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Few people would cook or eat Achyranthes bidentata directly, or even throw it away. They would never think that this ingredient is used as a traditional Chinese medicinal material in most cases. It can be used as a medicine, especially to treat many gynecological diseases. Female friends who often feel severe dysmenorrhea during menstruation can use this medicinal material to relieve it. It can improve the symptoms of pain and achieve the purpose of relaxing muscles and activating blood circulation.

Main Value

Medicinal value

The root is used as medicine. When used raw, it can promote blood circulation and regulate menstruation. It can treat postpartum abdominal pain, irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, epistaxis, toothache due to deficiency of fire, and edema caused by athlete's foot. When used cooked, it can nourish the liver and kidneys, strengthen the waist and knees, and treat soreness of the waist and knees, liver and kidney deficiency, and pain caused by falls. Veterinarians use it to treat cattle's soft foot disease, broken bones from falls, etc.

Medicinal part: dried root of the plant.

Nature and flavor : bitter, sweet, sour, flat.

Meridians: Liver and kidney meridians.

Efficacy: Removes blood stasis and promotes menstruation, nourishes the liver and kidneys, strengthens tendons and bones, promotes diuresis and relieves stranguria, and guides blood downward.

Indications: Used for amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, soreness of waist and knees, weakness of tendons and bones, stranguria, edema, headache, dizziness, toothache, sun sores, hematemesis, and epistaxis.

1. Children who are slow to walk: Children under three years old who cannot walk can use this medicine to help them walk. Take 50g of Acanthopanax Cortex, 2.5g of Achyranthes bidentata and Papaya, and grind them into powder. Take 5 fen each time, mixed with 2 to 3 drops of rice wine. (《All Children's Heart》)

2. Retention of placenta: one he of winter melon seeds, one liang of Achyranthes bidentata, two liters of water, boil and drink one liter. (Qianjin Fang)

3. If a pregnant woman has fetal movement and the mother is dying but the child is still alive, use this to treat it: half a liang of mercury and cinnabar each. Grind into paste. Use half a liang of Achyranthes bidentata and five large cups of water. Decoction, add honey and take half a spoonful. (Sheng Hui Fang)

Dosage and administration: decoction, 5-12g.

Contraindications: Use with caution in pregnant women.

Collection and processing: Dig up in winter when the stems and leaves wither, remove the fibrous roots and mud, tie into small bundles, dry in the sun until wrinkled, cut the tops evenly, and dry in the sun.

This product is slender and cylindrical, straight or slightly curved, 15 to 70 cm long and 0.4 to 1 cm in diameter. The surface is grayish yellow or light brown, with slightly twisted fine longitudinal wrinkles, sparsely arranged lateral root marks and transverse long lenticel-like protrusions. It is hard and brittle, easily broken, and becomes soft after getting wet. The cross section is flat, light brown, slightly horny, beautiful and oily. The central vascular bundle has a large yellow-white xylem, and there are many yellow-white dot-like vascular bundles scattered around it, arranged in 2 to 4 whorls. It has a faint smell and tastes slightly sweet and slightly bitter.

The segments of Achyranthes bidentata are cylindrical, with a grayish-yellow or light brown outer skin, fine longitudinal wrinkles and long transverse lenticels, hard and brittle, easy to break, and softens when exposed to moisture. The cut surface is flat, light brown or brown, slightly horny and oily. The central vascular bundle xylem is relatively large and yellowish-white, with numerous yellowish-white dot-like vascular bundles scattered around it, arranged discontinuously in 2 to 4 rounds. The smell is slightly sweet and slightly bitter.