Shangluo root is the traditional Chinese medicine Shangluo, its effect is to expel water to eliminate swelling and facilitate bowel movement; external use to detoxify and disperse knots. Its main treatment for edema, fullness, bowel movement is not favorable and so on. It is also used externally for the treatment of canker sores and swollen poisons.
Shangluo is the dried root of the plant Shangluo or Dangshu Shangluo of the family Shangluoaceae. This product has a slight gas, slightly sweet flavor, and tongue numbness after chewing for a long time. It is bitter, cold and toxic, and enters the lung, spleen, kidney and large intestine meridians.
It is bitter, cold and subdued, and can expel water-dampness by facilitating bowel movement, so it can be used to treat oedema and bulging, constipation, and urinary incontinence (unruly urination). This product has the effect of detoxification and elimination of swelling and dispersal of nodules when used externally, and is suitable for the first appearance of sores, carbuncles and swollen toxins. This product is contraindicated in pregnant women.
If you need to use the drug, please under the guidance of a doctor, it is not recommended to use on their own, so as not to delay the condition or cause adverse effects.