This product is a perennial herbaceous plant of the Asteraceae family Rhaponticum uniflorum (Rhaponticum uniflorum (L.) DC.) and Echinops latifolius >Tausch) root. Qizhou fistula disease: Reed is mainly produced in Northeast, North China and Northwest China; blue spiny head is mainly produced in Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Hubei and other places. Excavate in autumn, remove residual stems and fibrous roots, wash, slice and dry in the sun.

[Property]

bitter, cold. act on stomach channel.

[Efficacy]

clearing heat and removing toxin, eliminating carbuncle and dissipating stagnation, promoting lactation.

1. For carbuncle sores, acute mastitis swelling and pain. This product is bitter in cold diarrhea, so it has the effect of clearing heat and removing toxin, eliminating carbuncle and dissipating stagnation, and is especially a good medicine for treating acute mastitis. Used to treat carbuncles and sores, often used together with Rhubarb Rhizoma, Forsythia, Tokyo Violet Herb and other medicines; used to treat acute mastitis For swelling and pain, it is often used together with medicines such as Gua Wei, Fritillaria Bulb, Dandelion.
2. Used for breast distending pain and lack of milk. This product has a bitter taste and reduces diarrhea, and has the function of dysmenorrheal promoting lactation, so it can be used for breast stagnation, unrestrained milk, and breast distending pain. It is often used with Pangolin Scales and Cowherb Seed and other medicines should be used together.

[Documentation]

1. Benjing: "Mainly skin heat toxin, malignant sores and hemorrhoids, fixed arthralgia, promoting lactation juice."
2. Bencao Congxin: "(Treatment ) Acute mastitis, back gangrene, scrofula, bloody defecation, expelling pus, tonifying blood, treating injuries, regenerating muscles and bones, applying incised wounds, stopping bleeding, and improving muscle growth. Jingmai

   [Usage and Dosage]

   3~12 grams. Decoct and take.

   [Precaution]

   It should not be taken by patients with qi deficiency, sore and ulcer, and pregnant women.

   [Modern Pharmacology]

   Qizhou fistula disease reed contains volatile oil, the main component isolated from it is ecdysterone. In vivo and in vitro experiments have shown significant antioxidant effects, which can improve the pathological indicators of stirred pulse atherosclerosis in many aspects and reduce lesions. In particular, it can restore the balance of prostacyclin/thromboxane A2, which is an important factor in inhibiting stirred pulse atherosclerosis.