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1.Reducing
intense heat and removing toxics or virulent heat:
To treat
skin pyogenic infections due to damp-heat, mumps, etc., its
powder mixed with vegetable oil can be used; to prevent epidemic
disease during the time when the epidemic disease is communicated,
it can be dipped into the drinking water with Rhizoma Acori
Graminei, Rhizoma Atractylodis, Realgar, etc.; to prevent
or treat measles, 10g of the drug and 15g of Retinervus Luffae
Fructus can be Decocted as a drink.
2.Cooling
blood-heat to arrest bleeding:
To treat
metrorrhagia or spot vaginal bleeding or uterine bleeding
after labor, its carbonized form can be used with Herba Ecliptae,
Colla Corii Asini, etc.; besides, it can be used in treating
bloody dysentery, bloody stools, etc.
3.Killing
parasites and removing stagnation of food:
To treat
ascariasis, enterobiasis, teniasis, ancylostomiasis, etc.,
with abdominal pain, itching of the anus or pruritus over
the anal region, it is used with drugs having effects of killing
intestinal parasites.
Besides, for preventing influenza, 10g of the drug are decocted
and taken per day, or 1.5-3g of the drug taken with water
three times a day, or used with Flos Lonicerae, Radix Glycyrrhizae
in making decoction. In preventing epidemic meningitis, it
can be used with Radix Glycyrrhizae, Flos Chrysanthemi Indici
in decoction for 3-7 days.
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