What are the effects and functions of Ziheche?
Ziheche, also known as human placenta, human afterbirth, afterbirth, and so on, refers to the human placenta. In traditional Chinese medicine, Ziheche is believed to have the effects of tonifying the kidney and replenishing essence, and benefiting qi and nourishing blood. It has therapeutic effects on conditions such as deficiency and damage, emaciation, consumptive fever with steaming bone, cough and asthma, hemoptysis, night sweats, spermatorrhea, impotence, insufficient qi and blood in women, infertility or scant milk. Now let us take a look at the effects and functions of Ziheche together!
The medicinal value of Ziheche
[Nature and flavor] Sweet and salty in flavor, warm in nature.
[Meridian entry] Lung, liver, and kidney meridians.
[Effects] Tonifies qi, nourishes blood, and replenishes essence. It mainly treats deficiency and damage, emaciation, consumptive fever with steaming bone, cough and asthma, hemoptysis, night sweats, spermatorrhea, impotence, insufficient qi and blood in women, infertility or scant milk.
The medicinal effects of Ziheche
1. Tonifying qi and blood: Ziheche is a flesh-and-blood emotional substance that can greatly tonify the body's qi and blood, and can also strengthen the spleen and open the stomach, promoting the digestion and absorption of food. It is very effective and suitable for patients with insufficient qi and blood.
2. Tonifying the kidney and replenishing essence: Ziheche tonifies qi, blood, yin, yang, and essence all together, with comprehensive effects, and mainly focuses on tonifying kidney essence. It is very suitable for people with kidney essence deficiency.
3. Consolidating the foundation and calming asthma: Ziheche can not only tonify the lungs and kidneys, but also replenish essence and calm asthma. At the same time, by enhancing physical constitution, preventing colds, and preventing the onset of cough and asthma, it can be said to integrate prevention and treatment in one.
The pharmacological effects of Ziheche
1. Anti-infection effect: Placental γ-globulin contains antibodies against measles, influenza, and diphtheria antitoxin, etc., and can be used to prevent or alleviate infectious diseases such as measles. Because it is a protein, it is ineffective when taken orally and must be injected.
2. Enhancing the body's resistance: Oral administration of placental powder to mice can reduce tuberculous lesions, while in test tubes it can instead promote the growth of tubercle bacilli. Therefore, it is believed that its effect mainly lies in increasing the body's resistance.
3. Hormone-like effect: Physiologically, the placenta can produce chorionic gonadotropin, which has little effect on the ovaries but has an excitatory effect on the testes. In addition, it can also produce estrogen and progesterone.
4. Effect on blood coagulation: The placenta contains so-called "urokinase inhibitor," which can inhibit the "activation" of plasminogen by urokinase. This can explain the decrease in fibrinolytic activity during pregnancy.
Medicinal prescriptions of Ziheche
1. Treating postpartum lack of milk: 1 Ziheche, dried and ground into fine powder. Take 5 grams each time, twice a day, taken with pig trotter soup.
2. Treating impotence, spermatorrhea, and physical weakness: Half a Ziheche and 10 grams of Cordyceps sinensis, stewed together and eaten.
3. Treating various types of anemia: 30 grams of Ziheche, 10 jujubes, and 15 grams of wolfberry. Decoct in water, 1 dose per day. Or use placental powder, put into capsules and take, 2 to 4 grams each time, 3 times a day, which can achieve the effect of tonifying qi and nourishing blood.
4. Treating pulmonary tuberculosis with emaciation, cough, and hemoptysis: 4 parts Ziheche, 2 parts Bletilla striata, and 2 parts Stemona japonica. Dry and grind into powder, refine with honey into pills, each pill weighing 10 grams. Take 2 pills each time, 3 times a day.
5. Treating mild diabetes: 1 Ziheche and 500 grams of Chinese yam. Dry and grind both into fine powder. Mix evenly and take orally. 3 times a day, 15 grams each time.
6. Treating leukopenia: Add 30 grams of Ziheche powder to 500 grams of flour and bake into crisp cakes. 3 times a day, eat it all within 2 days, continuously for 1 to 3 months.
7. Treating infantile malnutrition: Equal amounts of Ziheche, chicken gizzard lining, and sheep liver, grind together into fine powder for later use. For children aged 1 to 2 years, take 3 grams each time; for those over 2 years old, take 6 grams each time, 3 times a day. 7 days is 1 course of treatment. Those with severe illness may take it for 2 weeks.