[Variety Source]

This product is the above-ground part of motherwort herb (Leonurus heterophyllus Sweet), an annual or biennial herbaceous plant of the Lamiaceae family. Produced all over the country. It is usually harvested in summer when the stems and leaves are lush and the flowers have not yet bloomed or have just begun to bloom, cut into sections, and dried in the sun. Use raw or make a paste.

[Character]

Fresh motherwort herb: no stem in the seedling stage, basal leaves are round and heart-shaped, with 5 to 9 shallow lobes on the edge, and each lobe has 2 to 3 blunt teeth. In the early flowering stage, the stem is square-cylindrical, with many branches on the upper part, and is concave on all sides to form longitudinal grooves. It is 30-60cm long and 0.2-0.5cm in diameter. The surface is greenish-green; the texture is fresh and tender, and the middle part of the cross-section has pith. The leaves are alternately opposite and have stalks; the leaves are green, fresh and tender, and have juice when rubbed; the lower stem leaves are palmately 3-lobed, and the upper leaves are pinnately deeply lobed or shallowly lobed into 3 pieces, and the lobes are entire or have a few serrations. The smell is slight and the taste is slightly bitter.

Stem motherwort herb: The surface of the stem is gray-green or yellow-green; the body is light and tough, and the middle part of the cross section has a pith. The leaves are gray-green, often shriveled, broken, and easy to fall off. Verticillary inflorescences are axillary, with lavender florets, tubular calyx, and two-lipped corolla. The cut pieces are about 2cm long.

[Property]

Acrid and bitter, cool.

1. Bencao Shiyi: cold.
2. Bencao Mengquan: acrid and sweet, slightly warm, nontoxic.
3. Gangmu: acrid and slightly bitter, nontoxic.
4. Bencao Zheng: slightly bitter and slightly acrid. slightly cold, sexually lubricating.

act on heart channel bag, act on liver channel.

1. Bencao Huiyan: Hand, act on foot jueyin channel.
2. Yaopin Huayi: Act on liver and spleen channels, enveloping the three meridians.
3. Bencao Zaixin: act on heart, spleen and kidney channels.

[Efficacy]

invigorating blood to regulate menstruation, disinhibiting water and dispersing edema.

[Indications]

1. It is used for blood stagnation, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, poor menstruation, postpartum stasis, abdominal pain, lochiorrhea, etc. This product, Kuxie Xin Powder, mainly enters the blood aspect, is good at invigorating blood and resolving stasis and regulating menstruation. It is an important gynecological and postpartum medicine, so it is known as beneficial to mothers. It can be taken alone as an ointment, such as motherwort herb liquid extract or motherwort herb ointment. It is also often used with Chinese Angelica, Sichuan Lovage Rhizome, Red Peony Root, etc. to enhance the effect of invigorating blood to regulate menstruation, such as "Collection of Good Prescriptions" Yimu Pills. In modern times, this product combined with Purslane Herb has a good effect in treating gynecological postpartum metrorrhagia.
2. Used for edema, difficulty in urination. This product has diuretic and swelling properties. And because it has the effect of invigorating blood and resolving stasis, it is especially suitable for edema where water and stasis are mutually blocked. It can be used alone or together with lalang grass rhizome and Shiny Bugleweed. It is effective in treating nephritis in modern times.
3. In addition, this product can be used for injuries, sores, carbuncles, itchy skin, etc. It has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins and reducing swelling. It has been reported in modern times that it is effective in treating heart blood vessel diseases such as coronary heart disease.

[Documentation]

1. Benjing: "The stem is responsible for urticaria itching, and can be used as a bath soup."
2. Bencao Shiyi: "It is responsible for edema and discharge of water, as well as vicious swelling."
3. Bencao Gangmu: "Activating blood circulation, breaking blood stasis, regulating menstruation, removing toxin. Treating vaginal bleeding during pregnancy difficult delivery, placenta not falling, haemorrhage, hemorrhagic wind, hemorrhagic pain, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, hematuria , diarrhea, malnutrition, dysentery, hemorrhoids, internal damage to static blood, difficulty in defecation and urination.”

[Usage and Dosage]

Take 10-30g of it as a decoction, or boil it into a paste and put it into a pill. For external use, pound an appropriate amount for application or boil it in water for external washing.

[Precaution]

Pregnant women should not take this product. People with blood deficiency and no blood stasis should use with caution.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains motherwort herb base, Japanese betony herb base, motherwort herb base and other alkaloids, as well as flavonoids such as benzoic acid, large amounts of potassium chloride, lauric acid, vitamins and Basil Herb glycosides.

1. It has a significant excitatory effect on the uterus of various animals in vitro, in vivo, unpregnant, pregnant or postpartum, increasing the contraction frequency, amplitude and tension of the uterus.
2. The main ingredient is motherwort herb base, which can increase the coronary flow of the isolated guinea pig heart, slow down the heart rate, and improve microcirculation.
3. It has a significant inhibitory effect on all stages of experimental thrombosis.
4. Can dilate peripheral blood vessels and lower blood pressure.
5. It has a diuretic effect on anesthetized rabbits.
6. Water immersion agent has inhibitory effect on skin fungi.
7. motherwort herb total alkali was injected subcutaneously into rabbits at 30 mg/kg daily for 2 weeks. It had no effect on eating, defecation and body weight; the LD50 of intravenous injection in mice was 572.2±37.2 mg/kg.