What are the benefits and effects of Chinese trumpet creeper?

Chinese trumpet creeper, also known as Wuzhualong, Daoguajinzhong, Duotaihua, etc., is a climbing vine of the genus Campsis in the Bignoniaceae family. Used as medicine, it has the effects of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, cooling blood and dispelling wind. It has therapeutic effects on amenorrhea, postpartum breast swelling, rubella with redness, skin itching, acne and other conditions. Now let us take a look at the benefits and effects of Chinese trumpet creeper!

The medicinal effects of Chinese trumpet creeper

[Nature and flavor]Sour in taste, slightly cold in nature.

[Meridian entry]Liver and pericardium meridians.

[Effects]Promotes blood circulation and removes blood stasis, cools blood and dispels wind. Mainly treats amenorrhea, postpartum breast swelling, rubella with redness, skin itching, and acne.

Compatibility and applications of Chinese trumpet creeper

1. With Angelica sinensis: When a woman has liver qi stagnation, unsmooth qi movement, and inability to move qi and blood, resulting in blood-stagnation amenorrhea, the cause is attributed to the liver. The liver is an organ that is yin in substance and yang in function. Angelica sinensis is a key medicine for tonifying blood and nourishing the liver, while Chinese trumpet creeper is an excellent product for moving qi and blood. When the two medicines are used together, they tonify blood to nourish liver yin, and move qi and blood to reach the liver qi. When liver blood is sufficient and liver qi is soothed, qi and blood flow smoothly, and blood-stagnation amenorrhea can be eliminated.

2. With Ligusticum chuanxiong: Blood is the mother of qi, and qi is the commander of blood. When qi moves, blood moves; when qi stagnates, blood stasis occurs. Therefore, to treat stasis, one should invigorate blood and also move qi, so that qi moves, blood moves, and stasis is removed. Ligusticum chuanxiong moves qi and blood, and is the qi medicine among blood medicines. Chinese trumpet creeper moves qi and blood, with emphasis on invigorating blood and removing stasis. When the two medicines are used together, both moving qi and moving blood are emphasized. Stasis is removed from the blood, and pain from blood stasis stops. They are mostly used for abdominal masses, lumbar pain, chest impediment and other patterns.

3. With Moutan cortex: When heat enters the nutritive and blood levels, blood heat generates wind, causing macules, rashes, and skin itching. Treatment should cool blood and dispel wind. Moutan cortex and Chinese trumpet creeper are both acrid and cold, and both can clear heat, cool blood, invigorate blood, and remove stasis. Moutan cortex emphasizes clearing heat and cooling blood, while Chinese trumpet creeper also can dispel wind. When the two medicines are used together, they treat both blood and wind. When heat is cleared and blood is cooled, wind can be extinguished, and macules, rashes, and itching can be eliminated. Clinically, they are mostly used for rubella and wind itching patterns caused by blood heat generating wind.

4. With cicada slough: When blood heat generates wind, treatment should cool blood and dispel wind. Cicada slough disperses wind-heat and cools the liver to extinguish wind. Chinese trumpet creeper clears heat and cools the liver, cools blood and dispels wind. When the two medicines are used together, cicada slough emphasizes dispelling wind and extinguishing wind, while Chinese trumpet creeper leans toward clearing heat and cooling blood. By treating wind and blood, when blood is cooled and wind is removed, the effects of cooling blood and dispelling wind are enhanced. It is effective for various patterns caused by blood heat generating wind.

Health-preserving medicinal diets of Chinese trumpet creeper

1. Chinese trumpet creeper and donkey-hide gelatin porridge

[Materials]Chinese trumpet creeper and donkey-hide gelatin 10 g each, glutinous rice 50 g, appropriate amount of brown sugar.

[Method]Decoct Chinese trumpet creeper in clear water, remove the residue and take the juice for later use. Rinse the glutinous rice clean, put it in a pot to cook porridge, and add the donkey-hide gelatin and Chinese trumpet creeper medicinal juice to cook together. First bring to a boil over high heat, then change to low heat and simmer slowly. When the porridge is done, add brown sugar and it is ready.

[Effects]It has the effect of treating amenorrhea and sallow complexion caused by blood deficiency. Patients may eat it 1 to 2 times daily.

2. Black bean and Chinese trumpet creeper soup

[Materials]Chinese trumpet creeper 2 g, black beans 120 g, pork ribs 300 g, appropriate amount of salt.

[Method]First rinse Chinese trumpet creeper clean with clear water and soak it in water for 1 hour. Clean the pork ribs, cut them into small pieces, blanch them in boiling water, remove and drain the water. Wash the black beans and soak them in water for 2 hours. Put Chinese trumpet creeper, black beans, and pork ribs together into a pot to simmer. After the black beans are cooked soft, add salt for seasoning. After the pork ribs are cooked soft, pick out the Chinese trumpet creeper from the medicinal juice and it is ready to eat.

[Effects]It can ease herbal poisoning, but it is not suitable for pregnant women.

Medicinal selected prescriptions of Chinese trumpet creeper

1. To treat women and unmarried women with blocked menstruation, umbilical and abdominal colic, and all blood diseases: Campsis 2 liang, Angelica sinensis and Mao (Curcuma zedoaria) 1 liang each. Grind the above into fine powder. Take 2 zhen with cold wine on an empty stomach; after about the time to walk ten li, take another dose mixed with hot wine.

2. To treat women's amenorrhea: Chinese trumpet creeper made into powder. Take 2 qian each time, taken with warm wine before meals.

3. To treat uterine bleeding and dripping blood: Chinese trumpet creeper powder, taken with warm wine in an amount of one square-inch spoon, three times a day.

4. To treat generalized itching: Chinese trumpet creeper made into powder, mixed with wine, one bu qian.

5. To treat damp skin tinea: Chinese trumpet creeper and Rumex japonicus root in equal amounts, optionally add burnt alum, grind into powder and apply to the affected area.

6. To treat wind-heat in the lungs with itchy sores in the nose: Chinese trumpet creeper half a liang (make into powder), sulfur 1 liang (grind separately), nifen 1 qian, walnuts 4 (remove shells). First mix the first three ingredients evenly, then add walnut meat and grind together into a paste. Dip raw silk in the medicine and frequently wipe it on.

7. To treat rosacea: Chinese trumpet creeper and gardenia. Grind the above in equal parts into fine powder. Take 2 qian each time, taken with tea after meals, twice daily.

8. To treat epilepsy: Chinese trumpet creeper, made into fine powder. Take 3 qian each time, mixed with warm wine, taken on an empty stomach.

9. To treat bleeding after defecation: Chinese trumpet creeper, soaked in wine and drunk.

10. To treat accidental poisoning from herbal medicine: Each time use Chinese trumpet creeper and black beans steamed together until hot, pick out the flowers, and take only 3 to 5 beans.