What's the function of Lycopodium?

Main functions: expelling wind and cold, removing dampness and swelling, relaxing muscles and activating collaterals. It is used for arthralgia due to wind-cold-dampness, tendon contracture and carbuncle. External use for treating traumatic sprain and swelling and pain.

Lycopodium aqueous solution has cooling effect on experimental rabbits. Intravenous injection of 30 mg/kg lycorine can make the blood pressure of anesthetized cats and rabbits plummet, and the toxic dose can increase the breathing amplitude and reduce the frequency of animals. It is highly sensitive to Shigella flexneri and Shigella sonnei in vitro.

Extended data:

Clinical application: Herba Lycopodii is pungent, bitter, dry, warm and slippery, and can dispel wind and damp, especially good at dredging meridians when entering the liver. For arthralgia due to wind-cold-dampness, arthralgia and poor flexion and extension, it can be combined with Notopterygium Rhizoma, Radix Angelicae Pubescentis, Ramulus Cinnamomi and Radix Paeoniae Alba. If the limbs are weak and the skin is numb, it should be used with Song Jie, Bone-finding Wind and Clematis.

People's old joints are deformed and ineffective, and they are often prone to cramps. Shisong is the treasure of the old man. It can make people's legs and feet flexible. The doctor said that people's old joints are deformed and inflexible. Of course, there is another saying, "Old people's joints are inflexible, not deformed, not hyperosteogeny, and ligaments are stiff." Also known as muscle contraction. Then, drinking lycopodium regularly will relieve this symptom. Therefore, Lycopodium is the treasure of the elderly.

Lycopodium grows on hillsides, forest margins or forests. Epiphytic between cliffs or mossy old trees. It is distributed in the south of Qinling Mountains in China. The main producing areas are distributed in most parts of China, mostly in Guangdong, Guangxi and other provinces.

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