Prickly pear seeds can be decocted and taken internally or used in combination with other traditional Chinese medicines.
Prickly pear seeds, also known as the fruit, prickly betel nut root, wood pear, reeling flowers, belongs to the Rosaceae rose plant prickly pear, to the root and fruit into medicine, usually summer fruit, fall digging root. Its nature is sour, astringent, flat; the root can eliminate food to strengthen the spleen, astringent diarrhea, the fruit can eliminate food, relief of summer heat.
It is used to treat food stagnation (the accumulation of food in the stomach due to indigestion), abdominal distension, dysentery, enteritis, spontaneous sweating (involuntary sweating during the daytime, aggravated by sweating with slight movement), night sweating (abnormal sweating after going to sleep, sweating stops after waking up), spermatorrhea, menorrhagia, excessive menstruation, and bleeding hemorrhoids.
Common combinations include: treating food accumulation and abdominal distension with brown sugar; treating dysentery and enteritis with Xianhecao and Malan. Please follow the doctor’s instruction for specific usage and dosage.
If you really need to use the medicine, please use it under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner.