The efficacy and function of traditional Chinese medicine Achyranthes bidentata

Achyranthes bidentata has the effects of removing blood stasis, tonifying liver and kidney, strengthening bones and muscles, diuresis, and inducing blood to descend. It is forbidden for pregnant women and menorrhagia. It is not suitable for use with tortoise shell and Lu Ying. It can be used orally or externally. It can be decocted in soup, pills, powder or soaked in wine. It can be pounded, crushed into nasal drops or ground into teeth. It can be identified from aspects of appearance and smell. Achyranthes bidentata is the dried root of Achyranthes bidentata of Amaranthaceae. It is dug when withered in winter. After removing the fibrous root and sediment, it is tied into a small handle. After drying and wrinkling, the root is taken down, smoked with sulfur for 2~3 times, piled up" sweating" until the interior turns black, and dried. It can be used as medicine.

Achyranthes bidentata has the effects of removing blood stasis, dredging channels, tonifying liver and kidney, strengthening bones and muscles, diuresis, dredging stranguria, and guiding blood downward. It can be used to treat amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, waist and knee pain, weakness of bones and muscles, stranguria, edema, headache, dizziness, toothache, aphtha, vomiting blood, epistaxis, etc. Achyranthes bidentata is bitter, sour, mild in nature, returns to liver and kidney meridians, has the effect of removing blood stasis and dredging channels, and can be used to treat amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, postpartum abdominal pain, lack of afterbirth, traumatic injuries, etc. 2. Tonifying liver and kidney: Achyranthes bidentata has the effect of tonifying liver and kidney, and can be used to treat liver and kidney deficiency, waist and knee pain, muscle weakness, etc. 3. Strengthening bones and muscles: Achyranthes bidentata has the effect of strengthening muscles and bones, and can be used to treat paralysis, soreness of waist and knees, etc. 4. Diuretic and stranguria: Achyranthes bidentata has the effect of diuretic and stranguria, and can be used to treat stranguria, edema, dysuria, etc. 5. Guiding blood downward: Achyranthes bidentata has the effect of guiding blood downward, and can be used to treat headache, dizziness, toothache, aphtha, vomiting blood, epistaxis, etc. 2. Use contraindication 1. Pregnant women and menorrhagia prohibited. 2. Qi subsidence, spleen deficiency diarrhea, lower yuan is not solid cautious. 3. Huai Achyranthes bidentata should not be used with tortoise shell, Lu Ying. 3. Use method 1. Internal administration: decoction, 5~15 g; or into pills, powder; or soaked in wine. 2. External use: appropriate amount, pounding; or pounding juice nasal drops; 1. Appearance: Achyranthes bidentata is slender cylindrical, slightly curved, 15~70 cm long, 0.4~1 cm in diameter. The surface is grayish yellow or light brown, with slightly twisted fine longitudinal wrinkles, sparsely arranged lateral root marks and transverse long dermoid protrusions. Hard and brittle, easy to break, soft after moisture, flat section, yellow-brown, slightly horny and oily, the central vascular bundle wood larger, yellow-white, its periphery scattered with most punctate vascular bundles, arranged into 2~4 rounds. 2. Smell: Huai Achyranthes bidentata gas slightly, taste slightly sweet and slightly bitter. 5. Key information 1. Achyranthes bidentata has the effect of removing blood stasis, tonifying liver and kidney, strengthening bones and muscles, diuretic and stranguria, and inducing blood descending. 2. Pregnant women and menorrhagia are prohibited. Those with qi depression, spleen deficiency diarrhea, and lower yuan are not solid should be taken carefully. 3. Achyranthes bidentata should not be used with tortoise shell and Lu Ying. 4. There are two ways to use Achyranthes bidentata for internal use and external use. For internal use, it can be decocted in soup, pills, powder or soaked in wine. For external use, it can be pounded, crushed into nasal drops or ground into teeth. 5. When identifying Achyranthes bidentata, it can be started from the aspects of appearance and smell.