The efficacy and function of Ouhuoxuedan

Since Chinese medicine has fewer side effects, more and more people now want to use Chinese medicine to regulate their bodies. Here I would like to introduce to you a medicinal herb, European Herbs, hoping it will be helpful to you.

[Source] Medicinal material source: the whole herb of the Lamiaceae plant Radix Angelicae Pubescentis.

[Original form] European hollyhock root is a creeping herb that creeps and takes root at each node. The stem is ascending, 140-17cm high, and has four branches. The leaves are herbaceous; roots grow at each node at the base of the stem. The stem is ascending, 10-17cm high, and quadrangular. Leaves herbaceous; leaves at the base of the stem are smaller, leaf blades nearly round, petioles 3.5-4.5cm long, covered with very fine sparse to hooked hairs; leaves at the top of the stem are larger, leaf blades reniform or kidney-round, 0.8-1.3cm, about 2m wide, rounded at the apex, cordate at the base, with a broad base depression, glabrous on both sides, petioles 0.8-1.8cm long, covered with inverted hooked hairs on both sides. The inflorescence is 2-4-lobed, forming a whorl; the bracts and bracteoles are tiny and subulate; the calyx is tubular, 5-7mm long, with stiff and short soft hairs on the outside, the calyx teeth are 5, ovate, the upper lip has 3 teeth, the lower lip has 2 teeth, and is ciliate; the corolla is purple, about 1cm long, with short soft hairs on the outside, and stiff hairs on the inside under the middle lobe of the lower lip, the corolla tube is about 7.5mm long, gradually widens and becomes funnel-shaped upwards, the corolla brim is two-lipped, the upper lip is erect, about 3mm long, the apex is two-lobed, the lobes are oblong, the corolla under the lower lip lobe is two-lobed, the lobes are oblong, and the lip is obliquely ovate; the stamens are 4, hidden, posteriorly opposite, born under the lip major near the throat, anteriorly opposite, born in the middle of the corolla tube under the lobes on both sides of the lower lip, the anthers are two-chambered, splayed; the ovary is 4-lobed, glabrous; the style does not extend out of the corolla when flowering, the apex is equal to 2 shallowly lobed, the disk is cup-shaped, and the front is finger-sized and swollen. Flowering period is May. Not seen when mature.

[Habitat distribution] Ecological environment: Grown on grasslands in valleys.

[Chemical composition] The fresh grass contains 0.03% volatile oil, the oil mainly contains pinocamphone, menthone, pulegone and a small amount of other terpene compounds. It also contains 3% tannin, saponin, resin, ursolic acid, β-sitosterol, palmitic acid, succinic acid, various amino acids and vitamin C.

【Nature and flavor】 Sweet; spicy; slightly cold

【Functions and indications】 Clears away heat and promotes blood circulation; promotes bile secretion and removes stones; activates blood circulation and regulates menstruation. Mainly used for heat stranguria, blood stranguria, sand stranguria, stone stranguria, gallstones, hepatitis, irregular menstruation

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoction, 10-30g.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

Everyone should be aware of the medicinal value of European Huoxuedan, and you can be more targeted when taking it in daily life. More reasonable use of the medicine can better treat some common diseases.