Soapwort is one of the cold and phlegm warming herbs, it can be used to remove stubborn phlegm, but also used to open the orifices and kill worms. And another flavor of Chinese medicine soapberry is soapberry dried spines, but the role and efficacy is completely different, soapberry’s role is to toxin pus, swelling and killing insects. “Compendium of Materia Medica” recorded: Shi Zhen said: pods of the tree soap, so the name. “Guangzhi” is called the chicken Qizi, Zeng’s formula is called the rhinoceros, “Outer Dan Materia Medica” is called the hanging knife. Therefore, the soap pods are also known as soap nuts, chicken perch. And about the soap pod cure, there is a beautiful legend story. Soapberry legend story is said to be in a long, long time ago, there is a peasant girl, looking like a flower, was considered by her parents as a pearl. Unexpectedly, one day, the girl in the field firewood, was outside the village of a young man broke into see, this young man bully, a few villages in the vicinity of the bad things to do. Seeing the young girl such beauty, suddenly rose up lust, forcibly raped. Young girl shame loss of chastity, conscious of shame, so in a large soap tree, self overflow death. Her parents were in pain, tears also cried dry, voice also called mute, they hoped that their daughter will die to come back to life. Suddenly, there is a white-haired old man floated to, said: “old man has its own return to the soul of the art, please use the soap horn end blowing into the nostrils of the young girl, in order to bring the dead back to life!” His father looked up with tears in his eyes, suddenly realized that the old man quietly into the soapnut tree, and then realized that the tree god manifests itself, the love of the daughter is saved! So, in accordance with the words of the God of the tree, take off the soapnut, crushed into powder, gently blow into the nostrils of his daughter. Russia, the girl’s nostrils slightly moving, followed by a fierce sneeze, it gradually woke up. Since then, people will take the soap horn as a panacea. The source and role of soap pods Source: for the legume soap pods of the fruit or sterile fruit. The former is called soap pods, and the latter is called pig’s tooth soap. Origin: Mainly produced in Hebei, Shanxi, Henan, Shandong. Characteristics: Pungent, salty, warm, poisonous; attributed to the lung, large intestine meridian. Effects: Expelling phlegm and relieving cough, opening and closing the orifices, killing worms and dispersing knots. Usage and dosage 1, Internal use: 1-3g, mostly used in pills and bulk. 2, External Use: Appropriate amount. Twitching nose, washing, grinding or mixing compresses, boiling cream coating, burning smoke. Use Note: Pregnant women should not take. Soapberry taking “Compendium of Materia Medica” recorded: Soapberry belongs to the gold, into the hand Taiyin, Yangming of the meridian. Gold over wood, dry over wind, so both into the foot of the syncope, the treatment of wind and wood disease. Its flavor is pungent and dry, floating and scattered. Blowing the guide, the up and down all the orifices; service is the treatment of rheumatism, phlegm, asthma and fullness of swelling, kill insects; painted to disperse swelling and disinfection, searching for wind and sores. Therefore, the soap pods can treat: 1, stubborn phlegm blocking lungs, coughing and phlegm. 2, stroke, phlegmatic syncope. 2, stroke, phlegmatic syncope, epilepsy, laryngeal paralysis and phlegm. 3, unresolved sores, ringworm, constipation. In addition, clinically proven, soap pods can treat: 1, roundworm intestinal obstruction. 2, soap pods powder and chasteberry, millia, etc. formulated into tablets, can be used to treat chronic bronchitis. 3, Soap pods are decocted, filtered, and preservative added for ear drops for cerumen embolism.