What are the effects of Eclipta prostrata?

Houttuynia cordata can be used to treat vomiting blood, hematuria, and bleeding due to trauma. It can be used in a variety of ways. By combining different medicines according to different physical conditions, it can effectively treat many diseases. For example, to treat bloody diarrhea, it can be combined with Amaranthus tricolor. It can also treat diseases such as female vaginitis or diphtheria.

1. Medicinal effects of Eclipta prostrata

The main effect of Houttuynia cordata is to treat liver and kidney deficiency, blurred vision, soreness of waist and knees, dizziness, tinnitus, white hair and loose teeth. It is very suitable for the elderly and men with kidney deficiency. The ways to consume Houttuynia cordata include Houttuynia cordata mulberry tea and Houttuynia cordata stewed with Tremella fuciformis. Not everyone can eat Houttuynia cordata. People with weak spleen and stomach should not eat Houttuynia cordata, otherwise there will be some side effects. Houttuynia cordata can also be used to treat vomiting blood, hematuria, and bleeding from trauma. Moreover, there are many ways to eat Houttuynia cordata, all of which have the effect of nourishing the body. However, the contraindications of using Houttuynia cordata are that people with spleen and kidney deficiency should take it with caution.

2. Medicinal formula of Eclipta prostrata

1. Houttuynia cordata treats bloody dysentery : Houttuynia cordata and Amaranthus tricolor can be combined to treat bloody dysentery, 15g each of Houttuynia cordata and Amaranthus tricolor. Decoction. (Anhui Chinese Herbal Medicine)

2. Houttuynia cordata treats diphtheria : Mashed Houttuynia cordata can treat diphtheria, 60-90g of Houttuynia cordata. Mash it, add a little salt, rinse with boiling water and remove the residue before drinking. Spit out saliva after taking it. (Lingnan Herbal Medicine)

3. Houttuynia cordata can clear the upper part and nourish the lower part, and can also turn white into black, regulate the waist and knees, strengthen the tendons and bones, strengthen the yin deficiency, and is especially effective for people with alcohol, sex, phlegm and fire. On the winter solstice, take any amount of holly, dry it in the shade, mix it with honey wine, simmer it for a day and a night, wipe off the skin with a coarse cloth bag, dry it in the sun, grind it into powder, and store it in a new clay bottle; on the summer solstice, take dozens of pounds of Houttuynia cordata, pound the natural juice and boil it into a paste, and mix it with the previous medicine powder to make pills as big as sycamore seeds. Take 100 pills each time, with wine before going to bed. (Erzhi Pills from Yibian)

4. Houttuynia cordata treats vaginal itching in women : Women’s vaginal itching can also be treated with Houttuynia cordata, 120g of Herba Ecliptae. Decoction in water; or add a little bit of Diao Teng root, decoct the juice, add a little alum and use for external washing. (Chongqing Herbs)

5. Houttuynia cordata can cure all kinds of diseases caused by deficiency. Long-term use can make gray hair turn black again, and people can return to youth. People with premature graying of hair can also take Houttuynia cordata to make their hair black. Take juice from pig's tooth grass (i.e. early lotus pod) and mulberry fruit juice, dry them on disks into a paste, soak them in holly seed wine, steam and dry them nine times into powder. Divide the above ingredients into equal parts, make them into pills the size of walnut seeds with refined honey. Take six to seven pills each time, on an empty stomach with light salt soup.