Eclipta prostrata is a commonly used Chinese medicine for nourishing liver and kidney, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. It also has a good curative effect on dizziness, loose teeth, backache, weakness of lower limbs and various bleeding syndromes caused by blood heat caused by yin deficiency of liver and kidney.
Eclipta prostrata has an immediate hemostatic effect on the wound through local application of fresh grass. Oral fresh grass has a good hemostatic effect. The dry decoction of Eclipta prostrata also has a certain hemostatic effect on internal bleeding. Generally, it is used together with other hemostatic drugs in compound prescription.
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Traditional Chinese medicine classifies this herb as a yin-nourishing medicine to nourish the yin of liver and kidney. Chinese medicine believes that Eclipta prostrata is a medicine for nourishing liver and kidney, which is cold in nature and has the effect of nourishing yin. Eclipta prostrata is a medicine for nourishing yin, which has the effect of blackening hair and resisting aging, but it is not for enriching blood.
Modern pharmacological studies have found that Eclipta prostrata is rich in tannic acid and has obvious astringent and hemostatic effects. The ancients said that Eclipta prostrata can "strengthen teeth", "blacken hair" and "benefit kidney yin". Many middle-aged and elderly people are deficient in liver and kidney. Taking Eclipta prostrata decoction can strengthen the body and resist aging.
Chinese medicine uses Eclipta prostrata as a medicine with strong astringency in clinic, which is mainly used for bleeding due to yin deficiency of liver and kidney and hyperactivity of liver fire, including hematemesis, hematuria, hematochezia, metrorrhagia and so on. , especially for the treatment of hematuria, usually combined with plantain and sunflower seeds.
For example, hematuria caused by chronic nephritis (including red blood cells in urine), cases with yin deficiency are matched with Liuwei Dihuang Pill, and those with yin and yang deficiency are matched with Semen Cuscutae, Shugu Paper, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Fructus Jujubae and Radix Glycyrrhizae Preparata, and hematuria caused by urethritis is matched with Alisma orientalis, Cortex Phellodendri, Touguxiao and Tianjihuang.
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