The herb known as Emaohuang is a common detoxifying and anti-inflammatory medicine. It not only has the effects of appetizing and relieving heat, but also can treat snake bites. What are the characteristics of Emaohuang? What are its effects and functions?
Emaohuang is also known as Xifengdai, Shanjiaodou, Hongzhangcao, Shandougen, Landoushu, Dahongpao, Shanmalong, Nianshencao, Weitongcao, Diaomahua, Zitengxiaohua, and Yehuangdou.
The whole stem of Emaohuang is cylindrical, with a diameter of about 3mm. The surface has longitudinal ridges, and it can be seen that there are three compound leaves. The top leaf is larger, measuring 5.5-9cm long and 3.5-5cm wide, elliptic-ovate in shape.
It is harvested in summer and autumn, cut into sections, dried or used fresh. It has a sweet, bitter, cool, and bitter taste, and has the functions of promoting blood circulation and relieving pain, detoxification and reducing swelling, clearing heat and detoxifying, promoting digestion, and relieving pain.
In many folk areas, some women have difficulty delivering the placenta after childbirth, and the elderly use Emaohuang to make herbal formulas to help treat it.
Nowadays, Emaohuang is widely used in clinical practice. You can use wild beans, Huangshi leaves, and roasted lotus chambers, decoct them in water, and take it orally to treat the placenta that does not descend.
Emaohuang can also be stewed with chicken and consumed with brown sugar. It is also suitable for women experiencing limb or joint soreness, pain, and numbness during the postpartum period. In fact, postpartum body pain is very common in women, and this condition is also known as "postpartum wind" in colloquial terms.
Some places also refer to it as "postpartum body pain", "postpartum joint pain", "postpartum paralysis", "postpartum gout". For such cases, Emaohuang can be used for treatment.
