This product is the aerial part of the annual herbaceous plant Schizonepeta (Schizonepeta tenuifolia Briq.) from the Lamiaceae family. It is mainly produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi, among other places. It is mostly cultivated artificially. Harvested in autumn and winter, it is dried in the shade and cut into segments. It is used raw, stir-fried to yellow, or stir-fried to scorch.

bubble_chart Properties and Meridians

Acrid, slightly warm. Act on lung and liver meridians.

bubble_chart Efficacy

Promoting eruption to disperse wind, eliminating sores, stir-frying to scorch to stop bleeding.

bubble_chart Indications

1. is used for external contraction exterior pattern. This product is pungent and dispersing with a fragrant aroma, excels at releasing the exterior and dispelling wind, and is slightly warm without being harsh, with a gentle medicinal property, suitable for both exterior cold and exterior heat. It is used to treat wind-cold common cold, aversion to cold with fever, headache without sweating, often combined with Saposhnikovia Root, Notopterygium, Pubescent Angelica, and other herbs, such as Schizonepeta and Saposhnikovia Toxin-Vanquishing Powder; for treating wind-heat common cold, headache, red eyes, it is often combined with pungent-cool exterior-releasing herbs like Lonicera, Forsythia, Mentha, and other herbs, such as Lonicera and Forsythia Powder.
2. It is used for measles that fail to erupt and rubella with cutaneous pruritus. This product is light and dispersing, dispels wind and relieves itching, and promotes the dispersion of rash toxins.
3. It is used to treat exterior pathogens constricting the exterior, measles in children that fail to erupt, often combined with Cicada Slough, Mentha, Arnebia, and other herbs, such as the promoting eruption decoction; combined with Sophora, Saposhnikovia Root, Red Peony Root, and others, it also treats rubella with cutaneous pruritus or eczema with itching and pain, such as Wind-Dispersing Powder.
4. It is used for sores and ulcers in the early stages accompanied by exterior pattern. This product disperses wind and releases the exterior, and also has the ability to reduce sores, so it can be used for sores and ulcers in the early stages, especially those leaning towards wind-cold, often combined with Notopterygium, Sichuan Lovage Rhizome, Pubescent Angelica, and other herbs, such as Toxin-Vanquishing Powder; for those leaning towards wind-heat, it is often combined with Lonicera, Forsythia, Bupleurum, and other herbs, such as Toxin-Vanquishing Powder.
5. It is used for vomiting blood, nosebleeds, and bloody stools. This product, when stir-fried to scorch, excels at regulating blood and stopping bleeding, and can be used for various bleeding conditions. For treating reckless movement of blood due to heat, hematemesis, and nosebleeds, it is often combined with Unprocessed Rehmannia Root, lalang grass rhizome, Platycladus, and other blood-cooling hemostatic herbs; for treating bloody stools and hemorrhoidal bleeding, it is often combined with Sanguisorba, Sophora Flower, Skullcap Root charcoal, and others; for treating women's menorrhagia and metrostaxis, it can be combined with carbonized windmill-palm petiole, Carbonized Human Hair, lotus seed pot charcoal, and other herbs that stem metrorrhagia and stop bleeding.

bubble_chart Documentation

1. Benjing: "Treats cold and heat, scrofula, sores, stops static blood, and alleviates fixed arthralgia."
2. Bencao Gangmu: "Disperses wind-heat, clears the head and eyes, benefits the throat, reduces swelling and sores, treats stiff neck, dark spots in the eyes, sores in the private parts, hematemesis, nosebleeds, bleeding, bloody dysentery, menorrhagia, and hemorrhoids."

bubble_chart Usage and Dosage

Decoct for oral administration, 3-10g, should not be decocted for a long time. Use raw for promoting eruption and treating sores; use stir-fried for hemostasis.

bubble_chart Modern Pharmacology

This product contains volatile oils, the main components of which are dextro-Mentha ketone, racemic Mentha ketone, and a small amount of dextro-limonene.

1. Schizonepeta decoction can enhance skin blood circulation, increase sweat gland secretion, and has a mild antipyretic effect.
2. It has a strong inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus and diphtheria bacilli, and a certain inhibitory effect on cold-damage disease bacilli, dysentery bacilli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and human-type subcutaneous node bacilli.
3. Schizonepeta charcoal has a hemostatic effect.
4. The methanol and ethyl acetate extracts of Schizonepeta have certain analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects, with the latter being stronger.