There is a folk saying that "March Herba Artemisiae in April, May and June as firewood", now it is March, is the time to collect Herba Artemisiae. Many old people in the countryside at this time will collect some of the chennai to go back to do food, and some people will collect the chennai after drying used to make tea, they also said that the chennai soak water can also protect our liver? So, can the water really protect the liver? Below, I will talk to you about this question, for you to unveil the medicinal properties of chenopodium album.

I. What are the medicinal effects of Insectis?

It is recorded in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia that Yin Chen is bitter, pungent and slightly cold in flavor. Functions: Clearing dampness and heat, retiring jaundice. It is used for jaundice with low urine, wet sores with itching, infectious jaundice hepatitis.

From the above records we can see that Yin Chen has the effect of clearing dampness and heat and reducing jaundice, which can be used to treat jaundice caused by dampness and heat, and now it can also be used to treat infectious jaundice hepatitis in clinical practice.

So, why does Yin Chen have the efficacy of clearing dampness and heat and reducing jaundice? This is to be recognized from the nature and taste of Yin Chen.

First of all, Yin Chen has an aromatic odor, which we can know by picking up Yin Chen and smelling it with our nose. Therefore, this aromatic odor and pungent characteristics have volatile components, which have the effect of aromatizing dampness and detoxifying the liver, which can help the liver and gallbladder yang qi to rise and develop.

Secondly, the flavor of Yin Chen is light and slightly bitter. Bitter can remove heat, and light has the effect of seepage and diarrhea, one seepage means that it can sweat, and one diarrhea means that it can facilitate urination. Therefore, it can clear the liver and gallbladder and facilitate urination, so that the heat and poison of the liver and gallbladder can be discharged from the body through urination.

Therefore, Yin Chen is often used in Chinese medicine as an important medication for the treatment of jaundice, that is, for jaundice that occurs when excessive dampness and heat in the body accumulate in the body, thus causing dampness and heat to vaporize the liver and gallbladder. It can be used singly or in combination with rhubarb and gardenia. The famous jaundice formula "yin chen penny soup" is composed of yin chen, rhubarb, gardenia, is specifically used to reduce jaundice.

Secondly, can Inchcape in water really protect the liver?

This is where we need to look at the pharmacological studies of Inulin to realize if Inulin has this medicinal effect of protecting the liver.

According to the pharmacological research found that, the role of the chennai has choleretic, through the experiment that the chennai decoction, chennai gardenia decoction, chennai artemisia decoction and its alcoholic extracts have the effect of promoting the secretion of bile in rats, and from the chennai seedling of the chlorogenic acid, and its hydrolysate caffeic acid have choleretic effect. In addition, the decoction of Artemisia capillaris soup has the effect of promoting the regeneration of hepatocytes in rabbits, which is due to the presence of some effective components that can protect the liver, such as flavonoids of Artemisia capillaris, dimethoxycoumarins, and chromogenic ketones of Artemisia capillaris, which not only protect the integrity of the hepatocytes, but also enhance the regenerative ability of hepatocytes.

It can be seen that, in addition to clearing dampness and heat, jaundice, but also has a certain role in liver protection, liver protection, clinically also used in the treatment of acute non-jaundiced hepatitis. Therefore, the water has a certain role in protecting the liver and liver protection.

Overall, Yin Chen is an important medication in traditional Chinese medicine to reduce yellow, but its role can not only reduce yellow, as long as the dampness and heat caused by some of the body's discomfort symptoms, such as yellow urine, dampness and heat caused by itchy skin, such as eczema, etc., can be used in Yin Chen, so if you find your urine is yellow and serious, or eczema, etc., then you can use the right amount of Yin Chen brewing water to drink, so as to achieve the effect of removing dampness and heat. Effect.

Third, what are the things that need to be noted when you drink Inchcape in water?

Although it is said that therefore has the role of clearing dampness and heat, jaundice, and also has a certain liver, liver protection, but Yin Chen after all, has a bitter cold medicinal properties, relatively cold, and is not suitable for long-term use. So even if there is dampness and heat of the people in taking the water, can not be taken for a long time, when the symptoms of dampness and heat to get effective improvement should be stopped to continue to take.

For those who do not have the presence of dampness and heat, or those who have a cold constitution, it is not suitable to drink Yin Chen tea, and is not able to drink water with Yin Chen for a long time.

In fact, in order to achieve the purpose of liver protection, rely solely on the use of Yin Chen brewing water to drink is not enough, but also need to avoid doing some liver damage things, such as staying up all night, long-term alcohol, drug abuse, emotional depression, etc., are very hurtful to the liver behavior.

Therefore, in ordinary life, we should have to develop good habits, do not stay up late, do not drink, do not abuse drugs, at the same time in the diet should not eat some moldy food, eat less pickled food, eat less processed meat food, to ensure that enough sleep, to maintain the spirit of the animal, avoid staying up all night, but also to develop an optimistic and broad and cheerful attitude toward life, so as not to cause the liver Qi stagnation.

