Women in the early stages of pregnancy should take moneywort with caution, and specific medication should be prescribed by a doctor.
Money grass is the dried whole grass of the primrose family plant, this drug is sweet, salty, slightly cold. It belongs to the liver, gallbladder, kidney and bladder meridians. Its medicinal effects include inducing dampness and jaundice (removing dampness and eliminating jaundice), diuretic and diaphoretic (improving the problem of dribbling of urine, and the problem of insufficient and inaccessible urine), and detoxifying and subduing swellings.
It is used in the treatment of jaundice due to dampness-heat, biliary distension and coercive pain (pain in the area of coercion and ribs), stonelike drenching (discharge of gravel during urination, or sudden interruption of urination, pain in the urethra, intolerable pain in the lower back and abdomen), feverish drenching (burning and tingling pain in the urine, accompanied by frequent urination and urgency, and discomfort of pulling on the abdomen), astringent pain in urine, carbuncle, furuncle, and snake and insect bites.
The drug has no clear contraindications, the effect on pregnant women is not clear, so pregnant women should be careful with the drug. The specific medication matters about the money grass should be under the guidance of a specialist, not unauthorized use of medication, in order to avoid adverse consequences.