For the convenience of confinement, I "hoarded" a bunch of Chinese herbal medicines, each of which is useful. The following contents include the introduction and use of Chinese herbal medicines.

1. Cassia seed: a good medicine for baby pillows: it is an annual semi-shrub herb; Osmanthus fragrans red, slender pods, quadrangular; Cassia has smaller plants and shorter pods. It is famous for its eyesight. Cassia seed tastes bitter, sweet and salty, slightly cold, and enters the liver, kidney and large intestine; Moistening intestines and relaxing bowels, reducing blood fat and improving eyesight, and treating constipation, hyperlipidemia and hypertension. Clearing liver, improving eyesight, promoting diuresis, relaxing bowels, stopping diarrhea, lowering blood pressure and blood lipid. Efficacy: Cassia seed pillow has the functions of clearing heat, calming nerves, improving eyesight and helping sleep. The method of making a pillow is very simple: 3 ~ 4 kilograms of raw cassia seed is put in a cloth bag to make a pillow. Cassia seed is slightly cold and slightly fragrant with grass. Sleeping on a pillow is like sleeping in the cool green grass, which makes you fall asleep happily. The hardness of cassia seed can just massage the head and neck points, so it also has an auxiliary treatment effect on headache, dizziness, insomnia, cerebral arteriosclerosis and cervical spondylosis. So you can lay a layer of cassia seed in the pillow core to make a pillow for your baby. In addition, you can also put some chrysanthemums in the pillow.

2. Honeysuckle: a natural prescription to prevent and treat miliaria. Introduction: Honeysuckle is the bud and the first flower of Lonicera japonica, a perennial semi-evergreen twining woody vine of Caprifoliaceae. Honeysuckle is sweet and cold, and has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials and dispersing wind and heat. Efficacy introduction: Chinese medicine believes that honeysuckle is cold, sweet and flat in nature, and has the effect of clearing away heat and toxic materials, which can treat toxic heat, swelling and carbuncle. Because it has the function of dispelling pathogenic factors, it can also treat exogenous wind-heat and febrile diseases. For example, Yinqiao Jiedu tablets for the treatment of wind-heat colds are mainly honeysuckle. Yinhuang tablets made from Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi can treat acute upper respiratory tract infection, acute pharyngitis and acute tonsillitis. Flos Lonicerae can be distilled with water to obtain "Flos Lonicerae Dew", which has the function of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, and can be used to treat children's heat furuncle, miliaria and summer heat. So you can use honeysuckle boiled water to bathe your baby, which can treat prickly heat, and it is cool and comfortable, and tastes good.

3. mugwort leaf: a good thing that women can't live without. Introduction: Dry leaves, mostly withered and broken, have short stems. The leaves are slightly pinnately divided, and the edges of the lobes have irregular rough serrations. It's grayish green and fluffy on the top, and dense grayish white fluff on the bottom. Soft. The smell is fragrant, but the taste is slightly bitter. It's better to be gray, fluffy and fragrant below. There is more production in most parts of this country. Efficacy: Its main functions are dispelling cold and relieving pain, warming channels and stopping bleeding. Can be used for treating abdominal cold pain, menoxenia, infertility due to uterine cold, hematemesis, epistaxis, metrorrhagia, pregnancy bleeding, and skin itching. Appropriate amount for external use for moxibustion or fumigation. So you can soak your feet with mugwort leaves for about 20 minutes until you sweat slightly, which is especially suitable for weak women.

4. Angelica sinensis: a well-deserved gynecological medicine. Description: This product is slightly cylindrical, with more than 3 ~ 5 branches at the lower part, and its length is 15 ~ 25 cm. The surface is brown with longitudinal wrinkles and transverse lenticels. The diameter of the root head (turning green head) is 1.5 ~ 4 cm, which is annular, the upper end is blunt and round, and there are purple stems and leaf sheaths left; The surface of the main root (back body) is uneven; The root (tail) of the branch is 0.3 ~ 1 cm in diameter, thick on the top and thin on the bottom, twisted, with a small amount of fibrous root marks. Elastic, thick skin, cracked, and most of them have brown punctate secretory cavities. The wood is light in color, forming a cambium ring. Strong aroma, sweet, pungent and slightly bitter. Those who are strong in firewood, dry and oil-free, or whose cross section is green and brown are not allowed to be used as medicine. Efficacy: enriching blood and activating blood, regulating menstruation and relieving pain, moistening intestines and relaxing bowels. Can be used for treating blood deficiency and sallow, dizziness and palpitation, menoxenia, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, abdominal pain due to deficiency of cold, constipation due to intestinal dryness, rheumatalgia, traumatic injury and carbuncle. Wine, angelica, promoting blood circulation and regulating menstruation. Used for amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, rheumatalgia, and traumatic injury. Because Angelica sinensis has therapeutic effects on women's menstruation, leukorrhagia, pregnancy, childbirth and other diseases, Chinese medicine calls Angelica sinensis "the holy medicine of gynecology". It is mainly added to porridge and soup in the form of adjuvant therapy. Danggui Buxue Decoction: Danggui 10g, Astragalus membranaceus 60g. Decoct water to drink. You can also increase the dose and fry it into a paste. So when making soup, you can add some angelica properly. For example, Chinese angelica can be added to black-bone chicken soup.

