Mullein has the effects of moving qi, dispelling pain, strengthening the spleen and eliminating food. It can be used to treat distention and fullness in the chest and ribs, abdominal distension and pain, vomiting and diarrhea, diarrhea and dysentery.
Mucuna pruriens is a Chinese herb with pungent, bitter flavor and warm nature. It belongs to the spleen, stomach, large intestine, gallbladder and triple jiao meridians. It is the root of Mucuna pruriens, family Asteraceae. It has the effect of moving qi to dispel pain, strengthening the spleen and eliminating food. It has therapeutic effects on chest distension, abdominal distension and pain, vomiting and diarrhea, and diarrhea and dysentery.
It is especially good at moving the stagnation of qi in the spleen and stomach to relieve pain, strengthening the spleen and stomach and eliminating food and stagnant food (digesting stagnant food), and is an important medicine for treating stagnation of qi in the spleen and stomach and distension and pain in the epigastric (abdominal) region, each of which is paired with sand nuts; and is often paired with Huanglian, which can make the intestinal qi smooth and the stools regulate, and then post-diarrhea will be eliminated automatically. Adverse effects of Mucuna pruriens are not known.
Before taking this medicine, you need a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner for identification and treatment under the guidance of a doctor, and should not take the medicine on your own.