharmacology]
This product contains rickets and flavonoids. It has inhibitory effects on subcutaneous node bacilli, dysentery bacilli, Staphylococcus aureus, pneumococci, dermatophytes and leptospira. In addition, it also has antipyretic, swelling, and anti-inflammatory effects.
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