The Chinese medicine motherwort, its name can be heard to know its nature, in traditional Chinese medicine, this medicine is even known as ? The woman's friend? Whether it is to alleviate the female diseases, or used to help ladies health, have a very good role.

Motherwort is very helpful to women's health, it is hard and slightly cold, blood circulation and menstruation, diuresis and swelling, can treat women's blood stagnation and blood stasis caused by amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, post-partum stagnation abdominal pain, etc., and also has a certain role in eliminating water retention, diuretics in addition to edema.

Clinically, motherwort is commonly used in the treatment of gynecological diseases, it is bitter, pungent and dispersing, and it has a very good effect of activating blood circulation and regulating menstruation, eliminating blood stasis and generating new blood. In the treatment of women's blood stasis caused by amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, and post-partum stagnation pain motherwort can be decocted and boiled into a paste to take, if you feel the taste of bad time can also add some brown sugar to improve the taste.

Motherwort can also promote blood and water, is to eliminate the body of edema, the body of heat and toxicity. So for women's health there is a certain detoxification effect.

The seeds and stems and leaves of motherwort have similar effects, but the effect of removing heat and fire is stronger, and it can clear the liver and eyes while regulating menstruation. Some women due to physiological reasons often cause chest tightness and weakness, eye redness and cataracts, dizziness and brain swelling and other symptoms, the azalea can significantly alleviate these uncomfortable symptoms.

Modern research has found that motherwort contains a large number of alkaloids, such as epsilonine and hydrastine, in addition to a wealth of vitamins and other substances. The effective active ingredients of motherwort can play a significant role in the excitation of uterine smooth muscle, increasing the frequency and amplitude of uterine contractions. In addition, there is also a certain vasodilatation, inhibit the role of platelet coagulation. So modern medicine is also commonly used motherwort to assist in the treatment of coronary heart disease, cerebral infarction, high blood pressure and hypertension and other conditions.

But note that, because of the motherwort to activate the blood and regulate menstruation role is very strong, so women are contraindicated during pregnancy, so expectant mothers life is best not to contact the motherwort, or how would the ancients have come up with such a warm name for this inconspicuous grass.