Dried fenugreek shells boiled in water has the effect of dispersing knots, reducing swelling and inducing diuresis, which can play a role in relieving swelling of the limbs, ascites swelling, and dysuria (unruly urination) and other conditions.
The dried gourd shell is the dried mature fruit rind of the gourd plant and its variant gourd, this medicine is less clinically used, the nature of the medicine is flat and sweet, can enter the small intestine and lung meridian, with its boiled water can be diuretic, swelling, dissipate the knot, for the body edema, limbs, face and eyes swollen, abdominal swelling, urinary disorders, and other diseases are therapeutic effects.
In addition, combining dried fenugreek shells with yellow dock, it can also cure blood in stools; combining it with lotus seedling, it can also relieve abnormal leucorrhea. This herb is not recommended for use in people with middle-cold (cold-intruding) constitutions.
As a medicinal herb, dried fenugreek shells should not be used indiscriminately to avoid affecting the condition of the patient, and must be used under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner.