The traditional Chinese medicine thistle is the above-ground part of the perennial herb Asteraceae. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that thistle has the effect of cooling blood and stopping bleeding, dispersing blood stasis and reducing swelling. Let me introduce to you the efficacy and functions of thistle. I hope it can help you. Efficacy and functions of thistle
1. Cool blood and stop bleeding
Used for vomiting blood, epistaxis, hematuria, hematochezia, metrorrhagia and other symptoms caused by heat in the blood. To treat vomiting of blood, it is often used with thistle, Platycladus orientalis leaves, Imperata cognac root, gardenia, and madder, such as Shihui powder; to treat hematuria, it is often used with Rehmannia glutinosa, gardenia, lotus root, talc, and cattail, such as thistle Yinzi.
2. Promoting blood circulation and detoxifying
Used for the initial onset of boils, sores and persistent lochia. For those with initial onset of boils and sores, it can be taken internally or externally; to treat persistent lochia, it can be used together with drugs for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis.
3. Diuretic and Tonglin
Used for hot stranguria, bloody stranguria and damp-heat jaundice. It can be used together with clearing away heat and diuresis. How to eat thistle
The edible parts are the seedlings of thistle, a plant in the Asteraceae family. Collect thistle seedlings, blanch them in boiling water, fish them out, rinse them with water to remove the bitterness, and make them into a variety of dishes.
1. Stir-fried thistles
Ingredients: 500 grams of thistles, appropriate amounts of refined salt, monosodium glutamate, chopped green onion, and salad oil.
Method: Remove impurities and wash the young thistle seedlings, blanch them in a pot of boiling water, remove them to wash away the bitterness, squeeze out the water and cut them into sections. Heat the oil pan, stir-fry the chopped green onions, and add the thistles. Stir-fry with refined salt until the flavor is absorbed, add MSG, and serve.
Efficacy: Suitable for vomiting blood, epistaxis, hematuria, bloody stranguria, hematochezia, hemorrhage, acute infectious hepatitis, carbuncle and other diseases.
2. Thistle bean soup
Ingredients: 350 grams thistle, 100 grams soybeans, appropriate amounts of refined salt: MSG, chopped green onion, and salad oil.
Method: Remove impurities from the young thistles and wash them, blanch them in a pot of boiling water, remove them to wash away the bitterness, squeeze out the water and cut them into sections; soak the soybeans and grind them into minced beans. Heat the oil in a pan, add chopped green onions and stir-fry until fragrant, add the thistles and refined salt and stir-fry until the flavor is absorbed, set aside. Heat the minced soybeans in the pan, add the thistles, add MSG A, and serve.
Efficacy: Strengthens the spleen, moisturizes dryness, cools blood, and stops bleeding. It is suitable for vomiting blood, epistaxis, sores, carbuncles, abdominal distension, weight loss, thirst, and dysphoria. Compatibility and application of Rehmannia glutinosa
1. With Rehmannia glutinosa: Xiaoji cools blood and stops bleeding. The efficacy and role of Rehmannia glutinosa can clear away heat and cool blood. The combination of the two can be used for vomiting blood, hematuria, etc. caused by blood heat.
2. With talc: thistle can cool blood and stop bleeding, while talc is a diuretic and relieves stranguria. The two are compatible with each other to relieve stranguria and stop bleeding, and can be used for the syndrome of bloody stranguria due to heat in the lower burner. Often mixed with Puhuang, Akebia, Rehmannia glutinosa and other medicines.
3. Mixed with motherwort: The efficacy and function of motherwort, which cools blood and stops bleeding, is combined with motherwort, which activates blood circulation and stimulates menstruation. It can be used for pregnancy abortion and bleeding that does not stop if blood stasis does not disappear.
4. With Radix Rehmanniae: Both medicines can clear away heat and cool blood. However, Radix Rehmanniae nourishes yin and cools serum heat, while thistle cools blood and stops bleeding, and can also clear away heat. The two medicines work together, clearing away heat, cooling and increasing blood power, and can cool blood and stop bleeding without leaving blood stasis. It is often used to treat hemoptysis, epistaxis, metrorrhagia, hematuria and other syndromes caused by heat forcing blood.
5. With Imperata Imperata root: Thistle and Imperata Imperata root are both commonly used hemostatic drugs. When used raw, they have a strong cooling effect on blood, and both have the characteristics of stopping bleeding without leaving blood stasis. Thistle is used to treat vomiting, epistaxis, hematuria and metrorrhagia caused by blood heat and blood stasis. Imperata eradicata is used to treat various types of hemorrhage caused by blood heat. It is also used to treat febrile disease, dysphoria, thirst, gastric fire, vomiting, etc. Symptoms include cough caused by lung heat and qi reversal, and hot stranguria. The two medicines are compatible with each other, and their ability to cool blood and stop bleeding is increased. They can often be used for various blood syndromes caused by blood-heat, especially those with blood-heat and hematuria.
6. Combined with Daji: Daji and Daji are both used for vomiting blood, epistaxis, hematuria and metrorrhagia due to blood-heat, especially those with blood-heat and blood stasis. It cools blood and stops bleeding, and thistle is the best, and it can specifically treat carbuncles, sores, and is effective in detoxifying and reducing swelling; thistle is also a diuretic, so it is good at stopping bleeding, stranguria, and blood in the urine, and it is good at treating jaundice, edema, dysuria and other syndromes. The two medicines must be compatible with each other. They can cool blood, stop bleeding, break blood, and increase swelling. They are commonly used to treat blood stasis, vomiting blood, hemoptysis, epistaxis, hematuria, metrorrhagia, and carbuncle sores caused by blood heat.