Effects and functions of red stilbene

Red qi is a common Chinese herbal medicine with extremely high medicinal value. It has the effects of fixing the surface and stopping perspiration, replenishing qi and diuresis. What are the specific functions? Let’s take a look with me.

Effects and functions of red qi

1. Tonify qi and strengthen the surface, diuretic and detoxify

Red qi is sweet and warm in nature, and can enter the lung meridian and spleen Jing, it has the effects of replenishing qi and strengthening the surface, diuresis and detoxification. It is often used to treat diseases such as depression of Qi, chronic nephritis, and diabetes, with remarkable effects.

2. Prevent and treat cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases

One of the most special effects of red stilbene is its ability to prevent and treat cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, especially in the treatment of heart disease. The nutritional value of red sage root is higher than that of salvia miltiorrhiza, and it has excellent analgesic effects. In addition, for stroke patients, red astragalus can also play a certain preventive and alleviative role, and can be used for the recovery and treatment of diseases such as cerebral thrombosis and cerebral infarction.

3. It can treat high blood pressure

For symptoms of edema of the lower limbs caused by high blood pressure, it can be used together with red qi, atractylodes and pueraria; if the patient has symptoms of blood lipids, it can also be used Add Alisma, Salvia miltiorrhiza, Ligusticum chuanxiong and other drugs. You should consult a professional Chinese medicine practitioner for specific prescriptions.

Introduction to Hongqi

Common name: Hongqi

Traditional Chinese medicine name: Hongqi

Pinyin name: Hongqi

English name: RADIX HEDYSARI

Source: This product is the dried root of the leguminous plant Hedysarum polybotrys Hand.-Mazz. Excavate in spring and autumn, remove fibrous roots and root heads, and dry in the sun.

Characteristics: This product is cylindrical, with few branches, slightly thicker at the upper end, 10 to 50cm long, and 0.6 to 2cm in diameter. The surface is gray-reddish-brown, with longitudinal wrinkles, long transverse lenticels and a few root marks. The outer skin is easy to peel off, and the peeling areas are light yellow. Hard and tough, not easy to break, the cross section is fibrous and powdery, the bark is yellow-white, the wood is light yellow-brown, the rays are radial, and the cambium ring is light brown. It has a slight smell, a slightly sweet taste, and a slightly beany taste when chewed.

The extract shall be measured according to the hot soak method (Appendix

Processed red succulent: remove impurities, separate into different sizes, wash, moisten, cut into thick slices, and dry.

Nature, flavor and meridians are sweet and warm. Returns to the lung and spleen meridians.

Morphological characteristics of red astragalus

HedySarum polybotrys Hand-Mazz (HedySarum polybotrys Hand-Mazz) is an upright perennial herb with a height of 1.5 meters. The roots are long cylindrical. Slightly branched, 10-50 cm long, 0.5-2 cm in diameter, reddish-brown in surface, with long transverse lenticels, yellow or dark yellow, slightly protruding. The stem has thin branches and alternate pinnate leaves, L-long. Up to 15 cm; leaflets 7-25, oblong-ovate, 1-3.5 cm long, 5-9 mm wide, apex subtruncate or slightly concave, with small spines, base broadly molded, entire, midrib inferior Villous: The petioles are very short. The racemes are gummy, 15 cm long, with more than 20 flowers. The pedicels are slender, 2-3 mm long, villous, and the flowers are obliquely bell-shaped and covered with short hairs. , the lower tooth is longer and larger; the corolla is light yellow, about 1 cm long, the flag petal is oblong-ovate, the keel petal is longer than the flag petal, the fruit has an ovary stalk, with 3-5 segments, narrow wings, and surface. Sparsely reticulated and pubescent, each segment has 1 round seed