The efficacy and function of traditional Chinese medicine Chuanduan

Chuanduan is a relatively common Chinese medicinal material. In traditional Chinese medicine, its scope of use is relatively wide, because Chuanduan can treat many diseases, such as liver and kidney deficiency, back pain, spermatorrhea, falls and miscarriage, etc. If you want to fully utilize the efficacy of Chuanduan, you have to use different prescriptions to treat different diseases. Next, I will introduce to you in detail the effects and functions of the traditional Chinese medicine Chuanduan.

1. Functions and indications

Nourishes the liver and kidneys, strengthens tendons and bones, and regulates blood circulation. It is used to treat sore waist and back, weakness in the feet and knees, miscarriage, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea, spermatorrhea, bruises, wounds, hemorrhoids, carbuncles and swellings.

① "Ben Jing": It is used to treat typhoid fever, replenish deficiency, wounds, carbuncles, fractures and falls, repair tendons and bones, and women's lactation difficulties. Long-term use can increase energy and strength.

② "Bie Lu": It is used to treat uterine bleeding, internal bleeding from wounds, relieve pain, promote muscle growth, wrist injuries, bad blood, low back pain, and joint pain.

③ "Materia Medica": It can cure severe injuries, remove various warm toxins, and dredge the meridians.

④ "Bencao Gangmu" (Bencao Gangmu): It can help Qi, regulate blood circulation, replenish the five kinds of fatigue and seven kinds of injuries, break up knots and blood stasis, reduce swelling and poison, treat intestinal wind, hemorrhoids, fistula, breast abscess, scrofula, bruises, all diseases of women before and after childbirth, yellow and swollen face, reduce urination, stop spermatorrhea, hematuria, fetal leakage, and cold uterus.

⑤ "Compendium of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan": Nourishes the liver, strengthens the tendons and bones, promotes circulation of meridians, stops pain during menstruation (tendons and bones), stabilizes the fetus, treats leucorrhea in women, produces new blood, breaks up blood stasis, removes dead eyes, stops coughing and coughing up blood, and treats red and white turbid stools.

⑥ "Illustrated Materia Medica of Southern Yunnan": It can treat all unknown swellings, myrica, and blisters.

2. Additional prescription

① Treat low back pain and sore feet and weak legs: 2 liang of Dipsacus asper, 1 liang of Psoralea corylifolia, Achyranthes bidentata, Papaya, Trichosanthes kirilowii, and 1 liang of Eucommia ulmoides. Grind the above ingredients into fine powder and add refined honey to make pills the size of tung seeds. Take 50 to 60 pills on an empty stomach with wine without ash. (Xudun Pills from the Fushou Jing Fang)

② Treat wind-cold and joint pain in the elderly: Dipsacus asper, Achyranthes bidentata (remove the stem and soak in wine). Grind the above ingredients into fine powder, mix with warm wine and take 2 qian of it before meals. (Xuduan San from Wei's Family Collection)

③Treat miscarriage during the second or third month of pregnancy: 2 liang each of Chuanxuduan (soaked in wine) and Eucommia ulmoides (fried with ginger juice and remove the fibers). Grind into powder, boil the jujube meat, pound it into balls as big as walnuts. Take 30 pills each time, with rice water. (Compendium of Materia Medica)

④Treat miscarriage: 4 liang of Cuscuta australis (fried or stewed), 2 liang of Viscum album, 2 liang of Dipsacus asper, and 2 liang of real donkey-hide gelatin. Grind the first three ingredients into fine powder, dissolve in water and make into pills of one fen in weight (one fen in dry weight). Take 20 pills each time with warm water, and take again the next day. (Shoutai Pills from "Medical Records of Combining Chinese and Western Medicine")

⑤To treat injuries caused by blows and sprains of joints: mash the comfrey and rub it. ("Healthy and Simple Prescriptions")

⑥ Treat postpartum blood circulation, hardness of the heart and abdomen, and alternating hot and cold: 3 liang of Dipsacus asper, coarsely pound and sieve, take 2 qian each time, add 1 cup of water, boil until 70% of the water is left, remove the residue and drink while warm. (Xudun Decoction from Shengji Zonglu)

⑦Treatment for lactation deficiency: 5 qian of Chuanxiong, 1.5 qian each of Angelica sinensis and Chuanxiong, 2 qian each of Ephedra and Sichuan pangolin (calcined), 3 qian of Trichosanthes kirilowii. Boil for 80% with two large bowls of water and drink after meals. (Compendium of Materia Medica)

⑧It can cure breast abscess in the early stage and cure long-term disease: 8 liang of Chuanxiongduan (soaked in wine and fried), 4 liang of Taraxacum mongolicum (dried in the sun and fried). Grind them into powder and take three grams each morning and evening, mixed with plain water. (Compendium of Materia Medica)

⑨Treat edema: stew the root of Dipsacus asper with pork kidney. (Hunan Pharmacopoeia)

3. Pharmacological Action

1. Anti-vitamin E deficiency: Experiments on mice and chickens have shown that Dipsacus asper has the effect of resisting vitamin E deficiency.

2. Hemostatic and analgesic effects: It has the effects of draining pus, stopping bleeding, relieving pain and promoting tissue regeneration for carbuncles.