What are the benefits of boiling water with willow branches

When spring comes in March and April every year, the willow trees along the lake begin to sprout branches, and the branches are generally willow branches. It tastes relatively bitter, and also has many medicinal effects, such as: for patients with rheumatic skin itching, for strengthening the spleen and stomach for weak spleen and stomach, for treating hemorrhoids, jaundice, and can also be used to relieve swollen and painful gums, etc. Usually, it can be combined with other heat-clearing and fire-removing plants to make Chinese patent medicine or soak in water to drink, such as: chrysanthemum, dandelion, honeysuckle, etc., which are more suitable for pregnant women.

The effects of boiling tree branches in water : dispel wind, promote diuresis, relieve pain and reduce swelling. Treat rheumatic pain, gonorrhea, leucorrhea, urinary obstruction, infectious hepatitis, edema, furuncle, erysipelas, tooth decay, and gingival swelling.

1. The initial stage of jaundice. Boil willow branches into half a liter of concentrated juice and take it all at once.

2. Weak spleen and stomach, loss of appetite, and symptoms similar to nausea and vomiting. Take a handful of new willow branches, make soup, and cook millet for rice. Add wine and flour to rice and roll them into beads. Dry them in the sun and put them in a bag and hang them in a ventilated place. When using, boil water and add rice at random. When the rice floats up and there is no hard core, the rice is cooked. Eat it all at once. After a while, the flour and rice will separate. The rice made in this way is called "Luosuo rice".

3. Moving pain (there is a sudden pain in a part of the body as if being hit, the pain wanders around, and sometimes you feel pain and extreme coldness). Boil the white bark of willow trees in white wine and apply it to the painful area while it is still hot.

4. Swelling and pain caused by wind poison. The treatment is the same as above.

5. For goiter under the neck, use 30 jin of willow roots (those exposed by the water) and add one hu of water. Boil it to get one liter, soak three dou of glutinous rice, add wine in the usual way, drink an appropriate amount every day.

6. Swollen and painful gums. Use equal parts of weeping willow branches, white locust bark, white mulberry bark, and white poplar bark, decoct in water, hold in mouth while hot and spit out when cold. Another recipe: Use willow twigs, locust trees, and mulberry twigs, boil them in water to make a paste, add ginger juice, asarum powder, and angelica powder, mix well and rub the mixture on your teeth.

7. Toothache caused by wind and insects. Chew a small piece of willow bark, use the juice to soak the tooth root, and it will heal after a few times. Another recipe: Use a handful of willow branches, grind them into pieces, add a little salt, boil them in water and drink it. It is very effective. Another recipe: One liter of willow twigs (cut into small pieces) and one liter of soybeans, stir-fry until the beans are cooked, add three liters of sake and soak for three days, then gargle and spit out the saliva.

8. Earache and pus. Cut the willow root into small pieces, mash it until it is very soft, and apply it to the painful area. Replace it when the medicine is dry.

9. Swelling and pain caused by fistula. Use the red whiskers of willow roots to boil water and wash your body with it every day. Another method: Use willow twigs to burn in a pot and smoke the painful area.

10. Breast pain at the beginning. Mash the willow root bark until it is very soft, wrap it in cloth, heat it over fire and apply it to the affected area. Change the cloth as soon as it is approved.

11. Reverse flower ulcer (the flesh is turned out like rice grains, and the root is deep and festering). Use three pounds of willow branches and leaves, add five liters of water and boil until it becomes three liters, then simmer until it becomes syrupy. Apply three times a day.

12. Carry erysipelas. Use willow ash mixed with water to apply.

13. Burns caused by hot water or fire. Apply with ash from burnt willow bark. You can also fry the white skin of the root and apply it with lard.

14. Hemorrhoids are as big as melons and swollen and painful as if burning. After washing with a concentrated decoction of willow branches, apply moxa to it three or five times, and the pus and blood will be discharged and the patient will be cured.