How to cook motherwort for best results

The Chinese medicinal material Motherwort is widely used in medicine. If you suffer from some gynecological diseases, it also has a very good therapeutic effect. For example, it can clear away heat and detoxify. However, you must do a detailed physical examination before taking it, so that you can judge whether you are suitable for taking this Chinese medicinal material. If you are not suitable, you must not take it.

1. "Compendium of Materia Medica": The roots, stems, flowers, leaves, and fruits of Leonurus japonicus are all used as medicine and can be used together. If it is used to treat wind-heat in the blood of the hands and feet, improve eyesight and improve essence, and regulate women's meridians, it is best to use Cnidium monnieri alone. If used to treat swelling, poison, sores, ulcers, eliminate water and promote blood circulation, and various diseases related to pregnancy and childbirth, it is best to use them together. This is because its roots, stems, flowers and leaves are specialized in growth, while the seeds have supplementary functions in the growth process.

2. "Bencao Qiuzhen": Motherwort (specifically enters the pericardium and liver). Another name is Cian Wei. Pungent, slightly bitter and cold. Function: Enter the liver and pericardium. Eliminate water and promote blood circulation. Remove blood stasis and promote new growth. Regulate menstruation and detoxify.

4. "Bencao Beiyao": It can clear blood stasis, generate new blood, and has a pungent, slightly bitter and cold nature. Enter the hand and foot Jueyin (pericardium, liver). Eliminate water and promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis and promote new blood circulation, regulate menstruation and detoxify

1. Fresh Motherwort: It has no stem in the seedling stage, and the basal leaves are circular and heart-shaped, with 5 to 9 shallow lobes, and each lobe has 2 to 3 blunt teeth. In the early stage of flowering, the stem is square columnar, with many branches on the upper part and concave grooves on all four sides. It is 30 to 60 cm long and 0.2 to 0.5 cm in diameter. The surface is green; the texture is fresh and tender, and there is pith in the middle of the cross section. The leaves are arranged alternately and have petioles; the leaves are green, tender and juicy when rubbed; the lower stem leaves are palmately 3-lobed, and the upper leaves are deeply or shallowly pinnately lobed into 3 pieces, and the lobes are entire or have a few serrations. It has a faint smell and a slightly bitter taste.

2. Dried Motherwort: The surface of the stem is gray-green or yellow-green; it is light, tough, and has pith in the middle of the cross section. The leaves are gray-green, often wrinkled, broken, and easy to fall off. The cymes are axillary, the flowers are lavender, the calyx is tubular, and the corolla is two-lipped. The cut pieces are about 2cm long.

Piece properties

Dried Motherwort: in irregular segments. The stem is square, concave on all four sides to form longitudinal grooves, and is gray-green or yellow-green. There is white pulp in the middle of the cut surface. The leaves are gray-green, often wrinkled and broken. The cymes are axillary, the flowers are yellow-brown, the calyx is tubular, and the corolla is two-lipped. It has a faint smell and a slightly bitter taste.