The efficacy of kangban gui boiling water for bathing is to clear heat and remove toxins, but it is recommended to follow the doctor’s advice to use the medicine.
The kangban gui is the dried above-ground part of the polygonum plant kangban gui, belongs to the Chinese herbal medicine, taste sour, sex slightly cold. It belongs to the lung meridian and bladder meridian. It has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins, relieving cough, inducing diuresis and eliminating swelling. It is used for lung-heat cough, pediatric tonic cough, sore throat, damp-heat diarrhea (diarrhea caused by feeling damp-heat evil), edema and urination, boils, eczema, snake and insect bites and other conditions.
For the treatment of acute tonsillitis, kangban gui can be used in combination with shiduolan and yizhihuanghua; for the treatment of edema and abdominal distension, kangban gui can be used in combination with cinnabar root, plantain, and lutong.
The adverse effects and contraindications of kangban gui are not clear, and the drug should be used under the guidance of a doctor’s diagnosis.