Soapwort should not be taken by people who have ulcerated sores, should be used in accordance with medical advice.
Soapberry is the dried spines of the leguminous plant soap pods into medicine, this product belongs to the liver meridian, stomach meridian. The flavor is pungent and warm. It has the efficacy of draining pus, eliminating swelling and toxins, and killing insects. Used for pus into not ulcerated, carbuncle at the beginning of gangrene, external treatment of leprosy scabies. Soapwort is contraindicated for pregnant women, sores and carbuncles have been ulcerated.
Soapwort is used to decoct soup for internal use, or made into pills, powder, external use can be steamed with vinegar to take the juice coated with the affected area.
Soapwort for the treatment of canker sores (breast redness, swelling and pain, poor milk discharge, and ultimately the formation of purulent disease) can be powdered with real mussels and finely ground, mixed with wine to take. Treatment of postpartum breast milk does not drain can be combined with cranberry, burned to powder, warm wine to take. Treatment of sores and swellings without head can be burned ash for the powder, wine dissolved, chewing sunflower seeds to take.
Soapwort is used in the above mentioned diseases, can be used under the guidance of a doctor. Do not self-medicate, so as not to use the wrong medication to cause injury.