What are the effects and functions of seahorse traditional Chinese medicine

Seahorses are creatures that live in the deep sea. They have a very special appearance. Although they look like tiny horses, they stand in the ocean and swim very interestingly. Don't underestimate seahorses. They are a common Chinese medicinal material and play a very important role in traditional Chinese medicine. So the question is, what are the effects and functions of seahorse traditional Chinese medicine?

The efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine seahorse

Warming the kidney and strengthening yang, dispersing lumps and reducing swelling. It is mainly used to treat mental fatigue, impotence and spermatorrhea, uterine cold and infertility, enuresis and frequent urination, kidney deficiency and asthma, accumulation of tumors, injuries from falls, carbuncles and furuncles.

1. "Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica": "It is used to treat difficult childbirth for women."

2. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can replenish the primordial yang."

3. "Pin Hui Jing Yao": "Regulates Qi and blood."

4. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Warms the water organs, strengthens the yang channel, eliminates lumps and lumps, and treats sores and swellings."

5. "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": "It is often used in cases of yang deficiency and can replace gecko."

6. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "seeds that improve sperm quality."

Effects of Chinese medicine hippocampus (pharmacological effects)

1. Sex hormone-like effects

Injecting mice with the ethanol extract of hippocampus striatum can prolong the estrus period of normal female mice and increase the weight of the uterus and ovaries; it can also increase the weight of the prostate, seminal vesicles, and testicles of young mice. Gavage of the ethanol extract of Hippocampus striatum to male mice can significantly increase the sperm count and sperm motility of mice, and inhibit the decrease in sperm count, motility and weight loss of testicles and prostate caused by cyclophosphamide.

2. Other functions

Hippocampus can prolong the mice's tolerance to hypoxia and survival time, prolong the mice's swimming time, enhance the animals' memory, and counteract the adverse effects of thymus atrophy in mice caused by hydrocortisone. Intraperitoneal injection of methanol extract of Hippocampus trimaculatus can significantly inhibit experimental carotid artery thrombosis in rats, and also has a significant inhibitory effect on the formation of cerebral thrombosis in rats, and the inhibitory effect increases with increasing dose.