What are the effects and functions of Indigo?

In many TV dramas about the Qing Dynasty, we often hear that palace women use indigo to draw eyebrows. In fact, indigo has many functions. In addition to drawing eyebrows, it can also be used to print and dye cloth. In fact, its health care effect is also very good. For example, it can clear away heat and detoxify, and it can also stop bleeding and cool blood. In short, we must have a correct understanding of this. So what are the effects and functions of indigo?

Indigo is the name of a traditional Chinese medicine. It is a dry powder, agglomerate or granule obtained by processing the leaves or stems of the plants Indigofera tinctoria of the family Gnaphalaceae, Polygonum tinctorium of the family Polygonaceae, and Isatis indigotica of the family Cruciferae. It has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and removing spots, purging fire and calming the nerves. In ancient times, it was also commonly used for printing and dyeing cloth, drawing eyebrows, etc. It is mainly produced in Fujian, Yunnan, Jiangsu and other places. It is salty and cold in nature, and has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and removing spots, purging fire and calming the nerves. It is mainly used for excessive heat in febrile diseases, rashes, vomiting blood, hemoptysis, sore throat and mouth ulcers, epilepsy in children, sores, erysipelas, snake and insect bites, etc.

The effects and functions of Indigo: clearing away heat and detoxifying; cooling blood and stopping bleeding; clearing the liver and purging fire. It is mainly used for fever-induced macules and rashes caused by heat in febrile diseases; vomiting blood due to blood heat; epistaxis; hemoptysis; convulsions caused by liver heat; cough caused by liver fire attacking the lungs; sore throat; erysipelas; warts; sores and swellings; snake and insect bites

① "Materia Medica": It can relieve malnutrition and emaciation in children and kill parasites.

② "Bencao Shiyi": detoxification. If a child has fever, take the medicine with water.

③ "Kaibao Materia Medica": It is mainly used to detoxify various drugs, treat various fevers in children, epilepsy and fever, and episodic headaches, chills and fever. It can be decocted in water and ground into powder for oral administration. It can also be used for rubbing on hot sores, malignant swellings, wounds, bleeding, snake and dog poisons, etc.

④ "Bencao Mengquan": It can purge the liver, stop violent diarrhea, eliminate phlegm and fire in the diaphragm, drive away epidemic headaches, and cure typhoid fever and spots. It can be taken with water.

⑤ "Compendium of Materia Medica": It can relieve heat and irritability, vomit blood, cough up blood, treat rashes, genital ulcers, and kill evil insects.

⑥ "Compendium of Materia Medica": Treats stroke, headache, flank pain, spasms, tremor, dizziness, cough, chronic cough, vomiting, epistaxis, coughing up blood, and hernia.

⑦ "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": Treats rashes caused by warm toxins and postpartum dysentery with heavy stools.

⑧ "Essential Medicines and Dosages": It can eliminate heat, detoxify, and cool the blood.

⑨ "Records of Medicinal Herbs in Lingnan" says: It can be applied to sores and mumps. It can also be used internally to treat eye inflammation, film formation and vomiting blood.

Through the above introduction, everyone is very clear about the effects and functions of Indigo. Everyone needs to master some basic health care functions so that when encountering some problems, they can better deal with and solve them. The health-preserving effects of Indigo cannot be underestimated and are often used in life.