When I was in college, I often soaked in boiling water without drinking tea, clearing away heat and toxic materials, and cooling down the summer; It is said that it can also relieve cough. The following content is seen from Baidu Encyclopedia:

pharmacological action

1. Toxicity: Myristine can cause severe convulsion in mammals, and its effect is similar to that of strychnine.

2. Other effects: Intravenous injection can reduce blood sugar in rabbits. It has exciting effect on isolated rabbit intestine and uterus.

Functions and instructions

Detoxification and heat clearing; Regulate qi and relieve depression. Main heat and thirst; Dizziness; Chest tightness and swelling; Meihe gas; Sore throat; Pertussis; Children's measles; Burn. Relieve depression and middle energizer, resolve phlegm and detoxify. For depression, upset, liver and stomach gas pain, plum blossom gas scrofula. [2]

1 "outline": relieving summer heat and promoting fluid production.

② Manual of Zhejiang Traditional Chinese Medicine: Treating summer heat, chest pain, polydipsia, measles and whooping cough in children.

③ Jiangsu Botanical Medicine Annals: Treating vexation, thirst, qi stagnation and stomach tightness.

Classic attached prescription

① Treatment of chronic cough: San Qian with iron chopsticks. Soak in boiling water. (Guiyang folk herbs)

② Treatment of fire injury in soup: Chimonanthus praecox (with) tea oil soaked (coated). (Records of Lingnan Herbs Collection)

dosage

Oral administration: decocted, 1 ~ 2 yuan. Apply (soaked in sesame oil) to the burned area.