It can be used for breast milk or milk scarcity: women's post-partum breast milk or milk scarcity, due to cold, due to heat, or due to the spleen and stomach is weak, liver qi stagnation caused by, so there is a dispersal of cold and drain the heat, strengthen the spleen and stomach, soothe the liver to solve the treatment. Tongcao treatment of lactation is because of its sex is very good to facilitate, into the stomach meridian, through the gas up to the milk, so can be used for various reasons due to lactation certificate. The medical practitioners of the past generations have affirmed the nature of its qi and breast milk. For example, "Rihuazi Materia Medica" said: "Tongcao can promote birth, under the cell, under the breast."
"Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Tongzhao color white and cold gas, taste light and light. Leads the heat down and facilitate urination, passes the gas up and down the breast milk. Clinically, it is often used as a lactation medicine in western medicine. Tongcao has a sweet taste and is not bitter, so it can be used as a medicinal diet or to treat postpartum lactation. Folk have lactation dietary prescription: Tongcao, Wang Buliuxing son, boiled pig's claw or river crucian carp, drink soup and eat pig's claw or fish, have certain therapeutic effects.
2. Tongli blood.
It can be used in syncopal cold syndrome. Syncope cold syndrome for the vegetative body syncope liver blood deficiency, feel the cold evil, qi and blood due to cold condensation blockage and not smooth, blood can not reach the limbs, the pulse without qi and blood filling, internal organs due to the blockage of the meridians and loss of nourishment. Symptoms: lack of warmth or coldness in the hands and feet, thin pulse, cold pain in the abdomen, or pain in cold hernia, women's menstrual diffraction. The menstrual flow of small amount of dark color is not smooth, etc. Tongzhao its nature of fluent good through the yin and yang, internal through the nine orifices, external through the camp blood. Shennong Benjing" on the day of the nine orifices and blood joints. As early as in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the famous doctor ZhangZhongJing with its fluent nature of the treatment of cold syndrome. The theory of typhoid fever, said: "hands and feet cold, pulse fine to extinction, angelica four reverse soup main. If the person has a long cold inside, it is appropriate to add Wu Yu ginger soup." In the above two sides, are to Tongcao Tongli meridians, Li Qi and blood line, regulating Yingwei and, gas and blood through, Yingwei through, hands and feet since the warmth of the pulse is fine and want to stop since the solution.
3, diuresis and seepage of dampness.
The bladder is the official of the state, the fluid in this gasification into urine, discharged out of the body, if the bladder malfunction, gasification, there will be urine abnormalities. Tongcao is sweet and light in flavor, slightly cold in nature, taking its qi and using its flavor, it can clear away heat and promote dampness, and is used for short and red urine or gonorrhea caused by heat and dampness in the bladder. The Materia Medica Seek Truth" said: "into the lungs, lead to heat descent, and diuresis, gonorrhea and swellings." However, the body of Tongcao is light and thin, if the gas, used for flavor, can be light seepage of diuresis, used for partial seepage of urine unfavorable evidence. "Medical Zong must read - urinary retention of urine," said: "...... or water only seepage of the large intestine, urine and thus dry thirst, it is appropriate to light seepage products Poria, poria, Tongcao, Zedo and so on."
4, treatment of nasal congestion.
When the breath can not smell things, you can use Tongcao, fine Xin and appendicia in equal parts to grind into a mill, mixed with honey, wrapped in a cloth and stuffed into the nose.
5, diuretic.
Water decoction has obvious diuretic effect, and can significantly increase potassium ion discharge, no significant effect on sodium and chloride ion discharge.
6, lipid lowering.
Tongzhi can promote fat metabolism in the liver, and has the effect of lowering blood lipids.
7, promote calcium absorption.
Tongzhi can promote calcium absorption.