Cactus can be crushed and applied externally to treat canker sores (painful redness and swelling of the breasts, with poor milk drainage and eventual suppurative disease), mumps (the equivalent of mumps), ringworm and other diseases.
Cactus is the root and stem of cactus and green cactus of Cactaceae. It is bitter in taste and cold in nature. Attributed to the stomach, lung, large intestine meridian. It has the effect of promoting qi and blood circulation, cooling blood and stopping bleeding (making blood cool and moist, preventing bleeding), detoxifying and reducing swelling.
Cactus is used for stomachache, lumps (masses), dysentery, sore throat, lung fever and cough, consumption (equivalent to tuberculosis) hemoptysis, vomiting blood, hemorrhoidal blood, carbuncle, mumps, ringworm, snake bite, burns, frostbite.
If you need to use cactus external application, it is recommended to go to the hospital, under the guidance of a professional physician treatment, so as not to delay the condition.