In addition, clove has the effects of warming middle warmer, dispelling cold and relieving pain, so it can be used to treat stomach cold and abdominal cold pain. Lilac is pungent and enters the kidney meridian, which has the effect of warming the kidney and helping the yang. It can be combined with Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata, Cortex Cinnamomi, Herba Epimedii, etc. to treat male impotence and female palace cold.
Efficacy and function of clove
Today, Bian Xiao brings you the efficacy and function of cloves. Clove has many medicinal effects, which can not only treat vomiting and nausea, but also have a certain curative effect on hernia and tinea, and clove is also good for the digestive system. Next, Bian Xiao will introduce the efficacy and function of cloves to you.
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Lilac is a deciduous shrub of Syringa in Oleaceae. It is a famous garden flower with huge inflorescence, lush flowers, elegant and fragrant color, strong habit and simple cultivation, and is widely cultivated and applied in gardens. Clove originated from northeast to southwest China, and there are still many wild species, such as Syringa microphylla, Syringa tomentosa, Syringa fragrans, Syringa oblata and Syringa liaotungensis, which can be transplanted and cultivated. Lilac is an ornamental plant, which is appreciated by elegant customs. When the flowers bloom, the fragrance is overflowing. Exposed in courtyards and gardens, decorated with potted plants in libraries and halls, or inserted as cut flowers will make people feel beautiful and pleasing to the eye.
Cloves are mainly used as medicinal materials to treat nausea, vomiting and nausea. Cloves can be used not only as medicine, but also as food cooking and accessories.
In terms of eating, cloves are often used to flavor food (especially meat and bread) because of their rich aroma and spicy taste. It is a special flavoring agent for Christmas food in Europe and America, and is often used as an auxiliary material for cooking flavored dishes, stews and pickles in China.
The efficacy of clove
There are many kinds of lilacs, and the real medicinal lilacs are myrtaceae plants (common ornamental flowers and trees are Oleaceae plants, which should be distinguished), buds and fruits are used as medicine.
People call the buds of lilacs male lilacs and the ripe fruits female lilacs. Their usage is also different.
Cloves are usually used. Lilac buds begin to turn white, gradually turn green, and can be harvested when they finally turn bright red. Remove the pedicels from the collected flower buds and dry them in the sun. It is best to have large flowers, strong fragrance and be able to sink in water.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that clove is pungent and warm, which has the functions of warming the middle warmer, reducing adverse reactions, tonifying kidney and strengthening yang. It is also a good medicine for warming the stomach, and has a good effect on stomachache, vomiting, hiccup, abdominal pain, diarrhea and cold dysmenorrhea caused by cold pathogens.
It can also relieve abdominal flatulence, enhance digestion, and relieve nausea and vomiting, especially the symptoms of pregnant women.
Clove oil contained in clove has inhibitory effect on some fungi, and clove can also be used for external use, which has certain curative effect on dermatoses such as beriberi.
In ancient times, cloves were often used as medicine for fragrant mouth. Song Wenzhi, a court poet in the Tang Dynasty, often used cloves in his mouth to cover up his bad breath, hoping to please Wu Zetian. The method of 1-2 flap in the mouth is still used to treat halitosis, and the effect is very good. People with bad breath might as well try it.
It mainly contains volatile oil, clove oil and other ingredients.
Function of clove
(A) the impact on the digestive system
Anti-gastric ulcer: Clove can inhibit the formation of experimental gastric ulcer in rats. The volatile oils of clove and eugenol can significantly increase gastric mucus secretion, but the acidity does not increase. Eugenol may be an anti-ulcer active ingredient.
Jianwei: Cloves can reduce flatulence, enhance digestion and reduce nausea and vomiting.
Inhibition of intestinal excitability: Lilac decoction can inhibit the spontaneous contraction of isolated rabbit intestine and resist the excitatory effect of acetylcholine and histamine on isolated intestine.
Anti-diarrhea: the water extracts of clove and eugenol can antagonize the diarrhea of large intestine and intestinal cavity effusion caused by senna or castor oil.
(2) anesthesia, analgesia, antipyretic and anti-inflammatory.
Anesthesia: Eugenol has anesthetic effect on young shrimp and carp. Eugenol can inhibit the compound action potential of A, B and C fibers in rat vagus nerve, which may be one of the mechanisms of clove stopping teeth. Eugenol can block the transmission of sciatic nerve in bullfrog, but it does not affect the postsynaptic membrane reaction of muscle, showing a selective anesthetic effect on nerve fibers.
Intravenous injection of eugenol in rabbits can produce anesthetic and anticonvulsant effects, but it can inhibit breathing and lower blood pressure. So eugenol is only used for local anesthesia, not for general anesthesia.
Analgesia: Mouse decoction has analgesic effect.
