Chonglou is usually decocted and taken internally, and can be used to treat ulcers, swelling and poison, bruises and injuries, and convulsions (a pediatric disease that manifests itself mainly in dizziness, apoplexy, and convulsions).
Chonglou is a kind of heat-clearing traditional Chinese medicine, and its medicinal parts are mainly the dried rhizomes of Yunnan Chonglou, a plant of the lily family, or seven-leaf one branch flower.
Because Chonglou can clear heat and remove toxins, reduce swelling and relieve pain, it is mainly used to treat sores and swelling caused by heat and toxins, sore throat, mumps, laryngeal paralysis (red, swollen and painful pharynx, or dryness, feeling of a foreign body, or itchy throat, difficulty in swallowing), snake and insect bites, redness and pain, etc. It is also used to cool the liver, and to relieve pain, as well as to reduce swelling.
In addition, Chonglou can cool the liver and calm fright, and can also treat children’s heat extremity generates wind (too much accumulation of heat evil will cause wind), hand and foot convulsions.
Chonglou can be decocted and taken internally, but it should not be used to treat those who are weak, those who do not have real fire and heat toxins, pregnant women, and sores and ulcers of yin evidence. Specific medication should be consulted with a doctor.