爵床
The Effect of 爵床
Property
Salt, pungent, cold; liver and gallbladder meridians entered.
Actions
Clear heat and remove toxicity, eliminate dampness and disperse stagnation, activate blood and alleviate pain.
Indications
Infantile malnutrition, jaundice, dysentery, malaria, cough, cold with fever, sores and boils, traumatic injury, laryngalgia, nephritis with edema, arthralgia and myalgia.
Dosage and Administrations
Decoct 10~15 g, or 30~60 g of the fresh, or pounded into juice. Proper dosage is for external application, pounded for applying or decocted for washing.
Cautions
Do not take overdose. It is contraindicated in case of qi and blood deficiency and deficiency cold in spleen and stomach.