Can I use rhubarb during lactation?

There are many precautions in the use of rhubarb, which need our extensive attention. Rhubarb has many uses, not only clearing away heat and toxic materials, but also relieving sore throat and swelling. We need to know more about the efficacy of rhubarb in order to use it better.

Efficacy of rhubarb

Purging heat and dredging intestines, cooling blood and detoxifying, removing blood stasis and dredging menstruation. It can be used for external treatment of constipation due to excess heat, abdominal pain due to stagnation, diarrhea, damp-heat jaundice, vomiting due to blood heat, red eyes and swollen throat, abdominal pain due to intestinal abscess, furuncle, amenorrhea due to blood stasis, traumatic injury, and fire and water burns. Upper gastrointestinal bleeding

taboo

Spleen and stomach weakness, qi and blood weakness, gangrene, postpartum, menstrual period and lactation should be used with caution, and pregnant women are prohibited.

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Rhubarb has another alias, such as gold does not change. Use roots and rhizomes as medicine. Rhubarb is the general name of many perennial plants of Polygonaceae and the name of Chinese herbal medicine. In China's literature, "rhubarb" often refers to rhubarb.

Rhubarb is one of the four major Chinese medicines in China, also known as Vulcan, Jin Mu, Bangmen and Mianwen. It has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for a long time, and was first published in Shennong Herbal Classic, the earliest existing pharmaceutical monograph in China. It is named for its yellow color. Rhubarb tastes bitter and cold, and its medicinal properties are fierce, so it is known as the "general".

Herbs of past dynasties have been collected: Qian Jin Fang called rhubarb as Jinwen rhubarb; Upp Materia Medica called rhubarb Huang Liang; Li Dangzhi's medical records called him a general; The manual of Chinese herbal medicine is called Sichuan Army. Tibetan is called "Junmuzha". Rhubarb has the functions of attacking stagnation, clearing away heat and purging fire, detoxifying and stopping bleeding, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and clearing away damp heat.

It is widely used to treat constipation, carbuncle, furuncle, conjunctival congestion, mumps, various bleeding, amenorrhea due to blood stasis, postpartum abdominal pain, traumatic injury, damp-heat diarrhea, jaundice, edema, apoplexy, phlegm turbidity, etc. It has the functions of cleaning gastrointestinal tract, promoting innovation and calming five internal organs.

Although rhubarb has many uses, there are also many precautions when using it. Some people can't use rhubarb, so we need to find out. The big application is very early, and we all need to understand it clearly.

Functional indication

Clearing away heat and toxic materials, breaking stagnation and promoting blood circulation. Treat constipation due to excess heat, delirium, dyspepsia, initial dysentery, heavy diarrhea after acute diarrhea, blood stasis, amenorrhea, abdominal mass, fever, sudden eye pain, hematemesis, epistaxis, jaundice, edema, stranguria, carbuncle and swelling. Purging heat and dredging intestines, cooling blood and detoxifying, removing blood stasis and dredging menstruation. Used for constipation due to excess heat, abdominal pain due to stagnation, diarrhea, and damp-heat jaundice.

Classic: blood stasis, blood stasis, cold and heat, abdominal pain, retention of food, clearing stomach, bringing forth the old and bringing forth the new, dredging Shui Gu ('Shui Gu Road' by Shui Gu'), regulating Chinese food, and calming the five internal organs.

Other records: calming stomach, reducing qi and resolving phlegm, abdominal distension due to intestinal heat, abdominal distension due to cold blood in women, minor abdominal pain, and retention of old blood.

Theory of Medicinal Properties: controlling cold and heat, promoting digestion, refining five internal organs, dredging women's menstruation, promoting edema, breaking phlegm and turbidity, stagnation of cold and heat, staying at home, benefiting the large intestine, sticking heat and toxic swelling, treating children's cold and heat diseases, annoying heat, purulent and bleeding.

"Rihuazi Materia Medica": It can activate qi and dredge collaterals, benefit joints, relieve plastic stagnation, make limbs cold and hot, warm and expectorate, facilitate urination, facilitate defecation, and apply-cut sores, furuncles and carbuncles.

Outline: Indications: white dysentery, acute abdominal pain, scanty urine, excessive heat, delirium, jaundice and various fire sores.

Aggressive accumulation and stagnation: bitter taste, cold gas, heavy and falling, strong and good, straight into the lower coke, longer than returning. Entering Yangming can clear the excess heat accumulated in the stomach. All typhoid, fever and heat toxin are contained in the middle.

Cooling blood and detoxicating: both bitterness and coldness of qi enter qi, which is in harmony with qi and has the effect of purging heat and cooling blood. Therefore, "Western Medicine Fever" says: Rhubarb is an important medicine because it enters the blood and is good at clearing heat, so it hurts the eyes. He is also good at resolving the heat toxin of sores and ulcers, so as to cure all kinds of toxins, especially the medicine with special effects. Its performance can reduce stomach heat and induce the decrease of stomach qi, so it is good for stopping vomiting. "

Promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis: the easy-to-understand herbal medicine says: "rhubarb is bitter and cold in nature and enters the Taiyin spleen and Jueyin liver meridian. Purging heat and removing blood stasis, dredging collaterals and stopping arthralgia. Pass the meridians and break the crux. " Fierce function, innovation, elimination of blood stasis, new blood.

Efficacy of rhubarb for external use: External use is also a good medicine. If ground, it can treat skin diseases such as yellow sores and eczema; Stir-fry with old lime until pink, grind it fine and apply it to the wound to stop bleeding. Sanguisorba powder is effective in the treatment of scald by external application of oil.

