Chuanxiong
It can promote blood flow and circulation of Qi, expel the wind and reduce pain, reduce depression and eliminate dampness. Chuanxiong is an important herb in prescription decoction for puerperal blood stasis. Rihuazibencao of Tang Dynasty has a high price for it:” It can cure all cause of wind, vital energy, strain, blood. It can reduce depression, and make energy circulation smooth, promote blood flow, reduce pain. It is effective to amenorrhea, dystocia, stagnation after delivering.
Ease porridge
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Chinese herb medicine is natural, so most people think it does not have any side effect. It is not true. Though may be it is safer than western medicine, taken too much and not properly is bad to your health. You can get your anticipative effect only by taking the proper herb medicine.
Angelica
Since Southern and Northern Dynasties of China angelica has been considered as a precious medicine which can enrich the blood, regulate menses, simulate the circulation of blood, reduce pain and so on. It can make women stronger and healthier, playing an important role in protecting women’s health. Another research has found that angelica can simulate exudation estrogen, reduce resistance of vessel, increase blood of circulation, and nutrition skin.
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Tu Fu, the greatest realistic poet of ancient China, was at the same time a hard-working farmer who grew herbs.
In his poems, we can see many describes about the beautiful and fragrant herbs such as cassia tora, gardenia, lilac etc. These graceful verse like graceful melody can be created by nobody but this poem saint.
Writing poem is a way to express his disagreement and angry about the times which he lived. And Tu Fu had learned much about herbal medicine and how to grow them. After plucking the herbs, he dried them and marked them and stored them, in order to take by himself or sell to others who need them.
Tu Fu liked drinking too. When he was drunk, the drug garden became the best place to rest and recover, which was the most important place, his own paradise.
Now if you visit Tu Fu Cottage, you will see all kinds of herbs with different colors.
This herb belongs to spleen and stomach meridian. It can accelerate the process of digest, expel redundant water of body, reduce sweat, anti-abortion. It used to cure inappetence, abdominal distension, diarrhea, veitigo, spontaneous perspiration, edema, and too much quickening.
When accelerating the process of digest, it can be used with codonopsis pilosula and liquorice. And when doing with abdominal distension, it can be used with zhiqiao（枳壳）. C henpi(陈皮) and tuckahoe（茯苓）with 白术 is good to promote the functiion of spleen and make the body drier.
Usually the dose of it is 6 to 12 g.
Siberian cocklebur is a kind of herb which can be used to cure many diseases. This herbage plant can be seen almost everywhere of China, because it is easy to grow. When I was young, when I played with other children outside, we often picked the fruit up, threw it to each other as our tiny weapons. As it has many thorns, it is easy to stick on our clothes or hairs. At that time I did not know this small weed was so helpful to us, until recently, did I find its various functions.
The fruit of siberian cocklebur alone, which is the most poisonous part of it, is a common herbal medicine. It can reduce lumbago, cure allergic rhinitis,malaria, parotitis, and ulcer of lower limbs, toothache, etc.
As it is poisonous, patients can not take it without doctors’ advice. Most people think that Chinese medicine is safe to some extent, but it is not correct. So we still have to pay more attention to it.
Chuanxiong
