Water yellow dock has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins, diuretic and yellowing.
Water yellow dock is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, for the buttercup family Tangsong grass genus of plants arrowhead Tangsong grass, with the whole herb into medicine. It is bitter in taste and cool in nature, and belongs to the lung, liver, stomach and large intestine meridians. It has the efficacy of clearing away heat and removing toxins, inducing diuresis to reduce jaundice (clearing away bile ducts of evil qi and eliminating jaundice), and killing worms.
It is usually used in the clinic for eye redness and swelling, sore throat, jaundice and dystocia (pain in the area of coercion and ribs), damp-heat diarrhea, feverish drenching (burning and stinging pain in urination, accompanied by urinary frequency and urgency, and discomfort of pulling on the abdomen), astringent pain, and scabies and sores, etc. It can be powdered and taken internally to clear heat and remove toxins.
It can be taken internally as a powder or used externally. The adverse effects of Rhizoma Coptidis are not clear, and the contraindications are not clear.
If patients need to use water yellow dock, please use under the guidance of a doctor, not self-medication, so as not to cause discomfort.