There is a "Nine-Five-Year Yellow Thin Sticker" with rhubarb as the main medicine in Tang Wang Daowai Platform, which is specially used for external treatment of carbuncle back. There is also a saying in Hong Mai's "Yi Jian's Nail Records" in the Southern Song Dynasty: "If rhubarb is taken orally, mixed with American vinegar and applied to the wound, it can not only relieve pain, but also eliminate scars." It shows that rhubarb can not only relieve pain and swelling, but also leave no scars in the treatment of furuncle and furuncle.

Rhubarb has many functions, which can help us treat these diseases. These diseases are common in life and need to be understood in detail. What are the medicinal values of rhubarb?

Medicinal value of rhubarb

Stagnant constipation

This product has a strong purgative effect, can clear the stomach, bring forth the old and bring forth the new, and is an important drug for treating constipation. Because it tastes bitter and cold, and is good at releasing heat, it is especially suitable for constipation caused by excess heat. It is often combined with Glauber's salt, Magnolia officinalis and Fructus Aurantii Immaturus to enhance purgation and accumulation. It is an emergency laxative, which is used to treat Yangming fu-organ syndrome, such as Dachengqi decoction (treatise on febrile diseases). If the dosage of rhubarb is light, and it is combined with hemp seed, almond, honey and other intestine-moistening drugs, the diarrhea will be alleviated, such as Maziren Pill in Treatise on Febrile Diseases.

For patients with internal heat and qi deficiency, it should be used together with tonics to treat both the symptoms and root causes. If the heat is depressed and the qi and blood are insufficient, use ginseng, angelica and other drugs, such as Huang Longtang (six books on typhoid fever); For patients with stagnation of body fluid caused by heat, Ophiopogon japonicus, Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Scrophulariae, etc. It can be used as a decoction for increasing fluid and bearing qi (on febrile diseases); If spleen yang is insufficient and constipation is caused by cold accumulation, it should be combined with aconite and dried ginger, such as Wenpi Decoction (Qianjinfang).

Vomiting due to blood heat, red eyes and swollen throat. It tastes bitter, purges, can release the fire of inflammation, and has the functions of clearing away heat and purging fire, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. It is often used with Coptidis Rhizoma and Scutellariae Radix to treat hematemesis, epistaxis and hemoptysis due to blood heat, such as Xiexin Decoction (Synopsis of Golden Chamber).

In modern clinic, rhubarb powder alone is effective in treating upper gastrointestinal bleeding. If it is used together with herbs such as Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi and Gardenia, it can also treat red eyes, sore throat and swollen gums caused by fire pathogen, such as Geliang Powder (and the prescription of Heji Bureau).

Heat toxic ulcer, burn and scald. This product can be used for both internal and external use. Oral administration can clear away heat and toxic materials, and expel heat toxin by virtue of its purgative effect. For heat-toxic carbuncle, it is often combined with honeysuckle, dandelion and forsythia. For abdominal pain due to intestinal carbuncle, it can be combined with Cortex Moutan, Semen Persicae and Natrii Sulfas, such as Dahuang Peony Decoction (Synopsis of Golden Chamber).

For external use, this product can purge fire and detoxify, cool blood and reduce swelling, and treat carbuncle and furuncle caused by heat toxin. If it is used to treat breast furuncle, it can be ground into powder and boiled into paste with wine (a good prescription for women); In order to treat aphtha erosion, dry alum is usually used to wipe the affected area (Sheng Huifang). For the treatment of burns and scalds, powder can be used alone, or mixed with Sanguisorba powder, and applied to the affected area with sesame oil.

Blood stasis syndrome. This product has good effects of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis and dredging meridians, which can not only remove blood stasis, but also clear blood stasis and clear heat. It is a commonly used drug for treating blood stasis syndrome. For women with postpartum abdominal pain and lochia, it is often used with peach kernel and ground beetle, as follows: blood stasis decoction (synopsis of the golden chamber); For women with amenorrhea due to blood stasis, Taohe and Guizhi can be combined, such as Taohe Chengqi Decoction (Treatise on Febrile Diseases); For traumatic injury, blood stasis, swelling and pain, it is often used with angelica, safflower and pangolin, such as Fuyuan Huoxue decoction (medical invention).

Damp-heat dysentery, jaundice, stranguria. This product has the function of inducing diarrhea, so it can be used to treat damp-heat accumulation. To treat dysentery with damp-heat accumulation in intestine, rhubarb alone can be effective (the pathogenesis of Su Wen is a bag of Ji Shou), or it can be used equally with Coptidis Rhizoma, Scutellariae Radix and Radix Paeoniae Alba; Damp-heat jaundice is often combined with Yinchen and Gardenia, such as Yinchen Decoction (Treatise on Febrile Diseases); For damp-heat stranguria, Akebia stem, Plantago seed, Gardenia, etc. They are often combined, such as Bazheng Powder (a mixture).

In addition, rhubarb can also "break phlegm", dredge viscera, eliminate dampness and reduce turbidity. For the elderly with phlegm obstruction, dyspnea and constipation, such as Hushi Guntan Pill (the main theory of health preservation).

Conclusion: We all know the medicinal value of rhubarb, and some common symptoms can be treated with rhubarb. Everyone should know the efficacy and taboos of rhubarb introduced above. Especially taboo, we need to use it more rationally. I hope the above knowledge can help us.