How Chinese Medicine Practitioners Use Turbinaria

Chinese medicine practitioners use Turbinaria as pills, powder, decoction for internal use, and externally as decoction for fumigation or poultice. It is used for treating rheumatic paralysis, lumbar sprain, sores, boils and poisons. Turbinaria is the whole grass of the plant Dictyostelium, which is flat in nature and sweet in flavor. Chinese medicine can be used internally, can be used externally, externally is a decoction of water fumigation or pounding, used for rheumatism paralysis, scrotal eczema, sores and poisons, contracture of tendons and bones, lumbar sprains, cold and damp feet (cold and dampness caused by the numbness of the legs and feet, soreness, pain and swelling), and so on. Turbinaria has the efficacy of dispelling wind and dampness, dispersing blood stasis and eliminating swelling, soothing tendons and activating blood circulation, detoxifying and relieving pain. Its adverse reactions and contraindications and precautions are not yet clear. If this product is used with other drugs, there may be drug-drug interactions. If there is a need to use Turbinaria, it should be applied under the guidance of a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, and should not be used on its own to avoid damage to the organism.