It is generally believed that the efficacy of dandelion root is the same as that of dandelion, and can be combined with Xia Kucao, honeysuckle, rehmannia, etc. However, the specific reasons should be based on the cause of the disease and the individual’s physical condition, there is no such thing as “the best”, so please comply with the doctor’s instructions to standardize the treatment.
1. Dandelion with Xia Ku Cao: Dandelion clears heat and removes toxins, relieves depression and dissipates stagnation, and promotes circulation; Xia Ku Cao is good at clearing liver fire and dispersing stagnation.
The two medicines are suitable for jaundice and pain in the abdomen and ribs caused by liver and gallbladder heat toxicity and damp-heat stagnation; sore throat and red eyes caused by liver meridian solid fire and heat toxicity; and boils and carbuncles caused by fire-heat and toxicity stagnation, scrofula and phlegm nuclei (lumps swollen up like nuclei under the skin), and carbuncles (red, swollen and painful breasts with unsmooth discharge of breast milk and eventual formation of suppurative diseases) at the initial stage.
2. Honeysuckle with dandelion: both are heat-clearing and detoxifying medicines that can clear heat and toxins, treat carbuncles and sores, lung carbuncles, intestinal carbuncles (carbuncles occurring in the bowels of the intestines with fever, pain in the right abdomen, and palpable lumps as a manifestation); especially for carbuncles and sores with heat and toxins (fire in the body is too exuberant), and also good at dispersing wind-heat and can be used for treating external wind-heat, fever and blood dysentery.
3. Rehmannia glutinosa with dandelion: both can clear away heat and eliminate carbuncles, diuretic and diaphoretic (to improve urinary dribbling, urinary volume is not enough to pass the problem), the treatment of carbuncle spitting pus, hot lymphatic astringent pain, short and red urination (urinary volume is small, the color of the dark yellow).
Chinese medicine must be carefully identified, patients should go to the hospital in a timely manner to receive consultation and treatment, under the guidance of a professional physician to use medication, do not blindly take medication on their own, avoid self-medication, so as not to use the wrong medication to cause damage to the organism.