Shuò Xiè is a traditional Chinese medicine that promotes blood circulation and dispels blood stasis. The whole plant, including the roots, can be used medicinally. It is commonly used for treating rheumatic pain and injuries from falls or blows. Let's take a look at how Shuò Xiè can accelerate the healing of fractures!
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Shuò Xiè has the effects of dispelling wind and dampness, promoting blood circulation, and dispelling blood stasis. It is mainly used for treating rheumatic pain, nephritis edema, foot swelling, dysentery, jaundice, chronic bronchitis, rubella itching, erysipelas, abscesses, injuries from falls or blows, and fractures.
In an experiment with rabbits, fractures were artificially induced and then fixed with splints. Shuò Xiè powder was applied externally every 3 days, and the dressing was changed. Shuò Xiè decoction was taken orally daily. By the end of the fourth week, X-ray images showed a significant amount of densely compacted callus and remarkable calcification. Tissue slices revealed that the large callus tissue had mostly ossified, and a large number of bone trabeculae had formed.
Phosphorus-32 was injected into the hematoma of the fracture site. After using Shuò Xiè, the pulse dissipation rate was faster, indicating a "blood circulation and blood stasis dispelling" effect.
The deposition of phosphorus in the tissue was also higher than in the control group, indicating that Shuò Xiè could promote the deposition of phosphorus in the callus and thus accelerate fracture healing.
① "Bielu": Shuò Xiè is mainly used for itching rashes, dampness obstruction, and can be used for bathing.
② "Rihua Zibencao": Shuò Xiè is mainly used for treating scabies, rheumatic pain. It can be decocted and used for soaking.
③ "Changsha Yaojie": Shuò Xiè can promote blood circulation, dispel blood stasis, treat edema, eliminate dampness obstruction, dissolve masses, break up stagnant blood, wash away rashes, and apply to swollen and painful feet and knees.
④ "Classification of Medicinal Properties": Shuò Xiè root is used to treat muscle and bone pain, pain in both feet, and injuries from falls or blows.
⑤ "Collection of Folk Prescription Medicines in Guizhou": Shuò Xiè stems and leaves can diuretic, treat foot swelling, and dispel wind and dampness. It can be used externally to treat abscesses, boils, and snake and insect bites.
⑥ "Sichuan Journal of Chinese Medicine": Shuò Xiè root can diuretic, resolve phlegm, lower qi, treat jaundice swelling, weak spleen and stomach, and indigestion.
⑦ "Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicines in Shanghai": Shuò Xiè stems and leaves induce sweating and diuresis. The root promotes blood circulation, dispels blood stasis, and expels wind while activating collaterals.