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I don't know if you've ever heard the poem:"March Yin Chen and April Artemisia, passed on to future generations to remember the labor. March Yin Chen cures yellow consumption, April Artemisia is used as firewood."It was left behind by the famous medical doctor Hua Tuo.

There is a story about this poem, and legend has it that Hua Tuo gave a yellow consumptive ((Yellow consumption here does not mean consumption, but jaundice)He could not find any good herbs to cure him, and the patient could not get better. After a period of time, the patient was actually cured, Hua Tuo hurriedly asked him what kind of medicine he ate to cure him, and he said he ate a kind of green wild vegetable. He said that he had eaten a kind of green wild vegetable. Hua Tuo saw that it was Artemisia annua, so he went to the field and picked some and gave it to other patients with yellow consumption to try to take, but after a few times of trying, there was no effect. Hua Tuo also asked the cured patient how many months of artemisia he ate, and the patient said it was from March.Hua Tuo realized that perhaps it was the artemisia in March that had the medicinal effect。

In the spring of the second year, Hua Tuo collected a lot of artemisia in March, and gave it to patients with yellow consumption, and they really ate a good one, but once March was over, the medicine had no effect. In the third year, after repeated experiments and verification.Hua Tuo discovered that only the young stems and leaves could be used in medicine to cure diseases and named it 'Yin Chen'.For posterity's identification, there is the opening verse.

Though both derived from the Asteraceae family, Artemisia and Artemisia are not the same plant.Artemisia capillaris is derived from the above-ground parts of Artemisia capillaris and Artemisia binaris, while those harvested in spring are called Artemisia ciliata and those in fall are called Artemisia floribunda, and those in fall are called Artemisia ciliata.Clinically, we use Mian Yin Chen relatively often, which is what we use in our pharmacy.Artemisia annua, on the other hand, is the above-ground part of Artemisia annua, which is harvested in summer and fall when it is in full bloom.

Like many of us in Guangxi like to use mugwort leaves to make food, Yin Chen can also be used to make food, and the tender stems and leaves can also be eaten as wild vegetables. So, can the water drink can protect the liver? Before answering this question, let's take a look at the efficacy and pharmacological effects of chennai.

Yin Chen has the efficacy of clearing dampness and heat, inducing bile and relieving yellow. It can treat the following diseases:

1. Jaundice. The Classic of Materia Medica recorded: "Yin Chen, its main wind-dampness, cold and heat, evil heat knot, jaundice, yellowing of the body, urinary incontinence and head fever."Yin Chen is an important remedy for jaundice, whether it is yin or yang.. The patient of yang yellowness a move color distinct, often with gardenia with the use of, for example, the artemisia capillaris soup; Like the spleen and stomach cold dampness caused by the yin yellowness, the color is more obscure, often with the use of epiphyllum; To be because of damp-heat jaundice caused by the urine is not good, often with the Poria with the use of.

2, Eczema, eczemaThis application is mainly used for external washing with boiled water. This application is mainly used for external washing with boiled water, and this herb is often prescribed in our unit for external washing in obstetrics and gynecology.For example, itching and abnormal amount of leukorrhea caused by dampness and heat.Commonly used Yin Chen and cypress, bitter ginseng boiled water to external wash, can clear heat and relieve dampness, stop itching.

Injuns belong to the liver and gallbladder meridians, and pharmacological experiments have shown thatYin Chen has choleretic effect, can make cholelithiasis patients bile flow increased significantly, bile cholesterol content in the bile reduced, can prevent the formation of cholesterol stones; in addition also has a hepatoprotective effect, Yin Chen decoction of animal experiments on liver injury has a protective effect, reduce the serum aminotransferase activity, reduce the degree of swelling and necrosis of the liver's cells. Thus, it is known that Yin Chen has hepatoprotective and choleretic effects, and can be used to treat jaundice and cholelithiasis, hypercholesterolemia with other drugs in modern applications.

It's not hard to conclude that drinking water infused with Herba Euphrasia has some liver-protecting effectsSome people like to take the dried chentian to make tea to drink, or as a wild vegetable to eat, need to pay attention to is that theYin Chen is slightly cold in nature and should not be drunk by people with cold spleen and stomach; secondly, it should not be drunk for a long timePlease consult your doctor if medicinal use is required.

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Inula is a commonly used herb and a very characteristic one.

Yin Chen is commonly used in one kind of disease, that is, jaundice. Whether the jaundice is damp-heat, or cold-damp, Yin Chen is usually a must-use medicine, through the collocation and combination of drugs, to achieve the purpose of treating jaundice.

