Motherwort in the blood stasis medicine also belongs to the blood regulating class of traditional Chinese medicine, as the name suggests “mother”, indicating that its efficacy is mainly used in the treatment of menstruation, menstruation and other gynecological conditions of the drug. In the “Compendium of Materia Medica”, the motherwort is introduced in this way: “This grass and seeds are full of dense azure, so the name is full of azure. Its function is suitable for women and eyesight and essence, so it is called motherwort.” “The roots, stems, flowers, leaves, and seeds of Motherwort are all used in medicine and can be used together. If the treatment of hand and foot syncope Yin blood wind heat, bright eyes and benefit essence, regulating women’s meridians, then the single use of the full azalea is good. If the treatment of swollen sores and ulcers, eliminating water and blood, women’s fetus and childbirth diseases, it is appropriate to use for good. Covering its rhizomes, flowers and leaves are specialized in line, and the son of the line in the complementary reason.” The above illustrates three points: 1, motherwort is also known as the ancient “full of Wei”, full of WeiZi is motherwort son, is also commonly used drugs. 2, motherwort is mainly used to eliminate water and blood, and women’s fetus and delivery of all kinds of diseases. 2, motherwort is mainly used for “women’s diseases”. 3. The whole plant can be used as medicine, but its effects are different. There is also a legend about the name of Motherwort! The story of Motherwort During the Xia and Shang dynasties, there was a poor woman, Li, who was left with abdominal pain and bruises when giving birth to a child, and her son grew up to be a grown-up, but her disease was never cured, and her body became weaker and weaker. Her eldest son urged her to seek medical treatment, but Li said sadly, “We don’t even have overnight food, how can we afford to cure the disease?” One day, the eldest son hurried out the door after coming up with a solution. He found a medicine picker more than ten miles away and told him about his mother’s illness. The medicine picker was overjoyed and said, “I can cure your mother’s illness, but I need ten taels of grain silver and twenty buckets of rice.” The eldest son said, “Money and grain are not a problem, as long as you can cure my mother’s disease, the pay is good.” The elder son asked, “When will you pick the medicine?” The medicine picker said: “This you do not ask, tomorrow morning you bring the money and food to pick up the medicine” This day, just near dusk, the medicine picker carried a hoe, carrying a basket of medicine quietly into the mountain. Li’s eldest son also tiptoed behind the medicine picker, saw the medicine picker stopped on a hillside, dug up two handfuls of grass, and then hurriedly left. Li’s eldest son saw and remembered. He immediately found the place where the medicine picker dug the medicine, and by the light of the moon, what he saw was actually a kind of grass with palm-shaped leaves and light red and lavender flowers. He hurriedly brought his own pocket open, dug up a lot of this grass with his hands, and went home overnight to give his mother decoction to drink, seven days later, the efficacy of the show, the mother is not as before so abdominal pain, and then drink seven days later, the blood stasis also disappeared. Later, Li’s eldest son used this herb to cure many women, and people named this herb “Motherwort”. Source: The dried whole herb and fruit of Motherwort, family Labiatae. Origin: Produced all over the country. Taste: Pungent, bitter, slightly cold. Attributes to the heart, liver and bladder meridians. Effects: Promoting blood circulation and regulating menstruation, inducing diuresis and eliminating swelling, clearing heat and removing toxins. Precautions for Use 1. Not to be taken by pregnant women. 2, no stasis and yin deficiency of blood should not be used. Motherwort from the above basic understanding, motherwort is mainly used for gynecological conditions, and treatment of bruises and some skin diseases, so its clinical use: 1, blood stagnation menstrual closure, dysmenorrhea, menstrual dysfunction, post-partum malignant discharge, stagnation and abdominal pain. Mainly into the blood, good blood regulating menstruation, remove blood stasis and menstruation, for obstetrics and gynecology medicine. 2, edema, urinary incontinence. It can not only diuretic swelling, but also activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis, especially suitable for edema with mutual obstruction of water and blood stasis. 3, bruises, sores, carbuncles, swollen poisons, skin addiction rash. In addition, modern preparations of motherwort with brown sugar and other excipients made of motherwort cream, due to insufficient qi and blood, lower focal cold, blood stasis and blood stagnation caused by menstrual disorders, insufficient menstrual flow, menstruation and other gynecological conditions have good results.