Effect of washing hair with water boiled with Ligustrum lucidum

Most of us may not know much about Houttuynia cordata, let alone what kind of plant it is. In fact, this plant is quite common in traditional Chinese medicine. If you use Houttuynia cordata to wash your hair, the effect will be very good. It also has a certain nourishing effect on your hair. If you feel that your hair is relatively dry, you can try to use this herbal medicine to make it, which can prevent dry and frizzy hair.

Efficacy and function

Wolf grass is used as medicine, which has the effects of dispersing blood, activating blood circulation, reducing swelling and strengthening the body.

Eczema flavor hot pot: (grass) tastes sweet and sour, is cool in nature, enters the kidney meridians, and is non-toxic.

Hot pot is the main treatment for eczema: it nourishes the kidneys, disperses blood and promotes blood circulation. It can treat various vomiting blood, nose bleeding, hemoptysis, intestinal bleeding, blood in urine, hemorrhoid bleeding, and metrorrhagia. Applying the juice to eyebrows and hair can promote hair growth, while oral administration can make hair darker and blacker. [4]

"Tang Materia Medica" says that Eclipta prostrata "can cure bloody dysentery, and is used with great care by those who suffer from sores caused by acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine, or who suffer from uncontrolled bleeding."

"Bencao Gangmu" also says that Eclipta prostrata can "drain pus, promote blood circulation, clear the colon, and be used to treat all sores and silkworm sores."

According to the "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica", Eclipta prostrata "strengthens teeth, blackens hair, and can wash nine types of hemorrhoids."

"Compendium of Materia Medica" emphasizes that Eclipta prostrata "blackens the temples and replenishes the deficiency of kidney yang." "Bencao Shu" believes that Eclipta prostrata "treats hematuria and stranguria caused by kidney deficiency."

In clinical medicine, Eclipta prostrata is often used together with Ligustrum lucidum. Both Eclipta prostrata and Ligustrum lucidum have the effects of protecting the liver, removing toxins, and reducing transaminase. They can treat kidney deficiency, insomnia, tinnitus, dizziness, low back pain and weak legs.

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Note: People with weak stomach, loose stools, yin deficiency and excess fire are not suitable for taking Eclipta prostrata.

Medicinal value

1. Blood circulation effect: Half-cut the dog's femoral artery, apply the Eclipta leaf powder to the bleeding area and apply slight pressure, which has a good blood circulation effect. The water extract also has obvious blood-activating effect.

2. Effect on the endocrine system: Using paraffin sections of guinea pig hearts, it was observed that Eclipta prostrata can increase coronary blood flow and improve T wave changes in electrocardiogram. Experiments have also shown that injecting Eclipta prostrata into experimental mice under superheated steam oxygen deficiency conditions can significantly prolong their lifespan. In the case of alleviating the pressure and oxygen deficiency, the survival rate of mice can also be increased: the survival rate of the drug group was 76.5%, while the control group was 23.5%.

characteristic

This product is entirely covered with milky white hair. The stem is cylindrical with longitudinal ridges and a diameter of 2 to 5 mm; the surface is green-brown or dark green. The leaves are opposite, nearly sessile, wrinkled, curled or crushed. When unfolded, they are long lanceolate, entire or with shallow teeth, and dark green. The diameter of the inflorescence head is 2 to 6 mm. Achenes are oval and flat, 2 to 3 mm long, dark brown or light brown. It has a faint smell and tastes slightly salty.

distinguish

(1) Take this product, soak it, and rub its leaf stems, which will turn dark green.

(2) Surface appearance of the leaves of this product: Non-glandular hairs are mostly 3-celled, 260-700 μm long, with the tip cell slightly enlarged, the middle cell longer, thickened wall, and obvious warty protrusions, and the top cell is acute and short, nearly triangular. The stomata are infinitive, with 3 to 4 accessory cells.