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It is recorded in "Shennong's Herbal Classic": Prunella vulgaris, also known as Xiju, Yanmian, Wheat Ear Prunella, and Sheep Intestines, is a Chinese medicinal material. It has the effects of clearing the liver, improving eyesight, dispersing blood stasis and eliminating tumors. People also use it to make tea as a cooling and heat-relieving remedy. Prunella Vulgaris is an important medicine for clearing liver fire and relieving depression.

Efficacy and function

According to traditional Chinese medicine, Prunella Vulgaris tastes spicy and bitter and is cold in nature. It enters the liver and gallbladder meridians. Clears the liver and reduces fire, improves eyesight, disperses lumps and reduces swelling. It is used for red, swollen and painful eyes, night pain in the eyeballs, headache and dizziness, scrofula, goiter, breast abscess, breast lumps and breast pain.

"Ben Jing": It is used to treat cold and heat, scrofula, fistula, head sores, break tumors, disperse goiter and qi stagnation, and swollen and damp arthritis of the feet.

"Compendium of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan": Dispels liver wind, promotes blood circulation, and treats facial paralysis.

Cleanses the liver and improves eyesight

It is used for red, swollen and painful eyes due to liver heat, and headache and dizziness due to hyperactivity of liver yang (such as hypertension). It can be combined with Kuding tea and wild chrysanthemum.

Clearing away heat and dispersing stagnation

Used for mastitis and mumps, it can be combined with bupleurum, red peony root, and thunbergia thunbergii. It is used for scrofula (such as lymphadenopathy) and goiter (such as simple goiter), and is often used with oyster and Fritillaria thunbergii.

Diuretic

Prunella vulgaris can clear urination and has a good effect on turbid urine and prostatitis.

How to use Prunella vulgaris

Prunella Vulgaris combined with Angelica sinensis and White Peony Root: used to treat various symptoms caused by liver depression and blood deficiency;

Prunella Vulgaris combined with chrysanthemum: used to treat liver fire inflammation, red and swollen eyes caused by wind-heat in the liver meridian; or headache and dizziness caused by hyperactivity of liver yang.

1. For injuries caused by beatings or knife wounds: chew the herb into pieces and apply it to the wound.

2. White spots on pityriasis versicolor: decoct Prunella Vulgaris into a concentrated juice and use it to wash the affected area every day.

3. Hemorrhage: Grind Prunella Vulgaris into powder, take one teaspoon each time, and mix with rice soup.

4. Postpartum dizziness and anxiety: Mash the herb Prunella Vulgaris, squeeze out a bowl of juice and drink it, it is very effective.

5. Leucorrhea: When Prunella Vulgaris blooms, pick it, dry it in the shade, and grind it into powder. Take 2 qian each time, before meals, with rice soup.

6. Treatment of acute tonsillitis and sore throat: 100-150 grams of fresh Prunella Vulgaris. Decoction in water.

7. Prevention of measles: 25-100 grams of Prunella vulgaris. Take it in decoction, one dose a day, for three consecutive days.

8. To treat dizziness: 100 grams of fresh Prunella Vulgaris and 25 grams of rock sugar. Stew with boiling water and take after meals.

How to eat Prunella vulgaris

Prunella Vulgaris porridge

Ingredients: 30g Prunella vulgaris, 100g rice;

practice:

1. Wash 30g of Prunella Vulgaris flowers, cut them into sections, put them into a clean cloth bag, and put them into the pot;

2. Add appropriate amount of water, boil it on low heat until it becomes medicinal juice, and remove the medicine bag;

3. Wash 100g of rice, add appropriate amount of water and medicine juice, boil it over high heat and then simmer it over low heat until it becomes porridge.

Efficacy: Clears liver fire and lowers blood pressure.

Prunella Vulgaris Tea

Ingredients: 60 grams of Prunella Vulgaris.

Method: Place the selfheal in a thermos bottle. Brew with 300 ml of boiling water for 15 minutes and drink instead of tea, 1 dose per day.

Efficacy: Clears the liver and dispels stagnation. It is mainly used to treat scrofula, goiter, mastitis and breast cancer.

The flowering period of Prunella Vulgaris is from April to June, and the fruiting period is from July to October. People with heavy dampness, weak spleen and stomach, or rheumatism should use it with caution. Long-term and large-scale consumption of Prunella Vulgaris may cause side effects and increase the burden on the liver and kidneys.