Interpretation of plant medical terms

Botanical drugs are drugs that use some or all plants as medicinal purposes. It can be divided into traditional plant medicine and modern plant medicine, and the plant extract used in modern science and technology production is modern plant medicine.

Botanical drugs can be divided into four levels: total (crude) extract-effective parts-effective components (active combination)-effective components, and each level has the possibility of developing into drugs. It is customary in the west to call plant medicine natural medicine.

For example:

Hawthorn: It can stimulate appetite and promote digestion, especially for eliminating meat stagnation. Hawthorn is used in many digestive drugs; Hawthorn contains ingredients for relieving asthma, resolving phlegm, inhibiting bacteria and treating abdominal pain and diarrhea.

Mulberry: Hair-blackening beauty: Mulberry contains a lot of nutrients needed by human body, and also contains hair-blackening moisture, which can be used for beauty.

Aloe vera: Take a proper amount of leaves, disinfect them with hot water, wash them, cut them open and apply them to the wound with exudate. Suitable for knife wounds and abrasions. It can stop bleeding and relieve pain many times. In severe cases, clean the wound first, then apply aloe gel and fix it with sterile gauze and bandage. The gel is dry. Drop aloe juice. It can be cured in about 7 ~ 10 days.

Lotus seed: Middle-aged and elderly people, especially mental workers, often eat it, which can strengthen the brain, enhance memory, improve work efficiency and prevent Alzheimer's disease. Lotus seed heart tastes bitter, but it has obvious cardiotonic effect, which can dilate peripheral blood vessels and lower blood pressure. Lotus plumule also has a good effect of removing heart fire, treating aphtha and helping sleep. Lotus seeds are beneficial to the heart and kidney, strengthening the spleen and stopping diarrhea, and calming the nerves. ?