The function of boiled water and drinking water is to treat rheumatism and heat paralysis (often manifested as burning, pain, redness and swelling of joints and muscles, etc.), etc., and the effect is to dispel wind and open the collaterals, etc., and it should be used in accordance with the doctor’s instructions.
The dry, leafy stems of the oleander plant are used in medicine, which are bitter in taste and slightly cold in nature. It belongs to heart meridian, liver meridian and kidney meridian. This product can be used to treat rheumatism and heat paralysis, lumbar and knee pain, tendon contracture (persistent tension and stiffness of muscles), carbuncle and swelling, and bruises and injuries. It has the effect of cooling blood, eliminating swelling, dispelling wind and clearing collaterals.
It can be combined with wolfberry and angelica to treat contracture of tendons, weakness of waist and knees, and taken in wine. For the treatment of carbuncle (a kind of poisonous sore, occurring on the surface of the body, limbs, internal organs of the acute purulent disease) pain can be combined with frankincense, myrrh, licorice section, Lonicera, decoction of water to take.
Loose stools, Yang deficiency and fear of cold are forbidden to take Loosestrife, should be used after doctor’s diagnosis.