What Is Danshen?

Salvia, Chinese medicine name. The dry roots and rhizomes of Salvia miltiorrhiza Bge . Excavation in the spring and autumn seasons to remove silt and dry. Distributed in most parts of the country. It has the effects of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, passing menstrual pain, clearing heart and removing annoyance, and cooling blood and eliminating diarrhea. For chest palsy, heartache, abdominal cramps, accumulation of symptoms, heat and pain, upset and insomnia, irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, and soreness

Chinese scientific name: Salvia miltiorrhiza
nickname: Red root, dahongpao, blood ginseng root
boundary: Plant kingdom
door: Angiosperm
Tsuna: Dicotyledoneae
Branch: Labiatae

Genus: Sage
Species: Salvia miltiorrhiza
distribution area: Distributed in most parts of the country
Harvest time: Mining in spring and autumn
Amount: 10 15g
Poisonous: Non-toxic
Storage: In a dry place

Salvia medication

Plant roots.

Salvia flavor

The taste is bitter and slightly cold.

Salvia miltiorrhiza

Guixin and Liver Channel.

Salvia effect

Activating blood and removing blood stasis, passing through menstrual pain, clearing heart and removing annoyance, cooling blood to eliminate diarrhea.

Salvia Indications

It is used for chest pain, pain in the abdomen, pain in the abdomen, accumulation of symptoms, heat pain, upset, insomnia, irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, and sore.

Salvia related compatibility

1. Treating women with irregular meridian, or before or after, more or less, uneasy prenatal fetal, postpartum malignant blood, and treating hot and cold fetal blood: salvia twelve, five liters of wine, three liters of boiling One litre of warm clothing, three servings a day. Can also be boiled. ( )

2, cold hernia and abdominal pain: the lower abdomen Yin phase pain, white sweating, dying. Take salvia one or two at the end. For every two bucks served, the hot wine is adjusted. ("Sheng Huifang")

3, hot oil burning, in addition to pain and muscle growth: Danshen eight or two files, fine adjustment with water, take two pounds of lamb fat, fry three or three times to apply sores. ("Behind the Elbow")

Salvia Usage and Dosage

Decoction, 10-15g. Activating blood and removing blood stasis should be used for wine.

Salvia taboo

Should not be used with veratrum.

Salvia Processing

Collection and processing

Excavation in the spring and autumn seasons to remove silt and dry.

Processing method

1. Salvia: Remove impurities and residual stems, wash, moisten, cut thick slices, and dry.

2. Salvia miltiorrhiza: take salvia miltiorrhiza tablets, mix with rice wine, moisten until thoroughly, place in a pot, stir-fry with gentle heat, remove and let cool

Salvia miltiorrhiza physiological characteristics

Herbs perennial, 30 to 80 cm tall. Roots slender, cylindrical, vermilion outer skin. Stems quadrangular, upper branches. Leaves opposite; singular pinnate compound leaves, 3-5 leaflets. The apical leaves are larger than the lateral leaves, and the small leaves are oval. The inflorescences of the champignons are axillary and axillary. The flowers are lip-shaped, blue-purple, and the upper lip is upright. Small nuts oblong, dark brown or black when cooked. Flowering from May to October, fruiting from June to November.

Salvia growth environment

Born on the slopes of the sun, hillsides, furrows, roadsides or forests. Distributed in most parts of the country.

Salvia identification

Salvia miltiorrhiza

1. The rhizome of this product is short and thick, sometimes the stem base is left at the top. Several, long cylindrical, slightly curved, some branches with whisker-like fine roots, 10-20 cm long, 0.3-1 cm in diameter. Surface brown-red or dark brown-red, rough, with longitudinal wrinkles. The skin of the old root is loose, mostly purple-brown, often exfoliated in scales. It is hard and brittle, with a loose section, cracks or slightly flat and dense, brown-red skin, gray-yellow or purple-brown wood, and duct bundles yellow-white, arranged radially. Weiqi, slightly bitter taste.

2. The cultivated products are relatively stout, with a diameter of 0.5 to 1.5 cm. The surface is reddish-brown, with longitudinal wrinkles. The texture is solid, the section is relatively flat, and it is slightly horny.

Salvia miltiorrhiza tablets

1. Salvia: It is a thick piece of round or oval shape. The outer skin is brownish red or dark brownish red, rough, with longitudinal wrinkles. The cut surface is cracked or slightly flat and dense, some are keratinous, the skin is brown-red, the wood is gray-yellow or purple-brown, and has a yellow-white radial texture. Weiqi, slightly bitter taste.

2. Wine salvia: shaped like salvia slices, the surface is reddish-brown, with a slight wine aroma.

Salvia Related Discussion

1. "Compendium of Materia Medica": promoting blood circulation, enveloping the heart, and treating hernia.

2. "Ben Jing": evil spirits, intestinal murmurs like running water, accumulation of cold and heat, elimination of dysentery, relieving annoyance and fulling qi.

3. "Don't record": nourish blood, remove diarrhea and qi, numbness at the waist and spine, and remove heat from wind and evil. Jiufu Liren.

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