Zhongjing said that the cause of jaundice is dampness, "but the disease of yellow family, from the dampness", Yin Chen can clear heat and dry dampness, the fundamental purpose is to treat jaundice. Western medicine believes that there are three causes of jaundice: 1. Hepatocellular jaundice; 2. Obstructive jaundice; 3. Hemolytic jaundice, of which obstructive and hepatocellular jaundice, are produced in the hepatobiliary system.

In the Treatise on Typhoid Fever, there is an Artemisia capillaris soup for the treatment of jaundice caused by dampness-heat, the color of the body is like an orange. Under the article of Yin Chen Artemisia Tang, there are: "when the urine when li, urine such as soapnut juice, the color is red, a night of abdominal reduction, yellow from the small stools to go," the record, Yin Chen has the effect of facilitating the role of urine, through the role of facilitating the role of urine, so that the dampness-heat evil from the small stools and out. Therefore, the urine will be like "soapnut juice" as yellow, dampness and heat to go, the gas is no longer congested, stomach bloating will be reduced.

For the treatment of jaundice, there are also formulas such as Yin Chen Wu Ling San, Yin Chen Si Reverse Tang, Yin Chen Jiao Pian Tang, and Qian Jin Rhinoceros Horn San, all of which involve the herb Yin Chen.

Yin Chen mainly contains coumarins, flavonoids, organic acids and other components. Yin Chen has a good effect of liver protection and lipid lowering, and itspanaceaIt can significantly reduce carbon tetrachloride-induced hepatocellular injury, improve liver function, significantly reduce serum aminotransferase activity, and elevate serum albumin; its extract has the effect of regulating blood lipids and liver protection on insulin resistance combined with fatty liver, and it can significantly reduce the levels of menthionine aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase and TGF-β1, and improve the hepatic steatosis. A variety of preparations and components of Inulin have choleretic effects.

However, the active ingredient of inulin precipitates out and also decoctions are best. How long should I boil Yin Chen? There are also instructions in the Treatise on Typhoid Fever, "Take one bucket of water and boil the yin chen first, reducing it by six liters"; one bucket of water is boiled until there are six liters left, a little more than half. Now it is first boiled on high heat, and then decocted on low heat for half an hour, the time is long, the temperature is enough, and the substances in Yin Chen can be decocted out also more.

Since Yin Chen can protect the liver, does it mean that liver damage can be treated with Yin Chen? Of course not, for Yin Chen to be suitable alone, it has to be characterized by dampness-heat, not according to the western medicine test index to use Yin Chen. Therefore, there are several problems with soaking Yin Chen, the temperature of the water is not high enough and the soaking time is not long enough, so it is not recommended to soak it alone.

Inchcape is a very common Chinese herbal medicine, especially in the northern countryside, people often use it to drive mosquitoes or make a fire, as the saying goes: "March Inchcape April Artemisia, May June when firewood to burn." That is, March and April of the high medicinal value, and in May and June can only be burned as firewood, so the seasonality of chenggong is very strong, missed the harvesting season, its use is very different.

There are many friends like to drink water with the chennai, but also said that this can protect our liver, is this true? Today we will talk about this issue, to see what medicinal value of the chennai?

Origin of Inoceramides

Yin Chen comes from the dried aboveground parts of Artemisia annua or Artemisia capillaris of the Asteraceae family, mainly produced in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Anhui and other places, harvested in the spring when the seedlings are 6-10cm high, or harvested in the fall when the flower buds have grown into the beginning of the flowering, the spring harvest is called "Mian Yin Chen", and the fall harvest is called "Flowering Yin Chen", after harvesting the net system of sun-dried, standby, Yin Chen is best if it is tender and soft, grayish-white in color and strong aroma. "After harvesting, it is cleaned and dried in the sun, and the best one is tender, soft, grayish-white and with strong aroma.

Effects of Yin Chen

Yin Chen is bitter and cold in nature to reduce and clear heat, good at clearing the spleen and stomach, liver and gallbladder dampness and heat, it is the key medicine to reduce yellow, especially damp-heat yang-yellow type of jaundice, but also can be used to treat dampness and warmth of the disease, wet sores, eczema, and so on.

Yin Chen can relieve bile and yellowing

Jaundice is a common disease, common symptoms have eyes yellow, body yellow, urine yellow, etc., Yin Chen has the role of gallbladder yellow, is the treatment of jaundice of the important medicine, Yin Chen sex is slightly cold, in addition to the treatment of dampness and heat caused by the yang yellow, for the cold and dampness into the yin yellow also has the effect. If it is damp-heat depression steam, body and eyes yellow, yellow distinct, short and red urine, can be equipped with gardenia, rhubarb and other drugs, the representative formula has Yin Chen Artemisia soup; If it is jaundice dampness is heavy, can be equipped with poria, zejiao and other drugs, such as Yin Chen Wu Ling San; If it is Yin Huang, cold dampness stagnation, yellow dark situation, must be equipped with warming and cold dampness of the drug, such as appendicia, ginger, etc., the representative prescription has the Yin Chen Si Reverse Soup.

