The efficacy, effects and contraindications of Schizonepeta tenuifolia. Scientific use of medicine has many benefits.

Schizonepeta is a common Chinese herbal medicine. It has many functions, such as dispelling wind and stopping bleeding, and it has a good effect in treating colds, fevers, coughs, and sore throats. However, we should also understand the contraindications of its use so that we can better treat the disease.

1. Treatment of skin itching: Take one or two grams of clean Nepeta spicate, grind it into fine powder, sieve it into a gauze bag, and sprinkle it evenly on the affected area (if the area is wide, it can be done in pieces), then rub it back and forth repeatedly with your palms until you feel heat on your palms and the affected area. For the treatment of acute and chronic urticaria and all itchy skin diseases, 1 to 2 times for mild cases and 2 to 4 times for severe cases will be effective.

2. Schizonepeta has the effect of inducing sweat and relieving exterior symptoms, and has the effect of dispelling wind. It is mainly used to treat colds, fever, chills, no sweating, headache, body pain, etc. It is often used together with Saposhnikovia divaricata. However, it can also be combined with pungent and cool antipyretic drugs or heat-clearing and detoxifying drugs to treat colds, wind-heat, red eyes and sore throat, such as mint, chrysanthemum, mulberry leaves, honeysuckle, etc. Schizonepeta has a pungent and dispersing effect that can help measles break out, and is often used in combination with mint, cicada shell, burdock seed, etc. Schizonepeta is often used for patients with initial symptoms of sores and ulcers. It can be used together with Saposhnikovia divaricata, Lonicera japonica, Forsythia suspensa, and Red Peony Root to reduce chills and fever and eliminate carbuncles and swellings. The application of fried charcoal of Schizonepeta can enter the blood and stop bleeding. It can be used for symptoms such as bloody stool and metrorrhagia. It is often used together with other hemostatic drugs in clinical practice.

3. As a herb, Schizonepeta tenuifolia has the effect of dispelling wind and relieving exterior symptoms when used raw, and can be used to stop bleeding when fried into charcoal. Combined with Saposhnikovia divaricata and Qianghuo, it can treat wind-cold symptoms on the surface; combined with honeysuckle, forsythia and mint, it can treat wind-heat symptoms on the surface; combined with gypsum, it can treat wind-heat headache; combined with burdock, platycodon and raw licorice, it can treat sore throat; combined with Sophora japonica charcoal, it can treat bloody stool; combined with Imperata cylindrica root, it can treat nosebleed. Both Schizonepeta and Perilla can induce sweating and relieve exterior symptoms, but Perilla is stronger in dispelling cold, tends to enter the Qi, and can regulate Qi and relieve fullness; while Schizonepeta is stronger in dispelling wind, tends to enter the blood, and can stop bleeding when fried into charcoal. Therefore, Perilla is often used in Qi-regulating prescriptions, while Schizonepeta is often used in blood-regulating prescriptions.

4. Contraindications

1. Do not take Schizonepeta if you have spontaneous sweating due to superficial deficiency or headache due to yin deficiency.

2. Long-term use of Schizonepeta can cause thirst. Treatise on the Properties of Materia Medica

3. When taking Nepeta wind-clearing medicine, avoid eating fish. "Reed Voyage Talk"

4. Schizonepeta tenuifolia is incompatible with donkey meat and scaleless fish. Compendium

5. Patients with superficial deficiency and sweating should avoid using Schizonepeta tenuifolia. Patients with blood deficiency and cold and heat not caused by rheumatism or wind-cold should not use Schizonepeta tenuifolia. Patients with yin deficiency, fire inflammation, red face and headache should be cautious when using Schizonepeta tenuifolia. Compendium of Materia Medica