[Variety Source]

It is the rhizome of Sichuan Lovage Rhizome (Ligusticum chuanxiong Hort.), a perennial herbaceous plant of the Umbelliferae family. Mainly produced in Sichuan, it is artificially cultivated. Excavate in May, remove sediment, dry in the sun, and remove fibrous roots. Slice or stir-fry in wine.

[Property]

Acrid, warm. Act on liver, gallbladder and heart channels.

[Efficacy]

Invigorating blood and removing stagnation, dispelling wind to relieve pain.

[Indications]

1. It is used for the pain syndrome of blood stasis and stagnation. This product is pungent, dispersing and warming. It can not only activate blood circulation, but also move qi. It is a "blood middle qi medicine" and can "lower the regulation of Jingshui and relieve stagnation". Treats menstrual irregularities, amenorrhea, dysmenorrheal, postpartum stasis and abdominal pain in women. It is an important medicine for invigorating blood to regulate menstruation in gynecology. It is often used with Chinese Angelica, Peach Kernel, Cyperus, etc. If blood stasis amenorrhea, dysmenorrheal, match Red Peony Root, Peach Kernel, etc., such as Blood House Stasis-Expelling Decoction; if cold For blood stasis, use Cassia Central Bark, Chinese Angelica, etc., such as Furen Liangfang Meridian-Warming Decoction; If postpartum lochia does not work, stasis and abdominal pain, use Chinese Angelica, Peach Kernel, etc., such as Generation and Transformation Decoction . To treat liver depression, stagnation, and flank pain, Bupleurum, Peony Root, Cyperus, etc. are often used, such as Bupleurum soothing liver drink, if the heart is blocked and the chest is impediment, it is often used with Salvia, Cinnamon Twig, sandalwood > Wait. In modern times, compound formulas based on Sichuan Lovage Rhizome and Sichuan Lovage Rhizome have been used to treat colicky pain caused by coronary heart disease and have good curative effects. In addition, it can also be used for injuries in traumatology and sore and ulcers in surgery. To treat fall injuries, static blood swelling and pain, it is often used with Sanqi, frankincense, myrrh and the like to activate blood circulation and subduing swelling to relieve Pain; for treating carbuncle and ulcer that has become pus and is difficult to ulcerate due to deficiency, use Astragalus Root, Chinese Angelica, Gleditisia Spine, and expelling toxin to drain pus, such as Waike Zhengzong Pus-Draining Powder.
2. Used for headache, wind-dampness and numbness. This product's pungent temperature rises and disperses, which can "go up to the top" and dispelling wind to relieve pain. To treat headaches, regardless of wind-cold, wind-heat, wind-dampness, blood deficiency or blood stasis, it can be used with any combination of medicinals. The ancients said that "headache is inseparable from Sichuan Lovage Rhizome". To treat wind-dampness impediment diseases, limb pain and numbness, this product can "bypass the collaterals" to dispelling wind dredging collaterals and relieving pain. It is often used with dispelling wind dampness dredging medicines such as Pubescent Angelica, Cinnamon Twig, Saposhnikovia Root.
3. In modern clinical practice, intravenous infusion of Sichuan Lovage Rhizome injection is used to treat acute ischemic cerebrovascular disease, intravenous infusion of Sichuan Lovage Rhizome razine is used to treat traumatic brain syndrome; Sichuan Lovage Rhizome is used with long pepper
YAO> Made into cranial pain tablets to treat trigeminal neuralgia, vascular headache, sciatica, peripheral neuritis and other conditions.

[Documentation]

1. Benjing: "The main apoplexy enters the brain, agonizing arthralgia, muscular spasm, incised wound, the woman's blood is closed and childless."
2. Bencao Gangmu: "Sichuan Lovage Rhizome blood middle qi medicine... pungent to disperse it, so people with qi depression should take it. "Zuo Zhuan" says that Mai Ju and Ju Ju can protect against dampness and treat abdominal diseases of river fish. To treat dampness and diarrhea, add it every time The two flavors should be like a sound. If the blood dysentery has been relieved but the pain does not stop, it is qi depression. Add Xiong rhizome as an auxiliary to the medicine to regulate the qi and blood, and the disease will be stopped immediately."
3. Bencao Huiyan : "Sichuan Lovage Rhizome, ascending leader, descending Jingshui, opening stagnation in the middle, blood middle qi medicine, tasted to be used by Chinese Angelica, not only effective in treating blood, but also treating qi. It has been found that...it tastes pungent and has a yang nature, and the qi is good at flowing without being stagnant and sticky. Even if it enters the blood aspect, it can remove all wind and regulate all qi."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take, 3~10g.

[Precaution]

People with yin deficiency with effulgent fire, profuse sweating, and hypermenorrhea should use with caution.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains volatile oils, alkaloids (such as Sichuan Lovage Rhizome, etc.), phenolic substances (such as Ferula acid, etc.), as well as visfatin, vitamin A, folic acid, sterols, sucrose, fatty oils, etc.

1. Sichuan Lovage Rhizome can inhibit the contraction of vascular smooth muscle, expand the coronary stirred pulse, increase coronary blood flow, improve myocardial hypoxia and intestinal membrane microcirculation, and can reduce myocardial oxygen consumption, increase brain and Limb blood flow, reducing peripheral vascular resistance;
2. It can reduce platelet surface activity, inhibit platelet aggregation, and prevent the formation of thrombus;
3. It can strengthen the contraction of the isolated uterus in pregnant rabbits, and turn it into inhibition in large doses;
4. And can inhibit the contraction of small intestine;
5. decocted with water has a sedative effect on the central nervous system of animals;
6. and has a hypotensive effect;
7. has anti-vitamin E deficiency effect;
8. Ferula acid has a sedative effect on rabbits It has a certain adjustment effect on the immune system and can increase gamma globulin and T lymphocytes;
9. It has a significant protective effect on animal injuries caused by Co60 gamma rays and nitrogen mustard;
10. It has a significant protective effect on sonnei dysentery bacilli and large intestine bacilli. , and deformation, pus aeruginosa, disease caused by cold, paradisease caused by cold bacilli, etc. It has inhibitory effect.