The difference between White-flowered Snake Tongue Grass and Waterline Grass is in terms of drug source, sexual flavor and attribution, efficacy and effect, and contraindications. Such as white flower snake tongue grass taste bitter, sweet, cold. Attributed to the stomach, large intestine, small intestine meridian; waterline grass taste slightly bitter, sex cool. Attributed to the lung, large intestine meridian.
1. Different sources of drugs: white-flowered snakeroot is the dried whole grass of the plant Cynomolgus; watercress is the dried whole grass of the plant Cynomolgus.
2. The efficacy of different: white flower snakebite with heat detoxification, diuresis effect, used in the treatment of carbuncle sores, sore throat, snake bites, hot shower (burning stinging pain in urination, with urinary frequency and urgency, small abdominal tract discomfort) astringent pain, and so on.
Watercress has the efficacy of clearing away heat and detoxification, eliminating jaundice and relieving yellowness. Used in the treatment of malaria, intestinal carbuncle (carbuncle occurs in the intestinal organs, to fever, right abdominal pain, can feel the lump as a manifestation), sores and poisons, burns and so on.
3. Contraindications are different: the nature of the white flower snake tongue grass cold, pregnant women should be used with caution; the adverse reactions and contraindications of the waterline grass is not clear.
Chinese medicine should be used under the guidance of professional Chinese medicine practitioners, not blindly self-medication, so as not to cause adverse reactions.