Yin Chen can clear dampness and heat

Yin Chen is bitter and slightly cold in nature, has the effect of clearing dampness and heat, can be used to treat dampness and heat of dampness and warmth, often used with talcum, scutellaria, such as manna disinfectant dan; in addition to the treatment of wet sores, eczema, our hospital treatment of this kind of disease commonly used to the Yin Chen this medicine, you can be accompanied by the bitter ginseng, white fresh skin, the skin, cyperus, and other medicines decoction or fumigation, the effect is not bad.

Can I protect my liver if I drink water infused with Inulin?

For this question, my answer is of course yes, in Chinese medicine, there is a sex flavor attributed to the meridians, and in the attributed meridians of Yin Chen there is the liver and gallbladder meridians, so from the point of view of the sex flavor attributed to the meridians, Yin Chen has a certain protective effect on the liver.

In addition, from the point of view of pharmacology of traditional Chinese medicine, Inoceramus also has the effect of hepatoprotective and choleretic, Inoceramus is able to protect hepatocyte membrane, prevent hepatocyte necrosis, promote the regeneration of hepatocyte as well as improve the microcirculation of the liver. According to the relevant pharmacological experiments show that, on carbon tetrachloride caused by rat liver fibrosis model, the infusion can significantly reduce serum ALT, AST activity, increase serum albumin, as we all know, AST, ALT, ALP, serum albumin and other data is to determine the liver function of the important indexes, from the experimental results can be found that the Inchcape can indeed improve liver function, so that it tends to be normalized. The mechanism of hepatoprotective action of Yin Chen is related to the enhancement of the liver's ability to remove acetaldehyde and antioxidant, and its active ingredients are Yin Chen chromogenone and 6,7-dimethoxycoumarin.

To summarize, Yin Chen can not only diuretic yellow, clearing dampness and heat, but also protect the liver and choleretic effect, so with Yin Chen brewing water to drink, is able to protect the liver to a certain extent, and there are clinically available formulas containing Yin Chen, is used for the treatment of liver diseases, such as Yin Chen Artemisia soup, strong liver particles, Liver Liver Longevity tablets, and so on.

It is worth mentioning, want to protect the liver, just by drinking Yin Chen water is not enough, but also to develop a good work and rest habits, less late at night, less angry, less fried and spicy food, etc., in addition to liver function abnormalities of friends, be sure to go to the hospital, follow the doctor's instructions, do not blindly use drugs, affecting the condition.

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Hello, I'm Dr. Lin, when it comes to Yin Chen, many people may not know what it is, but for the little baby to reduce jaundice "Yin gardenia yellow oral liquid", may be a little bit of an impression, yes, the main ingredient of the drug is Yin Chen. It is taken from the "jin gui yao liu" in the prescription "artemisia capillaris soup", it is the main treatment of damp-heat jaundice. It is commonly used in the treatment of jaundice caused by acute jaundice infectious hepatitis, cholecystitis, cholelithiasis and so on. And jaundice is because of liver function indicators bilirubin abnormalities caused by that since it can improve the bilirubin, long-term use in tea is not to protect the liver?

What exactly are the benefits of drinking Inchcape on a regular basis?

1. Chinese medical texts:

Yin Chen is latest contained in Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing, slightly cold in nature, bitter and pungent in flavor. It has the effect of clearing away heat and inducing dampness. It has the efficacy of clearing away heat and dampness and relieving bile and yellowing. Mainly used for jaundice, urine, wet sores, itching, infectious jaundice hepatitis, etc., is commonly used in clinical hepatoprotective Chinese medicine.

From its flavor attributed to the meridian know, yin chen is cold clearing dampness and heat medication, we can also understand from its growing environment, it grows in the more humid place of filth and turbidity, so it can have a certain role in avoiding filth, which also leads to it can be retreated yellow this effect.

There is another aspect, we often say "March Yin Chen April Artemisia", it adheres to the spring vitality, so it has the liver and gallbladder, can relieve liver depression this effect. For example, we use Yin Chen in Zhen Liver and Wind Extinguishing Tang, which has the effect of detoxifying the liver.

Therefore, from the aspect of traditional Chinese medicine, we understand that it has the effect of clearing dampness and heat, inducing diuresis and relieving yellowing, and detoxifying the liver, and drinking Yin Chen water is indeed beneficial to the liver. But also need to pay attention to its cold properties.

