What are the effects and functions of Wulingzhi and how to eat it?

For people who often suffer from dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, chest pain and abdominal pain, if they can use Wulingzhi, then there will be a good improvement effect. At the same time, it can also effectively solve the problem of bruises and injuries. Combined with Pinellia ternata and Trichosanthes kirilowii, it can solve heart pain and chest pain.

1. Disperse blood stasis and relieve pain

Wulingzhi tastes bitter and can relieve blockage, and is warm in nature and can unblock the bowels. When used raw, it has the effect of dispersing blood stasis. If the blood stasis is dispersed, the pain will stop, and if the body is unblocked, the pain will stop. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Wulinzhi is a medicine for the foot Jueyin liver meridian. It has thick smell and taste and is the yin among yins. Therefore, it enters the blood. The liver governs blood, so it can treat blood diseases, disperse blood and harmonize blood to stop all kinds of pain." Clinically, it is mainly used to treat dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, chest pain, abdominal pain, and hernia pain caused by blood stasis.

2. Activate blood circulation and stop bleeding

2. Wulingzhi tastes bitter and is warm in nature, so it can promote blood circulation and relieve blood stasis. It can also stop bleeding when fried. For example, "Yao Jing Hua Yi" says: "Wulinzhi is bitter and cold... It can be fried and used to regulate various blood loss symptoms, allowing the blood to return to the meridians instead of flowing randomly. It can treat metrorrhagia, miscarriage, and bloody dysentery, with unique effectiveness." It is used clinically to treat metrorrhagia, excessive menstrual flow, red vaginal discharge, and traumatic injuries.

3. Detoxification

Wulingzhi has the function of detoxification and can be used for snake, scorpion, centipede bites and drug poisoning. It can be taken orally or applied externally. For example, the Compendium of Materia Medica says: "It kills insects, detoxifies poisons and treats snake, scorpion and centipede injuries."

4. Wulingzhi combined with Pinellia tuber and Trichosanthes kirilowii

Wulingzhi promotes blood circulation, resolves blood stasis and relieves pain; Pinellia resolves phlegm and disperses nodules, and reduces adverse qi and lowers the body's qi; Trichosanthes promotes qi, relieves chest tightness and resolves phlegm. The combination of these three medicines has the effects of promoting blood circulation, resolving blood stasis, resolving nodules and reducing adverse qi, and is used to treat heart pain, chest pain caused by phlegm and blood stagnation, and severe phlegm.

5. Wulingzhi combined with dried ginger

Wulingzhi promotes blood circulation, removes blood stasis and relieves pain; Ganjiang warms the middle and dispels cold. The two are used together to achieve the effects of warming the middle and dispelling cold, promoting blood circulation and relieving pain, and are used to treat epigastric pain caused by cold and blood stasis.

6. Wulingzhi combined with Dalbergia odorifera

Both of them can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. However, Wulingzhi is better at promoting blood circulation, dispersing blood stasis and relieving pain; Jiangxiang is better at promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, promoting qi and relieving pain. When used together, their effect is more significant and they are used to treat chest and flank pain, epigastric pain, angina pectoris, etc. caused by blood stasis.