The specific effects of Dixing include clearing heat from the lungs, inducing diaphoresis, detoxifying swelling, and stopping bleeding. It is useful in the treatment of cough, sore throat, carbuncle and sores.
Dixing is a traditional Chinese medicine made from the dried fruiting bodies of the fungus Dixingaceae Scleroderma Dixing or Spinoderma Dixing, which is pungent in flavor, flat in nature, and can be attributed to the lung meridian.
Dixing has the medicinal effects of clearing lung heat, inducing diaphoresis, detoxifying swelling and stopping bleeding. It is mainly used for cough, sore throat, vomiting blood, external treatment of epistaxis (nosebleed), bleeding from planing wounds, carbuncle, swelling and sores, and running water from frostbite. The specific effect of the medicine varies from person to person. There is no clear contraindication to the use of Dixing at present.
Specific medication should be administered under the guidance of a specialist, and should not be used without authorization to avoid risks.