Root medicine, expelling water to relieve constipation, reducing swelling and resolving hard mass, mainly treating edema, and has the effect of dredging menstruation; Can also be used as veterinary medicine; Toxic, should be used with caution.
Bitter taste, cold nature and toxic. Enter the lung, spleen and kidney meridians. Indications: swollen water, accumulation of phlegm, carbuncle, furuncle, and constipation. It can also be used for phlegm accumulation, fullness of chest and diaphragm, and hypochondriac pain. Xiaozhong Sanjie can be used for carbuncle, swelling, sore, phlegm, fire, carbuncle, and can be used both orally and externally.
Cirsium Cirsium Mill. C. japonicum DC. is a dried aerial part or root of Cirsium cirsium mill. of Compositae (Compositae). Perennial perennial herb, wild on hillsides, roadsides, etc., is harvested in bloom in summer and autumn to remove impurities and dry in the sun.
Function to treat hematemesis, epistaxis, hematuria, bloody stranguria, blood collapse, leukorrhagia, intestinal wind, intestinal carbuncle, thistle carbuncle and furuncle.
Pharmacology The water extract, ethanol-water extract and ethanol extract of Cirsium japonicum have been tested in anesthetized animals such as dogs, cats and rabbits, and proved to have the effect of lowering blood pressure. The same experiment of Cirsium japonicum proved that it has a significant and lasting effect of lowering blood pressure. Cirsium japonicum has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, diminishing inflammation, stopping bleeding, restoring liver function and promoting liver cell regeneration, and is suitable for acute fever, inflammatory bleeding, jaundice, hepatitis, heat stranguria and hematuria.
Cirsium setosum is another name for Cirsium setosum. It is a high-quality wild vegetable. Perennial herb, the underground part is often larger than the aboveground part, with long rhizome. The stems are erect, and the young stems are covered with white spider-silk hairs, angular, 30-80( 100- 120) cm in height and 3-5 mm in diameter at the base. Sometimes it can reach 1 cm, with branches on the upper part, and the inflorescence branches are hairless or have thin fluff. Leaves alternate, basal leaves fall off when flowering, lower and middle leaves are elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, 7 7- 10/0cm long and1.5-2.2cm wide, the surface is green, the back is light green, there are white spider-silk hairs with different densities on both sides, the top is short or blunt, the base is narrow or obtuse, and it is nearly entire or has sparse serrations.
Its function: it can contract blood vessels, increase the number of platelets, promote platelet aggregation and increase thrombin activity, inhibit fibrinolysis, and thus accelerate hemostasis. In vitro experiments show that Cirsium japonicum decoction has certain inhibitory effects on diphtheria, pneumococcus, hemolytic streptococcus, Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Proteus, Escherichia coli and typhoid Bacillus. In addition, the product can also reduce blood fat, promote gallbladder function, induce diuresis, strengthen the heart and raise blood pressure.