Five-color plant cures itching

Oriental medicine believes that the whole five-color plant has medicinal properties. The leaves are bitter, smelly, cool, slightly toxic, and have anti-inflammatory, fever-reducing, detoxifying, and anti-itching and snake bite effects.

The five-color plant is also known as guava flower, guava myrtle, guava scent, four seasons, Ma anh don, guava grapes, the Tay people call Nha khi mu, the scientific name is Lantana camara L., belongs to the Verbenaceae family. Avoid confusing this plant with the pigweed (Ageratum conyzoides L.) of the Asteraceae family, which treats sinusitis.

Small tree, up to 1.5 - 2m tall or more. Stem has thorns; branches are long, square, have short thorns and rough hairs. Leaves grow opposite, oval, round or heart-shaped base, pointed tip, serrated edges, hairy underside. Flowering and fruiting season from April to September.

The tree is native to Central America, and in our country it grows wild in many places, often in open fields, forest edges, hills, and coastal areas. Nowadays, people often plant the tree as an ornamental plant because it has beautiful flowers that bloom all year round.

The fruit is spherical, located in the sepals, black when ripe; the kernel consists of 1 - 2 hard, rough seeds. Parts of the plant are harvested in the dry season, dried, dried or used fresh.

Oriental medicine believes that the whole five-color plant has medicinal properties. The leaves are bitter, smelly, cool, slightly toxic, and have anti-inflammatory, fever-reducing, detoxifying, and anti-itching and snake bite effects.

The flower has a sweet, cool taste and has a hemostatic effect. The root has a mild taste and a cool nature and has a fever-reducing, detoxifying and pain-relieving effect. The flower is used to treat tuberculosis or coughing up blood and lower blood pressure. Dosage: 30 - 60g, decoction form.

Leaves are used externally to cover wounds, ulcers or to stop bleeding; also used to treat scabies, dermatitis, eczema and used as hot compresses to treat rheumatism. Usually used fresh, crushed and applied externally or boiled in water for washing. Flowers are used as a cough medicine at a dose of 12g, in the form of decoction, heated or made into syrup.

Here are some ways to treat diseases with the five-color plant.

Cure cough due to cold: Take 20g fresh five-color flower or 10g dried, boil with 500ml water until 100ml remains, drink during the day. Use alone or combine with black-roasted pagoda tree flower and white atractylodes root, each 8g. Can add sugar to make it easier to drink.

This decoction also cures colds and high blood pressure. Use for 5 consecutive days.

Coughing up blood and tuberculosis: Use 6 - 10g of dried five-color flowers to boil water to drink.

Bruises, bleeding wounds: Crush fresh five-color leaves and apply externally. Or use 30g of dried leaves, with 10g of dried ginger powder and sprinkle on the wound once a day.

Hemostatic, antiseptic, treatment of small and narrow wounds: 30g of five-color leaves and flowers combined with 10g of fresh ginger, dried or dried, crushed, sifted into fine powder, sprinkled on the wound. Change the bandage once a day. Or leave the five-color leaves fresh, wash, pound and apply to the wound. If the wound is large, give first aid and then go to a medical facility for emergency treatment.

Treat diabetes mellitus: Take all the branches, leaves and flowers of the five-color plant, dry them. Cut into pieces and put in a sealed jar. Use gradually, take about 40g each day, add 500ml of water, boil down to 150ml, drink instead of tea every day.

You can combine eating porridge cooked from Chinese yam and water chestnut for better results. Use continuously for 10 days.

Treating itching: About 30 - 50g of five-color leaves and flowers, boil to get concentrated water, bathe and soak daily.

Dermatitis, eczema, tinea, acne: Boil fresh five-color leaves to wash the outside.

According to Alobacsi.vn