What are the functions and effects of Polygonum multiflorum?

Polygonum multiflorum is a relatively common Chinese patent medicine. This Chinese patent medicine has a wide range of value. First of all, it can help treat insomnia and irritability, and it can also beautify the skin and nourish the body. Therefore, it is usually more popular. In addition, it can also be helpful when combined with other Chinese patent medicines.

1. The role of Polygonum multiflorum

Used for insomnia due to deficiency and restlessness.

Polygonum multiflorum has the effect of nourishing blood and calming the mind. It is mainly used for insomnia caused by yin deficiency and blood deficiency. It is often used together with julibrissin bark, and can also be used together with jujube seed, cypress seed, and polygala tenuifolia.

Used for body aches.

Polygonum multiflorum not only has the effect of nourishing blood, but also can promote the flow of meridians, and treat body aches due to blood deficiency. It can be used together with angelica, rehmannia, Millettia reticulata, and Trachelospermum officinale.

Used for itchy skin.

The decoction of Polygonum multiflorum can be used externally to treat skin rashes, and it has a certain antipruritic effect.

cough.

Some people treat laryngeal cough by adding 15 grams of Polygonum multiflorum to the drugs such as cicada molt, bombyx batryticatus, schizonepeta, saposhnikovia divaricata, platycodon grandiflorum, tangerine peel, pinellia, peucedanum chinense, poria cocos, and licorice. The drugs are decocted in water and taken orally. It is observed that the cough-suppressing effect of those who added this drug to the prescription is more obvious than that of those who did not, indicating that Polygonum multiflorum may have the effect of suppressing cough.

Sedative and hypnotic effects.

Oral administration of the decoction of Polygonum multiflorum has a significant sedative and hypnotic effect on mice, and has a synergistic effect with subthreshold doses of sodium pentobarbital. The sleep polygraph of rats showed that the total sleep time was prolonged, mainly the slow-wave sleep phase was prolonged and the paradoxical sleep phase was shortened.