Motherwort Motherwort is the young stem and leaves of LeonurusheterophyllusSweet. The young stem and leaves of motherwort contain protein, carbohydrates and other nutrients. It is bitter and cool in nature, and has the effects of invigorating blood circulation, removing blood stasis, regulating menstruation and eliminating water retention. It can be used to treat menstrual disorders, swelling and water retention, blood in urine, diarrhea, diarrhea, dysentery and hemorrhoids. Functions: Regulating Qi, relieving depression, regulating menstruation and relieving pain. Used for liver depression and stagnation of qi, chest, coercion, epigastric distension, dyspepsia, menstrual disorders, dysmenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, cold hernia and abdominal pain, breast distension and pain. (1) Regulating qi and relieving depression: used for chest, coils, stomach and abdominal distension and pain due to liver-qi stagnation. Combined with Chai Hu and Qing Pi, it is used to treat chest and hypochondriac pain. Combined with Gao Liang Jiang (Liang Shi Wan), it is used to treat cold pain in the stomach. (2) Regulating menstruation and relieving pain: used for menstrual irregularities and abdominal distension caused by liver-qi stagnation. It is also used with mugwort to treat menstrual cramps and abdominal pain caused by cold and stagnant Qi. (1) "Other Records": the Lord in addition to the chest heat, full of fur, long service benefit, beneficial to the people, long beard and eyebrows. (2) "Tang Materia Medica": great down the gas, in addition to chest and abdominal heat. (3) "Medical Qiyuan": fast gas. ④ Li Gao: treating all qi, and cholera, vomiting and diarrhea, abdominal pain, kidney qi, cold bladder, and eliminating food and lowering qi. ⑤ Tang Liquid Materia Medica: treating collapse and leakage. (6) Yunnan Materia Medica: regulating Qi in the blood, opening up depression, relaxing the middle, eliminating food, and stopping vomiting. (7) "Compendium": dispersing cold and epidemics, benefiting the San Jiao, relieving six depressions, eliminating food and drink accumulation, phlegm and drink lumps, tarsal swellings, abdominal distension, foot fungus, stopping pains in the heart, abdomen, limbs, head, eyes, teeth and ears, carbuncle sores, vomiting blood, hemorrhage, urinating blood, women's disintegration with leakage, irregularities in the menstrual cycle, and all kinds of illnesses before and after childbirth. Pharmacological Actions ①Action on the uterus. Fragrant aconite (purchased from Nanjing, said to be produced in Guangdong) 5% fluid ointment, can inhibit the contraction of guinea pigs, rabbits, cats, dogs and other isolated uterus (pregnant and non-pregnant), the relaxation of uterine muscle tone, similar to the Angelica sinensis fluid ointment, but the effectiveness of the weaker. The oil contained in the fragrant appendage has a weak estrogenic effect. ② Analgesic effect with the mouse electric disk stimulation method, Xiangshuizi (from Guiyang) 20% alcohol extract 0.5 ml / 20 g body weight subcutaneous injection, can significantly increase the pain threshold in mice. (iii) Antibacterial effect tuberous roots have antibacterial effect, and its extract has inhibitory effect on some fungi. Contraindications: Avoid where there is deficiency of qi without stagnation, deficiency of yin and blood heat. ① "Compendium": get the child urine, vinegar, rhizome, Cangzhu good. ② "Materia Medica": Where the menstruation is premature, blood heat, the law should cool the blood, prohibit the use of this drug. (3) "Materia Medica Huiyan": used alone, used more, used for a long time, depletion of qi and loss of blood. Ai Ye Functions and Indications: Dispersing cold, relieving pain, warming menstruation and stopping bleeding. It is used in treating cold pain in the lower abdomen, irregular menstruation, infertility in cold uterus, vomiting blood, epistaxis, excessive menstrual bleeding, bleeding in pregnancy; external treatment of skin itching. Warming menstruation and stopping bleeding. Used for deficiency cold bleeding.