The efficacy of Chinese medicine Ghost Needlewort is to dispel wind and remove dampness, etc. It can be used for rheumatism and paralysis (joint swelling and pain, unfavorable movement and other symptoms caused by external wind-cold and other evils) and other diseases, and should be used in accordance with the doctor’s instructions.
Ghost Needlewort is the dried whole herb of Ghost Needlewort, family Asteraceae, which is slightly cold in nature, bitter in taste, with the efficacy of invigorating blood circulation and eliminating swelling, detoxifying and clearing away heat, dispelling wind and removing dampness. It is used for rheumatic paralysis, sore throat, jaundice, carbuncle (carbuncle occurring in the bowels of the intestines and organs, manifested by fever, pain in the right abdomen, and palpable lumps), dysentery, diarrhea, boils and poisons, snake and insect bites, bruises and injuries.
Ghost Needlewort is used as a decoction for internal use, or freshly pounded juice. Externally, it can be pressed on the affected area or coated with the juice, and can also be decocted and fumigated.
Literature records that the ghost needle grass treatment of bruises can be decocted with water and yellow wine to take, the treatment of rheumatic paralysis can be combined with stinking sycamore, sticky body grass, made of pills to take and so on.
The drug needs to be used under the guidance of a professional physician, do not take the drug on your own, so as not to cause damage to the body.