The medicinal value of Alisma orientalis

The medicinal value of Alisma orientalis

Alisma, for the perennial marsh plant tubers, winter mining, washed, remove the fibrous roots and rough skin, stuffy Run (a traditional Chinese medicine running method), cut into pieces, dried medicine. Alisma has a benefit of water dampness, damp heat effect.
Alisma, for the perennial marsh plant tubers, winter mining, washed, remove the fibrous roots and rough skin, stuffy Run (a traditional Chinese medicine running method), cut into pieces, dried medicine. Alisma has a benefit of water dampness, damp heat effect. "Materia Medica," there are records: "Alisma diarrhea can be declared through the internal organs of the wet." Alisma is often used for urine, edema, phlegm, dizziness, diarrhea embolism.

Alisma treatment of edema, urine adverse, leaching turbidity, vaginal embolism, often with Poria, Polyporus, plantago and other compatibility; governance diarrhea and phlegm caused by dizziness, often compatibility with Atractylodes. In addition, the treatment of kidney yin deficiency, virtual fire Kang Sheng, with the yellow, dogwood equivalent use. Alisma benefits of water is better, there may be Shangyin, but also the effectiveness of the lack of yin, so the hypnotic patients should be used with caution.

In the progress of modern pharmacological research, many traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of hyperlipidemia, showing a unique effect and advantages, with the prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis and both anti-thrombosis, anti-angina, lower blood pressure and so on. Among them, Alisma has been favored by medical scholars.

Alisma disrupts the decomposition, absorption and excretion of cholesterol, that is, by inhibiting the absorption of cholesterol and triglycerides in food, affecting the metabolism of cholesterol in the body, accelerating triglyceride hydrolysis or inhibiting liver synthesis of triglycerides Reduce serum cholesterol, triglycerides purposes.

In addition, Alisma also has a certain antihypertensive, hypoglycemic, anti-myocardial ischemia and anti-fatty liver and so on. Therefore, domestic and foreign scholars have Alisma as a broad spectrum of lipid-lowering drugs, the prevention and treatment of coronary heart disease and atherosclerosis and other diseases have a significant effect.