Menstruation regulating herb

Menstruation regulating herb

(Guizhou herbal medicine)

[source] it is the root of Euonymus ilex.

[plant morphology] Euonymus japonicus, also known as Zhengmu, Bamu and Euonymus japonicus.

Evergreen shrubs or small trees, up to 3 meters high. Branches with white lenticels, branchlets subquadrangular. Leaves alternate, obovate or elliptic, 3-6 cm long and 2-3 cm wide, apex pointed or obtuse, base cuneate, margin with thin obtuse teeth, dark green glossy on the top and pale on the bottom; petiole about 1 cm long. The flowers are green white, 4-numbered, with slender stalks, and each 5-12 flowers forms an axillary dense cyme. Capsule globose, glabrous, reddish, with 4 shallow furrows, peduncle 4 rhombic. Seeds 1-2 per locule, brown, aril orange. The flowering period is from June to July. The fruit period is from September to October.

Born on the edge of mountains and forests. It is often cultivated in gardens.

[collection] all year round.

[chemical constituents] the leaves contain triterpenoids, epiterpenoids and terpenols. It also contains flavonoids such as quercetin-3 - β - d-glucose-7 - α - l-rhamnoside and kaempferol-3 - β - d-glucose-7 - β - l-rhamnoside; the flavonoids in the yellow part of the leaves are more than those in the green part.

[flavor] pungent, warm.

[function indications] regulating menstruation and removing blood stasis. Treatment of irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea.

[prescription selection] ① irregular menstruation: one or two herbs for regulating menstruation. Stewed meat.

② Treatment of dysmenorrhea: Tiaojing grass, water hyacinth each five money. Simmer water clothes. (the following is Guizhou herbal medicine)

Chinese PinYin : Diao Jing Cao