Looks a lot like the traditional Chinese medicine "danshen".
Danshen is the name of the traditional Chinese medicine. It is the dried root and rhizome of Salvia miltiorrhiza Bge. Wild or cultivated. Spring and fall digging, remove sediment, dry. Mainly produced in Hebei, Anhui, Jiangsu, Sichuan and other places. The original plant is born on mountain slopes, roadsides, forest margins, or understory meadows. Prefers mild and humid climate, cold resistance, strong adaptability. Bitter flavor, slightly cold in nature. Attributed to the heart, pericardium and liver meridians. Effects: Removing blood stasis and relieving pain, promoting blood circulation and menstruation, nourishing blood and tranquilizing the mind. Clinical names include Salvia divinorum, wine Salvia divinorum.
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Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing: Bitter flavor, slightly cold. It is used for treating evil qi in the heart and abdomen, intestinal tinnitus as if walking on water, accumulation of cold and heat, breaking symptoms and removing obstructions, stopping boredom and fullness, and benefiting qi.
Famous Doctors' Record: non-toxic. Mainly nourishes blood, removes chronic diseases of the heart and abdomen, knots of gas, strong lumbar spine, paralysis of the feet, and removes the heat retained by wind evil. Long-term service is beneficial to people.
"Treatise on the Nature of Medicine": minister, flat. Can cure weak feet pain paralysis, the Lord in the evil, cure all evil spirits, abdominal pain and gas, voice roar, can set the essence.
"Rihua Zi Materia Medica": nourish the spirit and tranquilize the mind, passes the veins, treats cold and hot labor, bone and joint pain, limbs, pus, pain, muscle, long meat, break the hostage blood, supplement the newborn blood, animate the fetus, drop the fetus, stop the blood crash, bring down. It is also used to regulate the unevenness of women's meridians, blood evils and heartburn, scabies, galls and swollen toxins, dengtoxin, headache, red eyes, and fever and feverishness.
"Kai Bao Materia Medica": bitter flavor, slightly cold, non-toxic. Nourish the blood, go to the heart and abdomen chronic disease knot gas, lumbar spine strong, foot paralysis, in addition to the wind and retain heat.
The Compendium of Materia Medica: Salvia divinorum is red in color and bitter in taste, flat and descending, the yang of the yin. Into the hand Shaoyin, syncope meridian. Heart and peripheral blood medicine. Theory of Womanhood: Four Substance Soup can be used to treat women's illnesses, regardless of prenatal, postnatal and menstrual water. But a flavor of Dan Shen San, the same treatment. Dan Shen can break up the blood, replenish the new blood, secure the birth of the fetus, drop the stillborn fetus, stop the disintegration of the belt and regulate the meridians, and its function is similar to that of angelica, rhizome, rhizoma ligustici, and paeoniae. It is also used to invigorate blood circulation, open the pericardium, and treat hernia pain.
The New Edition of the Materia Medica: Salvia divinorum, bitter flavor, slightly cold gas, non-toxic. It enters the heart and spleen meridians.
Specializing in regulating the meridians, the bones and tendons soreness, birth of new blood, go to the bad blood, fall dead fetus, Ansheng fetus, break the accumulation of disease firm, stopping bleeding collapse? Foot paralysis can be healthy, eye swelling can be eliminated. It is also effective in eliminating evil spirits and ghosts, nourishing and dispelling evil spirits, and treating intestinal tinnitus. Can only be used to make, not the monarch of the drug, with the complementary complementary, with the attack is attacked, the drug cage in the indispensable also. Its efficacy is all in the fetal birth before and after, about the prenatal can be added, postpartum should be used less, natural success more, and take less defeat. Or ask Salvia miltiorrhiza world **** with, my son and urgently called, I fear that damage to the stomach and injury to the spleen quite a lot. It is said that the depth of the change of Yu also. Although Yu reputation of Salvia divinorum, one is said only can be used as a companion, and then is said to be more post-partum take defeat, not the words of the warning. Available and use, not to teach people not to use and use.
The Materia Medica Branch Classic: bitter flavor and gas descending, into the heart and the name of the network. To remove the stasis of the new, regulate menstruation and tonify blood, treatment of blood deficiency and blood stasis of the disease.
Modern pharmacological research
1.? Salvia miltiorrhiza has obvious anti-thrombosis and anti-atherosclerosis effects.
2.? Low concentration of tanshin has a certain inhibitory effect on the isolated heart of animals. Sodium tanshinone IIA sulfonate caused a slight increase in cardiac output in anesthetized dogs. Compound Danshen Injection has a protective effect on myocardial ischemia induced by posterior pituitary hormone, accelerates the repair of myocardial ischemia or injury, and reduces the degree of acute myocardial ischemia. Danshen also has obvious effects of dilating coronary artery and increasing coronary flow.
3. Danshen decoction, Danshen injection, compound Danshen injection, white flower Danshen injection, Danshen leaf injection have different degrees of antihypertensive effect, Danshen and its injections have different improvement effects on microcirculatory disorders in different animals, and also improve the nail fold microcirculatory disorders in patients with coronary heart disease. Sodium tanshinone IIA sulfonate has a significant protective effect on the morphology of canine erythrocytes.
4.? Tanshinone IIA has a significant protective effect on the morphology of canine erythrocytes, so that the oxygen-carrying function of erythrocytes is improved. Tanshinone IIA also has the effect of resistance to normobaric hypoxia.
5.? Danshen has a protective effect on acute liver injury and cirrhosis caused by CCl4. Danshen injection has obvious promotion effect on DNA synthesis of hepatocytes in vitro.
6.? Danshen injection has a protective effect on pulmonary fibrosis, lung injury, and can also reduce the symptoms of respiratory distress syndrome.
7.? Danshen decoction can inhibit a variety of bacteria: among them, Danshen ether extract and total tanshinone have strong inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus and drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. 2% tanshinone suspension has anti-inflammatory effect.
8.? Danshen injection can significantly reduce the phagocytic index of macrophages; its combination with cyclophosphamide has a synergistic effect.
9.? Danshen has an inhibitory effect on the central nervous system, and has a certain degree of selectivity, and the effect is enhanced with the increase in dose; it can also enhance learning memory.
10.? Salvia miltiorrhiza has anti-gastric ulcer, promote skin trauma and fracture healing effect; can play a significant protective effect on renal failure; can increase the content of estradiol in immature rats, so that the weight of the uterus increased.