The reed stem in the title should refer to the Chinese herbal medicine reed stem. Reed stem has the effect of clearing the lungs and detoxifying the toxin, relieving cough and draining pus, and is used to treat lung-heat cough and cure lung carbuncle and spitting pus and other diseases.
Reed stem belongs to the heat-clearing and detoxifying (removing heat and toxicity from the body) medicines in the heat-clearing medicines, the young stems of the plant reed in the family of Gramineae.
Reed stem is sweet and cold in nature, and enters the heart meridian and lung meridian. Reed stem can be used internally and externally. Reed stem has the efficacy of clearing the lungs and detoxifying the toxin, relieving cough and pus, long for the treatment of lung fever and cough, treating lung carbuncle and spitting pus, carbuncle and gangrene (a kind of venomous sores, occurring in the surface of the body, the limbs, the internal organs of the acute suppurative disease) and other diseases.
It should be noted that those who are allergic to rehmannia should use rehmannia with caution. After the appearance of discomfort should promptly consult a doctor, under the guidance of the doctor to choose the drug treatment, not self-medication.