It is the dried rhizome and root of the Umbelliferae plant Echinacea or Echinacea latifolia. Qianghuo is mainly produced in Sichuan, Yunnan, Qinghai, Gansu and other provinces. Qianghuo broadleaf is mainly produced in Sichuan, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Henan and other provinces. Excavate in spring and autumn, remove fibrous roots and sediment, and dry in the sun. Slice and use raw. Let’s take a look at the efficacy and functions of Qianghuo and how to consume it.
Qianghuo is generally harvested in September, when the volatile oil content is highest. In the future, as the storage period extends, its oil content gradually decreases. In addition, the Qianghuo production area is very humid, and after harvest, medicinal farmers often bake it on the spot with an open fire, resulting in a decrease in volatile oil content, and it is easily scorched and affects the quality of the medicinal materials. Experiments have shown that it is better to dry Qianghuo in the sun or at low temperature.
Effects and contraindications
Efficacy: dispersing cold, dispelling rheumatism, and benefiting the joints. Cure colds and wind-colds, headaches without sweating, wind-cold and dampness-induced paralysis, strong tendons in the neck, sore joints, feng shui edema, and carbuncles and sores.
Taboo: Do ??not take it if you have blood deficiency, numbness and pain.
The functions of Qianghuo
1. It is used for symptoms of exogenous wind-cold, aversion to cold, fever, headache and body aches. This product has strong dispersing wind-cold and analgesic effects. It is often used with Fangfeng, Angelica dahurica and Asarum, such as Jiuwei Qianghuo Decoction.
2. It is more suitable for joint pain, shoulder and back pain caused by the invasion of wind, cold and dampness, especially upper body pain. This product can dispel wind, overcome temperature, dispel cold and relieve pain. Often used together with Fangfeng and Fangfeng, such as Juanbi Decoction.
3. Used for impotence and spermatorrhea, enuresis and frequent urination, cold pain in waist and knees, asthma caused by kidney deficiency, and diarrhea at midnight; external use to treat vitiligo and alopecia areata. Relieves superficial cold, dispels wind and dampness, and relieves pain.
4. Relieve superficial cold. It is mainly used to treat wind-cold colds, aversion to cold, no sweating, headache and body aches. Anti-allergic effect.
5. It has a certain inhibitory effect on the delayed hypersensitivity reaction in mice caused by 2,4-dinitrochlorobenzene (DNCB).
6. Anti-arrhythmic effect. Its water-soluble part can significantly shorten the duration of arrhythmia in rabbits and delay the onset of aconitine-induced arrhythmia in mice. This effect tends to increase with increasing dose, but when the dose is increased to 12g/kg, its effect is Instead it declined.
7. Anti-myocardial ischemia effect. Its volatile oil can resist acute myocardial ischemia caused by pituitary hormone. In addition, Qianghuo volatile oil can significantly increase myocardial nutritional blood flow, thereby improving myocardial ischemia.
8. Anti-shock effect. It requires multiple administrations of small doses to be effective, but administration of a large dose at one time cannot improve the animal's anti-shock ability.
9. Anti-thrombotic and antioxidant. Taking Qianghuo can prevent the formation of blood clots. It has anti-lipid peroxidation effect.
10. Other functions. Qianghuo also has anti-epileptic effects; it also has a certain inhibitory effect on cervical cells.
How to take it
Suitable people: People with yin deficiency and blood loss, qi deficiency and excessive sweating should take it with caution.
Therapeutic effects: Qianghuo tastes pungent, bitter, and warm in nature, and returns to the bladder, liver, and kidney meridians. Qi Xiong Sheng Powder has the effects of dispersing cold and relieving the surface, dispelling wind and dampness, removing paralysis and relieving pain.
It mainly treats exogenous wind-cold and rheumatism, aversion to cold, fever without sweating, headache and strong nape, dizziness and stuffy nose, limb aches, wind-cold-damp paralysis, edema and athlete's foot, sores, swollen and poisonous ulcers, and tetanus.
Practice guidance: For those with external wind-cold symptoms, aversion to cold, fever and headache, it can be combined with Fangfeng, Schizonepeta, Duhuo, etc.; for those with strong wind evil, it can be combined with Guizhi, Ephedra, and Black Snake. Wait for compatibility.