Cure sunstroke, heatstroke with pennywort
Through experience, people consider pennywort a medicine with a cooling property, slightly bitter taste and aromatic smell and can cure many common diseases.
Medicines with pennywort
- Sunstroke: 60g fresh pennywort, 16g basil, 16g bamboo leaves, 16g kudzu leaves. 600ml water. Boil down to 300ml, divide into 2 doses per day, drink hot.
- Children with high fever and convulsions: 60g gotu kola, 60g eclipta prostrata. Crush and squeeze the juice to drink. Apply the pulp on the forehead and inside of the wrists.
- Stomach ache and heartburn: 500g pennywort, 160g turmeric, 16g licorice, 320g cuttlefish bone. Roast all until golden brown, grind finely, mix with honey and make pills the size of corn kernels. Take 40-50 pills per day.
- Treatment of bloody stools: Boil pennywort and lean pork in water and drink twice a day; 50 ml each time.
- Treating edema: 80g of whole gotu kola plant, 80g of rush grass (dan tam thao). Boil enough water until 1/3 remains, drink twice a day before meals.
- Treatment of kidney and pyelonephritis: Gotu kola 600g, Chinese clematis 300g, water 700ml. Boil down to 300ml. Drink 3 times a day, 2 tablespoons (30ml) each time.
- Treat constipation, dysentery: 30-40g fresh pennywort. Boil to drink, or crush to squeeze the juice, add a little lemon juice, drink.
- Cough, painful urination: Squeeze 30g of gotu kola to get the juice to drink or boil to drink.
- Frequent urination, difficult urination, little urination, hot, red and painful: 120g fresh gotu kola, 50g fresh bamboo shoots, wash and crush, add 1 cup of water, squeeze the juice and drink, twice a day.
- Inflammation, rash, prickly heat, boils, impetigo: Squeeze gotu kola juice and mix with a little sugar to drink.
- Back pain, stomachache, poor appetite, lethargy: Gotu kola 30g, motherwort 8g, Cyperus rotundus 12g, Magnolia officinalis 12g. 600ml water, boil down to 300ml, divide into 2 doses to drink during the day.
- Nosebleeds, bleeding gums: Gotu kola 30g, Eclipta prostrata 15g, Thuja orientalis 15g. Boil in water and drink twice a day.
- Boils, falls, injuries, sprains: Crush enough gotu kola and apply.
- Red eyes with pus, due to hot liver: 1 handful of pennywort, 1 handful of fish mint. Wash clean, add a little salt, crush, use tissue paper or gauze to wrap the medicine and apply to the eyes. At the same time, drink pennywort juice.
- Breast swelling and pain: 1 handful of pennywort, add a little brown sugar, crush and heat, then apply.
- Menstrual cramps (dysmenorrhea): Pick gotu kola when it is in bloom, dry it, grind it finely, store it in a sealed jar, and use gradually. Drink 2 teaspoons (10g) per day in the morning.
- Irregular menstruation: 300g gotu kola, squeeze to get the juice, 3g crushed alum. Mix all with coconut water (enough) and drink during the day.
- Vaginal discharge: Grind dried pennywort into powder, drink 2 teaspoons every morning.
- Burns from fire or boiling water: Boil gotu kola into a paste and apply to the burn. Very effective, leaves no scars when healed.
- Treats hot, red, painful hands and feet, blisters, and itching all over the body: Crush pennywort and rub on the painful area, change the application once a day and night, and it will heal quickly.
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