The zodiac is made up of eleven kinds of animals from nature: rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs and pigs, as well as the legendary dragon. The ancients allocated branches according to the habits of these twelve kinds of animals.
In traditional Chinese medicine, there are also magical zodiac signs. Next, let’s see what Chinese medicines are related to our zodiac. How can these traditional Chinese medicines help to treat human diseases?
Rat-sage
It is the whole grass of Salvia officinalis in Labiatae. Bitter, pungent and flat; It has the effects of clearing away heat and promoting diuresis, promoting blood circulation and regulating menstruation, detoxifying and reducing swelling; Mainly used for jaundice, red and white diarrhea, damp-heat leukorrhagia, irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, sores, boils and bruises.
Cattle-Achyranthes bidentata
It is the dry root of Achyranthes bidentata of Amaranthaceae. Bitter, sweet, sour, flat; It has the effects of nourishing liver and kidney, strengthening bones and muscles, removing blood stasis and dysmenorrhea, and inducing blood to descend. It is suitable for irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, postpartum abdominal pain, soreness of waist and knees, nourishing liver and kidney and strengthening bones and muscles, and can be used for weakness of bones and muscles due to liver and kidney deficiency. As a medicine for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, it should be used with caution by pregnant women.
Tiger-Saxifraga
It is the whole grass of Saxifraga of Saxifragaceae. It tastes slightly bitter, pungent, cold and slightly toxic. It has the effects of expelling wind, clearing heat, cooling blood and detoxifying. Treat rubella; Eczema, otitis media, erysipelas, cough and vomiting blood, lung abscess, metrorrhagia, hemorrhoid disease, etc.
Rabbit-rabbit wind
It is the whole grass of Rabdosia glabra in Compositae. Sweet, slightly pungent and cool; It has the effects of nourishing yin, clearing lung, removing blood stasis and stopping bleeding. Indications are tuberculosis, hemoptysis and traumatic injury.
Dragon-Solanum nigrum
It is the whole grass of Solanaceae plant Solanum nigrum. Bitter taste, cold nature and little toxicity. It has the functions of clearing away heat, detoxicating, promoting blood circulation and reducing swelling. Used for furuncle, carbuncle, erysipelas, traumatic sprain, chronic cough, phlegm and asthma, edema and cancer. Root: bitter, slightly sweet, cold. Used for dysentery, stranguria, leukorrhagia and traumatic injury.
Snake-Fructus Cnidii
It is the dried and mature fruit of the snake bed of Umbelliferae. Warm in nature and bitter in taste. It has the functions of eliminating dampness, expelling wind, killing insects, warming kidney and strengthening yang. Used for impotence, cold uterus, leukorrhagia due to cold and dampness, and lumbago due to dampness; External treatment of vulvar eczema, pruritus vulvae and trichomonal vaginitis.
Horse-Mabo
It is the fruiting body of basidiomycete puffball. Pungent in taste, flat in nature and nontoxic: it is mainly used as a local hemostatic, and also treats sore throat and aphonia. Such as: traumatic bleeding, epistaxis, bleeding after tooth extraction; Ulcer, sore and furuncle; Frostbite, etc
Sheep-Leymus chinensis
A little red for panicum miliaceum of Compositae. Bitter taste and cool nature. It has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, removing blood stasis and reducing swelling. Can be used for treating upper respiratory tract infection, oral ulcer, pneumonia, mastitis, enteritis, bacillary dysentery, urinary tract infection, furuncle and carbuncle, eczema and traumatic injury.
Monkey-Hericium erinaceus
It is the fruiting body of Hericium erinaceus, a fungus of odontaceae. Sweet taste, flat sex. Benefiting the five internal organs and helping digestion; Has the effects of invigorating stomach, tonifying deficiency, resisting cancer and benefiting kidney essence; Indications are loose stool, gastric and duodenal ulcer, superficial gastritis, neurasthenia, esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, dizziness, impotence and other diseases. And has auxiliary effect on treating intestinal cancer. Hericium erinaceus eaten by the elderly and infirm has the function of nourishing and strengthening the body.
Chicken-chicken’s gizzard-membrane
It is the inner wall of the gizzard of domestic chickens and is the digestive organ. Sweet taste, cold nature. It has the effects of promoting digestion, invigorating stomach, promoting digestion, and arresting spermatorrhea. It can promote the secretion of gastric juice, improve the acidity and digestibility of gastric juice, obviously enhance the gastric motor function and accelerate the gastric emptying. Can be used for dyspepsia, vomiting and diarrhea, infantile malnutrition, enuresis and nocturnal emission, calculus, etc.
Dog-dog ridge
It is the dried rhizome of cibotium jinmao of Pteridaceae. Bitter taste, flat nature. Quality is firm and scattered, and it can rise if it falls; It has the effects of strengthening waist and knees, expelling wind and dampness, and consolidating kidney qi; Indications: kidney deficiency, lumbago, strong spine, weakness of feet and knees, rheumatalgia, enuresis, frequent urination, nocturnal emission and leucorrhea.
Pig-Polyporus umbellatus
It is the fruiting body of Polyporus umbellatus, a medicinal fungus of Polyporaceae of non-pleated order. Sweet, light and flat. It has the effect of promoting diuresis and eliminating dampness, and can be used for dysuria, edema, diarrhea, stranguria and leukorrhagia.
The world is really wonderful. Nature has provided mankind with all kinds of Chinese herbal medicines, which not only have good names, but also have magical effects, and can cure diseases and save lives.
Wang Jianping, the chief pharmacist of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, made a scientific check.
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