This product is a perennial herbaceous plant of the Zingiberaceae family, Curcuma Root (Curcuma wenyujin Y. H. Chen et C. Ling), Turmeric (C. longa L.), Guangxi Zedoary Rhizome (C. kwangsiensis S. G. Lee et C. F. Liang) or Zedoary Rhizome (C. phaeocaulis Val.). Mainly produced in Zhejiang and Sichuan. Excavate after the stems and leaves wither in winter, pick the roots, remove the fine roots, steam or boil until they are thoroughly cooked and dry. Slice or break, use raw, or stir-fry with alum water.

The medicinal varieties of Curcuma Root are divided into Guangzhou Curcuma Root (yellow Curcuma Root) and Sichuan Curcuma Root (black Curcuma Root). Guangzhou Curcuma Root is mainly produced in Sichuan, and is a tuberous root of Curcuma Root with a bright yellow color; Sichuan Curcuma Root is mainly produced in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, also known as Wen Curcuma Root, and is a tuberous root of Curcuma Root with a dark gray color. The effects of the two are similar but slightly different. Curcuma Root tends to regulate qi and relieving depression; Curcuma Root tends to invigorating blood and resolving stasis.

Acrid and bitter, cold. Act on liver, gallbladder and heart channels.

[Efficacy]

invigorating blood and removing stagnation, relieving pain, clearing heart, promoting yin and removing jaundice, cooling blood.

[Indications]

1. It is used for chest, flank and abdominal pain caused by qi stagnation and blood stasis. The Xin Neng Powder of this taste can not only activate blood circulation, but also regulate qi and relieve depression, thereby achieving pain relief. It is often used with Aucklandia Root. For patients with qi depression, use Aucklandia Root. For patients with blood depression, use Curcuma Root. That is, Yizong jinjian is reversed. Mujin Powder; it is also often used clinically with combinations of medicinals such as Salvia, Bupleurum, and Cyperus. To treat dysmenorrhea and breast bloating in women, liver depression, heat, and blood stasis, it can be used with Bupleurum and hawthorn fruit, such as Fuqingzhu Gynecology Xuanyu Tongjing Decoction; treats chest and hypochondriasis injury, chest tightness and pain, with Salvia, Yanhu, Bitter Apricot Seed and so on, soothing liver ventilating lung, dredging collaterals and relieving pain; to treat hypochondriac syndrome, use turtle carapace and Zedoary RhizomeWait to remove blood stasis and eliminate symptoms.
2. Used for Rebing unconsciousness, the syndrome of epilepsy with phlegm blockage. This product is pungent and bitter, can relieve depression and resuscitation, and its nature is cold, and it also has the effect of clearing the heart. To treat dampness warm disease, dampness turbidity and closed heart orifices, use Acorus, Shanzhi, etc., such as Acorus Curcuma Root Decoction; For the treatment of mania and epilepsy with phlegm and fire in the heart, use Alum, such as Alum and Curcuma Pill.
3. For syndrome/pattern of dampness-heat in liver and gallbladder. This product is cold in nature and enters the liver and gallbladder meridian, clearing heat and promoting function of gallbladder and reducing yellowing. To treat liver-gallbladder dampness-heat jaundice, use Virgate Wormwood, Gardenia, etc.; if dampness-heat causes gallstones caused by torment, often use Christina Loosestrife etc. are used to promote gallbladder and expel stones.
4. Used for hematemesis, epistaxis and vicarious menstruation in women and hemorrhagic syndrome due to the reversal of qi and fire. It tastes bitter and pungent and is cold in nature. It can smoothen Qi, reduce fire, cool blood and stop bleeding. Often paired with Unprocessed Rehmannia Root, Gardenia, etc., such as Yixue Xinwu Unprocessed Rehmannia Root Yellow Soup; If heat accumulation in lower energizer damages hematuria and blood stranguria, it can also be used, often with Unprocessed Rehmannia Root, Small Thistle, etc. . In modern clinical practice, this product is mainly used to treat stone disease, and is effective for dampness-heat type, qi stagnation and blood stasis type. Curcuma Root powder or tablets are also used to treat premature beats.

[Documentation]

1. Bencao Gangmu: "Cure abdominal pain in blood, qi and heart, postpartum septicemia, heart attack, and madness."
2. "Wucao Jingshu": "Curcuma Root, This Qi medicine originally belongs to the blood aspect, and it can treat all the hemorrhagic syndromes mentioned above. It is said that blood ascends, which all belong to the internal heat and fire. This medicine can descend qi, and the blood will not move recklessly. "
3. Bencao Beiyao: "Moving qi, relieves depression, releases blood, breaks blood stasis. Cools the heart and heat, dissipates liver depression, and cures women's Jingmai retrograde motion."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take, 5-12g; grind into powder and take, 2-5g.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains volatile oil, Turmeric, starch, fatty oil, etc.

• Curcuma Root has the effect of alleviating hyperlipidemia, and can significantly prevent the formation of membrane patches in the main stirred pulse, coronal stirred pulse and branches of rabbits;
• can promote the secretion and excretion of gall fel , and can inhibit most microorganisms existing in the gallbladder;
• It has analgesic effect;
• Turmeric hormone has a protective effect on liver injury;
• It can significantly expand the microvessels and arteries and veins of the mouse intestinal membrane, and affect It has anti-inflammatory effects on immune function.