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Drymaria, He Lian Dou Cao 荷莲豆草

He Lian Dou Cao, Er Rui He Lian Dou (TCM)
Drymaria diandra
Swartz, O.P., Icones plantarum (1794)

Botanical name:
Drymaria diandra (syn. D. cordata)

Parts used:
Herb; sometimes the root

Temperature & Taste:
Cool, dry. Bitter

Uses:
1. Clears Heat and Damp:
-Jaundice, Acute Hepatitis
-Edema, Ascites, Nephritis
-Childhood Malnutrition
-Pain and swelling of the Legs
-Epigastric pain, Gastric Ulcers

2. Clears Heat, Resists Poison:
-Fever (Nepal)
-Toxic Sores and Abscesses, Carbuncles
-Malaria
-Anti-viral including HIV
-Constipation from excess heat

3. Moves the Blood:
-Headache, pain from Blood stasis with heat
-used where chronic inflammation is associated with Blood stasis (Hepatitis, chronic Heat swellings etc.)

4. Externally:
-paste or juice of the fresh plant applied to the forehead for Headache (Nepal)
-topically to venomous bites including Snake Bite
-topically to toxic swellings and sores
-Conjunctivitis, Pterygium and other eye diseases from heat (juice dropped in, or decoction as a wash)
-Sinusitis (juice sniffed up the nose)


DOSE:
Herb and Root can be used in similar doses.
Of the fresh Juice: 10–20 mls.
Fresh plant is beaten for external application, or the juice can be used.

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Cautions:
None noted

Main Preparations used:

Research
1. Broad-spectrum Antibacterial
2. Anti-fungal
3. Anti-viral
4. Antitussive
5. Anti-leukemia effect