When used as a medicine, it can be decocted with other traditional Chinese medicines or ground into powder.
Chuan Beimu, slightly cold in nature, bitter and sweet in taste, enters the lung and heart meridians, with the efficacy of resolving phlegm and relieving cough, clearing heat and moistening the lungs, dispersing knots and eliminating carbuncles (evacuating knots and eliminating carbuncles and poisons), it is commonly used in the treatment of lung-heat and dry cough, yin-deficiency cough, dry cough with little blood, blood in sputum, as well as carbuncle of the lungs, carbuncle of the breasts (the breasts are red, swollen and painful and the breast milk is not discharged smoothly, which finally forms a suppurative disease), scrofula (mainly refers to the cervical lymph nodes tuberculosis), and other diseases. .
1. Resolving phlegm and relieving cough, clearing heat and moistening the lungs, this drug is slightly bitter and cold in nature, which can clear the lungs and resolve phlegm; it is also soft and sweet in texture, which can moisten the lungs and relieve cough. In clinical practice, it is especially suitable for dry phlegm, internal injuries and prolonged cough, hot phlegm and other evidence. When treating prolonged cough with phlegm, yin deficiency and labor cough, it is often used with Sha Shen and Maitong; when treating dry lung cough and lung heat, it is often used with Zhi Mu.
2. Dispersing knots and eliminating carbuncles, this drug resolves phlegm, disperses knots, when treating scrofula with phlegm and fire, it is often used with oyster, XuanShen, etc.; when treating carbuncles and sores with heat and toxin congestion, it is often used with Forsythia, pollen of smallpox, dandelion, etc.; when treating carbuncles with stuffy chest and cough and vomiting of pus and blood, it is often used with Aster, Platanthera and other medicines.
It should be noted that this drug should not be used together with the medicines of Radix Polygoni Multiflori, Radix Polygoni Multiflori and Radix Polygoni Multiflori. It can be powdered or decocted depending on individual circumstances.
Although Bei Mu is a common Chinese medicine, it should be taken under the guidance of a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, and should not be used blindly on its own, so as not to cause adverse effects.