2. Modern pharmacological research:

Currently fromEight compounds were isolated from the extracts of Inoceramus, which were identified as 7-dimethoxycoumarin, 7-hydroxycoumarin, 8-dihydroxycoumarin, 7-hydroxy-8-methoxycoumarin, caffeic acid, kaempferol, isorhamnetin-3-O-β-D-galactopyranoside, and quercetin, respectively.Their roles are as follows:

1. Accelerates bile excretion and improves bile stagnation

Experimental studies have confirmed that its volatile oil can increase bile secretion in rats. The echinocandin chromogenic ketone in echinocandin is a strong choleretic component, which can inhibit p-BD activity, thus keeping glucuronic acid from being broken down and enhancing the detoxification effect of the liver.

While increasing the secretion of bile, Artemisia capillaris can also increase the amount of solids, bile acids and bilirubin excreted from the bile. Artemisia capillaris has obvious application value for the treatment of biliary stones and poor bile drainage, and its mechanism of action is now believed to lie in the improvement of hepatocyte function, the promotion of hepatocyte regeneration, and the increase in the secretion and excretion of bile acids, phospholipids, and cholesterol.

It is that same action that saved the little one from hospitalization and painful blue light exposure, and a few doses of the oral solution had a strong jaundice fading effect, thus allowing the jaundiced baby to get the relevant vaccines early.

2. Comprehensive protection of the liver

Injun it is not only improves fatty liver damage, but also alcoholic liver and hepatitis damage:

1)Role in fatty liver disease.

The hepatoprotective effect of the extracts of C. sinensis was evident in a rat model of fatty liver induced by high-fat and high-sugar feeding. It is now believed that one of the active ingredients may be p-hydroxyphenylethyl, which can increase the activities of superoxide dismutase and glutathione-S-transferase and elevate high-density lipoprotein (HDL), while decreasing the activities of aspartate aminotransferase and alanine aminotransferase.

We all know that in the blood lipid index, "the higher the higher the better, the lower the lower the better", in which the high refers to the "high-density lipoprotein", and Yin Chen can increase the activity of high-density, thus increasing the role of lipid-lowering.

2) Role in alcoholic liver injury.

The oil of Artemisia capillaris and the chromogenic ketone of Artemisia capillaris significantly improved the degree of liver injury in mice with alcoholic liver disease, reduced the serum levels of hepatic transaminases (ALT~AST), and increased the levels of hepatic cytoplasmic aldehyde dehydrogenase~glutamylglutamylglycine peroxidase and serum total protein levels.

Simply put, it is that it also lowers liver transaminases and reduces liver damage.

3) Role in viral hepatitis/

Compound Yin Chen Tablets inhibit the DNA replication of hepatitis B virus with potential therapeutic ability for hepatitis B. In addition, rats pre-administered with aqueous extracts of Yin Chen were able to reduce glutamic oxaloacetic acid aminotransferase and ALT activity through the reduction of glutamic oxaloacetic acid transaminase.

From the study, the main ingredient of "Fuxing Yin Chen Tablet" has significant anti-hepatitis ability in clinical trials, so we combined with its liver function found that it is more than the liver is indeed a rare traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of fatty liver, but also can reverse the alcoholic liver damage, the compound preparation and anti-hepatitis, so there is a need in this regard! can be taken in moderation.

3. Cardiovascular effects

The water immersion of Yin Chen has antihypertensive effect, Yin Chen contains 6,7-dimethoxycoumarin, intravenous administration can make rabbits' blood pressure drop rapidly, and with the increase of the dosage, the degree of blood pressure drop and the duration of the blood pressure increase and prolongation, the principle of its antihypertensive may be related to the vasodilatation of the central and visceral organs.

However, this is only the effect found in animal experiments, not made into a pharmaceutical agent, and there is no clear dosage, so it is unrealistic to rely on drinking Yin Chen to lower blood pressure and treat cardiovascular disease.

Dos and Don'ts:

Excessive use of Herba Euphrasia can cause dizziness, nausea, diarrhea, epigastric discomfort, acute liver and gallbladder injury, and cardiac arrhythmias have been reported. However, therapeutic dosages of Herba Euphorbiae generally do not cause serious injury. Generally speaking, the amount of water should not be too much, a few grams is enough. In fact, now there is also a Yin Chen drink, you can buy a few bottles to try if you do not like the trouble.

Summary:We from the Chinese medicine books and modern pharmacology of Yin Chen found that it has a comprehensive role in liver protection, "Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing" even classified it as a top quality, said it can remove "heat jaundice, long service light body benefit gas resistance to old age". So we have the demand for liver protection can still be taken in moderation, but other pharmacological effects have to be clinically proven.

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Yin Chen is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, also known as Yin Chen Artemisia, Mian Yin Chen, etc. It is the above-ground part of the plant Artemisia binatae or Artemisia sinensis of the family of Asteraceae, which is harvested in the spring or fall, removing impurities and old stems, and then dried in the sun and used in raw form. It is distributed in most parts of China, with the highest production in Shaanxi, Hebei, and Shaanxi, among which those produced in Shaanxi are of good quality.

