Efficacy and function of raw rhubarb
1. Raw rhubarb is a very common Chinese herbal medicine.
Raw rhubarb is a very common Chinese herbal medicine. The efficacy and function of rhubarb are outstanding. Rhubarb has strong anti-infection, anti-aging and anti-oxidation, immunomodulation, anti-inflammation, antipyretic, anti-pathogenic microorganisms, reducing blood lipid, hemostasis, anti-gastric and duodenal ulcer, promoting pancreatic juice secretion, inhibiting pancreatic enzyme activity, benefiting gallbladder, protecting liver and stopping diarrhea.
Raw rhubarb has anti-infection effect, which can inhibit a variety of Gram-positive bacteria and Gram-negative bacteria, among which Staphylococcus and Streptococcus are the most sensitive, followed by diphtheria, typhoid and paratyphoid, pneumococcus and Shigella.
Raw rhubarb can increase intestinal peristalsis, inhibit intestinal water absorption and promote defecation. Has the effects of stopping bleeding, protecting liver, lowering blood pressure and lowering serum cholesterol.
2. The main effects of rhubarb
Purging diarrhea to attack accumulation, clearing heat and purging fire, cooling blood and detoxifying, removing blood stasis and dredging collaterals. It can be used for external treatment of constipation due to excess heat, abdominal pain due to stagnation, diarrhea, jaundice due to damp heat, vomiting due to blood heat, conjunctival congestion, abdominal pain due to intestinal carbuncle, furuncle, amenorrhea due to blood stasis, traumatic injury, and scald caused by fire and water. Raw rhubarb can purge heat and dredge intestines, remove blood stasis and dredge menstruation, and cool blood and detoxify. It can be used for the external treatment of amenorrhea due to blood stasis, traumatic injury, damp-heat jaundice, hematemesis due to blood heat, constipation due to excess heat, abdominal pain due to stagnation, intestinal carbuncle, diarrhea, conjunctival congestion, sore throat, carbuncle, and scald caused by fire and water. Upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Rhubarb charcoal cools blood, removes blood stasis and stops bleeding. It is used for patients with blood stasis and bleeding. Wine rhubarb is good at clearing the upper energizer and dissipating heat, and is used for red eyes, sore throat and swollen gums. Cooked rhubarb relieves diarrhea, purges fire and detoxifies, and is used for fire sores. Rhubarb charcoal is used for cooling blood, removing blood stasis and stopping bleeding, and is used for patients with blood stasis and bleeding.
3. Precautions for eating raw rhubarb
This product is bitter and cold, easy to hurt stomach qi, and should be used with caution for those with weak spleen and stomach; Women should not use it during pregnancy, menstrual period and lactation.
Spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, blood deficiency and qi deficiency, women should use it with caution before pregnancy, postpartum, menstrual period and lactation. Side effects such as nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain can occur when raw rhubarb is taken orally, which can generally be relieved after stopping taking medicine.
What are the characteristics of rhubarb in treating constipation?
The mechanism of rhubarb compound in treating constipation is completely consistent with the three mechanisms of western medicine in treating constipation. Rhubarb itself and its metabolites can directly stimulate the colon wall to play the role of stimulating laxative; Can rhubarb inhibit intracellular Na+? K+？ Atpase activity makes water stay in intestinal cavity, which plays the role of cathartic; Huomaren pill with rhubarb, hemp seed and almond can be used as lubricating laxatives.
Treating constipation with excess secret, deficiency secret and mixture of excess and deficiency can be treated with rhubarb compound. The secret of heat can be four-shun cold drinks, and those who are angry can use Geliang powder or Xiaochengqi decoction. The secret of qi: six grinding soup. Cold secret recipe: Dahuang Fuzi decoction plus semi-sulfur pills. Virtual secret: qi deficiency constipation: adding Huang Longtang and Dangshen; Constipation due to blood deficiency: Huang Longtang; Constipation due to yin deficiency: Zengye Chengqi Decoction is flavored; The mixture of reality and reality: Huang Longtang Chemical Cutting: All the above prescriptions contain rhubarb.
Indications are wider than western medicine, and all constipation that can be treated by internal medicine can be treated with rhubarb, and there are many forms of rhubarb. No contraindications: even pregnant women? There are no meteorites or meteorites. Is there a reason? The syndrome differentiation compound containing rhubarb can also be used with caution. There are many contraindications in western medicine for constipation, such as: magnesium sulfate and bisacodyl are prohibited for patients with acute abdomen; Phenolphthalein and castor oil are prohibited for infants.
Efficacy and function of wine rhubarb
Wine rhubarb is one of the processed products of rhubarb Due to different processing specifications, the clinical efficacy of rhubarb is also different, such as raw rhubarb, cooked rhubarb, wine rhubarb, vinegar rhubarb, rhubarb charcoal and so on.
It looks like a large yellow film with a dark brown surface, occasional focal spots and a slight alcohol smell.
After frying rhubarb, it has an effect on anthraquinone derivatives of rhubarb, and its diarrhea components, sennoside and rhein, are obviously reduced, while heating has little effect on tannin, so the diarrhea effect is weakened and the convergence effect is relatively enhanced. Now it is considered that tannins contained in rhubarb is an effective component to reduce creatinine and urea nitrogen. It can be seen that raw rhubarb has a strong purgative effect, but rhubarb has a weak purgative effect, which is often used in patients with poor stool in clinic. Use rhubarb for people with unobstructed stools.
Indications: It has the effect of purging heat and relaxing bowels, and can be used for gastrointestinal stagnation due to excess heat, constipation, abdominal distension, pain, refusal to press, even high fever and delirium, such as Dachengqi Decoction; Or constipation due to spleen yang deficiency and cold accumulation, such as warming spleen decoction. Detoxification and carbuncle elimination, used for toxic heat, sore eyes, sore mouth and tongue, and swollen gums, such as Dahuang Mudan Pi Tang. It has the effects of removing blood stasis and dredging collaterals, and can be used for treating blood stasis amenorrhea, postpartum blood stasis, abdominal mass accumulation, traumatic injury, swelling and pain due to blood stasis, etc.