What are the functions and effects of the traditional Chinese medicine Cnidium monnieri

Speaking of the traditional Chinese medicine Cnidium monnieri, everyone must be familiar with it. Even if you have never used it, you must have heard of this name. Cnidium monnieri is mainly used to treat skin diseases, but it is hard to explain in detail. In traditional Chinese medicine, Cnidium monnieri is also called wild carrot seed. It usually matures in summer and autumn, and of course it is picked in these two seasons.

Now let's talk about the effects of the traditional Chinese medicine Cnidium monnieri, what are the effects of the traditional Chinese medicine Cnidium monnieri, and what diseases the traditional Chinese medicine Cnidium monnieri treats:

1. Treat infertility

Cnidium monnieri can increase sex hormones in both males and females. It can treat both male and female infertility. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that it can "warm men's yang energy and help women's yin energy." It can be used to treat male sexual dysfunction, impotence and premature ejaculation when used with epimedium and deer antler slices. It can also be used to treat female sexual dysfunction and infertility when used with Morinda officinalis and Eucommia ulmoides. If you feel excessive internal heat, you can use it together with Rehmannia glutinosa and Ophiopogon japonicus to balance the cold and heat.

2. Anti-allergic

Cnidium monnieri has anti-allergic effects and can treat allergic diseases such as eczema, prurigo, urticaria, etc. However, these skin diseases are mostly diagnosed as blood heat and damp heat. Therefore, Cnidium monnieri needs to be used together with anti-allergic and anti-allergic Chinese medicines that clear heat and cool blood, such as Scutellaria baicalensis, Cortex Moutan, Rehmannia glutinosa, etc.

3. Kill vaginal trichomoniasis

In vitro experiments have shown that the extract of this product has the effect of killing Trichomonas vaginalis and has inhibitory effects on a variety of fungi.

Traditionally, it is used to treat trichomoniasis, fungal infections, etc., with external fumigation as the main treatment.

4. Antifungal Effect

In vitro tests showed that osthole, bergamot lactone and isosaxifen had strong activity against Trichophyton mentagrophytes; Zanthoxylum bungeanum had significant antifungal effect.

5. Antiarrhythmic

The water extract of Cnidium monnieri has a preventive effect on chloroform-induced ventricular fibrillation in mice, calcium chloride-induced ventricular fibrillation in rats, and ornithine-induced arrhythmia in rats, and has a significant therapeutic effect on the latter.

6. Local anesthetic effect

The water extract of Cnidium monnieri has a blocking anesthetic effect on the isolated sciatic nerve of toads; it has an infiltration anesthetic effect on guinea pigs and can be enhanced by epinephrine hydrochloride; it has a spinal anesthetic effect on rabbits, but has no surface anesthetic effect on the rabbit cornea. It can also significantly prolong the sleep-inducing time of sodium pentobarbital.