What are the effects and functions of Cimicifuga?

Now there are many traditional Chinese medicine clinics in every city, and these clinics have many patients every day. People are accepting traditional Chinese medicine more and more. Today we will introduce the effects and functions of Shengma Gong. Let’s take a look at what diseases Shengma can cure.

1. The efficacy and function of Cimicifuga

It can raise Yang, release exterior, clear rash and detoxify. It is used to treat epidemic diseases, headache, chills and fever, sore throat, mouth ulcers, and rashes that do not clear up; sinking of the middle qi, long-term diarrhea and dysentery, rectal prolapse, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea, and prolapse of the uterus; carbuncles, swellings, and sores. It is used for wind-heat headache, toothache, mouth ulcer, sore throat, measles that do not break out, yang poison spots; rectal prolapse, uterine prolapse.

① "Ben Jing": It can cure all kinds of poisons, ward off febrile diseases, and evil spirits (also known as "malaria and evil spirits").

② "Bie Lu": It is used to treat abdominal pain caused by evil spirits, plague caused by seasonal poisons, headache, chills and fever, wind swelling, sore throat, and mouth ulcers.

③ "Materia Medica": Treats infantile wind, epilepsy, and seasonal fever. It can treat swelling and pain in the mouth due to wind and dew, foul-smelling tooth roots, heat, toxins, pus and blood. It can cure wind-toxic heat obstruction in the heart and lungs, mouth ulcers, and depression. For treating carbuncle and pea sore, boil the medicine in water and apply it on the sore.

④ "Bencao Gangmu" (Bencao Gangmu): It can calm the soul and spirit, treat wandering wind, swelling, pus, bad breath and malnutrition.

⑤ "Tangye Bencao": "Main Treatment Secrets": It is used to treat pulmonary tuberculosis, coughing with pus and blood, and can induce superficial sweating.

⑥ "Compendium of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan": It can treat smallpox in children, relieve sore poison, sore throat (swelling), wheezing, coughing and hoarseness. It can relieve lung heat and stop toothache. Milk moth, mumps.

⑦ "Compendium of Materia Medica": Eliminates rashes, promotes blood thieves, treats dizziness and vertigo caused by yang deficiency, empty pain in the chest and flanks, heaviness after prolonged diarrhea and dysentery, turbid emission, leucorrhea, metrorrhagia, stranguria with blood, bleeding, impotence and cold feet.

2. Precautions

It is not recommended for patients with upper body fullness and lower body emptiness, yin deficiency, hyperactivity of fire, or measles.

① "Bencao Jingshu": It is forbidden to treat vomiting blood, nosebleed, cough with sputum, yin deficiency and fire movement, kidney meridian insufficiency, qi reversal and vomiting, palpitations, insanity and other diseases.

② "Depei Materia Medica": It is forbidden to use this medicine in the early stage of typhoid fever in the solar plexus, when smallpox appears as a symptom, when the lower abdomen is deficient, and when there is yin deficiency and fire inflammation.