Bai bu root cures cough

According to Oriental medicine, Bai Bu has a sweet, bitter taste, is non-toxic, and has the effect of moistening the lungs, relieving coughs, and disinfecting. It is often used to treat coughs, roundworms, pinworms, etc.

Stemona Tuberosa lour, also known as the thirty-day vine, sam sip lac (Tay), ban sam sip (Thai), pe chau chang (Mong), ho linh (K'ho), day det ac, mui doi maru (Dao), has the scientific name Stemona Tuberosa lour. It is a perennial herbaceous vine that can grow up to 5 - 6m long.

Tuberous roots, fleshy. Leaves grow opposite or alternately, heart-shaped blade, arcuate main vein, many small transverse veins. Flowers grow in leaf axils, yellow-green, purple inside, foul-smelling. Capsule fruit, many seeds.

The vine often grows wild in the mountains, the medicinal part is the root. It is best harvested in the fall, washed, cut off both ends, steamed until cooked or dipped in boiling water. Leave the small type whole, split the large type in half lengthwise, dry in the sun or dry in the oven.

According to Oriental medicine, Bai Bu has a sweet, bitter taste, is non-toxic, and has the effect of moistening the lungs, relieving coughs, and disinfecting. It is often used to treat coughs, roundworms, pinworms, etc. For external use, boil the water to wash or cook into a paste to apply to treat scabies. It also has the effect of killing insects, larvae, and lice.

Here is a remedy with Bai Bu:

- Treats cough due to cold, itchy throat, little phlegm:16g of fritillary, 12g of perilla, 12g of white money, 12g of Platycodon grandiflorum. Boil and drink one dose per day. Drink for 5 days.

- Cure cough naturally that won't go away:Dry fresh Bai Bu over fire, take a little juice each time and swallow.

- Whooping cough treatment:12g of Bai bu, 12g of Bach tien, 4g of licorice, boil with sugar, divide into 3 times a day, drink continuously for 3-4 days.

- Treat children's cough due to cold:30g roasted fritillary bulb, 30g burned ephedra, peeled and pointed almonds, roasted, crushed and boiled well to get the water, mix with fritillary bulb and ephedra pills to make pills the size of soapberry seeds. Take 2-3 pills each time with warm water.

- Deworming:Use 10g of Bai Bu decoction to drink every morning, on an empty stomach, for 5 days to expel worms; 40g of fresh Bai Bu (equal to 20g of dried Bai Bu), 200ml of water, boil for half an hour, reduce to about 30ml. Use the decoction to enema for 20 minutes. Treat like this for 10-12 days to cure pinworms.

Note: People with weak spleen and stomach should not use.

According to DS My Nu - Vietnam Agriculture