Bitter and bitter, slightly cold. Into the spleen, stomach, liver and gallbladder.
Function: clearing away heat, promoting diuresis and eliminating jaundice. It is mainly used for treating jaundice, oliguria, pruritus, and infectious icteric hepatitis.
Usage and dosage: 6 ~ 15g. Appropriate amount for external use, decoction, fumigation and washing. Note: Don't wear yellow clothes that are not caused by damp heat. Attached:
① Treating Yangming disease, but sweating in the head, no sweating in the body, dysuria, sharbat pulp, blood stasis and heat in the body, yellow body: Herba Artemisiae Scopariae, Fructus Gardeniae 14 (broken) and Radix et Rhizoma Rhei (peeled). Take two liters of water in a bucket, first boil Herba Artemisiae Scopariae, reduce six liters, take two flavors, boil three liters, and divide into three parts. Urine is beneficial, urine is like honey locust juice. (Yinchenhao Decoction in Treatise on Febrile Diseases)
② Treatment of yellowing above waist, slow pulse, cold limbs and spontaneous sweating: two ounces of wormwood, eight tablets of aconite, and one and a half slices of dried ginger. Licorice (roasted) one or two. The top is rough and the bottom is rough. Divide into four stickers and decoct in water. ("Yu Ji Wei Yi" Chen Yin Sini Decoction)
③ The patient is golden, multilingual, weak in limbs, good at sleeping and lying down, and spits mucus at the mouth: Artemisia capillaris and Dictamni Radicis. Two-flavor coarse sieve. Take one San Qian Bi and one glass of water each time, fry for six minutes, and take it warm before eating, three times a day. ("Total Record of Shengji" Chen Yin Decoction)
④ Treatment of male alcoholic jaundice: four Herba Artemisiae Scopariae, seven Fructus Gardeniae and one snail, mashed with shells and brewed with a large cup of boiled white wine. (summary)
⑤ Treatment of cold, jaundice and lacquer sore: five yuan for Chen Yin. Decoct with water. (Hunan Pharmacology)
6 cure itching and scabies all over the body: don't count the amount of wormwood, wash it with thick juice. (Qian Jinfang)
⑦ Treatment of wind itching and skin swelling and itching: one or two of wormwood and half of lotus leaf. The latter two flavors were smashed into powder. Take one money at a time, mix with cold honey water, and then take it after eating. (Artemisia capillaris powder from Shengji Zonglu)
⑧ Treatment of chronic wind disease (according to the fact that the disease is white plaque on the body): Hold Artemisia capillaris twice, boil seven liters in a bucket of five liters of water. Wash it with Gleditsia sinensis soup first, then use this soup, and cook it cold and wash it the next day, otherwise it will hurt. (A Compendium of Cui Shi)
Pet-name ruby fever jaundice. Cut wormwood into pieces and cook soup clothes. Raw food can also cure typhoid headache, wind-heat itching malaria and diuresis. This recipe is called Chen Yin Soup.
⑩ Wind disease, spasm (press: refers to the inability of hands and feet to stretch freely). Use one catty of wormwood, one stone of glutinous rice and three jins of flour to make wine as usual and drink it every day.
⑾ Jaundice is all over the body, mash it with wormwood and ginger, and wipe your chest and limbs every day.
⑿ Eyes are hot and red. Divide Herba Artemisiae Scopariae and Semen Plantaginis equally, decoct soup, and serve with fine tea several times.