Soapwort can be used for medicinal purposes, but generally used into the pill or powder external use, or decoction wash, there is no research to show that soapwort burned to ash still have drug efficacy, so soapwort ash to drink water has no effect.
Soapberry is the dried mature fruit of the legume soap pods, warm, with a small poison. It has the efficacy of opening and closing the orifices, expelling phlegm and relieving cough, and detoxifying and dispersing knots, and can be used for stroke, sudden fainting, teeth closing, wheezing, salivation and phlegm congestion, epilepsy, and laryngeal paralysis (pharynx is red, swollen, and painful, or dry, and there is a feeling of a foreign body, or pharyngeal itching and discomfort, and difficulty in swallowing) and other illnesses;
External use can also be used to treat carbuncles (a kind of poisonous sores, occurring on the surface of the body, limbs, internal organs of the acute suppurative disease) swelling poison.
Soap horn more into the pill scattered with, can also be powdered blowing nose sneeze or powdered dressing on the affected area, or decoction of external wash. Currently there is no research to show that the soap horn burned into ash still have drug efficacy, so the soap horn ash to drink water has no efficacy, generally not recommended to use soap horn ash to drink water, so as not to cause adverse effects.
In order to use the safety of the drug, if you are not feeling well, it is recommended to consult a doctor, follow the doctor’s instructions and reasonable use of drugs.