Dragon flower is also known as sky eggplant, wild pepper tree seed, bitter vegetables, bitter sunflower, old crow eye grass and so on. Cold, bitter, slightly sweet, with a little poison. It has the effect of clearing heat and detoxification, activating blood and reducing swelling, and is suitable for a variety of malignant tumors, often used for liver cancer, lung cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, etc., and also has a certain effect on pleural fluid and ascites in the late stage of cancer.
Patients with advanced liver cancer often present with swelling and pain in the right side of the chest, which is aggravated by light pressing. The body temperature under the armpits exceeds 37.5 ° C, the mouth always feels bitter, or there is bad breath, stomach distension, eating very little, smelling oil on the nausea or even vomiting, dry stool is difficult to solve, or stool sticky, easy to stick to the toilet, there is a feeling of uncleanness, can also be accompanied by tiredness, upset, easy to lose temper, serious cases will also appear chest water or ascites, yellowing of the whole body, yellow eyes, yellow urine, orange peel or soot color, these manifestations in Chinese medicine are called "damp heat poison evidence". Dragon flower has a strong antipyretic and detoxification effect, and can effectively treat such patients after proper combination of woolly wet drugs.
If the patient's heat image is obvious and fever, upset, dry stool, less urine and yellow, yellow tongue as the main manifestation, can be combined with the use of gardenia, rhubarb, skullcap, skullcap, yellow cedar, forsythia, dandelion, etc. to strengthen the power of heat clearance; if the patient's water metabolism is obviously abnormal, and people feel very tired, they feel that the body is very heavy, the chest is stuffy, the stool is sticky, it is not easy to clean up as the main performance, you can increase the amount of poria, pigweed, ze diarrhea, and cooperate with the use of psyllium, raw amaranth and other strengthening dampness;
Patients with poor appetite, nausea and vomiting, and white tongue can be added with white art, cang surgery, half summer, magnolia, bamboo ru, orange peel, etc.; patients with elevated transaminases can also add weeping potted grass, field base yellow, sub-leaf beads, flat wood, schisandra, etc. to protect the liver and reduce the index. Dragon flower bitter cold, heat and detoxification power is strong, clinically generally start from small doses, if patients can tolerate, and then gradually increase the dose, patients with weak constitution should be used together with traditional Chinese medicine to support righteousness, such as prince ginseng, fried white art, fried yam, coix kernel and so on.
Ascites is also a manifestation of abnormal water metabolism in the human body, dragon sunflower and Ze lacquer, Ze diarrhea, poria, large abdomen, ginger peel, etc. can promote the discharge of ascites and alleviate the pain of patients. If the patient is relatively strong, physically strong, able to live on their own, they can also use gansui, euphorbia, coriander and other attacks and drinks under the guidance of the doctor. In addition, it can also be used for pleural effusions.
Note: This product is bitter and cold, patients with weak spleen and stomach should not take more for a long time, it is best to selectively match some drugs that support healthy qi to take at the same time, otherwise there may be stomach discomfort, reduced amount of food, defecation and other manifestations of damage to the spleen and stomach yang qi.