Panax notoginseng is a hemostatic drug, not a magic drug. Don't eat Panax notoginseng for health care.

Panax notoginseng, in the classification of traditional Chinese medicine, belongs to the blood stasis and hemostatic drug in the hemostatic drugs.

Some propaganda say that Panax notoginseng "can stop bleeding, activate blood, generate blood, and replenish blood"... There are also propaganda, "It is recommended that patients with high blood pressure or elderly people eat Panax notoginseng every day if they have nothing to do." When there is blood, it helps to activate blood and remove blood stasis, when there is bleeding, it can help you stop bleeding, and when blood is deficient, it can help you generate blood and replenish blood.” And so on, these propaganda are too harmful.

Panax notoginseng is a pure and pure hemostatic drug. The consequences of taking hemostatic drugs every day are terrible.

How to understand the effect of Panax notoginseng to remove blood stasis and stop bleeding? In other words, what does Panax notoginseng have to do with removing blood stasis?

The relationship between Panax notoginseng and blood stasis is as follows: (1) Panax notoginseng stops bleeding without leaving blood stasis, (2) Panax notoginseng can solve a specific type of bleeding - bleeding caused by blood stasis, and (3) For trauma patients, Panax notoginseng can remove blood stasis and relieve pain.

Let’s look at them one by one. ① Use a hemostatic drug for bleeding, which is equivalent to blocking, and blocking can easily cause blood stasis. For example, there is a hemostatic drug that is astringent and hemostatic, such as Baiji, Agrimony, and palm charcoal. They can treat various Bleeding, but the disadvantage is that it has the disadvantage of lingering on evil, and it is easy to generate new blood stasis when it is blocked. As for Panax notoginseng, it stops bleeding without leaving blood stasis.

②There is a kind of bleeding, which is caused by internal resistance of blood stasis and blood not circulating through the meridians. What does that mean? Because blood stasis is blocked on the way of normal blood circulation, normal blood cannot go its own way, and it is driven to the place where it should not go, which is bleeding. Others have nowhere to go. When encountering bleeding caused by this kind of blood stasis, you can use Panax notoginseng to stop the bleeding first, and at the same time, it can also clear the blood stasis, so that the normal blood can go back to the right track, and the bleeding will stop.

③ Panax notoginseng is an essential medicine for traumatology. For patients with bruises and broken bones, external application of Panax notoginseng powder, or rice wine/white water, can stop bleeding, remove blood stasis and relieve pain. First stop bleeding, and then traumatized people often have blood stasis, stasis is blocked, and pain is caused by blockage. Panax notoginseng can relieve pain by removing blood stasis.

In conclusion, Panax notoginseng has the effect of removing blood stasis, but the premise is that the blood stasis treated by Panax notoginseng is accompanied by bleeding. Panax notoginseng is first and foremost a hemostatic drug. No matter when it is used, it has the effect of hemostasis, while removing blood stasis is an additional advantage of it. Panax notoginseng is inseparable from the effect of hemostasis. To achieve the effect of removing blood stasis, there are many traditional Chinese medicines for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis to choose from.

Panax notoginseng is used to stop bleeding, and "New Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Panax notoginseng root is the magic medicine to stop bleeding"; in "Bianhu Ji Jian Fang", Panax notoginseng is used to treat hematemesis, epistaxis and metrorrhagia; "Xilu" uses Panax notoginseng to treat hemoptysis, vomiting blood, and blood in the stool.

It is too far-fetched to say that Panax notoginseng can nourish blood and generate blood.

"New Compilation of Materia Medica" wrote about Sanqi: "It will be more divine if it is added to the medicine for nourishing blood and qi. The meaning of this sentence is: , Panax notoginseng, as a stop medicine, can be added to the tonic to assist the tonic, so that the tonic can achieve better effects, but it cannot be said that Panax notoginseng can be used alone to nourish and generate blood. This is like saying that tangerine peel restores the function of the spleen by regulating qi and strengthening the spleen, so that qi and blood are biochemically active. Does that mean that tangerine peel can nourish blood? how is this possible. this is not right.

If I want to remove blood stasis, there are many medicines for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and if I want to replenish blood, there are many medicines for replenishing blood. If my family members have no bleeding and no injuries from falls, I will not let them eat Panax notoginseng, and I will not use Panax notoginseng for health care. medicine.