Cogongrass rhizome has extremely high medicinal value, and it can also help us to alleviate many problems in our daily life. The following is the knowledge I brought to you about the efficacy and function of cogongrass rhizome. Welcome to reading.
The efficacy of cogongrass rhizome
Efficacy indication
Cooling blood to stop bleeding, clearing heat and diuresis. Treat fever, polydipsia, hematemesis, epistaxis, lung heat, dyspnea, stomach heat, gonorrhea, dysuria, edema and jaundice.
"Classic": "the main strain is deficiency, the middle energizer is supplemented, the qi is supplemented to remove blood stasis, the blood is closed to cold and heat, and urination is facilitated."
"Bielu": "Five stranguria, in addition to stomach heat, quench thirst, strengthen tendons, women collapse."
"Japanese Herbal Medicine": "Housewives have irregular menstruation and loose blood vessels."
Herbal Medicine in Southern Yunnan: "Stop vomiting blood and bleeding, treat bloody stranguria, facilitate urination, and stop women's bleeding."
Outline: "Stop vomiting and stop bleeding, typhoid fever, lung heat, dyspnea, edema, jaundice, hangover."
Ben Feng Jingyuan: "Treat epigastric pain with upper qi, five stranguria with pain and heat, and acne with dryness and purple."
Animal and plant folk medicine: "treating beriberi."
Cooling blood and stopping bleeding
Cogongrass rhizome is sweet in taste, cold in nature and good at cooling blood and stopping bleeding. It is mainly used for blood syndrome caused by wind, heat, dryness and other exogenous pathogens invading the human body, pathogenic heat injuring the pulse, forcing blood to rush into the ren, or fever due to long illness.
clearing heat and freeing strangury
Often due to eating spicy, hot, fat, sweet products, or drinking too much, it leads to damp heat, which pours into the bladder and gasifies it, or because the lower yin is unclean, dirty and damp pathogens invade the bladder, resulting in damp-heat stranguria. The main manifestations of heat stranguria are: short and red urine, burning and stabbing pain, drowning in yellow pool, less abdomen, acute swelling and pain, or cold and heat, bitter taste, nausea, low back pain and abdominal pain. Using cogongrass rhizome has the function of clearing heat and diuresis.
Stagnation of damp-heat
One of the functions of cogongrass rhizome is to clear heat and promote diuresis, so it can be used for excess heat syndrome of fever and unfavorable urination.
Eliminating dampness and jaundice
Because the evil of damp heat invades the human body, the body is dereliction of duty, and the spilled skin is jaundice. Or because of the evil of epidemic heat, fumigation of the liver and gallbladder, no right to relieve summer heat, blood stasis does not melt, yellow disease. Symptoms include yellow eyes like orange, bright color, fatigue, eating less, nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension, abdominal pain, hypochondriac pain, and yellow urine like strong tea. The application of cogongrass rhizome can clear damp-heat, benefit water and turn yellow.
Dispelling wind and diuresis
Fengshui edema, due to the invasion of wind-heat evil, the wind is confined to the lungs, the lungs can't declare it, and the waterways are impassable, so that the wind inhibits water resistance and fengshui fights and overflows the skin, which is the syndrome of edema. Its manifestations are: edema of eyes and eyelids, followed by swelling of limbs and whole body, acute onset, sore limbs, unfavorable urination, aversion to cold and fever, sore throat, yellow fur and rapid pulse. Use cogongrass rhizome to cool the wind and heat, diuretic and detumescence. 6. Clearing lung and relieving cough
Pathogenic fire burns the lungs, injures body fluids and blocks the airway, so that the lungs have no right to descend. Its symptoms can be seen as follows: severe cough, thick yellow sputum, dry nasopharynx, red face and lips, polydipsia and constipation. Cogongrass rhizome can clear lung-heat evil, clear golden qi and relieve cough.
Stomach heat vomiting
The stomach is yang soil, and it is fond of dryness. If overeating is fragrant and dry baked goods, it can help heat to hurt yin, turn fire into inflammation, and make stomach qi go against the wind, or stomach heat go up, which is manifested as vomiting immediately after eating, frequent vomiting, accompanied by red lips, dry mouth and thirst, red tongue with yellow fur and rapid pulse. Cogongrass rhizome can clear stomach heat, and heat can clear vomit.
clear heat and promote saliva
For fever, polydipsia, vomiting due to stomach heat and cough due to lung heat, it is often used with reed root. This product is sweet and cold, which does not harm the stomach, and diuresis does not harm the yin. It is suitable for heat syndrome of body fluid deficiency. Cogongrass rhizome has the effects of tonifying middle energizer, benefiting qi and diuresis, so it is often used as a medicinal diet material. For example, Jinsheng Maogen Decoction, which is made of fresh cogongrass rhizome, watermelon peel and lean meat, not only tastes delicious, but also has the effects of nourishing yin, promoting fluid production, diuresis and lowering blood pressure. It can be used to treat lung injury, dry mouth, dry throat, sore throat, dry skin or desquamation, dry stool, short and red urine, hemoptysis, hematemesis, hematuria, etc. It is a good product for autumn dryness.
