What are the effects of wild sweet potato vines

Wild sweet potato vine actually has many nicknames, but we all know that these medicinal materials are often used in life. They can be used to treat wind-heat cough, edema, jaundice, rheumatic pain and other diseases. However, for medication issues, we should also understand some of its matching methods and contraindications to avoid incorrect use of medication and cause other adverse effects and harm to our health.

1. Introduction to sweet potato vine

Sweet potato vine is also known as ground pomegranate, river dragon, earth melon, etc. It belongs to the Moraceae family and is the stem and leaves of the sweet potato plant of the Moraceae family. Perennial deciduous vine, the whole body has latex. Aerial roots are hair-like and cling to trees or rocks. The stem is cylindrical or slightly flat, brown in color, with many branches and slightly swollen nodes. It can be used as medicine and has the effects of clearing heat, promoting dampness, activating blood circulation and detoxifying. It can cure wind-heat cough, dysentery, edema, jaundice, rheumatic pain, hemorrhoidal bleeding, amenorrhea, leucorrhea, indigestion in children, bruises and injuries, and unknown swellings.

2. Functions and Indications

①《Classification of Herbal Properties》: "Leaves, blister toxin.

② "Tianbao Materia Medica": "Treats red and white dysentery."

③ "Guizhou Folk Prescriptions and Medicines Collection": "It can remove rheumatism and numbness, treat muscle and bone pain, promote blood circulation, reduce swelling and detoxify, and promote diuresis and relieve fever. It is used as a pain reliever for injuries and trauma."

④ "Sichuan Chinese Medicine Records": "It can promote urination, eliminate dampness, heat, jaundice and swelling, relieve menstrual blockage, and stop leucorrhea; it can treat hemorrhoid bleeding and swollen and painful gums."

⑤ "Hunan Pharmacopoeia": "Clears the lungs, detoxifies, promotes diuresis and reduces swelling. Treats edema and ascites."

⑥ "Guizhou Herbal Medicine": "It clears away heat and toxins, dispels wind and dampness, and relieves cough. It can treat sweet potato sores (mostly around the ears, shaped like sweet potato fruits).

⑦ "Guangxi Chinese Herbal Medicine": "It strengthens the spleen and eliminates dampness, clears the lungs and relieves cough. It treats indigestion in children, damp-heat jaundice, wind-heat cough, and rheumatic bone pain."

3. Treatment of indigestion in children

Take 3 jin of fresh whole herb (stems, leaves) or rhizomes, add 10,000 ml of water, simmer for 3 hours until 3,000 ml is boiled. For children aged 6 months, take 20 ml each time; for children aged 7 months to 11 years, take 25-30 ml each time. Take 2-3 times a day until bowel movements become normal. A total of 331 cases were treated, with ages ranging from 6 months to 2.5 years old. The shortest course of illness was 1 day and the longest was 10 days. Among them, there were 5 cases of simple indigestion and 326 cases of toxic indigestion. As a result, 261 cases were cured, while the rest had poor or no effect. All cured cases were assisted with fluid infusion and correction of electrolyte imbalance. Generally, the frequency of bowel movements will decrease or diarrhea will stop 2 to 3 days after taking the medicine, and there will be no recurrence after recovery. On the first day of treatment, you should fast for 6 to 24 hours depending on your condition. Practice has shown that the medicinal liquid must be concentrated, otherwise it will affect the efficacy; fresh medicinal materials are better than dry ones, and rhizomes are better than the whole herb.