The magical healing properties of blue plants
Qingdai, the name of this Chinese medicine, comes from the blue plants, thats, is its raw material. In the Tang Dynasty, there was a legendary story about Qingdai. It is said that a monk in Jiangzhou had suffered from choking for many years. Before his death, he told his disciples that there was a monster hidden in his chest. After the monk died, his disciples found that there was indeed a monster in his chest that looked like a fish but had two heads. This monster was not interested in any food, but when it met Landian (another name for Qingdai), it quickly turned into water. This story made Landian (Qingdai) mysterious in the treatment of choking.
In addition, the Compendium of Materia Medica also records a story about the miraculous curative effect of Indigo. Zhang Jian was bitten by a spotted spider, his head was swollen, and his life was in danger. He offered a large reward for treatment, and finally someone successfully treated him with blue juice (Indigo) plus musk and realgar, and the wound gradually healed.
Basic Introduction
Indigo, a Chinese medicine, is also call blue plants, indigo flower, green clam powder, green cylinder flower, etc. It is a dry powder, agglomerate or granule made from the leaves or stems of the Acanthaceae plant Indigofera tinctoria, the Polygonaceae plant Indigofera tinctoria or the Cruciferae plant Isatis indigotica. It is cold in nature, salty in taste, and enters the liver meridian.
Modern pharmacological research
Modern pharmacological research shows that the main chemical components of Qingdai are indigo, indirubin, and trace components such as tryptanthrin and indigo ketone. Among them, indirubin has anti-tumor activity, can inhibit solid tumors and dissolve leukemia cells; indigo has a liver-protecting effect; tryptanthrin is an active antifungal ingredient; Qingdai decoction has antibacterial effects on Staphylococcus aureus, anthrax bacteria, Shigella dysenteriae, Vibrio cholerae, Helicobacter pylori, etc.
Effect
- “Medicinal Properties” : “It can relieve infantile malnutrition, weight loss, and kill parasites.”
- “Kaibao Materia Medica” says : “It can detoxify various drugs, treat various fevers in children, convulsions and fever, and headaches and fevers. It can be boil in water and ground into powder for oral administration. It can also be apply to heat sores, malignant swellings, wounds, bleeding, snake and dog poisons, etc.”
- “Compendium of Materia Medica” : “It can relieve heat and irritability, relieve hematemesis, hemoptysis, ulcers, genital ulcers, and kill evil insects.”
- “Bencao Qiuzhen” says : “Indigo specifically enters the liver. It is made by stirring the floating foam of indigo, skimming it out and drying it. It tastes salty and is cold in nature. It is green in color and can greatly relieve the excess fire in the liver meridian and disperse the stagnation of fire in the liver meridian.”
Research on Traditional Chinese Medicine Theory
Indigo flower, green clam powder, green cylinder flower, blue dew, lake flower, indigo foam flower Source: Dry powder, lumps or granules made by processing the leaves or stems of the Acanthaceae plant Indigofera tinctorius, the Ampelopsis tinctorius or the Cruciferae plant Isatis tinctorius.
Prescription name: Indigo
Medicinal properties: salty, cold. Enters the liver meridian.
Efficacy: Clears away heat and detoxifies, cools blood and eliminates spots, purges fire and calms the nerves.
Clinical Application:
1. Rash due to fever and vomiting of blood due to heat
2. Throat paralysis, mouth ulcers, chapped cheeks, fire poison ulcers
3. Liver fire attacks the lungs, causing cough, chest pain, and blood in sputum
4. Epilepsy in children
Dosage: 1~3g, preferably in pills or powders. Appropriate amount for external use.
Note: Use with caution if you have a cold stomach.
Clinical compatibility:
1. Puffball: Puffball clears away heat and detoxifies, promotes lung qi, and benefits the throat, while Indigo clears heat, cools blood, and stops bleeding; Puffball is pungent and mild, and has a strong dispersing effect, while Indigo is bitter and cold, and has a strong heat-clearing effect. The two herbs are use together and move to the upper part of the body, clearing away heat and detoxifying, reducing swelling and relieving pain, and enhancing the ability to clear the throat. They can be use to treat symptoms of heat evil fire poison gathering in the upper part of the body, resulting in sore throat, such as acute pharyngitis, chronic pharyngitis, tonsillitis, etc.
2. With sea clam shells: Indigo is salty and cold in nature, and has the function of clearing away heat and detoxifying. It is the best at relieving the stagnant fire in the liver meridian and eliminating the phlegm heat on the diaphragm. Sea clam shells are bitter and salty in nature and are a medicine for the lung meridian. They can clear away lung heat and soften thick phlegm. When used together, they become Daihe Powder, which is a wonderful remedy for clearing the liver and purging the lungs. It is use to treat liver stagnation and fire, upward rebellion against the lungs, and lung failure to descend (wood fire punishes metal).
Symptoms include bitter mouth and red eyes, pain in the chest and ribs, coughing, thick phlegm that is difficult to cough up, and even spitting up blood, etc. It is often effective. 3. Combine with Puhuang: Puhuang is sweet and mild in nature, specifically enters the blood, and is one of the commonly use hemostatic drugs; Indigo is salty and cold in nature, good at entering the liver and lung meridians, and is the best at relieving the depressed fire in the liver meridian, and eliminating phlegm and heat on the diaphragm. The two drugs are combine, Indigo leads Puhuang to the liver and lungs, and Puhuang has enhanced blood cooling and hemostatic effects with Indigo.
The two complement each other, clearing liver fire and calming the lung meridians, so it is effective for symptoms such as vomiting blood, hemoptysis, etc. caused by liver fire attacking the lungs, or liver fire invading the lungs, or lung heat damaging the meridians.
prescription
1. Artemisia and Scutellariae Gallbladder Clearing Decoction
2. Danggui Longhui Pills (Longnao Pills)
3. Jade powder
4. Prescription for coughing up blood
5. Daihesan
6. Yang poison dissipates internally