Cao Tong: Tongru is a good choice of medicinal materials: slightly cold and sweet. Efficacy Introduction: Clearing lung, diuresis, milk ejection. Treat dysuria, gonorrhea, edema, postpartum milk obstruction, blurred vision and nasal congestion. It is used for the symptoms of damp-heat accumulation, short and red urine or astringent pain, but it has light taste and slow effect. It is compatible with Akebia stem and talc. Can be used for treating damp-heat diseases, and is compatible with Coicis Semen and Fructus Amomi; Bamboo leaves are quite the same. Can be matched with pig's trotters, pangolin scales, Ligusticum wallichii, licorice, etc. Pay attention to pregnant women with caution. Therefore, if there is not much milk, you can use medulla tetrapanacis to make soup or remove Angelica sinensis 10g, Astragalus membranaceus 5g and medulla tetrapanacis 5g, make a bowl of medicinal juice with these three kinds of Chinese medicines every day, and add a spoonful to all kinds of foods cooked for parturient, so that the smell of Chinese medicines will not be heavy, and it can also play the role of nourishing qi and blood and promoting lactation. At the same time, the dosage of these three kinds of traditional Chinese medicines is not large, which is suitable for weak women and is not easy to get angry.

Six, Arnebia euchroma: Arnebia euchroma oil is to prevent and treat baby's red buttocks. Introduction: Roots of Arnebia euchroma (hard Arnebia euchroma) and Arnebia euchroma (soft Arnebia euchroma) in Xinjiang. Has the effects of cooling blood, promoting blood circulation, clearing away heat and toxic materials, and relaxing bowels. Efficacy: The main functions are cooling blood, promoting blood circulation, detoxicating and penetrating rash. Can be used for treating blood heat, rash, measles, sores, eczema, fire burn and water burn. Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: treating infantile dermatitis and vulvar eczema. Usage and dosage: decocted, 3-9g; Or take it separately. External use: appropriate amount, boil ointment or make oil coating. So you can make purple grass oil to prevent your baby's red bottom. The leaves of Arnebia euchroma were removed by running water and put in a bowl. When vegetable oil such as peanut oil or olive oil is heated and poured in, you can see that the oil turns purple, put it in a clean small glass bottle and dip it with a sterile cotton swab.

Leonurus japonicus: Description of medicinal materials: Leonurus japonicus is the whole grass of Leonurus japonicus, a labiatae plant. An annual or biennial herb that blooms in summer. Born in the wasteland, ridges and grasslands of Shan Ye. Distributed in most parts of the country. Efficacy: promoting blood circulation, regulating menstruation, diuresis and detumescence. Used for irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, lochia, edema and oliguria; Acute nephritis edema. However, motherwort is not a tonic, but can only be used as a tonic, so it is not suitable for multiple purposes. Note that pregnant women are forbidden.

Other commonly used soups are: Radix Adenophorae, Radix Codonopsis, Radix Astragali, Rhizoma Dioscoreae, Fructus Lycii, Fructus Jujubae, etc.

Nine, Acorus calamus prescription: Ai Chen 150g, Acorus calamus 100g, washed with water, decocted with water to remove residues, and bathed. Efficacy: Aroma can avoid filth, detoxify and kill insects, warm skin and prevent cold. Warm toxic sores and furuncles, herpes is the most suitable.

X. Prescription of Saposhnikovia divaricata and ginger: 50g of Saposhnikovia divaricata and 50g of ginger, mashed, washed with water, decocted in water and deslagging bath. Efficacy: dredge blood vessels, prevent colds, warm skin, dispel wind and remove dampness.