The efficacy and function of Chinese medicine thistle

There are many kinds of Chinese medicinal materials in traditional Chinese medicine, and the medicinal effects of each kind of Chinese medicinal material are different. Thistle is a wild vegetable with great nutritional value. It can not only be used in cooking, but also as medicine. Because there is a layer of hairy thorns on the surface of the thistle, many people also call it prickly vegetable. Some people like to dry thistle as a Chinese herbal medicine, so what are the functions and effects of this herbal medicine?

1. The efficacy and function of thistle

The effects and functions of baby thistle are cooling blood and stopping bleeding, clearing away heat and reducing swelling, and treating coughing up blood, vomiting blood, bloody diarrhea, carbuncle swelling and poison, and traumatic bleeding. The effects and functions of baby thistle and the ways of eating it include baby thistle rice crust tea, baby thistle root wine, and baby thistle instant drink. People with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold but no blood stasis should avoid taking baby thistle.

2. How to eat thistle

Dosage and Usage of Baby Thistle: For internal use: decoction, 5-10g; fresh product can be used 30-60g, or mashed into juice. For external use: take appropriate amount and mash it for application.

3. Contraindications of using thistle

1. People with spleen and stomach deficiency and coldness but no blood stasis should not take thistle.

2. Thistle should not be planted with iron. "Essentials of Pinhui"

3. Baby thistle is not good for diarrhea caused by weak stomach, extreme blood deficiency, weak spleen and stomach, and loss of appetite. Compendium of Materia Medica

4. Thistle is not good for qi deficiency. Compendium of Materia Medica

4. How to eat thistle

1. Thistle Rice Crust Tea

Efficacy: Cools blood and stops bleeding, suitable for functional uterine bleeding.

Ingredients: 30 grams of chicory charcoal, 50 grams of glutinous rice crust.

Method: Add the above two ingredients into water and boil them into a soup, then take the juice. Drink as tea, 1 dose per day.

Source: Experience.

2. Thistle root wine

Efficacy: Mainly used to treat sudden metrorrhagia and excessive bleeding in women.

Prescription: 1 jin of large thistle root (cut), 1 jin of small thistle root (cut).

Preparation method: Add 1 dou of wine and soak for 5 nights.

Usage: Take as much or as little as you like.

Excerpt: Thousand Gold Wings, Volume 8

3. Thistle instant drink

Efficacy: Cools blood and stops bleeding.

Indications: Anovulatory functional uterine bleeding of blood-heat type; symptoms include irregular vaginal bleeding, which comes and goes, or comes after a long time, or is difficult to stop, with a large amount of blood, dark red or purple-red in color, sticky and lumpy, dry mouth, constipation, irritability. It is not suitable for people whose spleen fails to regulate blood.

Ingredients: 2500 grams of fresh great thistle (or small thistle), 500 grams of white sugar.

Preparation method: Wash and chop fresh burdock, add 3000 ml of water, cook on medium heat for 1 hour, remove the residue, and concentrate over low heat. Turn off the heat and let it cool, add white sugar to absorb the medicinal liquid, cool and dry, crush into powder and bottle for later use. Take 10 grams each time, with boiling water, 3-4 times a day.