Eclipta may not make white hair black. Eclipta prostrata is a common Chinese medicine, which has the effect of nourishing kidney yin. It has a certain therapeutic effect on white hair caused by kidney yin deficiency, but it takes more than two months to achieve a visible therapeutic effect.

Eclipta prostrata (scientific name: Eclipta prostrata) is the whole grass in the intestines of compositae plants. It is also called "Eclipta prostrata", also known as Jinling grass and Alternanthera philoxeroides, because black juice can be seen when its stems and leaves rub. Eclipta prostrata is a commonly used Chinese medicine for nourishing liver and kidney, cooling blood and stopping bleeding.

It has a good curative effect on dizziness, loose teeth, backache, weakness of lower limbs and various bleeding syndromes caused by blood heat caused by yin deficiency of liver and kidney. Eclipta prostrata contains volatile oil, tannins, saponins, Eclipta prostrata and vitamin A, which has hemostatic effect in animal experiments and inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus in vitro.

function

Efficacy: cooling blood to stop bleeding, tonifying kidney and benefiting yin.

Indications: hematemesis, hemoptysis, nosebleed, hematuria, hematochezia, bloody dysentery, knife wound bleeding, premature graying, diphtheria, stranguria, leukorrhagia, pudendal pruritus and rat mole.

Tropism of nature: sweet and sour, cool.

1, Tang Bencao: "Sweet and sour, flat, non-toxic."

2, "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": "Cold in nature, salty in taste." Enter the liver and kidney meridians.

3, "Materia Medica": "Into the kidney, liver. Stomach, large intestine. "

4, "Ying Bencao": "Entering the foot is less yin and blood."

Usage and dosage: decocted, 0.3 ~ 1 2; Boil paste, mash juice or add pills and powder. External use: pound, grind, sprinkle or pound the nose.

Avoid spleen when taking medicine: people with kidney deficiency and cold should avoid taking it. Deserved Materia Medica: "loose stool with weak stomach. It is forbidden for people with kidney qi deficiency and cold. "

Drug compatibility: with Plantago asiatica: clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood to stop bleeding, inducing diuresis to relieve stranguria. Use Ligustrum lucidum: tonify kidney and yin, nourish liver and improve eyesight. With salvia miltiorrhiza: promoting blood circulation to remove blood stasis, cooling blood and stopping bleeding.

Processing method: wash impurities, remove residual roots, wash and suffocate, cut into sections and dry.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Eclipta prostrata