The role of red flower snow

Safflower and June snow both have great medicinal value. Safflower can help us promote blood circulation and menstruation, remove blood stasis and relieve pain, especially it has a good effect on regulating and solving dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea and other phenomena in women. June snow is also a plant that can be used as medicine. Its main function is to help us clear away heat and detoxify. It also has a good therapeutic effect on relieving low back and leg pain and some edema.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that safflower is pungent in taste, warm in nature, and enters the heart and liver meridians. It has a fragrant aroma and can disperse the qi. When it enters the blood, it has the effects of promoting blood circulation, dredge menstruation, remove blood stasis and relieve pain. It is mainly used to treat dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, postpartum blood loss, abdominal pain due to blood stasis, chest pain and heart pain, blood stasis, bruises and swelling, joint pain, stroke paralysis, and purple macules. The specific effects of the prescription based on safflower are as follows:

1. The recipe of red and blue flower wine (from "Golden Chamber Synopsis") has the functions of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, promoting qi and relieving pain.

2. Taohong Siwu Decoction (Yi Zong Jin Jian), nourishes blood, promotes blood circulation, and removes blood stasis.

3. Xuefu Zhuyu Decoction (from "Yi Lin Gaicuo"), promotes blood circulation, removes blood stasis, promotes qi and relieves pain. It is mainly used to treat blood stasis in the chest, poor blood circulation, chest pain, headache that does not heal for a long time, and pain like a needle prick in a fixed place.

4. Tongqiao Huoxue Decoction (from "Yi Lin Gaicuo"), which promotes blood circulation and opens the orifices, is mainly used to treat headache and dizziness caused by blood stasis in the head and face, or vitiligo, as well as dry blood tuberculosis in women and malnutrition in children.

5. Shen Tong Zhu Yu Tang (from "Yi Lin Gaicuo"), which promotes blood circulation and qi movement, removes blood stasis and dredges the meridians, relieves numbness and relieves pain. It is mainly used to treat shoulder pain, arm pain, back pain, leg pain, or body pain caused by qi and blood stagnation in the meridians, which does not heal for a long time.

June Snow

【Subject source】Dicotyledonous plant Rubiaceae

[Medicinal part] The whole herb of White Horse Bone or Serissa serrata.

【Nature and flavor and meridians】Bitter, pungent, cool. ① "Supplement to Materia Medica": "Non-toxic." ② "Essentials of Raw Medicinal Herbs": "Tastes bitter, cold in nature." ③ "Guizhou Folk Medicines": "Cool in nature, slightly spicy in taste." Enters the liver and spleen meridians.

【Efficacy classification】Diuretic and dampness-removing medicine

【Effects and indications】Dispel wind, promote dampness removal, clear away heat and detoxify. Treat rheumatism, low back and leg pain, dysentery, edema, red and swollen eyes, sore throat, toothache, leucorrhea in women, carbuncle, and scrofula.

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: decoct in water, 3-5 qian (1-2 liang for fresh). For external use: burn the ashes and apply the juice, decoct in water for washing or mash for application.

[Contraindications] Take with caution if you have a weak spleen and stomach.

[Medication Combination] Combined with Piper melongena, it can dispel wind, dredge meridians and relieve pain; combined with Viscum album, it can dispel rheumatism and nourish the liver and kidneys; combined with Gorgon fruit, it can strengthen the spleen, dry dampness, clear away heat and stop leukorrhea.

The above is an introduction to the various health benefits and medicinal value of safflower and jasmine. I believe that after recognizing and understanding this common sense, when faced with similar symptoms in the body, you can correctly use safflower or jasmine to treat and regulate rheumatic low back and leg pain, dysentery, and edema.