Baihua Snake Tongue Grass, also known as Snake Tongue Grass, Snake Tongue Fur, Snake Needle Grass, Snake Head Grass, Two Leaf Fur, White Flower Cross Grass, Sharp Knife Grass, Armored Grass, Dragon Tongue Grass, Snake Tongue Grass, Crane Tongue Grass. Chaozhou Chronicles: Extracting juice from stems and leaves and drinking it can treat appendicitis and all intestinal diseases. Guangxi Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Treatment of infantile malnutrition, venomous snake bites, and cancer. External treatment for white blister sores and snake scabies. Minnan Folk Herbs: Clearing heat and detoxifying, reducing inflammation and pain. Quanzhou Materia Medica: Clearing heat, dispersing blood stasis, eliminating carbuncles and detoxifying. Treat carbuncles, sores, and scrofula. It can also clear lung fire and relieve lung heat. Treat lung heat, shortness of breath, cough, and chest tightness. Guangxi Chinese Herbal Medicine: Clearing heat and detoxifying, promoting blood circulation and diuresis. Treat tonsillitis, pharyngitis, appendicitis, hepatitis, dysentery, urinary tract infections, and infantile malnutrition.
[Sexual Taste Returning to the Classics]
Taste: bitter and sweet in taste, slightly cold in nature.
Gui Jing: Enter the Heart Meridian, Liver Meridian, and Spleen Meridian.
【 Functions and Indications 】
Function: Clearing heat, promoting dampness, and detoxifying.
Indications: Lung heat, wheezing cough, tonsillitis. Pharyngitis, appendicitis, dysentery, urinary tract infections, jaundice, hepatitis, pelvic inflammatory disease, appendicitis, carbuncles and sores, venomous snake bites, tumors. It can also be used for digestive tract cancer.
Clinical Application
① Treat dysentery and urethritis with one or two doses of Hedyotis diffusa. Boil it in water. (Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine)
② Treatment for jaundice: 1-2 liang of Hedyotis diffusa. Take juice and honey. (Xiamen)
③ Treatment for acute appendicitis: 2-4 liang of Hedyotis diffusa, 1-2 liang of Leymus chinensis, and 3 qian of needle root on both sides. Boil it in water. (Selected Prescriptions of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Guangdong Province)
④ To treat children with fever and insomnia: take one tablespoon of fresh snake tongue juice. (Minnan Folk Herbs)
⑤ Treating sores, swelling, heat, and pain: Wash fresh snake tongue fungus, crush and apply it, and replace it once it dries. (Minnan Folk Herbs)
⑥ Treating venomous snake bites: 1-2 liang of fresh white snake tongue grass. Mash and grind the juice or boil it in water, then apply the residue to the wound. (Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine)
[Dietary Therapy Method]
1. Turtle Soothing Soup: One turtle, 9g Chaihu, 9g Taoren, 15g Atractylodes macrocephala, and 30g Hedyotis diffusa. Wash the turtle thoroughly, decoct other medicines to remove residue, and add the turtle to stew until cooked. Then, eat the turtle and drink the soup. Take one dose every 2-3 days, regularly. This formula can be used as an auxiliary dietary therapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
2. Five flavored tea drinks: 30g of Caoheche, 30g of Hedyotis diffusa, 30g of turtle shell, 9g of peach kernels, 6g of red flowers, and an appropriate amount of sucrose. The first five flavors are decocted to remove residue, and sugarcane bran is added to season the tea drink. 1 dose per day. This formula can be used as a regular prescription for liver cancer patients.