Medicines that promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis and shrink the uterus

Women are likely to experience menstrual pain during their menstrual period, which indicates that the woman's essence cannot be discharged smoothly from the body. However, during the menstrual period, you should also try to avoid taking medications, because the side effects of medications on the uterus are very large, and taking some blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing medications will increase the amount of menstruation and soften the uterine cavity. So what are the medications that can activate blood circulation, remove blood stasis, and shrink the uterus?

The uterine contraction effect of blood-activating and stasis-removing drugs:

Blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing drugs that have the function of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis and regulating menstruation have the effect of enhancing uterine contractions, such as Motherwort Granules, Rose, and Typha acuminata. Motherwort granules can increase uterine contractions, and its fluid extract can be used as a postpartum recovery medicine to accelerate uterine recovery and treat abnormal uterine bleeding and incomplete recovery after childbirth. Roses are commonly used to treat gynecological and obstetric diseases such as dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, difficult labor in pregnant women, and lochia after childbirth. Therefore, there is a saying that roses "can cure all diseases related to pregnancy and childbirth." Scientific studies have shown that roses have a significant contraction effect on the uterus of various animal experiments such as mice, guinea pigs, rabbits, cats, dogs, etc., and are especially effective for pregnant uteruses. Puhuang is also an important menstrual regulating medicine. It has been used with Wulingzhi, also known as Shixiaosan, to treat blood stasis after childbirth, stop swelling and pain, and eliminate postpartum lochia. In modern times, it has been confirmed that its decoction, phenolic agent or alcohol extract can enhance uterine contraction.

Pain is the key symptom of blood stasis. Blood stasis in the meridians and internal organs; blood stasis in the upper part of the body, or pain in the bones, shoulders, chest and diaphragm; blood stasis in the middle part of the body causes abdominal pain, flank pain, and pain between the waist and navel; blood stasis in the lower part of the body causes pain and distension in the flanks and lower abdomen. Modern studies have shown that Chinese herbal medicines with the effects of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis and relieving pain, such as frankincense, myrrh, and Corydalis, do have strong analgesic effects. The analgesic effects of different types of blood-activating and blood-stasis-removing drugs are compared, among which the blood stasis-removing and analgesic types are more prominent. It should be emphasized that promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis to relieve pain are not necessarily based on analgesic effects. For example, improving the blood supply to organs can also eliminate the pain of ischemic organs.

Promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis is one of the common treatment methods for acute abdomen in both Chinese and Western medicine. It has significant effects on the early stages of various inflammations and different types of inflammatory infiltrations. According to the results of experimental inflammation treated with blood-activating and blood-dispelling drugs, the basic principle of its anti-infection effect may be that it reduces the permeability of capillaries in the inflamed area, reduces inflammatory extravasation; at the same time, the blood circulation system of some tissues is improved, which promotes the absorption and induction of inflammatory exudates. In addition, some blood-activating and stasis-removing drugs themselves also have certain antibacterial and anti-infection effects. For example, Salvia miltiorrhiza and red peony root can inhibit the growth of Staphylococcus aureus, while red peony root and Notopterygium wilfordii can inhibit the growth of Vibrio parahaemolyticus.

In addition, in the scientific research of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis to treat some autoimmune diseases such as scleroderma and lupus erythematosus, it was found that the traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions for the treatment of these diseases have a certain buffering effect on blood antibodies and immune cells. In the scientific research on the efficacy of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis in treating hyperplasia of fine tissues such as skin warts, burn scars, and tissue adhesions, it was found that related Chinese herbal prescriptions (such as Tongluoling) have the effect of inhibiting fibroblasts from producing collagen.