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Saponaria is the fruit of the legume plant saponaria, also known as saponaria. Flat-shaped elderly, called large soap pods; the small fruits that are produced after the injury of their plants are bent into a crescent shape, called pig tooth soap, also known as small soap pods, all of which are medicated. It is mainly produced in Sichuan, Hebei, Shaanxi, Henan and other places. Ripe fruit is picked in autumn, dried, sliced raw, or stir-fried.
Soap pod is a pure natural soap, in the Southern and Northern Dynasties popular with soap pod washing, there is a nursery rhyme "yellow dust stained people's clothes, soap pods phase cuisine" in the community widely circulated. Soap pods have been used by the ancients for the longest time, and to this day, people in remote rural areas still use soap pods instead of washing powder to wash clothes.
Soap pods are not only a good natural detergent, but also a widely used Chinese herbal medicine. In the Ming Dynasty Li Shizhen in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", he has put soap pods into medicine, saying that soap pods can cure dozens of diseases such as sore throat, urinary occlusion, and fetal clothing.
Clinical application
1. Stubborn sputum obstruction lung, cough and wheezing sputum.
Saponaria can improve the airway, salty can soften the phlegm of cementation, so the stubborn phlegm glue is blocked in the lungs to see coughing up the upper air, when spitting thick phlegm, it is difficult to lie flat should be used, can be a single taste of the end, with honey as a pill, jujube soup to serve, that is, "Golden Strategy" saponaria pills. In modern times, this product is made into tablets with ephedra and pig bile to cure cough, asthma and phlegm.
2. Stroke, phlegm, epilepsy, laryngeal paralysis phlegm.
Soap pods taste spicy and sexual channeling, into the nose is sneezing, into the throat is vomiting, can open the gag, so such as stroke, phlegm, epilepsy, laryngeal paralysis and other phlegm saliva, closed to block the can be used. If the mixture is scattered, blowing the nose and taking the sneeze, that is, passing the customs dispersion ("Danxi Heart Method Supplementary"), or with the alum as a scatter, warm water to serve, gushing spit, and the effect of opening up the phlegm to awaken the gods, that is, the dilution of saliva ("Heirloom Secret Treasure").
In addition, this product boiling cream external application can treat sores and swelling that have not collapsed, and have the effect of dispersing knots and reducing swelling; soaking in aged vinegar can cure ringworm, and has the function of dispelling wind and insecticide and anti-itching. Also taste spicy, can "through the lungs and large intestine qi", and has a laxative effect, treatment of constipation, can be used alone, can also be mixed with fine spices, add honey to mix well, made of suppositories.
【Dosage】Take at the end of the study, 1 ~ 1.5g; can also be added to decoction, 1.5 ~ 5g. Apply appropriate amount for external use.
【Use note】 The dosage of internal administration should not be too large, so as not to cause vomiting and diarrhea. Xin scatters and channels are strong, and non-stubborn diseases confirm that those who are physically strong should use it with caution. Pregnant women, qi deficiency and yin deficiency and those with bleeding tendencies are contraindicated.
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