Sexual taste
Sweet and cold.
Classic: sweet and cold.
"No recording": non-toxic.
Materia Medica is: sweet and cool.
Herbal rejuvenation: sweet and bitter, cold and non-toxic.
Meridian tropism
Into the lungs, stomach and small intestine.
Southern Yunnan herbs: into the stomach and small intestine.
Classic of Materia Medica: At the beginning, the yin is less, the foot is too yin, and Yangming.
Herbal Medicine: Starting from Shaoyin and Taiyin, entering Taiyin and Yangming meridians.
Materia Medica Seeking Truth: Entering the Stomach and Liver.
The role of cogongrass rhizome
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that imperata rhizome can treat fever, polydipsia, hematemesis, epistaxis, lung heat, dyspnea, stomach heat, gonorrhea, mobility inconvenience, edema, jaundice and so on. According to modern pharmacology, it contains starch, a lot of sucrose, glucose and a little fructose, xylose, citric acid, oxalic acid and malic acid. Its rhizome also contains mannitol, Coix lachryma-jobi and galangin. Its rich potassium salt has good diuretic effect, and its decoction has obvious bacteriostatic effect on some Shigella dysenteriae. Modern clinical research has proved that this product has good hemostatic, diuretic and anti-infection effects, and also has good curative effect on viral hepatitis. Many doctors believe that it can clear away heat and promote diuresis without hurting the kidney.
Diuretic action
The water decoction and water immersion of imperata rhizome have diuretic effect on normal rabbits, and the diuretic effect is the most obvious after 5- 10, but not obvious after 20 days. However, the dosage used, especially the water consumption of animals, is not clear, and there is no control group, which needs further study. Some people think that the diuretic effect of imperata rhizome is related to its rich potassium salt.
Cogongrass rhizome boiled water. After eating, it can increase the urine of the body. Excrete more toxins from the body.
Hemostatic and blood cooling effects
Cogongrass rhizome powder can obviously shorten the calcium recovery time of rabbit plasma. However, the rhizome of cogongrass contains more calcium, which may interfere with the experimental results. Spraying cogongrass rhizome powder on the bleeding part of the femoral artery of dogs or rabbits and pressing 1-2 minutes can stop bleeding. Clinical observation on the treatment of epistaxis with imperata rhizome.
Very suitable for people who often have nosebleeds in summer. People who often have nosebleeds in summer are because the blood is hot and dry. At this time, you need to eat more cogongrass rhizome, which can achieve the effect of enriching blood.
Antibiotic action
The decoction of cogongrass rhizome has obvious inhibitory effect on Shigella flexneri and Shigella sonnei in vitro, but has no effect on Shigella flexneri and Shigella Shule.
Effect on myocardial uptake of 86Rb
Intraluminal injection of water-alcohol comprehensive extract of imperata rhizome can increase the myocardial uptake of 86Rb in mice.
Pharmacotoxicology
After 36 hours, the rabbit's activity was inhibited, its movement was slow, and its breathing increased, but it recovered quickly. Intravenous injection of 10- 15g/kg leads to increased breathing and exercise inhibition. After 1 hour, he recovered gradually, and the dose increased to 25g/kg, and he died after 6 hours.
Conducive to the repair and regeneration of hepatocytes.
Because cogongrass rhizome has anti-inflammatory effect, it can eliminate inflammation and help to alleviate liver injury for patients with hepatitis B, so it can be used as a drug for hepatitis B.
Cogongrass rhizome is especially good for the liver. Because cogongrass rhizome has the function of clearing liver and detoxifying. These functions are especially needed by the liver. Eating regularly is especially good for the liver.
Eliminate jaundice
It is recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica that cogongrass rhizome can relieve jaundice and hangover, and modern medical research has also proved this point. Therefore, after taking cogongrass rhizome, the jaundice index of patients with jaundice turned normal in an average of 20. 15 days, and no side effects were found.
Other functions
Coix seed contained in cogongrass rhizome can inhibit the contraction and metabolism of skeletal muscle. In addition, it has sedative, antipyretic and analgesic effects, and has curative effects on stomach heat, fever, polydipsia, nausea and vomiting, lung heat, asthma and cough, edema and jaundice.
There are many ways to eat cogongrass rhizome, but you need to pay attention to its taboos and other related matters when eating.
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