Achyranthes bidentata Bl.
Indigenous language names: tula lan sisi, yegalufan a smell; yegalufan: like the joints of a knee.
Other names used locally: Sai bi cao (stuffy nose grass), you mao de sai bi cao (hairy stuffy nose grass)
Diseases of the organs:
Herbs for treating colds include: spider fern (Pteris multifida), sword break fern (Pteris ensiformis), lanceleaf Blumea (Blumea lanceolaria), rough cocklebur (Xanthium strumarium), ox knee, balsam Blumea (Blumea balsamifera), and ailanthus prickly ash (Zanthoxylum ailanthoides) roots, which can be decocted together. If cough is present, add yellow bristle-hair ixeris (Ixeris chinensis), Chinese mulberry (7 Morus australis) roots, and Chinese fever vine (Paederia foetida).
Make a decoction of the following to treat nasal congestion: A decoction of ox knee should be used when there is a stuffy nose. Ox knee is used to treat colds with nasal congestion. Take some ox knee and let it stay in boiling water for a little longer. Then, ingest to relieve nasal congestion. Ox knee can be used to treat colds, no matter if they are accompanied by hot flashes or chills. It is best to take it as soon as you feel a cold coming on. However, it must be cooked first. A decoction of ox knee and mountain peppercorn (Litsea cubeba) can be made to treat a cold. Ox knee is a cold medicine.
To treat a severe cold, make a decoction of glorybower (3127 Clerodendrum cyrtophyllum), balsam Blumea, lanceleaf Blumea, ox knee, mountain peppercorn roots, and ailanthus prickly ash roots.
Skin and musculoskeletal system: To relieve sore feet, make an omelette with ox knee leaves.
Maternal and pediatric health care: Pospartum nasal congestion and colds can be treated with ox knee. Fry to dry first, then make a decoction from it.
Diseases of civilization: A decoction of ox knee can lower blood pressure.
Interview and specimen numbers: Yen 44031, 44190, 44191, 44231, 46359
Zhong Hua Ben Cao (roots)
Pharmacological properties: Tastes bitter and sour, neutral in nature; liver and kidney meridians.
Functions and indications: Nourishes the liver and kidneys, strengthens the muscles and bones, activates blood circulation, stimulates menstruation, resolves blood stasis (fire), and is diuretic. Mainly used to treat pain and soreness in the lower back and knees, weakness in the lower limbs, blood stagnation, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, postpartum blood stasis and abdominal pain, gynecological mass, retained afterbirth, weak heat, bloody stranguria, bruises, abscess, and sore throat.
