Perilla has the efficacy of releasing and promoting the lungs, clearing heat and removing toxins, and is useful in treating wind-heat colds and sore throats. Mugwort has the effects of warming menstruation and stopping bleeding and dispersing cold to relieve pain, and is mainly used for disintegration (excessive menstruation or dripping), excessive menstruation and vomiting of blood.
Perilla, as a traditional Chinese medicine, is the whole herb or root of Elsholtzia grandiflora, family Labiatae. It mainly has the efficacy of publishing and promoting the lungs, clearing heat and removing toxins. Clinically, it is used to treat wind-heat colds and sore throats. Perilla is pungent and cool in nature, and its adverse effects and contraindications are not clear.
Mugwort is the dried leaves of the plant Asteraceae, with the efficacy of warming menstruation and stopping bleeding and dispersing cold pain, clinically, there is a treatment for leakage, excessive menstruation, vomiting blood and menstrual cold and irregularity and other diseases. Mugwort has a bitter flavor and warm nature, with a small poison. It belongs to the liver, spleen and kidney meridians. Its adverse effects are not clear, and it should be used with caution for those with yin deficiency and blood heat.
When patients need to take perilla or mugwort, it is recommended to do so under the diagnosis of a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, not self-medication.