"Underground Golden Cow", also known as "Liang Mian Zhen", is a commonly seen traditional Chinese herb with high medicinal value. It has analgesic and anti-cancer effects, and is widely used. Let's take a look at the efficacy and functions of Underground Golden Cow together!
【Efficacy and Functions of Underground Golden Cow】
1. Dispelling Wind and Promoting Blood Circulation
Wind, cold, and dampness can obstruct the meridians and hinder the flow of qi and blood, leading to soreness, numbness, and difficulty in movement. This can manifest as "Bi" syndrome. Underground Golden Cow, with its slightly warm and pungent properties, can dispel wind and promote blood circulation. Its bitterness can help eliminate dampness and its main function is to dispel wind and promote blood circulation, relieving pain.
2. Dispelling Stagnated Blood and Reducing Swelling
Underground Golden Cow, with its pungent and warm properties, can promote blood circulation and dispel blood stasis. It has the ability to spread and disperse. Therefore, it can be used to treat injuries, burns, and other conditions that involve blood stasis and swelling.
3. Regulating Qi and Relieving Pain
Underground Golden Cow, with its pungent and warm properties, can promote the circulation of qi, relieve pain, dispel cold, and relieve wind. It is effective in treating stomach pain, toothache, and other conditions.
4. Diuretic and Anti-Swelling
Underground Golden Cow, with its slightly warm and bitter properties, can disperse wind-cold invading the lungs and help eliminate dampness. It can dispel wind, eliminate cold, open and disperse lung qi, promote diuresis, and reduce swelling. It is used in the treatment of edema as mentioned in the book "Qian Jin Fang".
【Methods of Using Underground Golden Cow】
In traditional Chinese medicine, Underground Golden Cow is believed to have the effects of dispelling wind and promoting blood circulation, relieving dampness and pain, and reducing swelling and detoxification. It is commonly used for wind-cold-damp arthralgia, bone and joint pain, fractures, hernia pain, throat swelling and pain, stomach pain, intestinal colic, toothache, boils, carbuncles, and burns.
1. Analgesic: Use Underground Golden Cow injection, 2ml intramuscular injection, 1-2 times daily. It is used to treat neuralgia, headaches, rheumatic pain, and gastrointestinal colic.
2. Surface anesthesia and local anesthesia: Use Underground Golden Cow to make a surface anesthetic, instruct the patient to bite on it, and after 1-2 minutes, it can be used for surgery. After injection, anesthesia can take effect in about 3-6 minutes.
3. Treatment of lower back and leg pain: Use a 20% solution of Underground Golden Cow and apply it with a low-frequency direct current induction therapy machine, once a day, 20 minutes each time, 10 times as a course of treatment.
4. Treatment of acute tonsillitis: Take 1 liang (about 50 grams) of the second layer of skin of the root and stem of Underground Golden Cow, grind into powder, and take 1 gram 4-6 times a day.
【Compatibility and Application of Underground Golden Cow】
1. Compatibility with Ma Huang (Ephedra)
This combination is used to treat wind-cold-damp arthralgia. Ma Huang, with its pungent and slightly bitter properties, can disperse and open up the skin and hair. It specializes in inducing sweating and dispelling cold pathogens. Underground Golden Cow, with its pungent and warm properties, can promote blood circulation in the heart meridian, disperse and warm, penetrate the ying and wei levels, and has the ability to promote blood circulation and relieve pain. When these two herbs are combined, they can enter the wei and ying levels, effectively dispelling wind, dispersing cold, promoting blood circulation, and relieving pain.
2. Compatibility with Niu Xi (Achyranthes Root)
This combination is used to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. If there are injuries, bruises, or damage to the arteries due to falls or accidents, resulting in blood stasis and poor circulation of qi, these two herbs can be used together. Underground Golden Cow can disperse stagnation and warm the meridians, promoting blood circulation. Niu Xi, with its bitter and flat properties, can invigorate blood circulation, dispel blood stasis, and strengthen tendons and bones. When used in combination, they can cooperate with each other, promoting smooth flow of qi and blood, and effectively promoting blood circulation and relieving pain.
3. Compatibility with Fu Ping (Floating Heart)
This combination is used to promote lung qi circulation, induce sweating, promote diuresis, and reduce swelling. If wind and water are the pathogenic factors, causing lung qi dysfunction, facial and head swelling, and difficulty in urination, this combination can be used to promote lung qi circulation, induce sweating, promote diuresis, and reduce swelling. Fu Ping, with its pungent and cold properties, can ascend and disperse, induce sweating, and release the exterior. Underground Golden Cow, with its pungent and warm properties, can promote lung qi circulation. When these two herbs are used together, their cold and warm properties are balanced, promoting lung qi circulation, inducing sweating, promoting diuresis, and reducing swelling, without causing excessive cold or heat symptoms.
