So far, there is no clear and effective herbal medicine for smallpox, but some herbs, such as Ascophyllum and Panax quinquefolium, are effective in treating smallpox.
Smallpox is also known as “pox sores” in Chinese medicine, and Chinese medicine believes that its cause is the same as measles, which is caused by external heat and toxicity.
Ascending hemp because of its published through the rash, clearing heat and detoxification, Yang lift trap (ascending the body’s yang, to lift the sunken organs) effect, so it can disperse the wind evil, ascending fire Yu, sharp throat and stop pain, eliminate swelling and discharge of pus and blood.
Ascending hemp can also resolve rashes, sores and acne of the poison, rise off the diarrhea of the collapse of the trap, both the plague and miasma, the most compulsion to solve the essence of the drug poison. Ascending hemp has become the key medicine for the treatment of smallpox in the early stage of history.
Because of its clearing heat and detoxification, cooling blood and pharyngeal effect, it is mainly used for the treatment of warm epidemic poison, fever and sore throat, warm toxin hair spot (warm poisonous evil invading the human body leading to skin spots, plaques), mumps, dengtoxin (acute infectious disease, visible skin red like paint), etc., so the treatment of smallpox due to the heat and toxicity of the evil has a certain role.
At this stage, smallpox vaccination is a better way of treating smallpox, and should not be treated with Chinese herbs arbitrarily, so as not to cause adverse consequences.