What are the effects of red yeast rice?

Red yeast rice is a herb with high medicinal value and is fully utilized in traditional Chinese medicine. The main effects of red yeast rice include promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, strengthening the spleen and promoting digestion, and it is also helpful for the recovery of postpartum women. Let's talk about it in detail below.

The efficacy and function of red yeast rice

Promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, strengthen the spleen and aid digestion. It is used to treat postpartum lochia, abdominal pain due to blood stasis, fullness due to food accumulation, red and white diarrhea, and trauma.

① "Yinshi Zhengyao" says: Strengthens the spleen, replenishes Qi, and warms the middle.

② "Bencao Yanyi Buyi": It promotes blood circulation and helps digestion, strengthens the spleen and warms the stomach, and treats dysentery and diarrhea.

③ "Compendium of Materia Medica": It is good for treating women's blood and qi pain and postpartum blood loss. Drinking it with beaten wine is good.

④ "Bencao Beiyao": It enters the blood and breaks blood, dries the stomach and helps digestion, activates blood circulation and harmonizes blood. Treats diarrhea, bruises and injuries.

⑤ "Medical Collection": Detoxifies raw and cold foods.

Usage and dosage of red yeast rice

For internal use: decoct in water, 2-4 qian; or grind into powder and make into pills or powder. For external use: mash and apply.

Taboos of Red Yeast

Use with caution in patients with spleen yin deficiency and without food stagnation.

① "Bencao Jingshu": Do not use if there is no stagnation. It is good at breaking up blood, so it is forbidden to use if there is no blood stasis.

② "Bencao Congxin" says: Avoid using it together with Shenqu. People with spleen yin deficiency and excessive stomach fire should not use it. Can damage the fetus.