What are geranium seeds used for? The efficacy and role of geranium seeds

The role of geranium seeds.

Anticancer. Modern pharmacological studies have shown that geranium seeds contain alkaloids, lactones, and coumarin, which have good anti-cancer activity, so they are suitable for malignant tumors such as breast cancer, lung cancer, liver cancer, and nasopharyngeal cancer.

Carbuncles. Geranium seeds are mostly used externally for the treatment of carbuncles, and the effect is very good when applied to the affected area with other medicines. In ancient times, there was a precedent of mixing geranium seeds and honey to make a paste-like ointment.

Nowadays, the combination of geranium seeds and blood circulation and blood stasis, swelling and pain relief, wood turtle seeds, acute seeds, etc., can be used for breast cancer, breast hyperplasia, breast cysts and other diseases.

1) Prescription for treatment.

Treatment of carbuncle swelling and poison: Appropriate amount of fresh geranium root, mashed and applied externally. ("Jiangxi Herbal Medicine").

Treatment of boils: purple-backed geranium seeds, one per year, and mash with crucian carp. (Compendium of Medical Sects).

Treatment of scrofula and breast cancer: five cents of geranium root, two to three cents of elephant shellfish, three to four cents of oysters, and one penny of licorice. Serve several times with decoction. (Zhejiang Folk Herbal Medicine).

Treatment of snake bites: two dollars of millennium rat. Mash the compress and change it once a day.

Treatment of tuberculosis: four taels of thousand-year-old rat. Put it in a large pig's belly, boil it and eat it, and eat three in a row.

Cure deficiency cough and dissolve phlegm: three dollars of mouse feces for thousands of years. Stew to eat.

Cure stomach heat and gas pain: two dollars of millennium rat. Mash and swallow with boiling water.

Treatment of sow madness and sheep epilepsy: five to seven pieces of mouse feces (about one penny) for thousands of years. Ground into fine powder, swallowed with soju before the onset of the disease, and used for three to five doses. (Fang Xia ("Guiyang Folk Herbs").

Treatment of children's salt roar (asthma): one or two thousand years of rat feces, soaked in salt water overnight, and grinded. Take five minutes each time, and swallow ginger boiling water.

Treatment of children's convulsions: At the end of the millennium rat feces, swallow boiling water.

Treatment of external hemorrhoids: an appropriate amount of millennium rat feces, grinding tung oil to rub the affected area. If there is a leakage, pound the fleece with five coins and apply it to the affected area.

Treatment of fractures: one or two of millennium rat feces, mulberry white skin, water winter melon skin, and jade loquat, pound the velvet, and wrap the affected area after the bone; Then use one or two of this product, soak one pound of wine, and take five dollars of medicinal wine each time. (Fang is following "Guizhou Herbal Medicine").

Treatment of eyelashes: five thousand-year-old rat feces roots. Pound the juice and fit the eyes of the human milk. (Guiyang Folk Herbs).

2) Compatibility application.

With talc, the effect of clearing heat and dampness is enhanced. It should be used for bladder dampness, hot shower, and bloody shower.

With the white bark of Tsubaki root, one is clear, one is astringent, the specimen is taken into account, it is suitable for the pathogenesis, ** with the pulse is lost, especially suitable in the humid tropics.

With Poria cocos, it is suitable for edema, drenching, unfavorable urination, etc.

With honeysuckle, it clears away heat and detoxifies, disperses knots and reduces swelling.

With white zombie silkworm, it clears away heat and extinguishes wind, reduces swelling and disperses knots, enhances the effect of drying and dampness, and is suitable for treating phlegm, heat, epilepsy, stroke and thirst. Cough, throat, swelling and pain, sputum nucleus and other syndromes. 6. Equipped with a coria seed, it plays a role in clearing heat and dissolving phlegm. Cough and asthma.

Geranium seed is a common Chinese medicine that clears heat and detoxifies, reduces swelling and disperses knots, and dilutes water, it is cold, slightly bitter and slightly bitter, and has a small toxicity, which can be used to treat children's heat fright, epilepsy, carbuncle, cradle carbuncle, scrofula, itchy sores, eye redness, swelling and pain, as well as hot shower, sand shower, etc. Geranium seeds can be used for scrofula, boils, is a common surgical drug, can be used alone, can also be used with other drugs, such as can be shared with Zhejiang shellfish, scutellaria, prunella vulgaris and other products to use scrofula, can enhance the effect of clearing heat and dissipating knots, can also be boils, carbuncles and other external toxic fever patients, can be mixed with wild chrysanthemum, purple flowers, honeysuckle, etc. Geranium seeds can be used to assist ** respiratory tract-related diseases, such as cough, phlegm, wheezing caused by tracheitis, etc.

For some breast diseases, such as breast cancer and breast hyperplasia, geranium seeds can also be used in combination with dialectical differentiation.

1 day sunflower seeds can detoxify and reduce swelling, such as "Baicao Mirror" said: "clear heat, cure pain and reduce swelling and poison, cure sores, miasma, falls, rabid rabies, hemorrhoids or strain." ”

2 days of sunflower seeds to clear heat and dampness, can be used for edema, drenching, with inferior and other syndromes. For example, "Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine Chronicle" says: water is drenched and detoxified. Treatment of uric acid stones, urine drenching and drainage.

3 days of sunflower seeds have the effect of clearing heat and quenching wind, such as "Guiyang Folk Herbs" said: "cure epilepsy." "It is suitable for the evidence of epilepsy caused by liver and gallbladder fire, phlegm and fire.

4. Because the geranium seed grows in clearing heat and quenching fire. It is also used to relieve irritation and cough and asthma, so it is especially suitable for hot asthma. It is suitable for external heat. Fumigation of lung gold is combined with the heat in the lungs, and the lung qi is reversed, resulting in coughing and wheezing.

1. Geranium grass and geranium seeds** are the same plant, their names are very similar, but they are different parts of the same plant. This is an important difference between the two, geranium grass is the aboveground part of the plant geranium, mostly refers to the stems and leaves of this plant, while geranium seeds are ** in the underground tubular roots of the plant geranium.

2. There is also a certain difference in the efficacy of geranium grass and geranium seeds, although they are ** in the same plant, but their efficacy after entering the medicine is slightly different, geranium grass can ** human external heat and lung qi reversal, is a common medicine for cough and asthma, and geranium seeds are a kind of Chinese herbal medicine that can reduce swelling and relieve pain and detoxification.