What are the Benefits and Uses of Chicken Claw Grass?
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1. Pharmaceutical Properties: Bitter, cold. Belongs to the meridians of liver, stomach, lung, large intestine, and bladder.
2. Pharmacological Effects: Antitoxin, anticancer, clearing heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and stopping bleeding.
3. Pharmacological Actions: (1) It has inhibitory effects on transplanted sarcoma S-180 in mice, etc. Decoctions also have a certain inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, hemolytic streptococcus, Shigella flexneri, and Salmonella typhi. (3) In vitro experiments, it has an inhibitory effect on human tuberculosis bacillus.
4. Modern Medicinal Uses: (1) Antitoxin and anticancer, used for cancer toxin accumulation: a. 30 grams of Chicken Claw Grass and 30 grams of Scutellaria barbata, 15 grams of Hu Mu and 15 grams of Solanum nigrum. Continuous use can stop symptoms such as cough, bloody sputum, chest pain, and disappear X-ray images. For gastric cancer: 30 grams of Chicken Claw Grass, 20 grams of Scutellaria baicalensis and Hu Mu, 10 grams of Angelica sinensis, sandworms, and placenta, 9 grams per serving, 3 times a day. It can shrink tumors, stop bleeding, and reduce digestive tract symptoms. c. 30 grams of Chicken Claw Grass and 30 grams of Dioscorea bulbifera, 15 grams of Myrica rubra root, wild grape root, cicada, and 15 grams of Scutellaria barbata. After decoction, use 60 grams of Actinidia arguta root. It can stop diarrhea and gradually eliminate tumors. For choriocarcinoma: 60 grams of Chicken Claw Grass and Myrica rubra root, 1 sunflower disk, all fresh, decocted and taken orally, 1 dose per day. Continuous use can stop vaginal bleeding, with no abnormalities in the uterus and appendages, and the urine pregnancy test becomes negative.
(2) To dissipate heat and dispel dampness: Used to decoct acute hepatitis herbs such as Chicken Claw Grass, and other herbs. It can also treat infectious jaundice hepatitis. The effect of cooling blood and stopping bleeding: 30 grams of Chicken Claw Grass and 15 grams of Cirsium setosum for bloody urine due to blood heat, decocted twice daily.
5. Dosage for Decoction: Fresh herbs are doubled to 15~30 grams. Powdered medicine: 3~9 grams. External use: Appropriate amount.