How to eat: Decoction. Contraindication: Use with caution for those who have a weak and cold spleen and stomach (脾胃虚寒 (脾胃虚弱寒)).
Diding, also known as Zihua Diding, was first published in the Compendium of Materia Medica and is a heat-clearing medicine. It is cold in nature, pungent and bitter in taste, and belongs to the heart and liver meridians. This product is bitter, pungent and dispersing, and cold can clear heat. It is good at clearing heat and removing toxins (removing heat and toxins from the body), cooling the blood and eliminating swelling (treating blood heat and eliminating swelling and pain).
It is a general medicine for carbuncle and furuncle (a kind of skin disease, referring to severe furuncle (mostly occurring on the limbs or face, with small shape and deep root, as hard as nails)). It is used for internal and external carbuncles, blood-heat congestion, redness, swelling and heat. If treating boil poison, it can be used with honeysuckle, wild chrysanthemum and dandelion.
It can be used for snake bites, and can be taken internally by pounding the juice of the fresh product, or applied externally by pounding it. Caution should be exercised for people with cold spleen and stomach, as this product is cold in nature and is prone to injure the spleen and stomach, which may aggravate the existing symptoms of cold spleen and stomach, such as the occurrence of diarrhea, cold pain in the epigastric region (stomach and epigastric and abdominal pain felt by the cold), and so on. The adverse effects of this product are not known.
If medication is needed, it should be used under the guidance of a doctor and not blindly self-medication.