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Using Mentha Herba powder to keep women youthful
Mentha Herba powder, as a good medicine for treating female diseases, can harmonize Qi and blood, treat edema, and also can beautify and remove spots, keeping women youthful. Its usage is diverse, can be prepared into a paste, made into pills, or applied externally in appropriate amounts by pounding or decocting and applying externally. It has a marked effect in treating diseases such as uterus and cardiovascular diseases.
1. Efficacy of Mentha Herba powder
Blood-activating and regulating menstruation, diuretic and reducing swelling, clearing heat and detoxifying. Treat edema, difficulty in urination. Can be used alone or with other herbs such as Imperata cylindrica and Lysimachia christinae. Treat blood stasis and edema, blood stasis obstruction in the bladder. Can treat boils, carbuncles, and skin rashes. Blood-activating and regulating menstruation, used for blood stasis in menstrual obstruction, dysmenorrhea, and unsmooth menstrual flow, incomplete lochia after childbirth, and blood stasis abdominal pain. Can be used for bruising and injury.
2. Dosage and administration:
10-30g, decocted for internal use; fresh product 12-40g. Or prepare a paste, make into pills, apply externally in appropriate amounts by pounding or decocting and applying externally.
Attention: Contraindicated in pregnant women. Avoid use in cases of blood stasis and deficiency of Yin and blood.
Other: It can remove blood stasis and generate new blood. It is a good medicine for gynecological diseases, especially for postpartum women.
Storage: Dry Mentha Herba should be stored in a dry place; fresh Mentha Herba should be stored in a cool and humid place.
3. Medicinal uses of Mentha Herba powder
(1) Effects on the uterus: The decoction of Mentha Herba, the ethanolic extract, and the alkaloid of Mentha Herba have an excitatory effect on the isolated uterus of rabbits, cats, and other animals.
(2) Effects on the cardiovascular system: Mentha Herba can significantly increase coronary blood flow and significantly slow heart rate in isolated guinea pig hearts with myocardial ischemia induced by isoproterenol. Intravenous injection of Mentha Herba preparations can significantly increase coronary blood flow in anesthetized dogs, reduce coronary resistance, slow heart rate, and reduce output volume and left ventricular work.
Mentha Herba powder is also a traditional Chinese medicine, its efficacy and function are the same as those of Mentha Herba, only the physical properties are different.
