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Yi Mu Cao - Lab Tested, 1lb

Yi Mu Cao - Lab Tested, 1lb

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Chinese Motherwort invigorates the blood, regulates menstruation, facilitates urination, resolves toxicity


Excerpted from Bensky: Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica, 3rd ed.

  • Invigorates the blood and dispels stasis: commonly used for gyneocological disorders such as irregular menstruation, premenstrual abdominal pain, heavy menstruation with clots, fixed abdominal masses, infertility, and postpartum abdominal pain with retained lochia. Also used for traumatic pain.*
  • Promotes urination and reduces swelling: for acute systemic edema. Especially useful when accompanied by blood in the urine.*
  • Clears heat and resolves toxicity: for sores, abscesses, and toxic swellings. Also for itchy rashs from damp-heat collecting and steaming the muscles and subcutaneous tissues. Used either internally or topically.*

English Name: Chinese Motherwort, Leonurus heterophyllus
Unit Size: 1 pound
Potency: 1:1
Taste: Acrid, bitter - Bensky
Properties: slightly cold - Bensky
Channels Entered: Heart, Liver, Bladder - Bensky
Actions: Invigorates the blood, regulates menstruation, facilitates urination, resolves toxicity
Pattern: Blood stasis, traumatic pain, heat and toxicity - Bensky
Chinese Symptomology: Irregular menstruation, premenstrual abdominal pain, heavy menstruation with clots, fixed abdominal messes, infertility, postpartum abdominal pain with retained lochia; Acute systemic edema (especially with blood in the urine); Sores, abscesses, toxic swellings; Itchy rashes - Bensky
Materia Medica: Regulate the Blood
Contraindications: Contraindicated in those with yin deficiency of insufficient blood, and during pregnancy - Bensky


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Yi Mu Cao - Leonurus heterophyllus

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