1, Bushenyang
Epilepsy is warm and dry, and can tonify kidney-yang. It is good at impotence and impotence, and can be used to treat male impotence, infertility and impotence and nocturnal emission caused by kidney-yang deficiency.
2, strong bones and muscles
The kidney governs the bones, and the spleen is pungent and warm to dispel cold, which can enter the liver and kidney to strengthen the bones and muscles, and can treat various diseases such as weakness of bones and muscles, cold pain in the waist and knees caused by deficiency of kidney yang.
3, expelling wind and dampness
Epilepsy can dispel cold, dispel wind and dampness, and at the same time strengthen bones and muscles like liver and kidney. It can often be used to treat wind-cold-dampness arthralgia, especially those who suffer from rheumatism arthralgia due to long-term illness involving liver and kidney, unhealthy bones and muscles, or yang deficiency constitution and malnutrition of bones and muscles.
4. Enhance sexual function
Herba Epimedii can promote sexual function because of hypersecretion of semen, which stimulates sensory nerves and indirectly excites desire after seminal vesicle is filled. Herba Epimedii extract has androgenic function and is a good medicine for replenishing essence and strengthening yang.
5. Protect your heart
Flavonoids contained in Herba Epimedii can dilate coronary artery and increase coronary blood flow, thus reducing myocardial oxygen consumption, improving microcirculation and preventing coronary heart disease. In addition, Herba Epimedii has antihypertensive effect.
6. Prevention of osteoporosis
Herba Epimedii can promote DNA synthesis of bone marrow cells, antagonize osteoporosis caused by long-term use of adrenocortical hormone, significantly increase the number of osteoblasts and promote blood circulation, and increase trabecular area and bone density.
7. Improve immunity
Icariin and epimedium polysaccharide are the main effective components of Herba Epimedii to enhance the immune function of the body. Both of them can significantly improve the phagocytosis of macrophages and promote the transformation and proliferation of lymphocytes.
8, delay aging
Herba Epimedii can obviously delay the aging changes of hypothalamic neurotransmitters in naturally aging animals and increase brain nerves.
The content of transmitter acetylcholine can improve learning and memory ability and reduce the formation of lipid peroxide and lipofuscin in heart and liver.
9, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and antiviral
Herba Epimedii has strong inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus albus and Staphylococcus aureus, and has inhibitory effects on poliomyelitis virus and Coxsackie virus cultured in tissues.
10, reducing blood fat and sugar
Herba Epimedii can reduce blood lipid and blood sugar. In animal experiments, Herba Epimedii can reduce cholesterol and triglyceride in hyperlipidemia rabbits and blood sugar in hyperglycemia rats.
1 1, anti-tumor
Icariin can induce the apoptosis of cancer cells and induce the differentiation of human acute promyelocytic leukemia cells in the direction of granulocyte system. Icariin has a significant inhibitory effect on cultured nasopharyngeal carcinoma KB cells, human leukemia K562 cells and human acute promyelocytic leukemia cells.
12, eating methods
1, Herba Epimedii cures wind bias, hand and foot paralysis, and the skin is heartless: one catty of Herba Epimedii; Fine file, filled in a raw silk bag, in a container, soaked in two buckets of ashless wine, sealed with thick paper, no ventilation, spring and summer, autumn and winter. Drink it casually every day, which often makes you drunk and not drunk. ("Shenghuifang")
2. Huangqi Yanghuo Decoction: Huangqi 30g, Epimedium 15g and Schisandra 6g. Decoct soup. In this prescription, Astragalus membranaceus is used to tonify lung and qi, Epimedium is used to warm kidney yang, and Schisandra chinensis is used to tonify kidney and astringe lung. Used for deficiency of lung and kidney, asthma, cough and shortness of breath. Indications: impotence, nocturnal emission, premature ejaculation, spermatorrhea, infertility, frequent urinary incontinence, kidney deficiency, asthma and cough, soreness of waist and knees, muscle and bone spasm, rheumatism and arthralgia, hemiplegia and callousness of limbs.
3, Xianlingpi cures the wind and takes pains, and it is uncertain: Xianlingpi one or two, Clematis one or two, Xiong _-two, Guixin one or two; One or two xanthium. Apply the medicine, and smash it into powder. Every time you take it, regardless of the time, adjust the next money with warm wine. (Sheng Hui Fang Xian Ling Pi San)
4. Treating menopausal syndrome with Herba Epimedii: Herba Epimedii and Rhizoma Curculiginis each15g, and Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Radix Morindae Officinalis, Cortex Phellodendri and Rhizoma Anemarrhenae each 9g. Decoct with water, daily 1 dose. It has a good effect on women with climacteric symptoms such as hypertension, dizziness and tinnitus, soreness of waist and knees, and tepid lower limbs.
5. Epinephritic spleen is used to treat the faint eyes: Epinephritic spleen and raw melon (that is, the red one in the small pagoda) are equally divided. For the end, every time you take a money, you can take two clothes a day after tea. ("The General Record of Shengji")
6. Treating enuresis with Herba Epimedii: epimedium120g, Rhizoma Curculiginis 90g, fried yam 90g, and gallnut15g. Sun-dried, slightly baked and ground, 6 grams each in the morning and evening, and mixed with salt and boiled water. It is suitable for enuresis due to yang deficiency.
7, Xianlingpi treatment of toothache: Xianlingpi, no matter how much, for the rough end, decoction and teeth. (Gu Ya San, a miraculous prescription)
13, medication contraindications
Those who are prone to fire due to yin deficiency are forbidden to take epimedium.