The name “Yimu” indicates that it is mainly used for treating gynecological conditions such as menstrual regulation and menstruation. In the Compendium of Materia Medica, the herb is described as follows: “This herb and its seeds are full of dense azure, so it is called full azure. Its function is suitable for women and for brightening the eyes and benefiting the essence, so it is called beneficial mother.” “The roots, stems, flowers, leaves and fruits of motherwort are all used in medicine and can be used together. If the treatment of wind-heat in the blood of the hands and feet sympathetic Yin, bright eyes and benefit essence, regulate women’s meridians, it is good to use the full Azadirachta alone. If the treatment of swelling and poisonous sores, eliminating water and blood, women’s fetal diseases, it is appropriate to use for good. The root, flowers and leaves are specialized in the line, and the seeds are the line in the tonic reason.” The above explains three points: 1. In ancient times, motherwort was also called “chongwei”, and chongweizi is the seed of motherwort, which is also a common medicine. 2. Motherwort is mainly used for “women’s diseases”. 3. The whole plant of motherwort can be used as medicine, but its efficacy varies. There is also a legendary story about the name of motherwort! During the Xia and Shang dynasties, there was a poor woman named Li who suffered from abdominal pain caused by bruising during childbirth. Her eldest son urged her to seek medical treatment, and Li said sadly, “We don’t even have overnight food, so how can we have money to cure the disease?” One day, the eldest son thought of a solution and hurriedly went out of the door. He found a herbalist more than ten miles away and told him about his mother’s illness. The medicine man was delighted to hear this and said, “I can cure your mother’s illness, but I need ten taels of silver and twenty buckets of rice.” The eldest son said, “Money and food are no problem, as long as you can cure my mother’s disease, the pay is good.” The oldest son asked, “So when will you pick the medicine?” The medicine collector said, “Don’t ask this, tomorrow morning you bring money and food to pick up the medicine.” That day, just before dusk, the medicine collector carried a hoe, carrying a basket of medicine quietly into the mountains. Li’s eldest son also tiptoed behind the medicine picker, saw the medicine picker stop on a hillside, dug two grasses, and hurried away. Li’s eldest son looked in the eyes and took it to heart. He immediately found the place where the herb-picker dug the medicine, and by the light of the moon, he saw a grass with palm-shaped leaves and light red and lavender flowers. He hurriedly opened the pocket he brought, dug a lot of this grass by hand, and went home overnight to give his mother a decoction to drink, and after seven days, the effect was great, his mother was not so abdominal pain as before, and after another seven days of drinking, the blood stasis was gone. Later, Li’s eldest son used this herb to cure many women, and people gave this herb the name “motherwort”. Source: The dried whole grass and fruit of motherwort, family Labiatae. Origin: It is produced all over the country. Taste: Pungent, bitter, slightly cold. Induces the heart, liver and bladder meridians. Effects: Promotes blood circulation, regulates menstruation, diuresis and swelling, clears heat and detoxification. Note for use 1. Not to be taken by pregnant women. 2.Not to be used if there is no stagnation and there is little blood in Yin deficiency. From the above, we know that motherwort is mainly used for gynecological diseases and also for bruises and some skin diseases, therefore its clinical use: 1. It is good at activating blood circulation and regulating menstruation, dispelling blood stasis and promoting menstruation, and is an important medicine in obstetrics and gynecology. 2.Oedema, inconvenient urination. It can not only promote water retention and reduce swelling, but also invigorate blood circulation and remove blood stasis. 3, bruises, sores, carbuncles, swelling and poisoning, skin addiction rash. In addition, the modern preparation of motherwort plus brown sugar and other excipients made of motherwort cream has good effect on gynecological symptoms such as irregular menstruation, insufficient menstruation and menstrual flow caused by deficiency of qi and blood, deficiency of cold in the lower jiao and stagnation of blood and blood.