What are the effects, functions and methods of consumption of Patrinia salsa?

You may not have heard of Patrinia salsa, but it is a common Chinese herbal medicine with high medicinal value. It can clear away heat and detoxify, remove blood stasis and relieve pain, protect the liver and promote bile secretion, and can also resist viruses. A common way to eat it is to eat it in a cold dish.

1. Functions and indications: Clearing away heat, detoxifying, discharging pus and removing blood stasis. It is used to treat intestinal abscesses, diarrhea, leucorrhea, abdominal pain due to blood stasis after childbirth, red and swollen eyes, carbuncle, scabies and tinea. "Ben Jing": "It is used to treat sudden heat, fire sores, red qi, scabies, ulcers, hemorrhoids, and saddle heat." "Bie Lu": "It can eliminate carbuncle, edema, heat accumulation, rheumatism, and postpartum pain." "Yao Xing Lun": "It can treat toxic wind and stubborn rheumatism, break up blood stasis for many years, and turn pus into water. And postpartum diseases. Stop abdominal pain, rashes, and thirst." "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "It can treat red eyes, cataracts, pterygium, ear, blood and qi heart and stomach pain, break up knots, pre- and postpartum diseases, induce labor, drop placenta, blood circulation, discharge pus, repair fistula, nose flood and vomiting blood. Red and white vaginal discharge. Sores, scabies, and erysipelas." "Modern Practical Chinese Medicine": "It can treat enteritis and dysentery."

2. Clear away heat and detoxify, promote blood circulation and discharge pus. ① Used for intestinal carbuncle (acute and chronic appendicitis), often used together with rhubarb, moutan bark, wax gourd seed, peach kernel, etc.

② Used for lung abscess (lung abscess), often used together with Houttuynia cordata, Phragmites australis, Peach Kernel, and Platycodon grandiflorum.

③ Used for diarrhea caused by damp-heat, with symptoms of continuous red and white vaginal discharge and hot pain in the lower abdomen. It is often used together with Sophora flavescens, Phellodendron chinense, Euryale ferox, Rosa rugosa, Eucommia ulmoides, and Plantago seed.

3. Removing blood stasis and relieving pain: ① Used for postpartum abdominal pain, often used together with angelica, roasted ginger, chuanxiong and peach kernel. ② Used for blood heat and stasis, heart and abdominal pain, often used together with angelica, chuanxiong and frankincense.

4. Anti-pathogens: (1) Antibacterial: Both types of Patrinia have certain antibacterial effects and have a significant detoxification effect on endotoxins.

(2) Antiviral: Patrinia scabra has a significant inhibitory effect on Coxsackievirus and syncytial virus. Its glucosinolates have a significant inactivating effect on HIV.

5. Sedation: Patrinia scabra has obvious sedative and hypnotic effects, which is more than twice as strong as the classical Western sedative valerian. The active ingredients with sedative and hypnotic effects are mainly volatile oils, patunene and isopatunene. Patrinia saponins also have sedative and hypnotic effects.

6. Protect the liver and promote bile secretion: It can promote the regeneration of liver cells, prevent liver cell degeneration, and has a good effect of protecting the liver and lowering transaminase. The decoction of Huanghua Baijiang can promote bile secretion.

7. Cold Patrinia

Ingredients: 500 grams of Patrinia salsa, 10 grams of minced garlic.

Preparation method: Remove impurities from the Herba Patriniae, wash it clean, blanch it in boiling water, quickly take it out, wash off the bitterness, squeeze out the water, chop it into pieces, and put it in a bowl for later use; mix the mashed garlic, salt, MSG, sesame oil and vinegar in a small bowl, pour it on the Herba Patriniae and mix well.

Efficacy: Clears away heat and detoxifies, cools blood and stops diarrhea. It is suitable for treating dysentery, jaundice, hematuria, hemorrhoids, fistula, carbuncle and other diseases.