​The efficacy and function of the traditional Chinese medicine Rubia cordifolia

Rubia cordifolia is a widely used Chinese medicinal material with many functions and effects, so it is often used as medicine to treat a variety of difficult and complicated diseases. The effects of the traditional Chinese medicine Rubia cordifolia mainly include cooling blood, removing blood stasis and stopping bleeding, promoting blood circulation and dredging menstruation. At the same time, the extract of Rubia cordifolia also has the effect of increasing white blood cells and stimulating the uterus. Interested friends can use Rubia cordifolia reasonably according to their own needs, but they need to ask for the doctor's advice.

1. Efficacy of Chinese medicine Rubia cordifolia

1. Cool blood, remove blood stasis and stop bleeding. It is used for bleeding syndrome caused by blood heat and blood stasis. This product is bitter and cold in nature, and specifically enters the blood of the liver meridian. It can cool blood and stop bleeding, as well as activate blood circulation and disperse blood stasis. It is used for bleeding syndromes with blood heat and blood stasis, such as hematemesis, epistaxis, metrorrhagia, hematuria, bloody stool, etc. For treating vomiting blood and epistaxis, it is often combined with great burdock, Platycladus orientalis leaves, etc., such as Shihuisan. If the uterine bleeding is caused by Chong and Ren meridians being weak, then use Astragalus, Atractylodes macrocephala, Cuttlefish bone, etc., such as Anchong Decoction in "Medical Records of Combining Chinese and Western Medicine".

2. Promote blood circulation and unblock menstruation. It is used for amenorrhea caused by blood stasis, traumatic injuries, and rheumatic pain. This product can eliminate blood stasis, promote blood circulation and benefit joints. It is especially used in gynecology. As early as in the "Inner Canon of Medicine", there are records of using this product with cuttlefish bones, fowl eggs, and abalone to treat blood deficiency and amenorrhea. In clinical treatment of blood stasis and amenorrhea, it is often used together with peach kernel, safflower, angelica, etc. For the treatment of injuries from falls and rheumatic pain, it can be taken alone by soaking in wine, or used together with other blood-activating and wound-healing medicines and wind-dispelling and collateral-opening medicines.

2. The role of traditional Chinese medicine Rubia cordifolia

Rubia cordifolia contains anthraquinone substances, such as alizarin, madderin, and black madderin. It has hemostatic effect and mild anticoagulant effect, and its water extract has uterine stimulating effect. Both madder extract and artificially synthesized madder diester have the effect of increasing white blood cells. Cyclohexyl peptide in Rubia cordifolia has anti-tumor effect. In addition, it has inhibitory effects on a variety of bacteria and skin fungi.

Rubia cordifolia mainly contains water-soluble ingredients such as cyclohexapeptide series, fat-soluble ingredients such as anthraquinone and its glycosides, reduced naphthoquinone and its glycosides, terpenes, cyclohexapeptides, enzymes and β-sitosterol. It can shorten the coagulation time of rabbits and has a certain hemostatic effect; madder extract combines with calcium ions in the blood and has a mild anticoagulant effect; the water extract has a uterine stimulating effect; madder extract and artificially synthesized madder diester both have the effect of increasing white blood cells; the cyclohexyl peptide in madder has an anti-tumor effect. In addition, it has inhibitory effects on a variety of bacteria and skin fungi, and has the effects of expectorant, antitussive, and increasing coronary blood flow.