What are the effects of drinking Chuanxiong soaked in water?

Chuanxiong is a rhizome of traditional Chinese medicine. It is a perennial herb with a very strong fragrance and particularly developed and strong rhizomes. Chuanxiong has the effects of promoting blood circulation, promoting qi, dispelling wind and relieving pain. It is generally used to treat women's menstrual disorders, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, headaches, etc. Chuanxiong is both edible and has medicinal value. Many people like to drink Chuanxiong directly in water, which also has a certain effect on regulating the body.

The efficacy of drinking Chuanxiong soaked in water

Anti-aging effect

It can dilate coronary arteries, increase coronary flow, improve myocardial blood supply, reduce myocardial oxygen consumption, dilate peripheral blood vessels and lower blood pressure; inhibit platelet aggregation, improve blood rheology properties and inhibit thrombosis; protect ischemic brain tissue by resisting oxygen free radicals, resisting lipid peroxidation and protecting oxidase activity, and can improve pia mater microcirculation, increase cerebral blood flow and adjust chronic microcirculation disorders; improve renal blood flow, protect the ability of renal tubules to reabsorb sodium, increase renal prostaglandin synthesis and reduce plasma angiotensin II, thereby protecting renal function; improve learning and memory ability and enhance the effects of memory, memory consolidation and memory reproduction during the memory process.

Treating aging conditions

Angina pectoris caused by coronary heart disease, cor pulmonale, ischemic cerebrovascular disease, azotemia caused by chronic nephritis, aplastic anemia, senile headache, and reactions to radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

Effects of Chuanxiong

1. Promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis

It can be used to treat rheumatic pain, lumps in the abdomen, swelling and pain in sores, and pain from falls. Chuanxiong has the properties of dispersing heat and promoting blood circulation, and can remove blood stasis. It has a wide range of effects and is suitable for various diseases caused by blood stasis, especially as an important medicine for regulating menstruation in gynecology.

2. Inhibit pulmonary vasoconstriction.

Ligustrazine can also inhibit pulmonary vasoconstriction caused by hypoxia, and also has an inhibitory effect on vasoconstriction caused by adrenaline or barium chloride. The mechanism of action of ligustrazine in isolated tissues and cells showed that the relaxation effect of ligustrazine on aortic smooth muscle was very similar to the characteristics of verapamil, and it was speculated that ligustrazine might be a new calcium ion antagonist.

3. Antibacterial

Chuanxiong has inhibitory effects on large intestine, dysentery (Sonne's), deformity, pus aeruginosa, typhoid, paratyphoid bacillus and Vibrio cholerae. Ligusticum chuanxiong water extract (1:3) also has an inhibitory effect on certain pathogenic skin fungi in vitro.

4. Effects on the central nervous system

Chuanxiong has a significant sedative effect. A small amount of Chuanxiong volatile oil has an inhibitory effect on the activity of the animal brain, but has an excitatory effect on the medulla oblongata respiratory center, vasomotor center and spinal reflex center.

5. Enhance blood circulation

Chuanxiong has the effect of enhancing blood circulation, which can accelerate the heart rate of animals, strengthen myocardial contractility, and dilate blood vessels. These effects increase with increasing dosage. Moreover, Chuanxiong has a very obvious effect in counteracting acute myocardial ischemia and hypoxia caused by Pit.

6. Radiation resistance

Chuanxiong decoction has a certain effect on the experimental treatment of radiation sickness in animals. The crude water-soluble preparation of Chuanxiong has a protective effect against radiation irradiation and nitrogen mustard damage in rats, mice and dogs.

7. Regulate menstruation

It is used to treat irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, and dysmenorrhea, and is often used together with other drugs such as angelica.

8. Dispel wind and relieve pain

Chuanxiong is pungent and fragrant and good at ascending. It can go up to the top of the head and has the effect of dispelling wind and relieving pain. It is an important medicine for treating headaches caused by wind. It can be used together with asarum, angelica dahurica, etc., and can also be appropriately combined according to which meridian the headache belongs to. For headaches caused by wind evil, if you use Schizonepeta, Saposhnikovia, and Notopterygium wilfordii together, you can treat headaches caused by wind-cold colds; if you use them together with Chrysanthemum, Bombyx batryticatus, etc., you can treat headaches caused by wind-heat. In addition, this product has been commonly used clinically in recent years to treat angina pectoris caused by coronary heart disease.