Loofah Folk prescription

 

Loofah is also known as loofah tendon, loofah cloth, tianluo tendon, loofah net and so on. Nature and flavor are sweet, flat. Return lung, stomach, liver channel. It has the effects of dredging the meridian and activating collaterals, detoxifying and reducing swelling. It can be used to treat muscle and bone pain, amenorrhea, testicular swelling and pain, blood in the stool, metrorrhagia, chest and hypochondrium pain, and milk blockage and other diseases.

The loofah is the fibrous tube of the dried ripe fruit of the Cucurbitaceae plant loofah. Also known as loofah tendon, loofah cloth, tianluo tendon, loofah net, etc. Nature and flavor are sweet, flat. Return lung, stomach, liver channel. It has the effects of dredging the meridian and activating collaterals, detoxifying and reducing swelling. It can be used to treat muscle and bone pain, amenorrhea, testicular swelling and pain, blood in the stool, metrorrhagia, chest and hypochondrium pain, and milk blockage and other diseases. Now introduce its five proven prescriptions for treatment of diseases as follows.

Treatment of breast lobular hyperplasia: 15 grams of loofah, 12 grams of earthworm , 12 grams of Prunella vulgaris, 10 grams of kelp , 10 grams of Bupleurum, 10 grams of orange, 10 grams of peach kernel, 10 grams of safflower , 10 grams of Toosendan, green skin 10 grams, 10 grams of woody, 15 grams of angelica , 10 grams of Chuanxiong , 15 grams of motherwort, 10 grams of licorice . Decoction in water, 1 dose per day, divided into morning and evening.

Treatment of mastitis: 15 grams of loofah, 30 grams of honeysuckle , 10 grams of forsythia , 15 grams of dandelion , 15 grams of wild chrysanthemum , 10 grams of paeonol, 10 grams of Bupleurum, 12 grams of Citrus aurantium, 10 grams of licorice. Decoction in water, 1 dose per day, divided into morning and evening.

Treatment of chest pain: 15 grams of loofah, 10 grams of Toosendan, 10 grams of Yanhusuo , 10 grams of Bupleurum, 12 grams of Rhizoma Cyperi, 10 grams of Qingpi , 10 grams of Citrus aurantium , 15 grams of Salvia , 10 grams of Radix Paeoniae Alba , 10 grams of peony , 10 grams of licorice. Decoction in water, 1 dose per day, divided into morning and evening.

Treatment of chest pain: 15 grams of loofah, 12 grams of scallion , 30 grams of salvia miltiorrhiza, 10 grams of citrus aurantium, 10 grams of cassia twig, 10 grams of trichosanthes, 10 grams of Magnolia officinalis, 10 grams of Chuanxiong, 10 grams of Bupleurum , 10 grams of peach kernel, 10 grams of safflower, 10 grams of red peony, 10 grams of licorice. Decoction in water, 1 dose per day, divided into morning and evening.

Treatment of urethritis: 15 grams of loofah, 10 grams of plantago, 10 grams of pomegranate, 10 grams of gardenia, 15 grams of flavescens, 15 grams of Smilax, 10 grams of berberine , 6 grams of rhubarb , and 10 grams of licorice . Decoction in water, 1 dose per day, divided into morning and evening.