Bai bu cools the lungs and treats coughs.

The plant is also called the thirty vine, is a 5-8m long vine, with a small, smooth stem, opposite leaves with heart-shaped stems, and yellow and red flowers growing in the leaf axils.

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Capsule fruit has 4 seeds, tuberous roots including 10-30 tubers, sometimes up to 100 tubers, 15-20cm long, 1.5-2cm in diameter, yellowish-white, sweet taste then very bitter. Bach bo grows wild everywhere: Ha Nam, Ha Tay, Hoa Binh, Thai Nguyen, Bac Can... The part used as medicine is the tuber (root).

In addition to substances such as glucid 2.8%, lipid 0.8%, protid 9%, organic acids, people also get many alcohols from the roots of the plant, mainly the substance S temonin.

S temonin has the effect of inhibiting cough reflex, sterilizing the large intestine, antibiotic for dysentery bacteria, paratyphoid, antiseptic, treating worms, eliminating bedbugs. Drink the extract of the plant with a dose of 3 teaspoons at a time to expel worms.

Medicines containing the herb Bai Bu

Treat chronic coughs

Recipe 1: 12g of Bai bu, 12g of Tu vien, 10g of Kinh gioi, 10g of Cat coong, 10g of Bach tien, 8g of tangerine peel, 4g of licorice. Boil and drink in the morning and evening after meals 45-60 minutes.

Recipe 2: 12g of Bai bu, 10g of tangerine peel, 10g of asparagus, 10g of ophiopogon, 10g of fritillary, 8g of loquat leaf, 8g of schisandra, 12g of purple gromwell. Boil and drink 45-60 minutes after meals.

Treat sudden cough: Soak the root of the plant in alcohol, drink a small cup each time, 45-60 minutes after eating.

Or raw ginger, fritillary, equal amounts, decoct and drink.

Or drink the honey-soaked fritillary.

Children cough due to cold: 30g of fried Bai Bu, 30g of burned Ephedra, almonds with shell and pointed tip removed, fried, crushed, boiled to get water, mixed with the 2 above herbs, crushed into pills the size of soapberry seeds, take 2-3 pills each time with warm water.

Treatment of chronic cough (10-20 years): 1,000g of Bai bu, crushed to get the juice to make it as thick as malt. Drink 3 times a day, 1 teaspoon each time.

Treating ear insects: Grind the Chinese clematis root with vegetable oil (cooking oil) and apply it on the ear flap (ear opening).

Bai bu wine to treat cough: Cut Bai bu into pieces, stir-fry, put in bags, soak in wine for 15 days. Drink a small glass daily after meals.

Worm treatment: 12g of Bai bu, decoct and drink early in the morning on an empty stomach, drink 5 consecutive mornings. Then drink a laxative.

Pinworm treatment: 40g fresh Bai Bu (20g dry), boil water until 30ml remains. Insert into the anus, hold the medicine in the water for 20 minutes. Do this once a day for 10 consecutive days and the pinworms will be gone.

Fly extermination: add a little sugar to the decoction of the Chinese clematis plant, it kills up to 60% of flies.

Burning the smoke of the plant drives away flies, mosquitoes, fleas, and lice.

Sprinkle powder into the manure pit to kill maggots.

According to Health & Life - NT