Motherwort, also known as: 蓷蓷, Cnidium montanum, Cnidium montanum, Cnidium montanum, Cnidium montanum, Cnidium montanum, Latin name: Leonurus artemisia (Laur.) S. Y. Hu F, for the Labiatae family, motherwort plants, summer flowering. Its dried above-ground parts are commonly used as traditional Chinese medicine, produced in most parts of China, and used raw or boiled in paste. It is an annual or biennial herb distributed in most parts of the country, born in mountain wilderness, ridge, grassland, etc. It grows luxuriantly in summer, and its flowers are not fully grown. In the summer growth of lush flowers are not fully bloomed when picked, taste hard, cool, blood, bruising, menstruation, water, treatment of women's menstrual disorders, fetal leakage difficult to give birth to the uterus not down, postpartum dizziness, abdominal pain in blood stasis, leakage in the collapse, blood in the urine, diarrhea, carbuncle swollen sores and ulcers.
Motherwort has the effect of diuretic swelling, contraction of the uterus, is used by generations of doctors to treat gynecological diseases.
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Motherwort preparations have an excitatory effect on the uterus of animals, similar to that of posterior pituitary hormone. Motherwort extract and decoction have a strong and long-lasting excitatory effect on the uterus, which not only enhances its contraction force, but also increases its tension and contraction rate.
Ai (scientific name: Artemisia argyi? Levl. et Van) is a plant of the genus Artemisia of the family Asteraceae, perennial herb or slightly into a semi-shrubby, the plant has a strong aroma. The main root is obvious, slightly thick and long, up to 1.5 cm in diameter, with many lateral roots. Stems solitary or few, 80-150(-250) cm tall. Leaves thickly papery, grayish-white pubescent above, and with white glandular dots with small pits. Heads ellipsoid, 2.5-3(-3.5) mm in diameter, sessile or nearly so. Achenes long ovate or oblong. Flowering and fruiting July-October.
Distributed in Mongolia, Korea, Russia (Far East), and China; widely distributed, almost throughout China except in very arid and alpine regions. Cultivated in Japan. Born in low to medium altitude areas of wasteland, roadsides, riversides and mountain slopes, but also in the forest steppe and grassland areas, localized for the dominant species of plant communities.
The whole herb is used as medicine, with warm menstruation, removing dampness, dispersing cold, stopping bleeding, anti-inflammatory, asthma, cough, fetal safety, anti-allergy and other roles. Ai leaves dried and crushed to get "Ai velvet", the system of moxa sticks for moxibustion, and can be used as a "seal mud" raw materials. In addition, the whole plant is used as insecticide pesticide or fumigation smoke for room disinfection, insecticide. Young shoots and seedlings for vegetables. [1] Ai dried and crushed into Artemisia absinthium powder, is a high-quality feed additives for livestock and poultry. It can also be used as a natural plant dye.