This product is creeping rostellularia herb (Baphicacanthus cusia (Nees) Bremek.) of the Acanthaceae family, Polygonum tinctorium Ait. of the Polygonaceae family. ) or dried powder or agglomerate obtained by processing the leaves or stems of the Cruciferae plant Isatis indigotica (Isatis indigotica Fort.). Harvest the fallen leaves of the above plants in autumn, soak them in water, until the leaves rot and peel, remove the fallen leaves, add an appropriate amount of lime milk, stir thoroughly until the liquid turns from dark green to dark red, remove the foam from the liquid surface, and dry it in the sun Become.

salty, cold. act on liver, lung and stomach channels.

[Efficacy]

clearing heat and removing toxin, cooling blood, eliminating spots, clearing the liver and draining fire, calming jitters.

[Indications]

1. It is used for warm toxin disease and hematemesis. This product is cold and can clear heat, and salty can enter the blood, so it has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxin, cooling blood and eliminating spots. It is used for warm toxin disease, often used with Unprocessed Rehmannia Root, paeonol bark and other medicines are used together; to treat hematemesis and epistaxis caused by blood heat, it is often used with Unprocessed Rehmannia Root, paeonol bark, lalang grass rhizome and other medicines can be used together.
2. For mumps pharyngitis, fire toxin sore and ulcer. This product has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxin, cooling blood and reducing swelling. To treat mumps pharyngitis caused by external contraction pestilence seasonal toxin, this product can be used alone with borneol with a little mixture, or combined with Skullcap Root or Isatis Root, Scrophularia Root can be used together with decoction; used to treat fire toxin sore and ulcer, it can also be used with Dandelion, Tokyo Violet Herb, Lonicera and other removing toxins can be used together with anti-sore medicines.
3. Used for cough chest pain and blood in sputum. This product is salty and cold, clearing the liver and draining fire, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. Often used together with sea Clam Shell Powder, such as clam powder. In severe cases, it can be used with melon, gardenia, paeonol, etc., such as hemoptysis pills.
4. It is used for fright epilepsy and infantile convulsion in summer heat. This product is salty and cold, good at clearing liver heat, clearing away heat, relieving wind and relieving spasm. It is used to treat fright epilepsy, often used with Liquorice Root and Talc, such as Green Jade Powder; used to treat infantile convulsion convulsion, often used with Uncaria and Cow-Bezoar are used equally, such as Liangjing Wan.

[Documentation]

1. Kaibao Bencao: "It is mainly used to treat dermatitis medicamentosa, all kinds of fever in children, fright epilepsy fever, Tianxing headache Hanre, grind it in decocted water and take it." Apply to heat sore (herpes simplex), malignant swelling, incised wound bleeding, snake and dog poisons, etc. "
2. Benjing Fengyuan: "Indigo, relieve liver and gallbladder, disperse stagnant fire, treat warm toxin disease and For postpartum febrile dysentery, use "Qianjin" Lanqing Pills and Tianxing Hanre headache, grind it with water and take it. ”
3. Bencao Qiuzhen: Indigo, purges excess fire in the liver meridian and disperses fire stagnation in the liver meridian. ”

[Usage and Dosage]

Take 1.5~8g for oral administration. This product is difficult to dissolve in water. It is usually taken as powder, take infused, or taken as a pill. Appropriate amount for external use.

[Precaution]

Use with caution if you have a cold stomach.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains indigo and indirubin. Indirubin, the active anti-cancer ingredient, has a moderate inhibitory effect on transplanted tumors in animals. Indigo decoction has antibacterial effects against Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus anthrax, Bacillus Shigella dysentery, Vibrio cholera, etc. Indigo has certain hepatoprotective effects.