What are the effects and functions of Curcuma aromatica?

Curcuma aromatica is a common Chinese medicinal material. It belongs to the same species of plant as ginger, but its medicinal effect is stronger. If you know how to utilize the effects and functions of Curcuma aromatica, it can be very good for the human body. Curcuma aromatica can relieve myocarditis, coronary heart disease, angina pectoris, etc. If you don’t know how to use it, it is best to take it under the advice of a regular doctor.

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Effects of Curcuma

Regulate Qi and relieve depression.

Curcuma is a blood-regulating medicine that can both regulate qi and resolve blood stasis. It is often used by patients diagnosed with qi stagnation and blood stasis. Clinically, there are diseases with qi stagnation and blood stasis, such as myocarditis, chest tightness and pain caused by coronary heart disease or accompanied by angina pectoris, chronic liver disease or accompanied by portal hypertension, lung damage caused by immune disease or accompanied by pulmonary hypertension, chronic cholecystitis and cholelithiasis, ureteral stones with hematuria, etc. These all need to be treated with the method of regulating qi and removing blood stasis. Curcuma is a suitable medicine and can be used together with Bupleurum, White Peony Root, etc.

① It is used for damp-heat disease, phlegm and turbidity obscuring the clear orifices, and patients with coma and delirium. It can be used together with calamus, gardenia and talcum powder.

②It is used for internal obstruction of phlegm, depression, restlessness, insomnia and dreaminess. It can be used together with Poria cocos, Acorus calamus, and Albizzia julibrissin bark.

③It is used for phlegm blocking the mind, mental confusion, and delirium. It can be used together with alum, or with Cyperus rotundus, centipede, scorpion, and croton frost.

Liver-protecting and choleretic.

Curcuma can protect the liver and promote bile secretion, and has a restorative effect on damaged liver cell mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum. Curcuma can not only relieve symptoms of chronic liver disease and immune liver disease, but also relieve symptoms when used together with bupleurum, white peony root, and bitter orange, and liver function will improve accordingly. What is difficult to treat is the elevated bilirubin, but after adding Curcuma and Gardenia to the compound, it will slowly decrease.

Remove blood stasis and stop bleeding.

The ancients had a clear understanding of the indications of Curcuma aromatica for stopping bleeding, which was mainly used to treat old blood with stasis. Pharmacological studies suggest that Curcuma has an anticoagulant effect and can promote hemolysis. This confirms that the ancients' understanding was correct. Curcuma is a blood-removing and hemostatic drug. It can only be used when there is both blood stasis and bleeding. It cannot be used when there is no blood stasis. Its use will aggravate bleeding, which is very difficult to control clinically. In fact, it directly removes blood stasis and indirectly stops bleeding. Therefore, Curcuma is a blood-removing drug and should not be a hemostatic drug.

Curcuma can dissipate blood stasis and stop bleeding, and is suitable for bleeding without stasis, such as acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding, unexplained hematuria, acute bronchial dilatation hemoptysis, gynecological metrorrhagia, etc. These are all new blood, there is no congestion, so Curcuma cannot be used.

Promotes qi and removes blood stasis.

① Used for upper abdominal distension and pain in chronic gastritis, it can be used together with Toosendan fruit, Corydalis yanhusuo, costus root, etc.

② Used for distension and pain in the ribs caused by chronic hepatitis and chronic cholecystitis. It can be used together with Salvia miltiorrhiza, Red Peony Root, Ligusticum chuanxiong, and Citrus aurantium.

③ Used for premenstrual abdominal pain and distension caused by dysmenorrhea, it can be used together with angelica, chuanxiong, peach kernel, and lindera scabra.

④ Used for chest pain, namely coronary heart disease, chest tightness, pain, and poor qi movement. It can be used together with Xiebai, cinnamon twig, Chuanxiong, etc.

Cool blood and clear the heart.

Used for vomiting blood, epistaxis and hematuria due to blood heat. Combined with blood-cooling drugs such as Rehmannia glutinosa, Cortex Moutan, Gardenia jasminoides, etc., it can play the role of removing blood stasis, promoting new blood circulation, cooling blood and stopping bleeding without leaving blood stasis.