Can dandelion cure gynecological diseases?

Dandelions are relatively common in rural areas. Dandelions are also commonly known as motherwort. Whether in the city or in the countryside, many people just regard dandelions as a kind of grass, and rarely associate dandelions with the treatment of gynecological diseases. In fact, the medicinal value of dandelions is still very high. It can not only clear away heat and detoxify, but also treat gynecological diseases. Generally, as long as dandelions are properly matched, they are still very effective in treating female gynecological diseases.

Clinical applications have shown that dandelion and other medicines can form a "pair of medicines" (a prescription of two medicines that depend on each other and restrict each other to enhance the efficacy) and are effective in treating some gynecological diseases.

So as long as the method is right, dandelion can treat many different gynecological diseases, but it depends on how you combine it. Different Chinese medicines will treat different diseases. Let's take a look at how dandelion treats gynecological diseases.

1. Dandelion + duckweed

Duckweed is pungent and cold in nature, and can relieve itching and promote urination. The combination of the two medicines can induce sweating, dispel wind, clear away heat and disperse nodules. Clinically, it can treat women's fever during menstruation, sore throat, body itching, premenstrual chest and breast pain, acne, chloasma and other symptoms.

2. Dandelion + Verbena

Verbena tastes bitter, spicy and slightly cold in nature. It has the functions of breaking blood, regulating menstruation, reducing inflammation and acting as a diuretic. Combined use of dandelion can enhance the effects of clearing heat and relieving stranguria, and can treat women with damp-heat type symptoms such as dribbling urination, hematuria, excessive leucorrhea, or menstrual disorders and amenorrhea.

3. Dandelion + Prunella Vulgaris Prunella Vulgaris is bitter and cold in nature. It is good at treating scrofula and goiter. When used together with dandelion, it can clear away heat and disperse stagnation, cool blood and stop bleeding. It is often used to treat uterine fibroids with phlegm-heat and blood stasis, pelvic inflammatory mass, metrorrhagia, mastitis and breast hyperplasia.

4. Dandelion + Bidens pilosa

Bidens pilosa has the main effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, diuresis and cooling blood. The combination of the two flavors can enhance the effects of relieving stranguria and clearing heat. It is especially effective in treating chronic pelvic inflammatory disease and recurrent urinary tract infections after childbirth.

5. Dandelion + Selaginella

Selaginella tastes pungent and is neutral in nature. It can promote blood circulation and regulate menstruation. It can be used raw to treat amenorrhea, abdominal masses, bruises, etc., and it can be fried into charcoal to treat vomiting blood, bloody stools, hematuria, etc. When used in combination with dandelion, it can treat infertility caused by fallopian tube obstruction, uterine fibroids, amenorrhea and other diseases.

6. Dandelion + Cnidium monnieri

Cnidium monnieri tastes pungent and warm in nature, and has the effects of warming the kidney, strengthening yang, drying dampness and killing insects. The two medicines can be used together to treat: excessive vaginal discharge caused by dampness and toxins during pregnancy, itchy and painful vulva, and painful urination.

7. Dandelion + dried ginger

Dried ginger is pungent and warm, and has the effects of warming the stomach, dispelling cold and stopping vomiting. Used together with dandelion, which is bitter and cold and can reduce turbidity, it can treat liver-stomach disharmony, nausea during pregnancy, abdominal pain and bloating caused by upward flow of qi.

8. Dandelion + Angelica dahurica Angelica dahurica is pungent and warm, and has the effects of dispelling wind and relieving exterior symptoms, discharging pus, reducing swelling and relieving pain. The two medicines can be used together to treat breast abscesses and excessive leucorrhea with no obvious cold or heat bias. They can also be used to treat female acne and chloasma.