In people's minds, the magic of Yunnan Baiyao is that it can not only promote blood circulation, stop bleeding, but also have the function of first aid. Many people keep it as a regular medicine at home regardless of whether it is used or not, but few people have a deep understanding of the use of Yunnan Baiyao.
Many people think that Yunnan Baiyao is a medicine for external use. When encountering traumatic bleeding in daily life, they are used to sprinkling some white powder on the wound to treat it. In fact, Yunnan Baiyao is mainly used orally. For wound bleeding, external use can not only play a good role, but may damage health.
Brief introduction of Yunnan Baiyao A good medicine for traumatology developed by Qu Huanzhang, a folk Chinese medicine of Yunnan Baiyao, in 1902. It is made up of a variety of Chinese medicines, among which Panax notoginseng is one of the main components, and other components are unknown because of confidentiality.
Yunnan Baiyao contains many active ingredients of traditional Chinese medicine, and its pharmacological action is very complicated and its efficacy is very strong. It can shorten the bleeding time and coagulation time, and has a rapid hemostatic effect on traumatic bleeding, visceral bleeding and other bleeding. It can also improve microcirculation, enhance the permeability of blood vessels and reduce thrombosis. Therefore, Yunnan Baiyao has a strong effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and can play a role in eliminating blood stasis and swelling.
In addition, Yunnan Baiyao has antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and wound healing effects. Modern research shows that it can promote the secretion of adrenocortical hormone and treat immune system diseases.
Yunnan Baiyao is not suitable for external use in the instructions of Yunnan Baiyao. The usage is introduced in detail: for knife, gunshot wound and traumatic injury, no matter the severity, the bleeding person should take it with warm boiled water, for those with blood stasis, swelling and pain, and those without bleeding, and for gynecological bleeding, it should be taken with warm boiled water, but for menorrhagia and erythema, take 0.25 g for the first time, and mix the powder with wine. Other symptoms of internal bleeding can be taken orally.
From the above description, we can see that Yunnan Baiyao is basically used for oral administration and internal use, and external use is only used for ulcerated sores, because the hemostatic effect of Yunnan Baiyao is achieved through a series of physiological changes in the body after oral administration. Simply sprinkling powder on the wound can not achieve the purpose of hemostasis, and it is easy to aggravate skin damage and cause wound infection and inflammation.