The efficacy and effects of Acorus calamus

Acorus calamus has been listed as the top of the herb for generations, into the long history of medicine, due to the different origins are also known as calamus, nine calamus. Calamus efficacy and function is quite rich, let's learn about it.

Calming and tranquilizing

Calamus can relieve the meninges or brain parenchyma by inflammatory irritation caused by irritability, shortness of breath. Calamus through the sedative effect and with other detoxifying drugs, thus helping to relieve symptoms such as dizziness and irritability.

Eliminate dampness

Calamus aromatizes dampness, dries dampness, and moves the qi of the stomach and intestines. Treatment of dampness, heat and toxicity in the intestines caused by the inability to receive water and grain, dysentery, etc., can be combined with Huang Lian, Poria, stone lotus seeds, such as open silent powder ("Medical Heart Enlightenment").

Promote qi and reduce distension

Acorus calamus is pungent and aromatic, good at resolving dampness, awakening the spleen and stomach, promoting qi stagnation and eliminating fullness. Used to treat dampness and turbidity in the obstruction, abdominal stuffiness and distension, stuffiness and pain, often used with sand, atractylodes, thick park; if dampness from the heat, dampness and heat contained in the ambush, body heat vomiting, chest and abdominal congestion, yellow tongue, can be combined with Huang Lian, thick park, such as Lian Park drink ("cholera theory").

Opening the orifice and removing phlegm

Acorus calamus is pungent, bitter, dry, warm, aromatic, not only has the function of opening the orifice and awakening, but also has the effect of resolving dampness, expelling phlegm and removing filth.

Strengthen the stomach and regulate qi

Calamus can stimulate the secretion of gastric juice, and to stop the abnormal fermentation of the stomach and intestines have some help, often with thick park, Chen Pi is used. In addition, the treatment of silent dysentery, with calamus to relieve the heat of the chest and diaphragm closed, open the chest to eat, but also to take its role in strengthening the stomach and Qi, with ginseng Baijiao San.

Dispersing cold and removing paralysis

Calamus aromatic pungent warm, warm can overcome the cold, pungent fragrance disperses damp; more go to the middle Jiao, can develop the spleen and stomach Qi rain to remove wind-cold damp paralysis. As the "Materia Medica for truth" said: "the" Ben Jing "the first word to treat wind-cold damp paralysis, is to take its pungent warmth to develop the power of the spleen." This product both "main limb damp paralysis, can not flex and stretch" ("famous doctors"), also treats evil wind cold paralysis, body pain, such as ("Sheng Ji General Record" Calamus San), to this product with aconite, etc., to treat cold paralysis body pain.

Insect repellent and sterilization

Calamus is a perennial aquatic herb, its narrow leaves contain volatile aromatic oil, with the role of insect repellent sterilization, people in the Dragon Boat Festival on this day hanging calamus can be radical except corruption, sterilization and disease prevention.