Motherwort is very helpful to women's health. It tastes bitter and slightly cold, and has the functions of promoting blood circulation, regulating menstruation, diuresis and detumescence. It can be used to treat amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea and postpartum abdominal pain caused by blood stasis in women, and also has a certain effect of eliminating edema, which can promote diuresis and eliminate edema.
Leonurus heterophyllus is a commonly used drug for treating gynecological diseases in clinic. It has good effects of promoting blood circulation, regulating menstruation, removing blood stasis and promoting tissue regeneration. When treating amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea and postpartum pain caused by blood stasis in women, motherwort can be decocted separately and taken as ointment. If it feels bad, some brown sugar can be added to improve the taste.
Motherwort can promote blood circulation and promote diuresis, that is, eliminate edema in the body and expel heat toxin in the body. Therefore, it has a certain effect on detoxification and beauty of women's health.
The seeds and stems and leaves of Leonurus heterophyllus have similar functions, but the effect of clearing heat and reducing fire is stronger, and it can clear liver and improve eyesight while promoting blood circulation and regulating menstruation. Some women often have symptoms such as chest tightness, fatigue, red eyes, dizziness and brain swelling due to physiological reasons, and Vichy can obviously relieve these discomfort symptoms.
Modern research has found that motherwort contains a lot of alkaloids, such as leonurine and stachydrine, as well as rich vitamins and other substances. The effective active components of Leonurus japonicus can obviously stimulate uterine smooth muscle and increase the frequency and amplitude of uterine contraction. In addition, it has certain effects of dilating blood vessels and inhibiting platelet aggregation. Therefore, motherwort is often used to treat coronary heart disease, cerebral infarction, hyperlipidemia and hypertension in modern medicine.
However, it should be noted that motherwort has a strong function of promoting blood circulation and regulating menstruation, so it is taboo for pregnant women, so it is best for expectant mothers not to touch motherwort in their lives, otherwise how could the ancients come up with such a warm name for this humble grass?