Also known as "Dragon Slaying Grass": Weighing Rod Snake Medicine, Bone Soaking, Cold Water Grass, Xiaoliang Medicine, Tiger Mountain Leaf, Four Terrace Flower, Mountain Orchid, Scattered Blood Poison Lotus, Snow Cauliflower, Ma Guai, Cow Ear, Water Pickled Vegetable, White Male and Female Grass, and Snake Slaying Grass. It is the whole plant of the Gesneriaceae family, Gesneriaceae, and Gesneriaceae genus. Mainly produced in various provinces and regions in southern China, it often grows on rocks or in damp places near ditches. Its leaves are broad, leathery, bright and dark green, with sunken veins; Open cylindrical white flowers, the whole plant can be used for medicinal purposes, clearing heat and detoxifying, diuresis, relieving cough, generating saliva, and can be used for unnamed swelling, venomous snake bites, and burns.
[Sexual Taste Returning to the Classics]
Taste: Sweet in taste; Sexual coldness
Gui Jing: Lung Meridian, Spleen Meridian
【 Indications and Functions 】
Effect: Clear heat, eliminate dampness, and detoxify.
Indications: External heat and dampness; Swelling and sores; Snake bite.
Clinical Application
1. To treat febrile abdominal pain: take decoction of Jianglongcao water.
2. Treat external injuries and swelling: Crush the dragon grass seedlings and apply them to the affected area.
Jianglongcao stem and leaf decoction, in vitro, sometimes exhibits antibacterial effects against Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes, Corynebacterium diphtheriae, Salmonella typhi, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Shigella, and also has certain inhibitory effects on Bacillus anthracis and Escherichia coli. It can also be widely used to treat various skin diseases, such as psoriasis, burn scar, diabetes foot, rat milk, impetigo, etc., and to treat abdominal migraine, cholestatic hepatitis and other diseases.