Side Effects and Benefits of E Ma Huang: A Comprehensive Guide to Chinese Herbal Medicine

January 12, 2024

    Chinese herbal medicine "E Ma Huang" has the effects of promoting blood circulation, relieving pain, detoxifying, reducing swelling, clearing heat, promoting digestion, and relieving pain. It is commonly used to treat abdominal pain, dry blood in women, and menstrual disorders. Although E Ma Huang has so many benefits, traditional Chinese medicine reminds us not to overlook its side effects. Let's learn about the side effects of E Ma Huang together with the following editor.
 

 
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  [Side Effects of E Ma Huang]

    Side effects: Side effects are the inherent effects of drugs caused by their selective action. Whether prescription or non-prescription drugs, they should be used under the guidance of doctors and pharmacists. If any discomfort occurs during medication, it is necessary to stop the medication in time and consult a doctor or pharmacist to avoid unnecessary harm.

    Contraindications for E Ma Huang: It should be used with caution during pregnancy and lactation.

    Dietary taboos for E Ma Huang: Excessive internal use is not recommended.

  [Effects and Functions of E Ma Huang]

    E Ma Huang has the effects of promoting blood circulation, relieving pain, and detoxifying. It is commonly used for abdominal pain, malnutrition in children, dry blood in women, waist sprains, injuries, urethritis, parotitis, and snake bites.

    1. Treatment of abdominal pain

    E Ma Huang has good therapeutic effects on common abdominal pain and epigastric pain in women.

    2. Treatment of dry blood in women

    Women often have problems such as dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, and poor menstrual flow in their daily lives. To maintain long-term good health, E Ma Huang can be used for treatment.
 

 
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    3. Treatment of menstrual disorders

    E Ma Huang is also suitable for women who experience limb or joint soreness, pain, and numbness during the postpartum period. Postpartum body pain, also known as "postpartum wind," is a common disease for postpartum women.

    4. Treatment of retained placenta

    In many rural areas, some women have difficulties in delivering the placenta after childbirth. The elderly use E Ma Huang to make prescriptions to help with treatment. Now, E Ma Huang is widely used in clinical practice.

  [Medical Records and Prescriptions of E Ma Huang]

    1. Treatment of abdominal pain: Crush the seeds of E Ma Huang and take them orally; or take 50 grams of the root, decoct and take the liquid. (From "Guizhou Herbal Medicine")

    2. Treatment of dry blood in women: Take 100 grams of the root of E Ma Huang. Take the first dose with wine, and the second dose by stewing with meat.

    3. Treatment of retained placenta: Take wild soybean, Huangshi leaves, and calcined lotus chambers. Decoct and take the liquid.

    4. Treatment of menstrual disorders: Stew chicken with wild soybean and brown sugar.

    5. Treatment of eye inflammation caused by wind and heat: Take wild soybean, Huanglian, Hanshui stone, chrysanthemum flower, cassia seed, winter mulberry leaves, and night-blooming cereus. Decoct and take the liquid. (From "Sichuan Materia Medica")

    6. Treatment of internal bleeding: Take 5 to 10 fruits of E Ma Huang, decoct and take the liquid. (From "Yunnan Traditional Chinese Medicine")

    7. Treatment of burns: Grind the whole plant of E Ma Huang into powder and apply it to the affected area. (From "Yunnan Traditional Chinese Medicine")

                    

                                             

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