Patchouli leaves and perilla leaves are different in terms of origin, efficacy and main treatment. For example, Patchouli leaves have the effect of aroma to dispel dampness and turbidity, stop vomiting, and express and relieve summer heat; Perilla leaves have the effect of dispersing cold, promoting lungs and removing phlegm, promoting qi and neutralizing the middle, stabilizing the fetus, and relieving the toxicity of fishes and crabs.
1. Source: Patchouli leaves are the dried leaves or leaves with a few branches of Patchouli, family Labiatae; Perilla leaves are the dried leaves or leaves with shoots of Perilla, family Labiatae.
2. Treatment: Patchouli leaves can be used to treat dampness and turbidity obstruction, epigastric plague and vomiting, summer-dampness episodes, dampness and warmth (feeling dampness and heat caused by warmth) at the beginning of the fever, fatigue, chest tightness, cold and dampness closure of the summer heat, abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea, nasal abyss (mainly manifested as obscene nasal mucus, the amount of wipe unclean) and other diseases.
Perilla leaf can be used to treat wind-cold symptoms, cough and phlegm, chest and epigastric distension, nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea, fetal qi disharmony, pregnancy obstruction (early pregnancy, nausea and vomiting, dizziness and anorexia, or even vomiting), fish and crab poisoning and other diseases.
If you need to use the above medicines, you should use them under the guidance of a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner and should not use them on your own.