Yellow dodder seed vine as medicine

According to Oriental medicine, dodder seeds have a sweet, spicy taste, warm properties, and enter the liver and kidney meridians. They have the effect of nourishing the liver and kidneys, strengthening yang, benefiting the marrow, strengthening tendons and bones, promoting urination, laxative, and brightening the eyes.

The yellow dodder (morning glory family) is a parasitic vine on other plants, with yellow or light brown fibrous stems and no leaves. The plant has "sucking" roots to absorb food from the host plant. The flowers are rarely seen, pale white spherical, almost stemless, clustered in clusters of 10 - 20 flowers. The parts used as medicine are the vine or seeds (tho ty tu) that have been dried or dried.

Dodder seeds are used as medicine to treat kidney failure, cold sperm, impotence, spermatorrhea, back and knee pain, aching tendons and bones, cloudy urine, anti-inflammatory, sedative...

Dodder seed vine has a sweet and bitter taste, neutral properties, and is non-toxic. It has the effect of clearing heat, cooling blood, promoting urination, and detoxifying. Used to treat hemoptysis, hematemesis, uterine bleeding, baldness, leucorrhea, dysentery, jaundice, boils, prickly heat...

Golden thread.

Some remedies from yellow dodder:

Support treatment for impotence: 12g dodder seed; 20g deer antler glue; 12g each of rehmannia glutinosa, atractylodes rhizome, dodder seed, and poria. Make into pills, take 20-30g per day. 15 days is a course of treatment.

Cure nocturia, spermatorrhea: 7g dodder seed, 4g raspberry, 6g golden thread, 400ml water. Boil down to 100ml. Filter out the residue. Divide into 2-3 doses to drink during the day. Use continuously for 10 days as a course of treatment.

Difficulty urinating: Boil a handful of yellow dodder with chives root, use the water to apply to the abdomen around the navel. Use for 3 - 5 days.

Treatment of vaginal discharge due to kidney deficiency: 8g dodder seed; 12g each of rehmannia root and Chinese yam; 8g each of cornus officinalis, peony bark, poria, processed aconite, alisma, dianthus root, and mulberry bark; 4g of cinnamon. Boil and drink one dose per day.

Treatment of kidney deficiency, spermatorrhea: 8g dodder seed; 12g each of rehmannia glutinosa and ban long extract; 8g each of Chinese yam, wolfberry, angelica, dodder seed, and processed aconite; 6g of cornus officinalis; 4g of cinnamon. Grind all into powder and make pills. Take 10-20g daily or decoct and drink one dose per day.

Cure dysentery: Yellow dodder (pick the whole plant, including buds and flowers) add a few slices of ginger and boil to drink (30g per day). Use for 5 days.

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Cure back pain and weak knees due to kidney failure: 12g dodder seed; 20g each of Chinese yam and Chinese yam; 16g each of bone-strengthening herb, spleen-relaxing herb, and dodder seed; 12g each of crane's knee root, scratchgrass root, and bone-pain vine. Boil and drink one dose per day. 10 days is one course of treatment.

Tonic - sperm-replenishing medicine: 8g dodder seed, 1g schisandra schisandra, 1g Chinese clematis seed, 8g Chinese wolfberry, 4g raspberry. Grind the ingredients into fine powder and mix with honey, make into pills the size of corn kernels, take 4g each time. 10 days is a course of treatment, rest for 5-7 days and then continue using.

Erectile dysfunction, spermatorrhea, lower back and knee pain, dribbling urination in men and leucorrhea in women: Boil 9 - 12g of yellow dodder with water, add a little alcohol or sugar to drink.

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