Dried Houttuynia has the effect of treating lung carbuncle and pus, lung fever and cough, and feverish sores and carbuncles (sores and carbuncles appearing on the surface of the skin due to excessive heat and toxicity in the body) and other conditions.
Fishweed is the dried later above-ground part of Houttuynia cordata, a plant of the family Houttuyniaceae. It not only has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxification (removing heat and toxicity from the body) and eliminating carbuncles and discharging pus (eliminating carbuncles and discharging pus), but also has the effects of diuretic and diaphoretic (improving the problem of dribbling urine and the problem of small and incomprehensible amount of urine).
This drug is mainly used for the treatment of lung carbuncle spitting pus, lung-heat cough, damp-heat gonorrhea (increased frequency of urination, dribbling and astringent pain), but also used for the treatment of damp-heat diarrhea (diarrhea caused by feeling damp-heat evil), fever sores and sores and other conditions.
Adverse reactions of fishweed for a few patients after taking the drug may occasionally appear dizziness, stomach upset, burning sensation in the heart socket, etc.; matters needing attention is the deficiency and cold evidence and yin evidence of sores and ulcers should not be taken. Contraindications are not yet clear.
If there is a need for medication, need to be used under the guidance of a doctor to identify the evidence, not blindly use their own medication, so as not to cause adverse consequences.