The efficacy and function of basil

Basil, also known as nine-story tower, gold does not change, sweet basil, etc., is a perennial aromatic plant belonging to Labiatae family. It has the effects of dispelling wind and promoting qi, eliminating dampness and digestion, activating blood circulation and detoxification. It has therapeutic effects on exogenous headache, qi stagnation due to food distension, abdominal pain, diarrhea, irregular menstruation, traumatic injury, snake bite, skin wet sores, addiction rash and itching, etc. Let's take a look at the efficacy and effect of basil!

The medicinal value of basil

[Nature] It tastes spicy, sweet and warm.

[Meridian tropism] Lung, spleen, stomach and large intestine meridians.

[Efficacy] Dispelling wind and relieving exterior syndrome, eliminating dampness and mediating qi circulation, activating blood circulation, detoxifying and detumescence.

The medicinal effects of basil

1. Dispelling wind and promoting qi, often used for headache and cough due to exogenous diseases.

2, dampness digestion, often used for food distension qi stagnation, diarrhea, stomachache and other syndromes.

3. Activating meridians and blood circulation can be used for irregular menstruation, traumatic injuries, etc.

4, detoxification and itching, can be used for snake bite and rheumatism in the skin caused by skin wet sores, addiction rash itching and other skin diseases.

5. Dispel wind and relieve cold, dispel cold and relieve arthralgia.

Application of Basil

1, with ginger, wind and cold, such as "outside Taiwan secret" that is, the use of basil with ginger "cough."

2, with angelica dahurica, two drugs can dispel wind and cold, pungent fragrance scattered, upward in one. There is analgesic effect, but Angelica partial to Sheng San, Szechuan lovage is good at qi and blood, two drugs combined, can be used to treat cold headache.

3, with hawthorn, feasible qi stagnation, digestion accumulation, for food stagnation stomach distension, Ai putrefaction acid, abdominal pain diarrhea.

4. With baked ginger, it can warm and clear blood vessels, activate blood circulation and regulate menstruation. It can be used to treat lower Jiao deficiency cold, irregular menstruation, etc.

5. With Seven Star Sword, the detoxification and wound healing power is strengthened. For example, Basil and Seven Star Sword are selected to cure "poisonous snake injury" in Lingnan Collection of Medicine.

Basil's medicinal formula

1, cough: ginger four liang (mashed), into the orchid leaves two liang, pepper powder a money dagger, salt and noodles four liang, wrapped for sesame cakes, simmer cooked, hollow eat.

2, treatment of malnutrition under the nose red rot: basil (burned ash) two money, copper green five points, light powder two words. On the fine powder order uniform, according to the size of the sore dry paste.

3. Treatment of poisonous snake injury: Melaleuca, musk, blood, seven-star sword mashed and applied.