The "Compendium of Materia Medica" comprehensively summarizes the functions and indications of motherwort, believing that it can "eliminate water and blood", "invigorate blood and break blood, regulate menstruation and detoxify". It is difficult to treat fetal leakage, afterbirth clothes are not down, blood dizziness, blood wind and blood pain, collapse and leakage, blood in the urine and diarrhea, mange, hemorrhoids, blood stasis in the internal damage, and the stool and urine are not clear. ”
Motherwort was originally contained in the "Shennong Materia Medica", which was originally attached to the Weizi strip and was used for medicinal purposes. It is said that "a good mother, a good Ming, a big za, born on the seaside pond." Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" said: "This grass and seeds are full of dense Wei, so it is called Mao Wei." Its merit is suitable for women and bright eyes and essence, so it is beneficial to the mother and good for the bright. In addition, it is also known as Beneficial Mother Artemisia, Kun Grass, Bitter Grass, Moon Mother Grass, etc.
Diet
Fresh motherwort porridge: 60g motherwort (30g dry product), 50g japonica rice, appropriate amount of brown sugar. First, remove the slag from the decoction juice of motherwort, and then cook it with japonica rice and brown sugar to make a thin porridge. Same as angelica porridge. Promote blood circulation and eliminate blood stasis, regulate qi and pass menstruation. It is used for qi and blood stasis type dysmenorrhea, irregular menstruation, and postpartum lochia.
Motherwort boiled eggs: motherwort 30g, 2 eggs. Add an appropriate amount of water to the top 2 flavors and boil them together, remove the shell after the eggs are cooked, and cook for a while. Take it once a day before menstruation for several days, and eat egg soup. Nourish blood and regulate menstruation. It is used for patients with chest and abdominal distension pain in the early menstrual period.
Chinese medicine
Traditional Chinese medicine motherwort is the fresh or dried aerial part of the Lamiaceae plant. It is produced in most parts of the continent. Fresh products are harvested from the seedling stage in spring to the early summer flowering stage; Dried products are harvested, dried, or cut into sections to dry in summer when the stems and leaves are luxuriant, the flowers are not yet open, or the flowers are first opened. This product has a slight gas and a slightly bitter taste. It is better to have tender quality, many leaves, and gray and green color. Use fresh, or raw.
This product has a bitter taste, pungent, slightly cold, and returns to the liver, pericardium, and bladder meridians. It has the effect of invigorating blood and regulating menstruation, diuresis and swelling, clearing heat and detoxifying.
Note: Those with less yin deficiency and less blood should not take it. "Materia Medica" says that "blood fever, blood stagnation and fetal labor difficulties are appropriate; If the blood qi is deficient and cold, and the slip is not solid, it is not suitable. ”
"Materia Medica"
Motherwort. A Zhu Wei. Pass blood stasis and give birth to new blood. It's bitter and bitter. Start, foot syncope yin (pericardium, liver). Eliminate water and blood, remove stasis and regenerate new, regulate menstruation and detoxification (blood stasis is adjusted).
Treatment of blood wind and blood dizziness, blood pain and blood, fetal pain and labor difficulties, collapse in the belt (with the pulse across the waist, the disease was born here, so it is called the belt.
Red is blood, white is gas. Those who are deficient in qi should replenish the middle and benefit the qi and rise and fall. Those who are deficient in blood nourish blood and nourish yin and regulate qi). It is a good medicine for menstruation, eliminating boils, swelling and cradle carbuncle (also taking its stasis and detoxification), and passing urine and defecation. However, the medicine of Xin San, those with dilated pupils should not take it.
The main treatment of the mother and child is slightly the same, regulating the menstruation and benefiting the essence, brightening the eyes (those with blood stagnation and disease) invigorating the blood, smoothing the qi and chasing the wind (the qi line is the blood line, and the blood is scattered), and there is a supplement in the line. Treat upset headache (blood deficiency and blood fever), fetal collapse, and make people have children (have the function of replenishing yin.
Shi Zhen said: Yimu's rhizomes, flowers and leaves can be used together. If it is used to treat sores and swelling fetal birth, dissipate water and blood, it should be used together; If the blood is treated by wind and heat, the eyes are clear, and the menstruation is regulated, and the use of the child is good. The rhizomes and leaves of the cover are specialized in the rows, and the children are supplemented in the rows. "Birth Treasure" Jiyin Soul Pill, Xiaoxia Dragon Boat Festival or June 6, picking the mother's stems and leaves and flowers, for the end of the honey pill, treating all kinds of diseases in the fetus. "Near-Effect Prescription": Pounding the juice and boiling the ointment is also good). Avoid iron. Stir-fry slightly.
"New Edition of Materia Medica"
Motherwort, spicy, sweet, slightly warm, non-toxic. It can be used before and after childbirth, and it is the most effective to remove stillbirth, stasis and newness, and can also be used to breastfeed. His name is good for his mother, and he is good for women. However, if you don't return to it, xiongxiong, ginseng, and surgery, you can't win with a single taste. The predecessors said that there was no stagnation before the pregnancy and no deficiency after the birth, which said that there was a supplement in his line. However, motherwort is not a tonic, and it can be used as a tonic to achieve work, so it should not be used more. Approximately into the supplements, at the rate of three dollars, can be subtracted from it, and must not be increased further.
Or ask motherwort, named after the mother, it should be beneficial to the mother. Today, before giving birth, it is still said to treat the mother, and the pregnant woman goes hand in hand, what does it mean to benefit the mother? Said: Motherwort is not only beneficial to mothers. All women who have no children can benefit. Cover motherwort cures women's diseases, ranking seven out of ten, and cures maternal diseases, but only three-tenths. Women without property can use more, while women with children should use less ears.
Or suspect that motherwort has a common reputation in ancient and modern times, and why does my son have a derogatory word? Said: I say that motherwort is supplemented with tonic medicine to reap the merits, which is showing the strange ear of motherwort. What is a derogatory term?
Or suspected of benefiting motherwort, the ancients used it alone to reap the benefits, and my son must say that it is supplemented to take effect, why not? I don't know that motherwort alone is used to collect work, and it is better to supplement the work more and faster.
Modern pharmacology
Traditional Chinese medicine motherwort mainly contains alkaloids: motherwort, stacyline, motherwortin and so on. It also contains diterpenoids and volatile oils.
Motherwort decoction, ethanol extract and motherwort contained in it have an excitatory effect on the uterus, and have certain anti-implantation and anti-early pregnancy effects. Motherwort has the effect of strengthening the heart, increasing coronary artery flow and myocardial vegetative blood flow, and can slow down the heart rate; It has the functions of narrowing the scope of myocardial infarction, reducing the degree of lesions, and protecting the ultrastructure of myocardium. Motherwort has a direct dilating effect on the blood vessel wall, which can increase the blood flow of the femoral artery and reduce the vascular resistance, showing its short-lasting antihypertensive effect. It has inhibitory effect on platelet aggregation, thrombosis, fibrin thrombosis and red blood cell aggregation. Motherwort can improve kidney function, and motherwort alkali can significantly increase urine output.
Time: 2024