Polygonum tinctorium is effective in clearing away heat and removing toxins, diuretic and reducing swelling, and is mainly used for stone drenching (discharge of gravel during urination, or sudden interruption of urination, pain in the urethra, unbearable pain in the lumbar and abdominal strangulation), leucorrhoea, intestinal inflammation, cataracts, and other disorders.
Clove polygonum, also known as water clove, water winter melon, for the willowherb family plant clove polygonum, the whole grass, taste bitter, pungent, cool, with blood stasis and stop bleeding, diuretic effect of swelling.
Clove polygonum decoction can be used to treat lithiasis, leucorrhoea, infectious hepatitis, enteritis, dysentery, nephritis edema, cystitis; decoction of external wash can be used to treat cataracts of the eyes; freshly pounded and applied externally can be used to treat carbuncle (a kind of venomous sores, which occurs in the surface of the body, the limbs, the internal organs of the acute suppurative disease), furuncles, snakes, insect bites.
Adverse reactions and contraindications and precautions of Polygonum butyricum are not known. The drug should be taken under the guidance of a physician, do not self-medicate, to avoid causing adverse consequences.