What is Chaihu

Summary: Chai Hu is a traditional Chinese medicine in China. It belongs to the herbal medicine of clearing deficiency heat, which is effective in the treatment of conditions such as having colds and fever or uterine shedding and irregular menstruation. However, Chai Hu is not for everyone. It is contraindicated or used with caution for those with hyperactivity of liver yang, internal movement of liver wind, deficiency of yin and fire, as well as those with rebellious qi. The following is an introduction to the efficacy and role of Chai Hu, come to understand it. First, what is Chaihu

Chaihu, Chinese medicine. For the "Chinese Pharmacopoeia" included in the herb, medicinal parts for the umbelliferae plant Chaihu or narrow-leaved Chaihu dry root. Spring and fall two seasons to dig, remove the stems and leaves and sediment, dry. Chaihu is commonly used as an antidote to the symptoms.

Chiba hu, also known as ground smoked, mountain vegetables, mushroom grass, firewood grass, bitter flavor, slightly cold, attributed to the liver, gallbladder meridian. It has the effect of relieving the exterior and the interior, dredging the liver and elevating the yang. It is used for cold and fever, cold and heat, malaria, liver depression and stagnation of Qi, chest and rib distension and pain, prolapse of anus, uterine prolapse, menstrual disorders.

The growth habit of Chaihu: Chaihu is often wild in the mountains, hills, barren slopes, bushes, roadsides and forests in the gap below 1500m above sea level. It is warm and light-loving, preferring humid climate, cold and drought tolerant, avoiding high temperature and stagnant puddles of water, and it is preferable to sunny, well-drained, loose sandy soil, loamy soil or humus soil.

Two, Chai Hu can cure what disease

1, treatment of fever dysentery

Prepare equal parts of Chai Hu, Huang Cen, add half a liter of wine and water, decocted to seven, soak the cold and take it, the party for the fever dysentery symptoms of the treatment of the effect is very good.

2, the treatment of damp-heat jaundice

Prepare one or two Chaihu, a handful of lemongrass root, licorice two and a half, add a bowl of water, decocted to seven minutes can be, drink frequently, can have a very good therapeutic effect on damp-heat jaundice.

3, the treatment of false labor fever

Prepare equal parts of chaihu, ginseng, each time to take three money, add ginger, jujube decoction, this formula can assist in the treatment of false old fever symptoms.

4, the treatment of children's yin deficiency internal injury

15 years of age or less, the body such as fire, yellow thin, night sweating, cough, thirst, take Chai Hu four two, Zhu Sha three two milled, stirred with male pig's bile, steamed on the rice, made of mung bean pills the size of the pills, each time you take a pill, with peach kernel umeboshi soup to send the service, take three times a day.

5, the treatment of typhoid fever

Take Chai Hu two and a half money, licorice one money, add water to a decoction, serve juice can be, typhoid fever in the heat of the patient can take this prescription for treatment.

Three, the efficacy of the role of Chaihu

1, antipyretic

Chaihu has antipyretic and analgesic effect on typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever vaccine, Escherichia coli fluids, fermented milk, yeast and other fever caused by the role of a significant antipyretic; and can make the animal's normal body temperature drop.

2, sedation

Chiba hu also has a sedative effect, used for internal heat irritability caused by insomnia and dreaming has a certain effect.

3, cough

Chaihu has an antagonistic effect on central excitatory drugs, so it has a certain therapeutic effect on cough.

4, antiviral

Chaihu also has effect on influenza virus, hepatitis virus, cowpox virus, type I poliovirus, herpes virus.

5, promote immune function

Chiba hu can make phagocytosis enhanced, natural killer cell function. Improve the titer of virus-specific antibody. Increase the rate of lymphocyte transnucleation.

6, evacuation and fever

Chaihu is also used for cold and fever, cold and heat, malaria, liver stagnation, chest and rib distension and pain, has a very good effect.