What are the functions of Radix Pseudostellariae?

Nowadays, traditional Chinese medicine is becoming more and more popular among people due to its health-care benefits and lack of side effects. People all hope to use it to treat diseases. Among them, Radix Glehniae is a precious Chinese medicinal material, which is often used in clinical practice to treat orthopedic diseases. So what specific medicinal effects can this medicine have? Next, the editor will summarize the collected information and provide the following article for everyone.

1. Detoxify and relieve rash. "Yang Cheng's Experience Prescriptions" selects this product to treat the initial stage of swelling and pus. "Selected Chinese Herbal Medicines of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai" uses this product to treat scrotal eczema, sores and swelling. Therefore, the herb can be used to treat sores, tinea, swelling, and scrotal eczema, and is usually boiled in water for external washing. Because this medicine can be used for external washing and can guide the medicine into the meridians and blood vessels, as well as dispel wind, promote blood circulation and relieve pain.

2. Relax muscles and activate joints. This product is pungent, dispersing, warming and enters the liver meridian, and the liver governs the tendons. Therefore, this product has the effect of relaxing the tendons and activating the collaterals. For the external wind-cold evil, symptoms such as failure of the meridian qi to flow freely are manifested by the contraction and twitching of the tendons and veins of the limbs, and the inability to move freely. You can use Ligusticum chuanxiong to dispel wind and cold, relax muscles and activate collaterals to treat it. For example, the "Selected Chinese Herbal Medicines of Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai" selected this product to treat muscle and bone spasms.

3. Dispel wind and dampness. This product is pungent and warm, and its pungent property can disperse the pathogens, and its warmth can overcome cold and dampness. The eight liver meridians can dispel wind and dampness. As the Compendium of Materia Medica says: "Tougucao treats all rheumatic pains and contractures of tendons and bones." If the wind, cold and dampness invade the limbs and meridians, causing limb pain, numbness, and difficulty in flexion and extension. Can you choose this product to dispel wind, cold, dampness and pathogenic factors? Then all symptoms will heal themselves.

4. Promote blood circulation and relieve pain. This product is pungent, dispersing, warming and unblocking, enters the blood of the liver meridian, so it can promote blood circulation and relieve pain. This product can be used to treat various pains in the body, heart, abdomen, waist and knees, inside and outside, because it is pungent and warm, and can activate blood circulation and benefit qi. When blood and qi flow smoothly, there will be no pain.

Now you must have understood the medicinal value of Glechoma longituba. If you have orthopedic diseases such as rheumatism, you can use this medicine for treatment under the guidance of a doctor. You can also combine it with other types of Chinese medicinal materials to make the treatment effect more significant. But Chinese medicine takes some time to take effect, so be sure to use it consistently.