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Nutritional value of Leonurus heterophyllus
Motherwort is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, which is the dried and mature fruit of Leonurus japonicus, a labiatae plant. So what's the nutritional value of Fructus Leonuri?

The nutritional components of motherwort contain leonurine, stachydrine and fatty oil 26%. The main components in the oil are oleic acid 63.75%, linolenic acid 265,438+0.13% and vitamin A 0.04%.

The water extract, ethanol extract and 30% ethanol extract of motherwort all have the effect of lowering blood pressure in anesthetized animals. The decoction, tincture or water extract of this product can be used to treat essential hypertension.

Clearing heat and detoxicating, pungent dispersing, bitter diarrhea and dryness, cold can clear heat, and it has the effect of clearing heat and detoxicating and reducing swelling. Linlin can be used to treat innominate swelling and prurigo.

Improving eyesight and benefiting essence, plum is hard and slightly cold, tends to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and has the functions of nourishing, improving eyesight and benefiting essence, and clearing away liver heat. It is often used to treat liver-heat headache, red eyes, swelling and pain, and blurred vision.