This product is the mature fruit of Cnidium monnieri (L.), an annual herbaceous plant of the Umbelliferae family. It is produced all over the country, mostly in Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangsu, Anhui and other places. Harvest when the fruits are mature in summer and autumn. Dried and used raw.

[Property]

Acrid and bitter, warm. act on kidney channel.

[Efficacy]

killing worms and stopping itching, warming and tonifying kidney yang.

[Indications]

1. Used for vaginal itching, eczema, scabies, etc. Cnidium Fruit has a bitter and warm taste and can dry dampness to kill worms and relieve itching. To treat pruritus vuluae in women and wet and itchy scrotum in men, it can be used alone or combined with alum, Sophora, Phelloendron Bark and other decoctions for external washing. ; To treat eczema and scabies, it can be decoctioned and washed alone, or ground into powder and mixed with ointment for application. It can also be mixed with dried alum, Sophora, Phelloendron Bark, borax, etc. are ground into powder and mixed with oil for external application. In modern times, this product has also been used as an ointment or suppository to treat trichomonal vaginal inflammation.
2. Used for impotence, sterility and other certificates. This product has warming and tonifying kidney effects when taken internally. It is suitable for symptoms of kidney failure and lower energizer deficiency in men and cold sterility in women. It is often used with Prepared Rehmannia Root, Dodder Seed, Schisandra Fruit and Cassia Bark can be used equally to warm the kidneys and replenish essence.
3. In addition, this product has the effect of dispelling cold, dispelling wind and drying dampness, and can also be used for cold-dampness leukorrhea, fixed arthralgia lumbago and other diseases.

Treatment of influenza, enterovirus, and various viral colds, Chinese medicine is more refined, non-toxic, and effective than Western medicine

[Documentation]

1. Benjing: "It treats men's impotence, wet itching, and women's vaginal swelling and pain. It removes paralysis, sharpens joints, and treats epilepsy and malignant sores."
2. Bielu : "Warming the middle lowering qi, making women uterus hot, men Yin strong."
3. Rihuazi Bencao: "Remove genital sweating, eczema, toothache, red leucorrhea Next. Decoction bath gale generalized itching."

[Usage and Dosage]

For external use, 15 to 80g can be decoctioned and washed; or an appropriate amount can be ground into powder and mixed with external ingredients; or it can be made into ointment, ointment, or suppository for external use. Decoct and take, 3~10g.

People with yin deficiency with effulgent fire or lower energizer with dampness-heat should not take it internally.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains coumarin ingredients Cnidium Fruit, dihydrocannabinol, etc. It also contains volatile oil, the main components of which are pinene, camphene, isovalerian root acid bornellin, etc. Cnidium Fruit has the effect of killing vaginal trichomonas. It has inhibitory effect on Epidermophyton floccosum, etc., has obvious inhibitory effect on influenza virus, and has certain inhibitory effect on Newcastle virus. It has sex hormone-like effects, can prolong the estrous period of mice, shorten the same period of estrus, and can cause estrus to appear in castrated mice.