What are the effects and uses of Potentilla fragarioides?

Potentilla fragarioides is also known as Zhiziyan, Manshanhong, Maohouzi and other names. It is the rhizome and root of Potentilla fragarioides, a plant in the genus Potentilla of the rose family, and is distributed in Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong and other places. Used as medicine, it has the effects of tonifying yin deficiency and stopping bleeding, and has therapeutic effects on hernia, menorrhagia, functional uterine bleeding, postpartum hemorrhage and other conditions. Now let us take a look at the effects and uses of Potentilla fragarioides!

The medicinal effects of Potentilla fragarioides

[Nature and flavor] Sweet and slightly bitter in flavor, warm and neutral in nature.

[Meridians entered] Lung and spleen meridians.

[Effects] Tonifies yin deficiency and stops bleeding; mainly treats hernia, menorrhagia, functional uterine bleeding, postpartum hemorrhage and other conditions.

The pharmacological effects of Potentilla fragarioides

The extract of Potentilla fragarioides can enhance capillary contraction and uterine contraction.

Medicinal formulations of Potentilla fragarioides

1. Hernia: Potentilla fragarioides, decocted in water and taken orally.

2. Acute bacillary dysentery, amoebic dysentery: Potentilla fragarioides, decocted in water and taken orally.

3. Bleeding from knife wounds: Potentilla fragarioides, ground into powder for external application, or the fresh root pounded into a paste and applied externally to the affected area.