The effects of Andrographis paniculata are clearing heat and removing toxins, cooling the blood and reducing swelling. Used for colds and fever, sore throat, mouth and tongue sores, cough cough, diarrhea and dysentery, hot shower (burning stinging pain when urinating, with urinary frequency and urgency, abdominal traction discomfort) astringent pain, snake bites and so on.
1. External wind-heat, the first signs of warm disease: Andrographis paniculata bitter cold drainage, clearing heat and detoxification, so all the diseases caused by the evil of warmth can be applied. It can be used alone for the treatment of external wind-heat or the beginning of warm disease, fever and headache; it can also be used with honeysuckle and forsythia.
2. Lung heat, asthma and cough, lung carbuncle spitting pus, sore throat: Andrographis paniculata enters the lung meridian, clearing the lungs and draining heat, cooling the blood and reducing swelling, often combined with Scutellaria baicalensis, Sang Bai Pi, Di Biao Pi, treatment of lung heat, cough and asthma.
3. Damp-heat diarrhea (feel the diarrhea caused by damp-heat evil), hot shower astringent pain, eczema itching: Andrographis paniculata is bitter and cold, have to clear heat and dry dampness, detoxification, cool the blood and stop dysentery (clear heat and cool the blood to eliminate dysentery, etc.) of the function of all the damp-heat evidence can be used. The main treatment of gastrointestinal dampness and heat, abdominal pain and diarrhea, dysentery pus and blood (diarrhea, feces with pus and blood), can be used alone, or with the bitter ginseng, wood and so on.
4. Carbuncles and sores, snake and insect bites: Andrographis paniculata can clear heat and detoxification, but also cool the blood to eliminate carbuncles (by cooling the blood to eliminate carbuncles), can be used to treat all evidence of fire, heat and toxicity. It can be used to treat heat and toxin congestion, carbuncles and sores, either alone or with honeysuckle and chrysanthemum, and freshly pounded and applied externally.
If you need to use Andrographis paniculata, you should use it under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner, do not use it on your own to avoid adverse effects.