Lung nodule belongs to the category of “cough and obstruction in the abdomen” in Chinese medicine, which is mostly related to yin deficiency, dryness and heat, qi depression and phlegm obstruction, etc. Reed root in water has the effect of clearing away heat and fire, generating fluid and quenching thirst. According to the theory of Chinese medicine, rehmannia root in water has the effect of clearing away heat and diarrhea, generating fluids and quenching thirst, and it has certain alleviating effect on lung nodules caused by yin deficiency and dryness and heat. However, it should be noted that the efficacy of water is limited, not instead of drugs used in the treatment of disease.
Reed root is the fresh or dried rhizome of the grass plant reed. The drug is sweet and cold in nature, belonging to the lung and stomach meridian, with the effect of clearing heat and fire, generating fluids and quenching thirst, eliminating vexation, stopping vomiting and diuretic, it can be used in the treatment of fever and thirst, coughing with lung heat, vomiting and pus in lung carbuncle, vomiting and rattling in gastric heat and feverish gonorrhea (burning and stinging pain during urination, accompanied by frequent urination and urgency, and discomfort of pulling on the abdomen) and astringent pain and other illnesses.
When using rehmannia root, care should be taken to ensure that it is taken with caution by those with cold spleen and stomach.
Patients with lung nodules are advised to go to a regular hospital for treatment under the guidance of a professional physician to identify the symptoms.