Soap pods have the efficacy of expectorating and relieving cough, opening and closing the orifices, reducing swelling and dispersing knots, killing insects and stopping itching, and laxative. Soap pod is the fruit of legume soap pods, taste pungent, salty, warm, with a small poison. Attributed to the lung and large intestine meridians.
Expectorant cough: used for the treatment of stubborn phlegm obstruction caused by coughing and wheezing phlegm, phlegm thick and difficult to cluck, coughing, chest fullness (chest distension and discomfort) wheezing and so on. Soapberry pods can be taken as a single flavor powder, honey pills served with date soup; can also be combined with sea pumice, sea clam powder made of honey pills to be taken.
Opening and closing the orifices: It is used to treat phlegm and saliva congestion (abnormal phlegm, excessive production of saliva), shutting and closing the orifices due to stroke, phlegmatic syncope, epilepsy, laryngeal paralysis (redness, swelling and pain in the pharynx, or dryness, a foreign body sensation, or itching and discomfort in the throat, difficulty in swallowing), silence of the mouth, etc. It is often combined with xin xin and nan zhi, and is also used to treat the pain in the throat.
Often with fine Xin, mint, nanxing, half-summer, andrographis and other finely ground, blowing the nose to sneeze, can be through the brain; or with alum for the bulk of alum, warm water, can be gushing phlegm and saliva.
Dispersing swelling: soap pods and castor beans, cypress and other powder can be used for the treatment of carbuncle sores, scrotum swelling and pain.
Insecticidal itch: used for the treatment of ringworm, itchy sores, can be soaked in aged vinegar, powdered and coated; or with the andrographis, snakeskin, light powder and other external insecticidal itching effect.
Laxative: can be used soap pods calcined powdered service, the treatment of fecal dry knot, more into the pill.
The use of drugs is recommended to consult a professional doctor.