1, pregnant women can't eat chuanxiong.
Chuanxiong is a traditional Chinese medicine plant, which is often used to promote blood circulation and qi circulation, dispel wind and relieve pain. Chuanxiong is pungent, warm, fragrant and dry, and it can disperse when walking, but it can reach the top when going up. Enter the blood again, and descend to the sea of blood. Promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis has a wide range of functions, and is suitable for blocking various diseases by blood stasis. Expelling wind and relieving pain, with good effect, can treat headache caused by head wind, rheumatism and arthralgia, etc. In the past, it was said that Chuanxiong was the qi medicine in blood, and it almost said that it had the functions of dispelling phlegm, relieving depression, dredging and relieving pain. This product, Xin Wensheng Powder, is not suitable for those with yin deficiency and hyperactivity of liver yang. Menstruation and pregnant women are also contraindicated.
Chuanxiong rhizome is used for chest and hypochondriac pain, rheumatic arthralgia, lump in abdominal mass, sore and sore, traumatic injury, irregular menstruation, amenorrhea dysmenorrhea, postpartum stasis pain and other diseases. Chuanxiong Xin San Wen Tong has a wide range of functions, such as promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. It is suitable for all kinds of diseases of blood stasis, especially for regulating menstruation in gynecology. For irregular menstruation, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, it is often combined with angelica and other herbs. For chest and hypochondriac pain, it can be combined with Bupleurum and Rhizoma Cyperi. For rheumatism and arthralgia, it can be combined with Notopterygium and Radix Angelicae Pubescentis. For abdominal mass, it can be combined with San Liang and Zedoary Rhizome. For sore, swelling, pain and traumatic injury, it can be combined with frankincense and myrrh.
In terms of diet and crowd, patients with wind-cold headache, wind-heat headache, migraine, angioneurotic headache and other diseases are suitable for eating. However, patients with hypertensive headache, brain tumor headache, liver fire headache and those with yin deficiency and excessive fire are not suitable for eating.
2, the efficacy of Ligusticum chuanxiong.
(1) Promoting blood circulation and qi circulation
① It is used for angina pectoris of coronary heart disease, with symptoms of chest tightness and tenderness in precordial area. It can be used with safflower, salvia miltiorrhiza, Dalbergia odorifera and Paeonia lactiflora, and Guanxin No.2 recipe.
② It can be used for diseases caused by qi and blood stasis, such as premenstrual and polychromatic red, which is blood heat, and can be used equally with Radix Rehmanniae, Cortex Moutan and Radix Angelicae Sinensis; In the late period of menstruation, 1 ~ 2 months1time, waist and abdominal pain and leucorrhea with multiple colors and whites during menstruation. It is used equally with Angelica sinensis, Rhizoma Zingiberis Preparata, Eucommiae Cortex and Cinnamomi.
③ It is used for dysmenorrhea. If the abdominal pain in the front waist is severe, and the menstruation is seen after the pain 1 day, it is used together with Danggui, Taoren and Honghua. If amenorrhea does not work and there is no discomfort, it can be used with Danggui, Taoren, Dried Ginger and Cinnamon. For postpartum abdominal pain, it is equivalent to Danggui and Paojiang.
④ For traumatic injury and local swelling and pain, it can be used together with Gardenia, Peach kernel and safflower.
(2) expelling wind and relieving pain
① For cold and headache, it belongs to wind-cold, and can be used together with Schizonepeta, Saposhnikovia divaricata and Angelica dahurica; For wind-heat, it can be used with chrysanthemum and mint.
② For rheumatic arthralgia, it can be used equally with Notopterygium, Radix Angelicae Pubescentis and Radix Saposhnikoviae.
(3) activating qi and releasing depression
① It is used for swelling and pain in the upper abdomen and hypochondriac ribs of cholecystitis, and can be used equally with Bupleurum and Scutellaria.
② For gastritis with epigastric distension and pain, acid regurgitation and heartburn, it can be used equally with dandelion and radix aucklandiae.
3. Pharmacological effects of Ligusticum Chuanxiong
1 and ligustrazine can dilate coronary artery and increase coronary blood flow; Dilating cerebral vessels, reducing vascular resistance, significantly increasing blood flow in the brain and limbs, and changing microcirculation; And can reduce the surface activity of platelets, inhibit platelet aggregation and prevent the formation of thrombus.
2. The total alkaloids of Ligusticum Chuanxiong and Ligustrazine can reduce the peripheral vascular resistance of anesthetized dogs and have significant and lasting antihypertensive effects; Can significantly increase renal blood flow and delay the damage of chronic kidney disease; Dilate vascular smooth muscle.
3. Ferulic acid contained in Chuanxiong can inhibit uterine smooth muscle in large doses, and volatile oil and decoction have sedative effects.