How to cook rush for children to drink

Rush is a traditional Chinese medicine, mainly used to treat children's fever, insomnia, night crying or pharyngitis. You cannot use rush as a self-medication, as it is poisonous to some extent. You need a doctor to prescribe it according to your condition. Although rush is effective in treating crying children, it is recommended that you do not give it to your children on your own.

Rush usage and dosage:

For internal use: decoction, 1 to 3g (fresh grass 15 to 30g); or made into pills or powder.

For external use: appropriate amount, grind the calcined powder and sprinkle it, or use fresh product to mash and apply, or use a bunch of rush decoction to apply externally.

Contraindications of using rush: 1. People with cold deficiency should take it with caution. 2. People with Qi deficiency and incontinence should not take this medicine. 3. Those with coldness in the lower abdomen and incontinence in urination should not take this medicine. 4. Do not take this medicine if you have urinary incontinence due to cold. Related combinations of rush: 1. Used for epistaxis: grind one or two ounces of rush into powder, add one qian of cinnabar, and take two qian each time with rice drink. 2. Used for clearing heat and promoting diuresis, symptoms of difficult urination, and painful urination: used together with Akebia, Dianthus superbus, Plantago seed, etc., such as Bazhengsan.

Prescriptions

① Treat five types of stranguria and urinary retention: 50 grams of rush, 25 grams each of ophiopogon and licorice. Drink the concentrated decoction. (《Fangmai Zhengzong》)

②Treat edema: 200 grams of rush. Decoction in water. (《Fangmai Zhengzong》)

③ To clear the water channels: 10 catties of rush (dye with rice flour, dry it in the sun, grind it into powder, put it into water to clarify, the floating part is rush, take it out, dry it again, and use 2 liang and 5 qian as medicine, while the sinking part is rice flour and don’t use it), 5 liang of red and white Poria (peeled, and use Poria cocos without wood), 5 liang of talc (blasted in water), 2 liang of Poria cocos (peeled), 3 liang of Alisma orientalis (remove the beard), 1 catty of ginseng (remove the stalk, slice it, boil it into a thick soup, remove the residue, filter it, and refine the soup into a paste like sugar, which is used to mix the paste). Grind the above five ingredients, including rush, into fine powder, mix with ginseng paste to make pills as big as longan, coat with cinnabar and stick with gold foil. Take one pill each time and change the dosage according to your disease. (Tianyi Pills from Han's Medical Encyclopedia)

④Treatment of heat stranguria: one liang each of fresh rush, plantain and phoenix tail grass. Boil in rice water and drink. (Henan Chinese Herbal Medicine Handbook)

⑤Treat edema caused by cystitis, urethritis and nephritis: 1 to 2 liang of fresh rush, 2 liang of fresh plantain, 1 liang of coix seed and 1 liang of sea sand. Decoction in water. (Henan Chinese Herbal Medicine Handbook)

⑥Treatment of edema caused by nephritis: 1 to 2 liang of fresh rush, 1 liang of fresh plantain, and 1 liang of fresh scutellaria. Decoction in water. (Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine)

⑦ Treat insomnia and restlessness: 6 grams of rush. Decoction and drink regularly instead of tea. (Modern Practical Chinese Medicine)

⑧To treat febrile fright in children: 1-2 qian of rush and 3 stalks of plantain. Stew it with boiling water. (Fujian Folk Herbs)

⑨To treat children’s restlessness and night crying: 50 cents of rush. Decoction twice and take in two doses. (Jiangxi Journal of Chinese Herbal Medicine)

⑩Treatment of jaundice: one ounce each of Rush effusus and Coriander leaf. Boil in water and add a little sweet wine to mix. 2.50 cents of rush, 1 liang of fresh wolfberry root, and 50 cents of Yinxingcao. Decoction in water and adjust with sugar. (Jiangxi Journal of Chinese Herbal Medicine)

⑾Treat damp-heat jaundice: 1-2 liang of fresh Juncus effusus and 1-2 liang of fresh Bletilla striata. Decoction in water. (Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine)

⑿ Treat acute pharyngitis, granules in the throat or glossitis, and mouth ulcers: 1 qian of rush and 3 qian of Ophiopogon japonicus, decocted in water and taken orally; you can also use 1 qian of rush charcoal, add 1 fen of borneol, grind them together, and blow them into the throat. (Hebei Traditional Chinese Medicine Handbook)

⒀ Treat running throat paralysis: wallworm nest (burnt ash), rush (burnt ash), and alum in equal parts. Blow it into fine powder. (Village Emergency Remedies)

⒁ Treat milk moth: add sorghum dust, herring gallbladder, alum and copper blue to the wick (soaked in salt brine, sealed in egg shell, calcined to preserve its properties, and ground into powder), apply to the throat. Do not use if you are exhausted or suffering from cold. (Compendium of Materia Medica)