It grows in the field and is actually a woman's "favorite".

I remember when I was in high school, there was a girl in my class who drank a kind of Chinese medicine called Motherwort Granules. I was young and ignorant at that time, and I laughed at her secretly for several months, wondering how could she drink this medicine. It was not until I studied Chinese medicine that I realized how narrow-minded I was. Motherwort is a common plant found in the fields. It is best at promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, regulating menstruation and promoting diuresis, and treating blood stasis and abdominal pain caused by irregular menstruation.

There is a legend about Motherwort. There was a woman living by the Yellow River who suffered from abdominal pain and blood stasis when she gave birth. When the son grew up, he went around looking for doctors to treat his mother's illness. Later, a doctor took him to a wasteland in the mountains and pointed to a wild grass with square stems, palm-shaped leaves and small light red flowers and said, "Drinking the decoction of this wild grass can cure your mother's abdominal pain caused by blood stasis.

"After hearing this, he picked a lot of this grass and brought it home, boiling it into soup for his mother to drink every day. In just ten days, his mother's illness was almost cured. After taking it for more than ten days, her long-standing illness was cured. Later, people named this grass "Motherwort".

Motherwort is also known as wild gastrodia elata and Kuncao. It blooms from June to August. Although the pink flowers are small, they are very cute. Its fruit is Cnidium monnieri, a commonly used drug for treating diabetic retinopathy. From a drug perspective, although Motherwort comes from a grass-roots origin, it is a treasure all over and has an aristocratic temperament.

The whole herb of Motherwort is used as medicine, and is best at promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, regulating menstruation and promoting diuresis. It is an important medicine for treating irregular menstruation and pre- and post-natal conditions.

In daily life, people often use motherwort for food therapy to treat common diseases such as dysmenorrhea. Method 1: To treat dysmenorrhea, take 20 grams of Leonurus japonicus and 10 cents of Corydalis yanhusuo. You can boil them together in water and drink them, or you can fry and boil eggs together to make tea eggs. Method 2: To treat amenorrhea, take 30 grams each of motherwort, black beans, brown sugar and rice wine, boil them together and take it for one week.