Yimucao is the fresh or dried above-ground part of the Plantaginaceae plant Yimucao. It is produced in most regions of China. Yimucao is slippery and beneficial, and is known for its ability to regulate various conditions related to female childbirth. It is commonly used to treat irregular menstruation, scanty menstrual flow, amenorrhea, and dysmenorrhea. Let's take a closer look at the specific effects and functions of Yimucao.
Menstrual Regulation
Yimucao is commonly used as a remedy for menstrual regulation and to stop bleeding. It has a strong uterine stimulant effect, increasing the amplitude, frequency, and tension of uterine contractions. It is an important medicinal herb for the treatment of gynecological diseases related to menstruation and childbirth, including blood stasis dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, and lochia retention.
Swelling Reduction and Pain Relief
Yimucao has a dispersing and bitter-cold nature. It can promote blood circulation, dispel blood stasis, relieve pain, clear heat, and reduce swelling. It is used to treat injuries, bruises, and swelling caused by blood stasis. It also has the ability to clear heat and detoxify, and can be used to treat various types of sores and abscesses.
Vasodilation
Yimucao can significantly increase coronary blood flow and significantly slow down heart rate. Intravenous administration of Yimucao preparation in anesthetized dogs significantly increases coronary blood flow, reduces coronary resistance, slows down heart rate, and reduces cardiac output and left ventricular work. It also has a direct vasodilating effect on blood vessel walls.
Anti-aging
Yimucao contains trace elements such as selenium and manganese, which have antioxidant, anti-aging, anti-fatigue, and anti-cancer cell proliferation inhibition effects. Therefore, Yimucao has a beautifying effect.
Anticoagulant Effect
Yimucao has an antiplatelet aggregation effect, prolongs the formation time of blood clots, reduces the number of platelets, and weakens their aggregation function. It has a good effect on promoting blood circulation and resolving blood stasis.
Immune Enhancement
Yimucao can promote the proliferation of T lymphocytes and improve cellular immune function.
Renal Protection
Yimucao has a certain preventive and therapeutic effect on early acute renal tubular necrosis. It can significantly increase renal cortical blood flow, improve renal function, and alleviate or reverse pathological changes such as tubular cell degeneration and edema.
Nutritional Value
Yimucao contains various alkaloids such as Yimucao alkaloid, water saponin alkaloid, Yimucao alkaloid, and Yimucao tranquilizer, as well as benzoic acid, a large amount of potassium chloride, lauric acid, linolenic acid, oleic acid, sterols, vitamin A, flavonoids such as rutin. It also contains arginine, 4-guanidinobutanol, 4-guanidinobutyric acid, and water saponin.
1. Yimucao alkaloid has an excitatory effect on isolated uterus, in vivo uterus, and uterine blood vessels, significantly enhancing uterine contraction, increasing tension, and prolonging duration. Yimucao alkaloid can counteract the pressor effect of adrenaline.
2. Yimucao water saponin can significantly increase coronary and myocardial nutritional blood flow, reduce myocardial cell necrosis, lower vascular resistance, improve microcirculation, slow down heart rate, reduce cardiac output, and have a direct vasodilating effect on blood vessel walls.
3. Yimucao contains trace elements such as selenium and manganese, which have antioxidant, anti-aging, anti-fatigue, and anti-cancer cell proliferation inhibition effects. Therefore, Yimucao has a beautifying effect.
4. Yimucao is rich in various trace elements that protect the cardiovascular system and has a certain preventive and therapeutic effect on cardiovascular diseases such as myocardial infarction, coronary heart disease, and angina.
5. Protopanaxatriol is an antagonist of platelet activating factor (PAF). It can prolong blood clotting time, shorten clot length, reduce clot weight, decrease platelet count, weaken platelet aggregation function, prolong prothrombin time, reduce plasma fibrinogen, and shorten euglobulin clot lysis time.