It is widely distributed in China, and can be used as an ingredient of wine, and in some places it has been traditionally used to make dishes and pastries, it is also a good honey plant, and its extracts are also used in modern times to blend flavors.

Its history as a traditional Chinese medicine is also very long, "Shennong Ben Cao Jing" in the "Lord of wind-damp cold and heat evil gas, heat jaundice." The Materia Medica Jing Shu ", "The Golden Chamber", "Typhoid Fever", "Gleanings of Materia Medica", "Medical Enlightenment" and many other medical textbooks have very clear records.

Yin Chen flavor: pungent, bitter; nature: cold; belongs to: stomach, spleen, liver, gallbladder meridian;

Effects: Clearing away dampness and heat, relieving jaundice;

Indications: Jaundice, dysuria, wet sores and itching;

It is used for jaundice, infectious hepatitis, heat stroke, cold, headache, body weight, chest and abdominal distension and pain, vomiting, diarrhea; children's food accumulation, abdominal distension and diarrhea, skin itching, edema and women's menstrual disorders, disintegration and leucorrhea.

Yin Chen is bitter and cold, into the spleen, stomach, liver and gallbladder meridian, good at clearing the four meridians of dampness and heat, for the treatment of jaundice, jaundice, often used in conjunction with other medicines, can also be used alone, if used for yin and yellow (cold and dampness or yang deficiency), must be combined with warming and dispelling the cold of the medicine such as appendicia, ginger, etc., and used in the itching of wet sores, more than a decoction of soup for external washing, can be used alone, but also can be accompanied by the bitter ginseng, cypress, etc.. For mouth ulcers, it can be used to gargle with decoction or taken internally.

Modern pharmacological research has found that Yin Chen has a strong hepatoprotective effect, for all types of infectious hepatitis, especially jaundice hepatitis and hepatitis A, B has a very significant therapeutic effect; there is also a significant choleretic function, which can increase the secretion of bile and increase the discharge of bile solids, bile acids and bilirubin; it can increase the coronary blood flow of the heart, anti-atherosclerosis, improve microcirculation, and has a Lowering blood pressure, blood lipids, anti-coagulation, anti-tumor, diuretic, antipyretic, tranquilizer, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, etc., but also improve immunity, asthma and have the effect of driving roundworms.

Yin Chen is cold in nature, use with caution for those with cold spleen and stomach, avoid for those with spleen and blood deficiency, do not overdose, do not use for a long time.

Pharmacist Xiaoyu answers this question from both classical Chinese medicine as well as modern pharmacological research.

First, Yin Chen is China's traditional Chinese medicine, from the "Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing" has: diuretic yellow effect. It can clear the liver and gallbladder dampness and heat, and is a very important drug for the treatment of jaundice. In "the theory of typhoid fever" in the Yin Chen Artemisia soup, is the Yin Chen and gardenia, cypress, rhubarb and other drugs used together, for the liver and gallbladder dampness and heat. In "The Essentials of the Golden Chamber", Yin Chen Wu Ling San is used together with Poria and Poria to treat jaundice with heavy dampness.

Secondly, in modern pharmacology, it has been found that the active ingredient in Herba Epimedium has a protective effect against liver damage. In the laboratory, scientific researchers have used the herb in liver injury model animals. It was found that the active ingredient in Herba Cynanchum has a very good protective effect on animals with acute liver injury. In order to ensure the rigor and authority of this science, the papers selected by Xiaoyu Pharmacist are all from Chinese core journals, and the references are listed at the end of the article. However, we should also note that the current study is only in animal experiments and has not yet been applied to clinical practice, so it is not yet possible to replace the existing drugs with the infusion of Yin Chen.

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Yin Chen is the dried above ground part of Artemisia annua or Artemisia capillaris, family Asteraceae, the spring harvest is called "Mian Yin Chen", the fall harvest is called "Artemisia capillaris"; modern pharmacological research: Yin Chen has a significant choleretic effect, and has antipyretic, hepatoprotective, anti-tumor and blood pressure-lowering effect.

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The ancient and modern uses of Inulin are clearer:

I. Records of ancient medical writings:

Shennong's Classic of the Materia Medica: "Lord of wind-dampness, cold-heat evils, and heat-knotting jaundice."

Zhongguo Bielu (名醫别錄): "Passing on the yellowing of the body, urinating in an unfavorable manner, removing headaches, and removing the obstruction in the voltaic abdomen."

Introduction to Medicine: "Eliminates sores and scabies all over the body."

II. Modern Chinese medicine theories on the use of Yin Chen:

1, jaundice: it is the key medicine for jaundice, not only can it cure the yang yellowness of yellowing of the body and eyes, and short and red urine; it can also cure the yin yellowness of cold and damp stagnation of the spleen and stomach, and the yang qi not being able to be propagated and transported, and it is also suitable for the newborn's jaundice, which can be boiled for internal use, and can be used to boil water for bathing as well.

