What are the effects and functions of Schizonepeta?

In fact, the medicinal value of Schizonepeta tenuifolia is relatively high. It is often used clinically to treat symptoms such as wind in women after childbirth, or stiffness in the neck and back. It can also dispel wind and relieve spasms. It is also used to treat symptoms such as runny nose, fever, and chills caused by the common cold.

1. Dispel wind and relieve symptoms

This product is light and dispersing, spicy but not strong, slightly warm but not dry, mild in nature, good at dispelling wind evil, and is a general medicine for treating wind. It can dispel wind-cold and wind-heat, and can be used to treat superficial symptoms without any wind-cold or wind-heat. "Ben Cao Jing Shu" says: "Schizonepeta is a wind medicine that enters the blood, so it can induce sweating. It is used to treat cold and heat. Cold and heat must be caused by excessive evil. If the evil is dissipated and the muscles are relaxed and sweating occurs, the cold and heat will heal themselves.

2. Dispel wind and relieve pain

It is mostly used to treat symptoms such as postpartum wind, lockjaw and spasm, and stiffness of the neck and back in women. It can also dispel wind and relieve spasms.

3. Regulate blood and stop bleeding

"Compendium of Materia Medica" says, "Schizonepeta, the main function is to treat wind, and it can also treat blood, because it enters the wind and wood organs, which is the place where blood is stored." "Compendium of Materia Medica" says, "Schizonepeta enters the Jueyin meridian of the foot. Jueyin is wind and wood, it governs blood and is associated with fire, so it is an important medicine for wind diseases, blood diseases, and sores. It can treat vomiting blood, nosebleed, bleeding, bloody diarrhea, metrorrhagia, hemorrhoids and fistula." "Compendium of Materia Medica" says, "For all symptoms of blood loss, whether it has stopped or not, or the heat that wants to go but cannot, stir-fry Schizonepeta until it turns black, and it can stop it. Generally speaking, spicy and fragrant can disperse wind, bitter and warm can clear blood, and it is a blood-stroke medicine. Therefore, later generations often use this product to treat various bleeding symptoms.

4. Clinical application

Treat common cold, runny nose, mild fever and chills.

Treat allergic dermatitis, urticaria, pruritus, eczema, psoriasis and other skin allergic immune diseases. Traditional Chinese medicine calls it a rash caused by the conflict between wind and blood.

Treat allergic rhinitis, asthma, and hematuria caused by allergic purpura.

Treat ulcer bleeding, bronchiectasis hemoptysis and menorrhagia, etc.