This product is the whole plant of Chinese Lobelia Herb, a perennial creeping plant of the Platycodon Root family. It is distributed in various places, mainly produced in Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Guangdong and other places. Harvest in summer, pull up the whole plant, remove impurities, and use it fresh or dried.

[Property]

sweet and bland, cold. act on heart, small intestine and lung channels.

[Efficacy]

clearing heat and removing toxin, disinhibiting water and dispersing edema.

[Indications]

1. Used for boil and sore swelling and pain, acute mastitis swelling and pain, and snake and insect bites. This product is sweet and cold, clearing heat and removing toxin, so it can be used for various diseases caused by poisonous heat. It can be taken internally or externally; or it can be crushed fresh and applied externally.
2. Used for abdominal distension and fullness edema, jaundice oliguria. This product is sweet, light and disinhibiting water and dispersing edema. Used to treat abdominal retention of water and edema, often used with Christina Loosestrife, Alisma, Poria, Rhubarb Rhizoma >, Immature Orange Fruit and other medicines can be used together. It is used to treat jaundice and dysuria. It is often used together with Virgate Wormwood, lalang grass rhizome and other medicines.

[Documentation]

1. Bencao Gangmu: "When a snake is injured, pound the sweat and drink it, then smear it with water."
2. Shengcao Yaoxing Beiyao: "Apply the sore to eliminate it. Swollen poison."

[Usage and Dosage]

10-15 grams of dried product; 30-60 grams of fresh grass. Decoct and take. Appropriate amount for external use.

[Precaution]

Edema should not be used in cases of deficiency.

[Modern Pharmacology]

The whole plant of this product contains alkaloids, flavonoid glycosides, amino acids, etc. Also contains active ingredients for treating poisonous snake bites: sodium fumarate, sodium amberate, and sodium parahydroxybenzoate. The infusion has a significant and long-lasting diuretic effect, accompanied by a drop in blood pressure. Oral decoction of normal people will significantly increase urine output, chloride and sodium excretion; it is effective against Staphylococcus aureus, disease caused by cold bacilli and paradisease. Caused by cold bacilli, dysentery bacilli, large intestine bacilli, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa all have inhibitory effects; they also have choleretic, vomiting, and laxative effects.