Summary: mustard seeds have what effect and efficacy? The efficacy and effectiveness of mustard seed is mainly to warm the lung and exclude phlegm and qi, dispersal of knots and collaterals to relieve pain, commonly used in stomach cold vomiting, pain in the heart and abdomen, lung cold cough, pain paralysis, paralysis of the throat, yin gangrene, flow of phlegm, bruises and other injuries. But pay attention to what side effects and contraindications of Chinese medicine mustard seeds for a long time, it is understood that excessive internal consumption can cause vomiting. Lung deficiency cough, yin deficiency fire is prohibited. In addition, mustard seeds have white mustard seeds and yellow mustard seeds, what is the difference between the two? It is a warming cold phlegm medicine classified under the classification of phlegm relieving cough and asthma medicine.

It is used for stomach cold and vomiting, heart and abdominal pain, lung cold cough, pain paralysis, throat paralysis, gangrene, phlegm, bruises.

Bei Lu: "the main shooting work and injection of gas hair without constant place, pills to serve; or pounded into the end, vinegar and coated."

Tao Hongjing: "Return to the nose. Remove all evil resistance and propulsion gas, throat paralysis."

Rihua Zi Materia Medica: "Treatment of wind and venomous swelling and paralysis, vinegar research and applying; pummeling damage and blood stasis, lumbago and kidney cold, and ginger research and slightly warm coated with paste; heartache, wine and vinegar to take."

Daily Use of Materia Medica: "Grind and mix with water to coat the top fontanel, stop epistaxis."

Compendium: "Warming the middle and dispersing cold, expelling phlegm and facilitating orifices. It is used in treating gastric cold and vomiting, lung cold and cough, wind-cold gas pain, and mouth and lips tightness. Disperses carbuncles and blood stasis."

Classified Herbal Medicinal Properties: "Eliminating swelling and poison, stopping bloody diarrhea."

Pharmacological study of mustard seeds

Black mustard seed glycosides itself has no stimulating effect, but in contact with water by the action of mustard enzyme to generate volatile oil, the main component of isothiocyanic acid allyl ester, pungent pungent odor and stimulating effect, applied to the skin, there is warmth and redness, and even cause blisters, pustules. Mustard seed powder is usually made into mustard seed ointment after removing the fatty oil and used as an irritant to treat neuralgia, rheumatic pain, pleurisy and sprains.

Side effects of Chinese medicine mustard seeds

Lung deficiency and cough and resistance to deficiency and fire are contraindicated.

Internal overdose can cause vomiting. External application is generally not more than 10 to 15 millimeters, too long, easy to blister pus.

Mustard seed oil or mustard seed ointment for the skin, if the time is too long or concentration is too high, can cause foaming or even pus, even if you stop, the healing is also slower, this is because the mustard seed oil has been inhaled into the skin, and continue to play a role in the discontinuation of the drug is caused. Mustard seed oil on the mucous membrane irritation is very strong, 15% solution drops into the rabbit's eyes soon caused obvious conjunctival edema. A small amount of mustard seed taken internally as a flavoring agent, a large amount caused vomiting, and a larger amount caused strong gastrointestinal irritation.

The difference between white mustard seed and yellow mustard seed

Mustard seed is the dry mature seeds of white mustard or mustard of white mustard plant of Cruciferae family. The former is habitually called "white mustard seed", and the latter is habitually called "yellow mustard seed".

The clinical efficacy of the two mustard seeds is basically the same, but the expectorant and asthma effect of white mustard is stronger than that of yellow mustard, and the toxicity of yellow mustard is greater than that of white mustard, so the market demand for white mustard is greater.

Because of the similarity of the appearance of the two traits, there are unscrupulous merchants with sulfur yellow mustard seeds smoked, pretending to be white mustard seed sales, seriously affecting the safety and effectiveness of clinical use of drugs.