2, itchy wet sores: the effect of detoxification and treatment of sores, can be used for dampness and heat within the wind itch hidden rashes, itchy wet sores, can be a single medicine decoction external wash, can also be used with cypress, bitter ginseng, the ground with.

Third, the use of attention: anemia caused by yellowish color should be used with caution.

茵陈

[The original text] taste bitter and flat, the main wind and dampness, cold and heat, jaundice, jaundice, long service light body, benefit gas resistance to old age, face white Yue. Today's name is Yin Chen Lettuce.

Tao Hongjing, The Collected Commentary on the Classic of Materia Medica

Bitter flavor, flat, slightly cold, non-toxic. It is mainly used in treating wind-dampness, cold-heat evils, and heat-conjugated jaundice. It is also used in treating yellowing of the body, urinary incontinence, removing heat in the head, and removing obstruction in the abdomen. Taken for a long time, it lightens the body, benefits the qi, endures old age, and makes the face white and happy for a long time.

The Explanation of the Classic of Materia Medica by Ye Tianshi

Flat, slightly cold, bitter flavor, non-toxic. Main wind-dampness, cold and heat evil, heat knot jaundice. Taken for a long time to lighten the body and benefit the qi, resistance to old age, face white pleasant, long years.

Yin Chen gas flat and slightly cold, endowed with days of autumn and winter cold Jinshui gas, into the hands of the Taiyin lung meridian, the feet of the Sun cold water bladder meridian; taste bitter and non-toxic, to get the south of the earth's fire flavor, into the hands of the Shaoyin heart meridian. The odor is all descending, yin also.

Wind for the yang evil, wet for the yin evil, wind and wet in the sun, yang evil heat, yin evil cold; the main one, the gas cold and clear heat, taste bitter dry wet also. Heart for the gentleman fire, fire depression Taiyin, the lungs can not be adjusted to the waterway, down to the bladder, and heat and wet knot carry on, Taiyin is wet soil of the meridian, so the steam soil color in the skin and hair into jaundice; the main one, bitter flat can clear the heart and lungs, cold can be solved dampness and heat also.

It's also known as Fungus Chen Penny. Yin Chen and Astragalus can both reduce yellow, but the yellow of Astragalus is the yellow of San Jiao, which will stain the skin, the sweat, the sweat will stain the clothes, Yin Chen's yellow is not, Yin Chen is the yellow of the liver and gallbladder disease, the yellow of the liver disease with Yin Chen. There is also a kind of yellow is anemia yellow, blood yellow, that is we have to supplement blood medicine to replenish the blood, blood deficiency when we can see the yellow ah, that is blood. The palm of the hand to pick up a look at the whole hand are dark yellow, yellowish, there is no blood ah. That Yin Chen itself is bitter, flat and slightly cold, it has a little cold, taste very bitter, bitter can drain down, that we are very famous in the scripture Yin Chen Penny soup, is based on the main Yin Chen. All of the damp-heat syndrome, this heat if it in the middle Jiao, the patient nausea and vomiting, the middle Jiao, but also jaundice, bile, bile blocked to.

The efficacy and effects of chenopodium album

gall bladder

After clinical experiments, it was found that through the use of chennai to make water, there will be a very good effect of bile and yellow. And in the Chen Chen into the body, can be on the stone patients to relieve, can enhance the flow of bile in the patient's body, so that the cholesterol content of bile in the lower.

Therefore, some patients suffering from gallstones can adopt the method of infused water of Yin Chen to relieve the disease and promote the secretion as well as discharge of bile in the body.

relieve fever and analgesia

It has excellent antipyretic and analgesic properties, and the antipyretic effect is greater in an infusion than in a decoction. It is often combined with other herbs to make herbal medicines for the treatment of colds and flu.

protect the liver

The Chinese medicine Yin Chen is also able to protect the liver, mainly because this drug can promote the patient's body bile acid and bilirubin discharge, and let the heart microcirculation is well improved, so as to effectively alleviate a series of adverse symptoms brought about by hepatitis.

In addition, Yin Chen can also improve the detoxification function of the liver, usually appropriate to take is can play a protective effect of the liver, but also can prevent liver lesions, effectively reduce the incidence of cirrhosis and fatty liver.

Although Inchcape has a lot of benefits, there are still some contraindications when taking it, which I hope you can keep in mind.