Antipyretic: Eugenol has antipyretic effect on rabbits, and it is stronger than acetaminophen. Its mechanism of action is to produce antipyretic effect through PG synthesis in brain.
Anti-inflammatory: Both ether extract and water extract of clove can inhibit the swelling of mouse ear shell and increase capillary permeability. Oral administration in rats can inhibit experimental plantar swelling.
The analgesic, antipyretic and anti-inflammatory mechanisms of clove may be related to antioxidation, scavenging free radicals and inhibiting cyclooxygenase and lipoxygenase activities.
(3) Anticoagulation and antithrombosis
Anti-aggregation: Eugenol and acetoeugenol can inhibit platelet aggregation and whole blood aggregation induced by arachidonic acid in rabbits and humans, and inhibit ATP release. Its anti-aggregation mechanism is to inhibit the synthesis of TXB in platelets.
Anticoagulation: Oral administration of its water extract can prolong plasma prothrombin time, thrombin time and coagulation factor VIII time, and shorten prothrombin consumption time and coagulation factor V time.
Anti-thrombosis: Oral administration of its water extract can prolong the thrombosis time of electrically stimulating the carotid artery in mice.
(4) Resistance to pathogens
Antibacterial and antiviral: clove oil and eugenol have broad-spectrum antibacterial effects. The ellagitannin in clove has anti-herpes simplex virus effect.
Antifungal: Its decoction or ethanol extract has broad-spectrum antifungal effect or killing effect. Eugenol has a significant killing effect on Candida albicans and Cryptococcus neoformans.
Parasite killing: Its water extract can kill roundworms in dogs and pigs. Clove oil is stronger than decoction.
Killing trichomonas: clove oil, eugenol and acetoeugenol have a strong killing effect on trichomonas.
(5) wake up
Lilac flowers are fragrant and have the effect of sobering up. Compendium of Materia Medica contains: "Cloves kill alcoholism". Zou Shengheng, a poet in the Qing Dynasty, also said in Lilac Rhyme: "It is difficult to break the eaves, but it is easy to wake up when you are drunk." It is said that the lilac tree is tall and dense, and the soft branches are intertwined, making it difficult to split; The rich aroma wafted by, making people who drank too much wake up.
(6) The temperature drops.
Lilac is pungent and warm, enters the spleen and stomach, can warm the middle and dispel cold, and is good at reducing adverse reactions. It is an important medicine for treating colds, vomiting and burps.
(7) Warming kidney and strengthening yang
This product is warm in nature and enters the kidney meridian. "Rihuazi Materia Medica" contains: "Treating kidney qi, strengthening yang and warming waist and knees." Therefore, it has the effect of warming kidney and strengthening yang, and is often used for impotence, chills, running dolphins and cold pain in waist and legs.
(8) promoting qi circulation and relieving pain
This taste is pungent and fragrant, and it can promote qi circulation and relieve pain. Commonly used for chest pain, abdominal pain, abdominal pain and hernia pain. Clove is a good traditional Chinese medicine for anesthesia and pain relief.
(9) Wake up and begin to understand.
Lilacs are fragrant and warm. Xinxingxing powder, with temperature rising, cold and dampness, aromatic resuscitation, dryness and dampness hiding dirt. "Materia Medica Rejuvenates" says: "Open nine orifices and relax your qi." Therefore, it has the power to awaken and begin to understand.
Clove can be used to damp and turbid pathogenic factors, block enlightenment, disturb the spirit, cause delirium, pus and phlegm, nausea and vomiting, white and greasy tongue coating and heavy and slippery pulse.
(10) Others
Inhibitory effect of (1) on smooth muscle: clove oil, eugenol, acetoeugenol and eugenol aqueous solution can inhibit the contraction of vascular smooth muscle, intestinal smooth muscle, guinea pig trachea smooth muscle and isolated uterine smooth muscle.
(2) Its ammonia water extract can enhance insulin activity.
(3) Among them, ellagitannin can reduce the concentration of urea in blood.
(4) Eugenol is a testosterone -5α- reductase inhibitor, which can be used to prevent and treat alopecia.
Treatment of sudden heartburn: 3 grams of clove powder, taken with wine, effective.
Treatment of female collapse: 62g of clove, 2 liters of wine, decocted into 1 liter, taken in several times.
Treatment of nasal polyps: wrap crushed cloves in cotton and stuff them in the nose.
Lip and tongue sore: cloves are ground into fine powder, wrapped in cotton and contained in the mouth.
Treatment of breast pain: take a spoonful of clove powder with water.
Conclusion: After reading this article, I believe everyone has a certain understanding and understanding of the efficacy and function of clove. In fact, clove, as a medicinal material, has many good effects and functions, which can eliminate bad breath, wake up and enlighten people. Cloves can also warm the kidneys and help sober up. You can use cloves as medicine when you need them.