According to traditional Chinese medicine, jasmine flowers have the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, and harmonizing the body. Jasmine roots can be used for anesthesia in Chinese medicine, and other commonly used anesthetic Chinese herbs include honeysuckle, acorus, jasminum, asarum, bufonite, aconite, and Sichuan pepper.
【Advantages of Chinese Medicine Anesthesia】
Chinese medicine anesthesia uses the anesthetic effects of Chinese herbs to eliminate patient's sensations and achieve the goal of relieving or eliminating general or local pain. Chinese medicine anesthesia is suitable for pain that occurs in clinical diseases and is also suitable for anesthesia and analgesia in surgical treatment. Chinese medicine anesthesia has the advantages of effective results, wide indications, comparative safety, convenient portability, and easy preservation.
Pharmacological studies have shown that jasmine flowers contain various active ingredients such as benzyl alcohol, jasmine essence, and benzoin. Clinical applications include: taking 2-3 grams of dried jasmine flowers, soaking in boiling water, as an adjuvant for the treatment of dysentery and carbuncle; using 3 grams of jasmine flowers, 6 grams of vitex negundo, decocting in water, to treat cold and fever; for red, swollen and painful eyes with tearing in the wind, using jasmine flowers to decoct water for fumigation and washing has a certain therapeutic effect; using jasmine flower-infused oil to treat otitis media. In addition, jasmine flower water obtained by distillation has the effects of invigorating the spleen, regulating qi, and dispelling stale and foul odors.
【Effects and Functions of Jasmine Root】
Jasmine root is used to treat anesthesia and pain relief. It is used for treating sprains, bone fractures, toothaches, headaches, and insomnia.
1. "Bencao Hui Bian": "If ground and taken with alcohol, it will cause coma for one day and wake up after two inches for two days, and three inches for three days. It can be used for bone dislocation and fracture reduction, and the patient will not feel pain."
2. "Modern Practical Chinese Medicine": "It has an anesthetic effect."
【Anecdote of Jasmine Root Anesthesia】
It is worth mentioning that jasmine flower roots also have an anesthetic effect. The famous British playwright Shakespeare wrote a tragedy called "Romeo and Juliet". In this play, the female protagonist Juliet deeply loved Romeo and did not want to marry someone else against her father's will. The elder sympathized with her and carefully designed a deception.
The elder gave her a medicine to be taken on the eve of the wedding, because taking this medicine would put her in a state of false death, but she would wake up after 42 days. Juliet followed the plan, and as a result, the wedding turned into a funeral. However, the greater tragedy was that Romeo was not aware of the details. When he hurriedly arrived at the "coffin" of his beloved, he was heartbroken and then involuntarily took poison to commit suicide.
It is said that the "fake death medicine" Juliet took was the root of jasmine flowers. Modern medical research has shown that jasmine roots contain alkaloids and steroids, which have certain sedative and hypnotic effects. There are reports that jasmine root does have an anesthetic and analgesic effect. For example, using an appropriate amount of jasmine root to make a paste and stir-frying it with alcohol can treat sprains; taking 1 gram of jasmine flower root, 3 grams of chuanxiong, grinding it into powder, and taking it with huangjiu can relieve severe pain caused by fractures and injuries.
In addition, grinding 1-1.5 grams of jasmine root into water can also treat insomnia. However, jasmine root has certain toxicity, so internal use should be cautious.
