The efficacy and function of Puhuang powder

Puhuang is a very common herb in daily life. Due to its many functions and effects, it is often used as medicine to treat various difficult and complicated diseases. Puhuang powder has a faint smell in it. Specific effects include promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, promoting diuresis and relieving stranguria, and contracting the uterus, but not all people can use Puhuang powder. It must be used under the guidance of a doctor to avoid adverse effects.

1. Introduction to Typha

Alias, cattail, water candle, cattail, this product is the dried pollen of Typha aquatica, Typha orientalis, or plants of the same genus in the Typhaceae family. In summer, the yellow male inflorescences on the upper part of the cattail are harvested, dried, crushed, and the pollen is sieved. After cutting off the male flowers and drying them, the pollen with male flowers becomes cattail yellow. This product is yellow powder. It is light and floats on the water. It feels slippery when rubbed and easily adheres to fingers. Slight odor, light taste.

2. Effects of Typhae Pollen

The effect of raw Puhuang on the uterus, Puhuang (the variety has not been identified) decoction, tincture, and ether extract all show excitatory effects on the isolated and situ uterus. Increasing the dosage can cause spasmodic contractions. The effect on non-pregnant uterus is more obvious than on pregnant ones, increasing the contraction force or tension of the postpartum uterus. Regarding its effect on the circulatory system, large doses of Puhuang decoction and ethanol extract can lower the blood pressure of cats and dogs, and its antihypertensive effect can be blocked by atropine. Low concentrations of Typha lachryma-leaf alcohol extract solution can increase the contractile force of toad isolated hearts, while high concentrations can inhibit it. Large doses of Pollen Typhae extract have little effect on the dog's cardiopulmonary system, but have a slight dilating effect on the rabbit's ear blood vessels.

The effect of raw Puhuang on the intestine: Puhuang extract can enhance the intestinal peristalsis of isolated rabbits, but it can be blocked by atropine. The isorhamnetin contained in it has an antispasmodic effect on the isolated intestine of mice. Coagulation effect: oral administration of water extract or 5% ethanol extract can significantly shorten the coagulation time of rabbits; Puhuang extract can increase the number of platelets and shorten the prothrombin time of rabbits; external application of Puhuang powder has a hemostatic effect on dog arterial bleeding.

1. Effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis: Puhuang has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. Puhuang can both stop bleeding and promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis when used raw, and is used for a variety of blood stasis syndromes. It can treat various blood stasis diseases such as bruises, menstrual pain, heart and chest blood stasis pain, etc., and has a very good therapeutic effect.

2. Diuretic and stranguria-relieving effect: Puhuang has a diuretic and stranguria-relieving effect. Puhuang can remove blood stasis, stop bleeding, and treat hematuria. It can be used to treat hematuria and other diseases.

3. The effect of contracting the uterus: Puhuang has a contraction effect on the uterus. The decoction, tincture and infusion of Puhuang (the variety has not been identified) show excitatory effects on both the isolated and uterus in situ. Increasing the dosage can cause spasmodic contractions. The effect on non-pregnant uterus is more obvious than that on pregnant uterus, increasing the contraction force or tension of the postpartum uterus.