Remedy to reduce swelling and pain from the mua plant
Mua is a shrub, growing wild with sim trees, on hills, roadsides... The entire mua plant can be used as medicine.
1. Characteristics and medicinal uses of the mua plant
Mua tree is also known as mua ba, da mau peony, son thach pomegranate, dia nhu... Scientific name is Melastoma candidum D. Don; belongs to Mua family (Melastomaceae).
The tree is about 1m high, the trunk, branches and leaves have rough brown hairs, grow thick and rough; the leaves grow opposite, the leaf blade is oval, the upper surface is rough, the lower surface has many soft hairs; there are 5-7 prominent veins, the edges are intact. The flowers are large, powdery, purple-pink, usually grow 2-3 at the end of the branch. The fruit is egg-shaped, hairy. To make medicine, harvest the whole plant and use it alone or combine it with other herbs in the form of a decoction.
According to Oriental medicine:
- Buy trunk, branches and leaves:Sour and astringent taste; cooling properties. Has the effect of promoting blood circulation and reducing swelling (dissolving blood stasis, eliminating stagnation, reducing swelling); expelling rheumatism; clearing heat and detoxifying, stopping bleeding, treating diarrhea and dysentery.
- Purchased fruit:Has a bland taste and neutral properties; used to treat uterine bleeding and women with low milk supply.
- Purchase roots:Has an astringent taste and neutral properties. Has the effect of strengthening the spleen, stopping diarrhea, stopping bleeding and eliminating blood stasis. Used to treat poor digestion, stomach pain, diarrhea, hematuria, excessive menstruation, rheumatism, traumatic blood clots, pain, etc.
2. Remedies from plants bought in the treatment room
- Treatment of soft tissue injuries with hematoma and swelling:Crush fresh betel leaves, add a little vinegar, heat, and apply to the affected area.
- Treatment of cassava poisoning:Buy fresh leaves or roots 80-100g. Boil in water to drink.
- Reduceknee pain:Buy 25g of leaves and branches, 12g of honeysuckle vine; boil with water, divide into 2 doses to drink during the day.
- Uterine bleeding:Buy 20g of fruit, roast until black, boil with water to drink.
- Menstrual bleeding too much:Buy 50g of dried roots, boil with water, divide into portions to drink during the day.
- Treatment of rheumatism:50g dried root, 15g dried rhizome, 50ml alcohol; boil well with water, divide into 2 doses to drink during the day.
- Treatment of clogged milk ducts:50g fresh mint leaves, 100g lean pork; stew and eat.
-Lack of milk:Buy 20g of fruit (can add 9g of Chinese clematis root, 6g of Chinese clematis root), 1 pig's trotter; stew until cooked, divide into portions to eat during the day.
- Cure bacillary dysentery,acute enteritis:Buy 120g dried roots, 600ml water; boil down to 100ml, drink all at once or divide into 2 parts to drink during the day.
- Treatment of boils in the earlobe or external ear canal (ear abscess):30g fresh betel leaves, one pig ear; boil in water to drink.
