Soapwort spines and loofah boiled water to drink have the effect of activating the meridians, detoxification and swelling, killing insects and so on.
1. Soapwort: is the name of traditional Chinese medicine, warm, taste pungent, to the lungs, stomach, liver meridian, there are insecticide, swelling, pus, searching for the wind (searching for a treatment of wind) and other effects. It is used in the treatment of sores and rashes, fetus clothes, postpartum lactation, carbuncle and gangrene (a kind of poisonous sores, acute suppurative disease occurring on the surface of the body, limbs and internal organs), scrofula, and scrofula (lymphatic tuberculosis of the neck).
Its adverse reactions and contraindications are not yet clear, note that pregnant women and carbuncles have been ulcerated forbidden to take.
2. Loofah: It is a traditional Chinese medicine, cool in nature, sweet in taste, belonging to the liver, lung and stomach meridians, with the effect of detoxification and elimination of swelling, and activation of meridians and collaterals.
If you have breast carbuncle (breast redness, swelling and pain, milk discharge is not smooth, and ultimately the formation of suppurative diseases), lactation, carbuncle sores, heat paralysis (often manifested as joint muscle burning, pain, redness and swelling, etc.), tendon spasms, as well as eczema, chest and rib pain, cough and other evidence of lung heat, you can use the loofah.
Its adverse reactions and contraindications and precautions are not yet clear.
From the point of view of the efficacy of soapberry and loofah, the efficacy of soapberry and loofah boiled water to drink has detoxification and swelling, killing insects, energizing the meridians, searching for wind. If you have carbuncle and poison, spasm of tendons and veins, sores and rashes, stubborn ringworm, lung heat and cough, scrofula and other symptoms, you can take it under the guidance of a physician.
Clinical use of Soapwort and Silkworm, according to the condition of the identification, under the guidance of Chinese medicine practitioners to take, do not self-medication, to avoid causing adverse consequences.