Snake bed seed powdered for external use to relieve itching is usually to take the appropriate amount of powder, mix well with water and apply it externally to the affected area. Chinese medicine should be used accurately under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner’s diagnosis, and should not be applied on its own to avoid risks.
Snake bed seed is pungent, bitter, warm, and belongs to the kidney meridian. It has the effect of drying dampness and dispelling wind, killing insects and relieving itching, warming the kidney and strengthening the yang. It is used for yin itching and bring down, eczema itching, damp paralysis and waist pain, kidney deficiency and impotence, uterine cold and infertility.
Snake bed seed cure pubic wet itching, can be decocted with alum soup cleaning. Treatment of eczema itching, you can use the snake bed seed powder mixed with petroleum jelly external coating; treatment of scabies itching, you can use this drug alone powder, pig fat outside the coating; or with sulfur, light powder and other products for the end, vegetable oil coating.
It should be noted that those who have dampness-heat in the lower jiao, or insufficient kidney yin, easy to move the phase fire, as well as those who are not solid in the jingguan (deficiency of the kidneys, the kidneys can’t hide the sperms) should not take it.