What are the effects and functions of Nepeta spicata?

Schizonepeta spicate is a common Chinese medicinal material. Normally, when used raw, Schizonepeta spicata can effectively dispel wind and relieve exterior symptoms. After being roasted into charcoal, it can be used to stop bleeding. In addition, when combined with other Chinese medicinal materials, it can also treat some diseases. If combined with gypsum, it can cure headaches caused by wind-heat. So what are the effects and functions of Schizonepeta spicata? Next, let’s take a closer look at the main effects and medicinal effects of Schizonepeta spicata.

The efficacy and function of Nepeta spicata

The efficacy of Nepeta spicata

Indications: Relieve exterior symptoms and dissipate wind, clear rash, eliminate sores, and stop bleeding. Used for colds, measles with poor outbreaks, bloody stools, metrorrhagia, and epistaxis. Release wind, regulate blood; stir-fry until charcoal stops bleeding. It is used to treat colds, fever, headaches, sore throats, lockjaw caused by stroke, vomiting blood, nosebleeds, bloody stools, metrorrhagia, postpartum fainting, carbuncles, sores, scabies, and scrofula. Schizonepeta spicata has the same effect, but its dispersing power is stronger.

Schizonepeta has the effect of inducing sweat and relieving exterior symptoms, and has the effect of dispelling wind. It is mainly used to treat colds, fever, chills, no sweating, headache, body pain, etc. It is often used together with Saposhnikovia divaricata. However, it can also be combined with pungent and cool antipyretic drugs or heat-clearing and detoxifying drugs to treat colds, wind-heat, fever, chills, red eyes and sore throat, such as mint, chrysanthemum, mulberry leaves, honeysuckle, etc. Schizonepeta has a pungent and dispersing effect that can help measles break out, and is often used in combination with mint, cicada shell, burdock seed, etc. Schizonepeta is often used for patients with initial symptoms of sores and ulcers. It can be used together with Saposhnikovia divaricata, Lonicera japonica, Forsythia suspensa, and Red Peony Root to reduce chills and fever and eliminate carbuncles and swellings. The application of fried charcoal of Schizonepeta can enter the blood and stop bleeding. It can be used for symptoms such as bloody stool and metrorrhagia. It is often used together with other hemostatic drugs in clinical practice.

The herb Schizonepeta tenuifolia has the effect of dispelling wind and relieving exterior symptoms when used raw, and can be used to stop bleeding when roasted into charcoal. Combined with Saposhnikovia divaricata and Qianghuo, it can treat wind-cold symptoms on the surface; combined with honeysuckle, forsythia and mint, it can treat wind-heat symptoms on the surface; combined with gypsum, it can treat wind-heat headache; combined with burdock, platycodon and raw licorice, it can treat sore throat; combined with Sophora japonica charcoal, it can treat bloody stool; combined with Imperata cylindrica root, it can treat nosebleed. Both Schizonepeta and Perilla can induce sweating and relieve exterior symptoms, but Perilla is stronger in dispelling cold, tends to enter the Qi, and can regulate Qi and relieve fullness; while Schizonepeta is stronger in dispelling wind, tends to enter the blood, and can stop bleeding when fried into charcoal. Therefore, Perilla is often used in Qi-regulating prescriptions, while Schizonepeta is often used in blood-regulating prescriptions.

Through the above detailed introduction to the effects and functions of Schizonepeta spicata. We can understand that Schizonepeta spicate has many functions. At the same time, when Schizonepeta spicate is combined with other Chinese medicinal materials, it can have certain therapeutic effects on different diseases. Therefore, in daily life, when you have time, you can learn more about the effects of Chinese medicine or some foods, which will be of some help in your daily life.