Efficacy of rhubarb
Rhubarb, alias Chuanjun, general, blindly Chinese medicine. Bitter taste, cold nature, entering the stomach, large intestine and liver meridian. Chinese medicine attaches great importance to rhubarb, which is called "four donkey kong" with ginseng, aconite root and prepared rehmannia root, and is praised as "Zhang Fei in medicine". The main functions of rhubarb are purging heat and detoxicating, removing blood stasis and resolving hard mass, promoting gallbladder function and relieving jaundice, and it has a good effect on diseases such as conjunctival congestion and pain, damp-heat jaundice, dyspepsia, diarrhea, constipation due to excess heat, hematemesis, epistaxis, blood stasis and amenorrhea. It is advisable to stir-fry charcoal to stop bleeding clinically. However, it has a strong ability to endure bitter cold, so it should be used with caution by parturient, postpartum and weak.
From palace medical villages, doctors' works to folk prescriptions, from oral compatibility to external processing, rhubarb has been praised by doctors and patients for its effects of purging heat, relaxing bowels, relieving pain and removing blood stasis. The dosage forms are decoction, powder, pill, lotion, ointment, etc. Besides, rhubarb tea and rice wine are also health care products.
Taboo of rhubarb.
It is more appropriate for ordinary people to take1~ 5g each time; People with spleen and stomach weakness and deficiency-cold should avoid taking it; You can't take it too much, let alone take it for a long time.
Use this product to induce diarrhea, and it should be taken after decoction, or soaked in boiling water, otherwise the efficacy will be weakened.
After taking rhubarb, its pigment will be excreted with urine or sweat glands, so urine and sweat can appear yellow. In addition, after breast-feeding women take it, the baby sucks milk, which may cause diarrhea, and breast-feeding women should not take it. Because this product has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, women should also use it with caution before pregnancy, after pregnancy and during menstruation.