People with low blood pressure are advised not to drink the water with chenopodium acnesThe reason is that there is an element called Qingpianin in Yin Chen, which has the effect of lowering blood pressure. As long as the patient to drink water with Herba Euphorbiae is better, but for people with low blood pressure should not be taken in large quantities, otherwise it may make the blood pressure become lower and lower, seriously affecting the health of the body. Elderly people and infants and young children are also best not to drink water brewed with Herba Epimedium, because Herba Epimedium in the green Pennyroyal is also able to inhibit the central nervous system of the human body, the elderly and theInfants and young children have weaker body resistance and immunity, it is easier for the central nervous system to be damaged. Yin Chen is cold in nature, and if there isPeople with cold spleen and stomach, or those with gastritis should not use Yin Chen to make water to drink.The first thing is that if you have a cold body, don't use it to make water to drink, now there are a lot of women, to the winter time is prone to cold hands and feet, this situation is the body cold, so people with this situation is best not to use the Yin Chen to make water to drink, you can drink more warm stomach tea.

Yin Chen tea is much used by people in the Guangdong area, and it is also often used to make soup with pork bones or crucian carp.Most people know that Yin Chen tea or Yin Chen soup can dispel dampness, but can it protect the liver? Let's talk about this topic today.

First of all, in the theory of Chinese medicine, there is no such thing as protecting or not protecting the liver, for example:

deficiency of liver bloodWhen you do, you can choose sometonify the liver and bloodmedicine, but would not say to choose something that protects the liver;

pent-up frustration in the liverWhen you do, you can choose somealleviate hepatitis and regulate qiof medicine, nor would it say to choose something that protects the liver;

lit. dampness and heat in the liver and gallbladderWhen you do, you can choose someclear the liver and benefit the gallbladderof medicine, nor mention the so-called liver-protecting drugs.

As for the protection of certain internal organs or organs, this is what Western medicine says. Then some people may say, that Yin Chen brewed water to drink on the liver is good for the liver? This depends on the situation, to see if it belongs to the type of indications of Yin Chen!

茵陈，It is a medicine that induces dampness and reduces yellowish color.It is bitter in taste and cold in nature, belonging to the spleen, stomach, liver and gallbladder meridians, and is able toClearing away dampness and heat, inducing diuresis and relieving yellow fever. Simply understood is the ability toDispel dampness and heat, reduce jaundice。

So, if one does have dampness-heat, tongueThe moss is thicker and yellow, even yellow skin, yellow eyes, yellow urine, and some may have fever (low-grade fever), fatigue, malaise, anorexia, nausea, vomiting and so on, then you can drink the water with Yin Chen;It can also be used with dandelion, poria, zejiao and gardenia.

There is also some dampness and heat that manifests itself on the surface of the skin and causesItchy skin, eczema, wet soresetc., then you can useDrinking or decoction of chennai for external useIt can also be used in combination with bitter ginseng, snakeroot, or cocos, to name a few.

Thus, one can simply think of Yin Chen as an expectorant of dampness and heat, theIf there is dampness and heat in the body, especially dampness and heat in the liver and gallbladder, then it is very suitable to take the tea drink brewed by Yin Chen, not just barley, red beans, dandelion and so on. If there is no dampness-heat, there is liver blood deficiency, liver yin deficiency, liver qi stagnation, etc., these are not suitable for drinking Yin Chen tea.

So let's go back to the Western medical concept of this, so is there any liver-protecting effect of Inulae?

A study of the literature through the ages shows thatYin Chen can increase superoxide dismutase, eliminate lipid peroxide, reduce liver cell damage; in addition, Yin Chen can protect liver cell membrane, prevent liver cell necrosis, promote liver cell regeneration, enhance liver detoxification and dilate bile ducts to accelerate bile secretion and excretion.

From this perspective, Yin Chen is indeed able to protect the liver. However, as a Chinese medicine, it is recommended to use Yin Chen under the diagnosis and treatment of traditional Chinese medicine to avoid some adverse reactions.

For example, if the body is cold, liver blood deficiency appeared easy to be afraid of cold, cold hands and feet, claws and nails do not honor, easy to forget, sleep easy to dream, and more nightmares, etc., in this case drink Yin Chen tea leaves do not work.

You can only choose medicines that are warm and have the ability to replenish qi and blood, such as angelica, astragalus, jujube and so on.

So how does Yin Chen usually go together to get rid of dampness and heat better?

It is possible to useYin Chen with Job's Tears and Red Kidney BeansTogether, you canClearing dampness and heat, diureticRole;

It is possible to useYin Chen with Dandelion and Mulberry Leafetc. together in a tea, canClearing the liver and gallbladder, removing dampness and heat；

It is possible to useYin Chen with Gardenia and Rhubarbetc. together in a tea, butlit. dampness and heat in the liver and gallbladderMore severe, constipation, etc. is more appropriate.

It is possible to useYin Chen with Poria and Ze Xie DiDrink tea together, but dampness-heat disease with dampness to see the weight of the emergence of urine unfavorable (more or less), etc. is more appropriate.

Lastly, would you still say that you drink water with Injun to protect your liver?