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NO.15 Scutellaria baicalensis-Learn a medicine every day

🌿Alias of Scutellaria baicalensis: camellia root, Scutellaria baicalensis tea, earth gold tea root, hollow grass, golden tea, rotten intestine, yellow text, jealous woman, rainbow victory, Jingqin, Yintou, Neixu, jejunum, Ziqin, Suqin, Tiaoqin, Yuanqin, etc.

🌿Nature and flavor: bitter, cold. Enter the lung, gallbladder, spleen, large intestine, and small intestine meridians. Main effects: clearing heat and dampness, purging fire and detoxifying, stopping bleeding, and calming the fetus.

Main production areas: Mainly produced in Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Henan, Shaanxi and other places.

🌿Main effects:

🌟Damp-heat, summer dampness, chest tightness and nausea, damp-heat fullness, jaundice and diarrhea: This product is bitter and cold in nature, and has the function of clearing heat and drying dampness. It is good at clearing dampness and heat in the lungs, stomach, gallbladder and large intestine, and is especially good at clearing dampness and heat in the middle and upper parts of the body.

🌟Lung heat cough, high fever and thirst: This product mainly enters the lung meridian, is good at clearing away lung fire and upper-jiao heat, and is used to treat cough with thick sputum caused by lung heat congestion, lung heat cough and asthma, and lung heat cough with excessive sputum.

🌟Blood-heat vomiting and nosebleed: This product can clear away heat and purge fire to cool blood and stop bleeding. It can be used to treat vomiting blood, nosebleed and other bleeding symptoms caused by excessive fire poison and forced blood to flow, as well as metrorrhagia.

🌟Carbuncle, swelling and sore: This product has the effect of clearing away heat, purging fire and detoxifying. It can be used to treat carbuncle, swelling and sore with intense fire toxicity, and heat toxicity and stagnation of hemorrhoids and heat pain.

🌟Fetal movement disorder: This product has the function of clearing away heat and calming the fetus. It is used to treat fetal movement disorder due to blood heat, fetal movement disorder due to qi deficiency and blood heat, and fetal movement disorder due to kidney deficiency and heat.

🌿Medicinal part: The dried root of Scutellaria baicalensis Ceorgi, a plant of the genus Scutellaria in the Lamiaceae family.

"Shennong's Herbal Classic": "It is used to treat various types of fever, jaundice, diarrhea, dysentery, water retention, blood stasis, malignant sores, ulcers, and fire ulcers."

"Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": "It can relieve lung fire upwards and bladder fire downwards. It can treat five types of stranguria in men and sudden metrorrhagia in women. It can regulate menstruation and clear heat. It can relieve heat in the fetus and eliminate excess fire and heat in the six meridians."

🌿【Coix Seed and Scutellaria Wine】:

🌟Effects: Clearing away heat and detoxifying, dispelling wind and dampness. Indications: beriberi, stiffness of limbs, pain caused by wind poison, stiffness of neck and back, and slurred speech.

🌟Raw materials: 50g coix seed, 10g antelope horn chips, 30g siler, 20g cimicifuga, 20g chinensis, 20g qinjiao, 20g scutellaria, 15g lycium bark, 15g fructus aurantii, 20g angelica sinensis, 50g achyranthes bidentata, 30g acanthopanax bark, 20g pubescens, 20g burdock seed, 20g cinnamon bark, 50g rehmannia root, and 2.5 liters of white wine.

🌟Method: Rinse all 15 herbs above, pound them into powder, wrap them in a white gauze bag, tie the bag tightly. Place them in a clean container, soak them in white wine, and seal the bag. Place them in a cool and dry place for 7 days, then open them, filter out the residue and set aside.

🌟Usage: Drink warm before meals. Precautions: Scutellaria baicalensis is bitter and cold, which hurts the stomach. It is not suitable for people with weak spleen and stomach. Pregnant women, children and the elderly should take it according to the doctor's instructions. During the medication period, you should avoid eating cold, raw and cold foods, spicy and greasy foods.

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