1, stop bleeding and cool blood
Eclipta prostrata has the effect of stopping bleeding and cooling blood, and is mainly used for bleeding caused by yin deficiency and blood heat, such as vomiting blood, hemoptysis, hematochezia, gingival bleeding, metrorrhagia, etc. It often acts on bleeding caused by yin deficiency of liver and kidney and hyperactivity of liver fire. Clinically, it is often combined with Semen Plantaginis, Semen Sunflower, Radix Rehmanniae, Colla Corii Asini, Pollen Typhae and Rhizoma Imperatae to enhance the curative effect.
2. tonify liver and kidney
Eclipta prostrata tastes sweet, sour and cold, and enters liver and kidney meridians. It has certain curative effect on waist soreness, leg weakness, dizziness, premature gray hair and other symptoms caused by liver and kidney yin deficiency, and can be taken with Ligustrum lucidum.
3. Anti-aging
Eclipta prostrata has the function of scavenging free radicals and inflammatory substances, and can also help improve cellular immune function, especially protect chromosome damage, which is helpful to anti-aging, and its effect is more obvious than other tonics.
4. Grow black hair
Chinese medicine says: hair is blood. But the liver stores blood, and hair is the extension of blood in vitro. The liver and kidney are full of blood and essence, and the hair is black and bright. On the contrary, hair loss, gray hair, yellow hair, split, broken and other problems appear. Eclipta prostrata enters the liver meridian, which can tonify the kidney and nourish the liver, so it is effective for premature gray hair or alopecia caused by liver and kidney deficiency.
5, convergence and itching relief
Eclipta prostrata tastes sour, can astringe and kill insects, reduce swelling and relieve itching, and has obvious curative effect on wet sores, pruritus vulvae, white turbidity and leucorrhea caused by wind, dampness and heat resistance. Decocting Eclipta prostrata with water, or washing with decoction of Uncaria rhynchophylla root and a small amount of alum, has the effect of treating female pudendal pruritus; It is used together with Semen Plantaginis, Flos Lonicerae and Rhizoma Smilacis Glabrae to treat white turbidity; Decoct with chicken soup or broth to treat leukorrhagia.
6. Treat allergic rhinitis
Eclipta prostrata can improve non-specific immune function, reduce allergic reaction and release of bioactive medium. For long-term recurrent allergic rhinitis, it is effective to check and treat it with Eclipta prostrata decoction for more than half a year.
7. Dietary taboos
There is no side effect when Eclipta prostrata is decocted in a conventional dose, and there is no side effect when it is taken for a long time, but if the dose is too large, people with spleen deficiency and loose stool will have intestinal sliding reaction;
People with spleen deficiency, fear of cold, stomach deficiency, loose stool, kidney deficiency and hyperhidrosis should avoid using Eclipta prostrata.
8. How to eat
First of all, Eclipta prostrata pork liver soup
Ingredients: Eclipta prostrata 60g, pork liver 250g, and proper amount of seasoning.
Practice: decoct the above materials in water, daily 1 dose, and take several doses continuously.
Efficacy: Treating nosebleeds and hepatobiliary diseases.
Second, the local dry lotus porridge
Materials: Radix Rehmanniae 15g, Eclipta prostrata 15g, and 30g of japonica rice.
Practice: decoct Radix Rehmanniae and Eclipta prostrata in water, take juice to remove residues, add clear water to boiled porridge of japonica rice, add the juice of Eclipta prostrata when cooked, and then cook for a while.
Efficacy: Treatment of thrush due to excessive fire: white crumbs in the mouth and tongue, invisible blush around, red face and lips, erosion of the mouth and tongue, fatigue and dry mouth, tender red tongue and rapid pulse.
Third, Eclipta prostrata and jujube soup
Ingredients: 50g fresh Eclipta prostrata, 8 ~ 10 red dates.
Practice: 2 bowls of Eclipta prostrata and red dates are fried in water to 1 bowl.
Usage: twice a day. Remove the dregs and drink soup.
Efficacy: nourishing liver and kidney, nourishing yin and blood, and stopping bleeding. Is it suitable for gastric and duodenal ulcers? Hemorrhage, hemorrhagic anemia and other diseases, with good adjuvant treatment effect.
Fourth, Eclipta prostrata and jujube soup
Ingredients: 50 grams of fresh Eclipta prostrata and 20 jujubes.
Practice: First, wash Eclipta prostrata and jujube, put them into the pot together, add appropriate amount of water, simmer the soup, remove the residue after cooking, and eat jujube with soup.
Efficacy: This soup has the effects of nourishing liver and kidney, nourishing blood and stopping bleeding, and is suitable for gastroduodenal ulcer bleeding, hemorrhagic anemia, etc.
Five, Eclipta sparerib soup
Ingredients: 50 grams of Eclipta prostrata, 50 grams of Agrimonia pilosa, 600 grams of ribs, 2 candied dates and a little salt.
Practice: Wash the last four ingredients separately and chop the ribs. Put all the ingredients in boiling water, cook for 2 hours on medium heat, and season with salt.
Efficacy: clearing heat and nourishing yin, nourishing liver and kidney, cooling blood and stopping bleeding.
6. Stewed yellow swim bladder with Eclipta prostrata
Materials: swim bladder100g, Eclipta prostrata 30g.
Practice: Eclipta prostrata is wrapped in cloth, put into a casserole together with the swim bladder, add appropriate amount of water, stew with low fire until the swim bladder is completely dissolved, and remove the residue to get juice.
Usage: Take twice a day for 5-7 days.
Efficacy: cool blood and stop bleeding. It is suitable for purpura caused by blood heat rash.
Seven, chrysanthemum Eclipta washed lotus root starch
Materials: Chrysanthemum 15g, Eclipta prostrata 15g, 30g of lotus root powder, and proper amount of sugar.
Practice: decoct the first two herbs to remove the residue, cook the lotus root starch while it is hot, mix with white sugar, and take 3 ~ 4 doses every day.
Efficacy: Treating epistaxis and complications of hepatobiliary diseases.
Eight, Ligustrum lucidum Eclipta honey drink
Ingredients: 50g of Ligustrum lucidum, 50g of Eclipta prostrata and 50ml of honey.
Practice: 50 grams of Ligustrum lucidum and 50 grams of Eclipta prostrata are respectively removed from impurities, washed, dried or sun-dried, then the Ligustrum lucidum is mashed, and Eclipta prostrata is cut into small pieces, put into a pot, soaked in clear water, and decocted twice, each time for 40 minutes. The filtrates of the two times are combined, put into a container, add 50 ml of honey when it is warm, and mix well. Take it in the morning and afternoon.
Efficacy: nourishing yin and reducing fire, suitable for menstrual aphtha caused by yin deficiency and excessive fire.