Bailongtou

Bailongtou

(Nanjing folk herbs)

[source] it is the root of Lactuca sativa. See "mountain lettuce" for the original plant.

[collection] spring and summer.

[medicinal material] the roots are massive and clustered in seedling stage. Ovoid, fleshy, surface yellowish brown, smooth; elongated and elongated when old, lateral branched roots. Slender, shrunken longitudinal stripes after drying.

Produced in Jiangsu and Henan.

[nature and taste] Handbook of Chinese herbal medicine in Henan Province: "bitter, cold, with little poison. "

Functions and indications: clearing heat, cooling blood, detumescence and detoxification. Treatment of tonsillitis, women's blood collapse, furuncle, mastitis.

① "Nanjing folk herbal medicine" says: "it is used to treat women's HAEMORRHEA and uterine inflammation, and pig bladder is used as a guide. "

② "Henan Chinese herbal medicine manual": "clearing heat, detoxifying, anti-inflammatory, cooling blood, dispersing blood stasis. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang. External use: tamping.

[selection] 1. Treatment of tonsillitis: one or two mountain lettuce. Decoct in water and take it twice.

② Treatment of sores, boils, swelling, and mastitis: appropriate amount of fresh mountain lettuce, mashed as mud, applied to the affected area.

③ Cure child cervicitis: Mountain lettuce one or two, pig bladder one. Decoct in water and take it three times. (the Handbook of Chinese herbal medicine in Henan Province is selected) < fontcolor = # 000000 > < / font >