1, pregnant women can't eat Chuanxiong.
Chuanxiong is a traditional Chinese medicine plant, which is often used to promote blood circulation, dispel wind and relieve pain. Chuanxiong is pungent, warm, fragrant and dry, which can disperse when walking and reach the top when ascending. Enter the blood again and descend to the sea of blood. It has a wide range of functions of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and is suitable for various diseases due to blood stasis. It has a good effect of expelling wind and relieving pain, and can be used to treat headache caused by head wind and rheumatic joint pain. It used to be said that Chuanxiong is a qi medicine in the blood, and almost said that it has the functions of eliminating phlegm and relieving depression, dredging menstruation and relieving pain. Xinwensheng Powder is not suitable for people with yin deficiency and liver yang. Menstruation and pregnant women are also taboo.
Chuanxiong rhizome is used for chest pain, rheumatic joint pain, abdominal mass, sore and swelling, traumatic injury, irregular menstruation, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, postpartum stasis and pain. Chuanxiong Xin San Wen Tong has a wide range of functions, such as promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. It is suitable for all kinds of blood stasis, especially for regulating menstruation in gynecology. It is used for irregular menstruation, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, and is often used with herbs such as Angelica sinensis. For chest and hypochondriac pain, it can be combined with Bupleurum and Rhizoma Cyperi. For rheumatism and arthralgia, it can be combined with Notopterygium and Radix Angelicae Pubescentis. For abdominal mass, it can be combined with Sanliang and Zedoary. For sore, swelling, pain and traumatic injury, it can be combined with frankincense and myrrh.
In terms of diet and population, patients with wind-cold headache, wind-heat headache, migraine, angioneurotic headache and other diseases are suitable for eating. However, patients with hypertensive headache, brain tumor headache, liver-fire headache and those with yin deficiency and excessive fire should not eat it.
2, the efficacy of Chuanxiong.
(1) Promoting blood circulation and qi circulation
① Used for angina pectoris of coronary heart disease, with symptoms of chest tightness and tenderness in precordial area. Can be used in combination with safflower, salvia miltiorrhiza, Dalbergia odorifera, Paeonia lactiflora and Guanxin No.2 prescription.
② It can be used for diseases caused by qi stagnation and blood stasis, such as premenstrual period and polychromatic redness, which belongs to blood heat and can be used equally with Radix Rehmanniae, Cortex Moutan and Radix Angelicae Sinensis; Late menstruation, 1 ~ 2 months, 1 time, menstrual low back pain, abdominal pain, leucorrhea with multi-color and white, equivalent to angelica, processed ginger, Eucommia ulmoides and cinnamon.
③ Used for dysmenorrhea. If the abdominal pain in the front waist is severe and menstruation occurs 1 day after the pain, it is used together with Danggui, Ren Tao and Honghua. If amenorrhea is ineffective and there is no discomfort, it can be used with Angelica sinensis, Ren Tao, Zingiberis Rhizoma and Cinnamomi. For postpartum abdominal pain, it is equivalent to Angelica sinensis and Paojiang.
④ For traumatic injury and local swelling and pain, it can be used together with Gardenia, Peach kernel and safflower.
(2) expelling wind and relieving pain
① Cold and headache, which belongs to wind-cold, can be used with Schizonepeta, Saposhnikovia divaricata and Angelica dahurica; For wind-heat, it can be used with chrysanthemum and mint.
② Rheumatic joint pain can be used equally with Notopterygium, Radix Angelicae Pubescentis and Radix Saposhnikoviae.
(3) Promoting qi to relieve depression
① It is used for swelling and pain in the upper abdomen and ribs of cholecystitis, and can be used equally with Bupleurum and Scutellaria.
② Gastritis with epigastric pain, acid regurgitation and heartburn can be combined with Taraxacum and Radix Aucklandiae.
3. Pharmacological effects of Ligusticum Chuanxiong
1 and ligustrazine can dilate coronary artery and increase coronary blood flow; Dilate cerebral vessels, reduce vascular resistance, significantly increase blood flow in brain and limbs, and change microcirculation; It can also reduce the surface activity of platelets, inhibit platelet aggregation and prevent thrombosis.
2. The total alkaloids of Ligusticum Chuanxiong and Ligustrazine can reduce the peripheral vascular resistance of anesthetized dogs, and have a significant and lasting antihypertensive effect; It can significantly increase renal blood flow and delay the damage of chronic renal diseases; Dilate vascular smooth muscle.
3. Ferulic acid contained in Ligusticum Chuanxiong can inhibit uterine smooth muscle in high dose, and volatile oil and decoction have sedative effect.