Where is the latest production area of Motherwort?
Motherwort is an essential herb used by physicians through the ages to treat gynecological diseases. It is an annual or biennial herbaceous plant of the genus Leonurus in the Lamiaceae family. It is harvested in summer when it grows luxuriantly and the flowers are not yet fully open. The whole plant is used as medicine, and its active ingredient is leonurine. It has diuretic and swelling-reducing effects and causes uterine contractions. Let's take a look below at where motherwort's producing areas are!
Where are motherwort's producing areas?
Motherwort is produced throughout China, and is distributed in Russia, Korea, Japan, tropical Asia, Africa and parts of the Americas. It can be divided into two varieties, one being the original variety and the other the white-flowered variety. The white-flowered variety is also known as white-flowered motherwort, wild hair grass, oil hemp pine, etc. Its only difference from the original form is that its corolla is white. It is mainly produced in Jiangsu, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan and Sichuan, among other places.
Motherwort's producing area environment
Motherwort prefers a warm and humid climate and likes sunlight. It is not demanding about soil, and can generally be planted in ordinary soil and on barren hillsides. Relatively fertile soil is best. It needs sufficient water conditions, but should not be waterlogged, as it fears waterlogging. It grows in many environments, at altitudes up to 3400 m, and is distributed in wild wastelands, roadsides, field ridges, hillside grasslands and riversides, mostly in sunny places.
Motherwort's medicinal effects
[Nature and flavor] Bitter and pungent in taste, slightly cold.
[Meridian entry] Liver, heart and bladder meridians.
[Effects] Activates blood and regulates menstruation, promotes diuresis and reduces swelling, clears heat and detoxifies. It is used for irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea and amenorrhea, persistent lochia, edema with scanty urine, sores and swellings, and other conditions.
1. Compendium of Materia Medica: The root, stem, flower, leaf and fruit of motherwort are all used as medicine and can be used together. If treating wind-heat in the blood aspect of the hand and foot Jueyin, improving eyesight and boosting essence, and regulating a woman's meridians, then using the fruit of Leonurus japonicus alone is good. If treating swollen toxins, sores and ulcers, reducing water and promoting blood circulation, and various diseases of women's pregnancy and childbirth, then using them together is good. This is because its root, stem, flower and leaf specialize in moving, while the fruit moves while also tonifying.
2. Bencao Qiuzhen: Motherwort (specifically enters the pericardium and liver). Also called Chongwei. Pungent, slightly bitter and cold. Its function is to enter the liver and pericardium collateral. It reduces water and promotes blood circulation. It removes stasis and generates new tissue. It regulates menstruation and detoxifies.
3. Bencao Beiyao: Promotes the movement of blood stasis and generates new blood. Pungent, slightly bitter and cold. It enters the hand and foot Jueyin (pericardium and liver). It reduces water and promotes blood circulation, removes stasis and generates new tissue, regulates menstruation and detoxifies.