Part1. What is dried marshmallow leaf?
Marshmallow is a plant of the Malvaceae genus Marshmallow, which also has very good medicinal value. Its roots, leaves, flowers, and seeds can be used as medicine. Marshmallow was first recorded in "Er Ya" as "Rong Kui", "Famous Doctors" as "Wu Kui", and "Qian Jin Shi Zhi" written by Sun Simiao in Tang Dynasty was called "Hock Kui". Later, Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" and other medical There are also many works included.
Part2. Medicinal effects of each part
1.Marshmallow root:
Sweet, salty, slightly cold in nature. Function clearing heat and dampness, cooling blood, detoxification. Indications for stranguria syndrome, leukorrhea, dysentery, hematemesis, metrorrhagia, traumatic bleeding, sore swelling, scald.
Oral administration: decoction, 9-15g. External application: smashed for applying.
2. Marshmallow seedlings:
Stems and leaves of Marshmallow, harvested from June to October, used fresh or sun-dried. Cool in nature and sweet in taste. Function clearing heat and promoting dampness, detoxification. Indications for heat-toxin diarrhea, stranguria syndrome, nameless swollen toxin, water and fire burns, gold sores.
Oral administration: decoction, 6-18g; or boiled, or pounded into juice. External application: crushed for applying; or burnt into powder for applying. Do not eat for a long time.
3. Marshmallow seed:
Function diuretic to treat stranguria, detoxify and expel pus. Cure mainly edema, stranguria syndrome, leukorrhagia, milk blockage, sores and scabies, and nameless swollen poison.
Oral administration: decoction, 3-9g; or powdered. External application: powdered for applying. Use with caution in spleen and stomach deficiency and pregnant women.
4. Marshmallow flower:
Sweet, salty, cool in nature. Function and blood hemostasis, laxative, detoxification. Indications for vomiting blood, epistaxis, menorrhagia or menorrhagia, red and white vaginal discharge, urinary obstruction, infantile rubella, malaria, carbuncle furuncle, bee scorpion sting, etc.
Oral administration: decoction, 3-9g; or powder, 1-3g. Flowers and leaves are used externally to treat carbuncles, sores, burns and scalds. Appropriate amount for external use, fresh flowers and leaves smashed for applying or decocted for washing the affected area. Pregnant women are forbidden to take it.
Marshmallow flower is also a Uyghur medicine. Uyghur medicine believes that it can calm the nerves, relieve cough and asthma, sweat and rash. It is used for insomnia, forgetfulness, coughing up phlegm, measles in children, dry stool, hemorrhoids and other diseases.
