1. Prunella vulgaris "Shennong Herbal Classic"
It is the dry spike of Prunella vulgaris in Labiatae. It is spicy, bitter and cold. Enter the liver and gallbladder meridian. It has the effects of clearing away heat and purging fire, improving eyesight, resolving hard mass and reducing swelling.
Application: 1. Red eyes, swelling and pain, headache, dizziness and nocturia. This product enters the liver meridian with bitter cold, and is good at purging liver fire and improving eyesight. It can be used for treating liver fire and red eyes with swelling and pain, and can be combined with Mulberry Leaf, Chrysanthemum and Cassia Seed. This product can clear liver, improve eyesight, and slightly nourish liver qi, and can be used for treating liver yin deficiency and eye pain, especially at night. It can also be used with Rhizoma Cyperi and Glycyrrhrizae Radix such as Prunellae Spica (Zhang Yitong).
2. scrofula and warts. This taste is pungent, which can dispel depression, and bitter cold can dissipate heat. It is often combined with Fritillaria and Rhizoma Cyperi to treat lymphoid tuberculosis caused by stagnation of liver-qi and phlegm-fire, such as Prunella vulgaris decoction (authentic surgery). For swelling and pain, it is often used together with Kun Bu and Xuan Shen, such as Prunella vulgaris ointment (Jin Jian of Yi Zong).
3. Breast carbuncle is swollen and painful. This product can not only clear away heat and liver fire, but also dissipate stagnation and reduce swelling, and can treat swelling and pain of breast carbuncle. It is often used with dandelion (herb Yan Hui). If it is combined with honeysuckle, it can cure heat toxic sores, such as Huadu Dan (Secret Biography of Qingnang).
Usage and dosage: decocted, 9 15g. Or eat ointment. Pay attention to spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, and use it with caution.
2. Modern research on Prunella vulgaris
2. 1. Pharmacological action
(1) Hypotensive: The stems, leaves, spikes and whole grass of Prunella vulgaris have hypotensive effects. Studies show that the hypotensive effects of Prunella vulgaris are related to the total saponins of Prunella vulgaris.
(2) Lowering blood sugar: It was found that high, medium and low doses of water extract of Prunella vulgaris can promote the synthesis of hepatic glycogen.
(3) Prunella vulgaris can prevent atherosclerosis by lowering blood lipid.
(4) Antibacterial and antiviral Through in vitro experiments, it was found that the decoction of Prunella vulgaris had broad-spectrum antibacterial activity, and had strong inhibitory effects on both Gram-negative bacteria and Gram-positive bacteria.
(5) Anti-inflammatory and immunomodulation: Prunella vulgaris can regulate the immune system in both directions.
(6) Anti-tumor: The anti-tumor research of Prunella vulgaris has a long history. Prunella vulgaris has certain curative effect on bladder cancer, colon cancer, pancreatic cancer, oral cancer, liver cancer and lung cancer.
(7) Anti-oxidation and anti-free radical Prunella vulgaris polysaccharide has obvious anti-oxidation effect, has certain scavenging ability to free radicals, can prevent membrane lipid peroxidation, reduce erythrocyte hemolysis and reduce peroxide products.
(8) Sedation and hypnosis: The ethanol extract of Prunella vulgaris has obvious sedative and hypnotic effects.
2.2 Clinical application
(1) The hypotensive effect of Prunella vulgaris in hypertension has been confirmed by many studies.
(2) The hypoglycemic agents contained in Prunella vulgaris have a good hypoglycemic effect, and its mechanism may be to promote the normal secretion of insulin.
(3) Inflammation such as pelvic inflammatory disease: Prunella vulgaris has obvious antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects, and is used to treat gynecological inflammation such as pelvic inflammatory disease in clinic. Spica Prunellae, Flos Lonicerae and Rhizoma Atractylodis were used to treat pelvic inflammatory disease, and the symptoms improved after taking seven doses. The symptoms disappeared after seven doses of Prunella vulgaris, Angelica sinensis and Radix Rehmanniae Preparata. Prunella vulgaris combined with other drugs has a certain therapeutic effect on enteritis, dysentery, exudative pleurisy and acute and chronic pharyngitis.
(4) Mammary gland hyperplasia: In recent years, Prunella vulgaris has been widely studied in the treatment of mammary gland hyperplasia, and the curative effect is remarkable.
(5) Benign prostatic hyperplasia: Prunellae Spica combined with Semen Vaccariae, Fructus Toosendan, Rhizoma Cyperi and Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae can effectively treat this disease. There are patients.
(6) Thyroid functional diseases: A large number of studies show that Prunella vulgaris is effective in treating thyroiditis and goiter.
(7) Dermatosis: In recent years, there have been studies on the treatment of dermatosis with Prunella vulgaris, and good results have been achieved. Clinically, it is also used to treat skin diseases such as urticaria and warts, and the symptoms are obviously improved.
(8) Yinyang Jiaoyin Decoction, which is composed of drugs for insomnia, such as Pinellia ternata and Prunella vulgaris, can obviously increase the sleep time of insomnia patients.
(9) Cancer: Prunella vulgaris has obvious anti-tumor activity. Prunella vulgaris injection is used to treat lymphoma, hysteromyoma, lung cancer, gastric cancer, colorectal cancer, liver cancer, bronchial lung cancer and other tumors, and has achieved good results.