Celosia flower effectively treats hives

Red celosia flower has the effect of curing hives, menorrhagia, allergies, hemorrhoids, dysentery, vaginal infections...

Red cockscomb flower. Photo: Tue Linh.

According to Dr. Vo Van Chi, author of the Dictionary of Vietnamese Medicinal Plants, the red cockscomb flower (or cockscomb flower) has the scientific name Celosia argentea L. var. cristata (L.) Kuntze (C, cristata L.). The plant belongs to the Amaranthaceae family.

Cockscomb likes light, easy to grow, does not require much fertilizer. Flowers from July to September, bears fruit frommonth9 to 11. Oriental medicine uses the flower clusters (commonly called ke quan flowers) and young shoots to make medicine. People collect the flower clusters in the fall, remove impurities and seeds, and dry them in the sun or with a dryer. Young shoots of the plant are collected year-round.

Chicken comb has a sweet taste, cool properties, and the effect of strengthening the spleen and benefiting dampness, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. Folk medicine often uses it as a hemostatic medicine, to treat fever, dysentery, leukorrhea, urinary tract infections, bloody dysentery, bloody hemorrhoids, hemoptysis, metrorrhagia, hematuria, menorrhagia, and allergies.

Dr. Chi introduces some remedies from cockscomb flowers as follows:

Hives (also known as urticaria)

Use 15g fresh white celosia flower clusters (bach ke quan hoa), 8g horse head fruit (roasted and thornless), 10 jujubes. Boil all of them in water to drink. At the same time, use young shoots of red celosia to boil water to wash around the hives.

Menorrhagia, excessive menstrual bleeding

Dry and grind the white chicken flower into powder. Take 6 grams each time, once or twice a day with wine on an empty stomach. If you cannot drink wine, you can also take it with warm water.

Hong kCook 30g of celosia flower with a little white wine to drink. Or cook 25g of celosia flower with a sufficient amount of pork, eat 3 days before menstruation.

Vaginal infection

Chicken celosia flower and seeds 60g, soapberry 15g. Boil all of them in water to wash once or twice a day. The decoction of cockscomb flower has the effect of fighting trichomonas vaginalis. Note: Not for pregnant women.

According to VNE