The efficacy, effects and contraindications of Liu Jinu

Liu Jinu grass is not only used to treat bruises. As a herbal medicine with strong blood circulation, blood stasis and meridian activating properties, it can treat dysmenorrhea, postpartum abdominal pain, lochia, and improve rheumatic pain by relaxing the meridians and blood. It can also help blood flow and thus treat bloody stools and bloody urine, and it can also easily treat carbuncles and swellings. Let’s discuss the functions, effects and taboos of Liu Ji Nu.

Liu Jinu is non-toxic. There is no discomfort when taking it in water decoction within the basic dosage. There are no significant side effects even with long-term use or large doses (less than 30g).

In addition, it is also well-known for treating abdominal pain caused by food accumulation, and the function of Southern Liujinu in invigorating the spleen and aiding digestion is more significant than that of Northern Liujinu, so Southern Liujinu is also known as Food-Transforming Pill.

1. Trauma, swelling, pain and bleeding

This product is warm and dispersing, and can promote blood circulation, dissipate blood stasis, relieve pain, and promote blood circulation to treat diseases.

For the treatment of bruises, blood stasis, swelling and pain, you can simply grind it into powder and mix it with wine for oral administration.

It can also be combined with Drynaria fortunei, Corydalis yanhusuo, etc., such as Liushangyin, to treat bleeding from external injuries. It can be used raw and crushed for external use, or combined with Rubia cordifolia, Gallnut, etc., such as Huoxue Heilunxu.

2. Blood stasis, liver depression, kidney deficiency, abdominal pain caused by blood stasis after childbirth

This product is pungent, dispersing and bitter in nature, and is good at dispersing movement. It can break up blood, unclog meridians, disperse blood stasis and relieve pain.

For treating blood stasis, liver depression and kidney deficiency, it can be combined with peach kernel, Chuanxiong, Qianghuo, etc.; for treating abdominal pain caused by blood stasis after childbirth, it can be combined with equal parts of licorice and ground into powder, and taken orally with water or wine.

3. Abdominal pain due to food accumulation, red and white dysentery

This product has a fragrant taste and can not only invigorate the spleen and stimulate appetite, but also aid digestion and eliminate accumulation.

It is suitable for food indigestion, abdominal pain and diarrhea. It can be taken alone or in combination with hawthorn berry, maltose, chicken gizzard lining, scutellaria baicalensis, etc.

4. Gynecological panacea

Liu Jinu is a blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing medicine. Because "women are based on blood", this product is very useful in the treatment of gynecological diseases. If used properly, it has extraordinary effects.

5. Effects on the liver

The extract decoction of Yinxingcao (i.e., Northern Liujinu) can significantly reduce the high blood glutamic alanine aminotransferase (SGPT) in rats caused by glacial acetic acid gossypol.

It has a significant choleretic effect on anesthetized dogs and rats. Both total flavonoids and total flavonoids of Liujinu can prevent high SGPT in rats caused by glacial acetic acid gossypol liver damage, and are the ingredients of Liujinu decoction that prevent gossypol liver damage.