What are the main effects and actions of Ezhu?
Ezhu, also known as Peng'emao, Shanjianghuang, Choushijiang and so on, is the rhizome of the ginger family plants Ezhu, Guangxi Ezhu and Wenyujin. As a medicine it has the effects of moving qi and breaking blood, and removing accumulations and relieving pain, and it has therapeutic effects on blood-qi heart pain, food and drink accumulation and stagnation, epigastric and abdominal distension and pain, blood-stagnation amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, abdominal masses and lumps, and traumatic injuries. Let us take a look at the effects and actions of Ezhu together below!
The medicinal effects of Ezhu
[Nature and flavor] Pungent and bitter in flavor, warm in nature.
[Meridians entered] Liver and spleen meridians.
[Effects] Moves qi and breaks blood, removes accumulations and relieves pain; mainly treats blood-qi heart pain, food and drink accumulation and stagnation, epigastric and abdominal distension and pain, blood-stagnation amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, abdominal masses and lumps, and traumatic injuries.
Related discussions on Ezhu
1. "Kaibao Bencao": Bitter, pungent, warm. Non-toxic.
2. "Leigong Paozhi Yaoxing Jie": Enters the lung and spleen meridians.
3. "Yixue Qiyuan": Mainly treats heart and diaphragmatic pain.
4. "Bencao Tujing": Treats accumulations and all qi disorders, and is the most important medicine for this.
Medicinal contraindications of Ezhu
1. "Leigong Paozhi Yaoxing Jie": Forbidden for the deficient.
2. "Bencao Zheng": Its nature is firm and its qi is harsh; unless there are hard and stubborn accumulations, it should not be used.
3. "Yaoxing Tongkao": It is a medicine for attacking hardness; it may be used as an assistant or envoy, but must not be used for a long time.
4. "Bencao Haili": It is contraindicated for all those whose menstruation comes early, and for all those with diseases caused by blood heat.
Medicinal selected formulas of Ezhu
1. To treat improper pain in the small intestine and visceral qi that is unbearable: grind Peng'emao into powder, and take one qian on an empty stomach with scallion wine.
2. To treat blood accumulations and blood clots in women, and amenorrhea: Ezhu, Sanleng one liang each, prepared rhubarb one liang. Make pills the size of mung beans; take one to twenty pills each time, swallowed with plain water.
3. To treat lingering cold pain in the heart and abdomen after childbirth: Peng'ezhu one liang, Wulingzhi three liang, vinegar three sheng. Pound and sift the above into powder, boil with vinegar into a paste, and when it can be formed into pills, make them the size of parasol tree seeds. Regardless of time, take ten pills with Huaixiang decoction or hot wine.
4. To treat pain from falls and blows: Ezhu, white stiff silkworm, sumu one liang each, myrrh half a liang. Make into powder. Take two qian each time, decocted in water, three to five times a day.
5. To treat lacquer sores: decoct Peng'ezhu and Guanzhong in water and wash with it.