It is the dry above-ground part of the Asteraceae plant Echinacea or the carved-leaf Echinacea.

Produced in most areas of my country.

Collect them when the flowers bloom in summer and autumn, remove impurities, cut them into sections, dry them, and use them raw or fresh.

≮Gastronomic properties are ambiguous ≯ Sweet, bitter, and cool.

Guixin, liver meridian.

≮Food Description ≯ This product is sweet and cold, has the functions of clearing away blood, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, clearing away heat and detoxifying, similar to that of thistle.

But it can also be a diuretic, so it is an important medicine for treating hematuria and bloody stranguria.

≮Food effects ≯ 1. Cool blood and stop bleeding. It is used for bleeding syndrome caused by blood heat, such as vomiting blood, hemoptysis, epistaxis, hematuria, metrorrhagia, etc. It is especially good at treating hematuria and bloody stranguria.

It is often used with Puhuang, Akebia, talc, raw rehmannia, etc.; 2. Detoxify and eliminate carbuncle. It is used for heat-toxic carbuncle. Take it orally or mash the fresh product for external application.

≮Pharmacological knowledge ≯ 1. Treatment of proteinuria: 15g of thistle, 7g of lotus root, 10g of lotus root, 10g of Akebia, and 5g of bamboo leaves.

Boil water, take 1 dose a day, 3 times a day; 2. Treatment of acute infectious hepatitis: 50g of fresh thistle, 50g of fresh willow branches.

Add 1000ml of water, fry to 200ml, divide into 2 times, and drink warmly 2 hours after meals.

≮Active ingredients ≯ Contains alkaloids, saponins, etc.

≮Clinical application ≯ 1. Oral infusion of 5 g/kg in mice can significantly shorten the bleeding time.

Chlorogenic acid and caffeic acid contained are the main hemostatic components; 2. The decoction has a certain inhibitory effect on hemolytic streptococci, pneumococci, diphtheria bacilli, tuberculosis bacilli, etc.; 3. Intravenous injection of decoction or tincture into animals has

It has a significant blood pressure boosting effect, and at the same time, it also reduces spleen capacity and inhibits intestinal peristalsis.

Intramuscular injection also has a pressor effect, but intragastric administration has no obvious pressor effect; 4. It has a certain anti-inflammatory effect on formaldehyde "arthritis" in rats; it has a sedative effect on mice.