Remedies for pink eye

According to folk experience, plants growing naturally around the house and in the garden can be used as medicine to treat pink eye promptly and effectively.

For external use

Gardenia: Use a handful of fresh leaves, wash thoroughly with boiled water that has cooled, then rinse with diluted salt water. Crush the leaves, wrap them in sterile gauze, and place them on your eyes when you go to bed. Do this once a day.

Fish mint: Use fresh plant, remove roots, wash, crush and squeeze into two clean gauze pads, apply on eyes when going to bed.

Coptis chinensis: Leave the roots fresh, wash them, and dry them gently. When using, take 4g of the roots, grind them finely, and add 2g of alum, steam them, then filter the clear liquid to use as eye drops (Nam Duoc Than Hieu). Or use palmatin hydrochloride powder (extracted from Coptis chinensis roots) to make a liquid medicine at a ratio of 0.3 - 0.5%, and use it as eye drops twice a day.

Longan: Take the flowering tops, dry them in the sun, 5 - 10g, grind them, steep them in 1 liter of boiling water. Wait until the water is warm, then wash your eyes twice a day.

Chrysanthemum

Used in

- Yellow chrysanthemum, cassia seed, Chinese clematis, motherwort, rehmannia root, each 10g. Dry all, grind, boil with 400ml of water until 100ml remains, drink twice a day. Or 4g yellow chrysanthemum, 4g pagoda tree buds, 10g lotus leaves or lotus shoots, steep and drink.

Other recipe: 8g yellow chrysanthemum; 16g mulberry leaves; 16g Chinese clematis; 12g each of fang feng, huang dian, kinh gioi, man kinh, and ma de; 8g peppermint. Boil and drink one dose per day.

- 9g of honey from the Chinese clematis flower; 4g of yellow chrysanthemum, perilla flower, gentian root, saposhnikovia root, and angelica root each; 2g of licorice. Chop all of these into small pieces, boil with 200ml of water until 50ml remains, and drink once a day. Or 12g of honey from the Chinese clematis flower, chrysanthemum, and white celosia seed each; 8g of coptis chinensis. Boil or soak in alcohol to drink.

Other recipes: 12g each of honey, mint, perilla, cassia seed, gardenia, scrophularia, cork bark, achyranthes, and ophiopogon. Boil and drink during the day.

- Gardenia: 16g each of roasted gardenia seeds and cassia seeds. Boil and drink one dose per day.

- Coptis chinensis, Gardenia jasmine, Chrysanthemum jasmine, each 8g; Mint jasmine, Ligusticum wallichii, each 4g. Boil all with 400ml of water, take 100ml. Use half of the decoction to steam the eyes, drink the other half while the medicine is still warm.

- Mạn kinh tử, muong sao seed, cau mang seed, ma de seed, motherwort seed, each ingredient in equal amounts of 12g, dried, powdered, sifted, made into pills, taken with tea or decocted to drink (Nam Duoc Than Hieu).

- 12g each of pen tower grass, white cockscomb seeds, mulberry leaves, and yellow chrysanthemum; 4g of soaked green grass. Boil to drink and steam.

- Cassia seed, wild chrysanthemum, each 9g; man kinh tu, horsetail, each 6g. Boil in water to drink.

- 15g of chrysanthemum, 15g of uncaria rhynchophylla, 6g of white silkworm, 2g of chrysanthemum. Boil and drink one dose per day.

According to Health and Life