The efficacy and function of Lobelia

1. Function and indications

It mainly treats several diseases. It has the functions of promoting diuresis, reducing swelling and detoxifying, treating eczema and bruises, and is also effective in treating bites from blood-sucking insects and snakes and insects.

① Clearing away heat and detoxifying: If you are bitten by a snake or a centipede, you can mash 120 grams of fresh grass and add rice wine or boiled water to it and take it once a day. If the wound is serious, you should increase the dose. You can also use fresh grass to mash and add salt to apply to the wound.

If you have a carbuncle, you can also use fresh one, add salt and mash it for external application. If you have otitis media, you can squeeze the juice, filter it, add white wine and drip it into your ears. If there is a tumor, you can use it together with Scutellaria barbata and Hedyotis diffusa.

② Diuretic and detumescent: If you have cirrhosis, ascites or kidney disease, you can use it to prepare medicine. If it is eczema or athlete's foot, you can also boil fresh or dried products in water, then soak gauze and apply it to the wound.

2. Pharmacological action

①Diuretic effect: Its powder can help the production of urine.

② Promote bile secretion: Injection of its extract can effectively increase bile secretion.

③ Inhibit the central nervous system: It also has a great effect on the nervous system and can inhibit the central nervous system.

④ Irritate arteries: Its decoction can stimulate arteries, but if the dose is too high, people will feel respiratory paralysis, which may lead to death.