Hemp seed, an annual herb of the mulberry family. It is native to the red soil plateau of Yunnan Province and is widely cultivated in Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Jilin, Sichuan, Gansu and Yunnan provinces of China.

"Shennong Herbal Classic" records that "hemp seed, sweet taste, flat, lipid moisten, function moisten bowel, and slightly nourishing power, suitable for the elderly, parturients and weak blood deficiency of intestinal dryness constipation." Fire hemp toughness, rub out the rope is flexible, elastic, Na soles are also ground, durable, high economic value. Modern pharmacological studies have shown that this product has insecticidal, anti-inflammatory, anti-thrombotic, anti-arrhythmia, lipid-lowering and other pharmacological effects, with certain toxicity.

Pharmacological action

Digestive function

Hemp seed oil can stimulate the mucous membrane in the intestine, so that it can have more secretions, accelerate the peristalsis of the intestine, so that the large intestine reduces the absorption of water, so as to achieve the effect of purging. Some scholars tested a mouse model of constipation. First, compound difenolide was used to cause constipation in mice. In the experiment, mice were fed with hemp seed diluent, and it was found that mice fed with hemp seed had more excretion times in a certain period of time than mice not fed. The results showed that open flax seed could promote intestinal peristalsis and relieve constipation. In addition, Zhang has done some studies on hemp seeds, and found that hemp seeds inhibit gastrointestinal propulsion and reduce the role of colorectal cancer in the number of diarrhea caused by senna. These studies have shown that hemp seeds not only help constipation symptoms,

It also relieves the symptoms of diarrhea.

Central nervous system:

Intraperitoneal injection of hemp seed extract can enhance and prolong the analgesic effect, alleviate the symptoms of insomnia, prolong the time to fall asleep, and inhibit the mice after electrical stimulation.

Murilo-rodriguez et al. also found that tetrahydrocannabinol extracted from hemp seeds and cannabinol induced sleep disorders caused by excessive sleepiness or fantasy had a certain improvement effect in the study. In the experiment, the number of writhing reaction induced by acetic acid was significantly reduced by feeding the ethanol extract of hemp seed to mice, but the latency of tail-swinging reaction stimulated by heat pain was not significantly affected.

Cardiovascular system:

Clinical studies of Japanese food have shown that the ratio of n6/n3 in their traditional food is between 2:1 and 3:1, and the prevalence of coronary heart disease is very low in residents who eat such a diet for a long time.

Hemp seed in addition to the relieving effect on blood pressure, research has found that hemp seed also has the effect of anticoagulation and anti-thrombosis, and it is difficult for traditional Chinese medicine to fully explain its curative effect of blood circulation and blood stain.

At the same time, hemp seed has a strong anti-inflammatory and analgesic effect, there are experimental data to prove that hemp seed can treat joint obstruction, traumatic injury and other effects. In the course of the experiment, normal mice were fed hemp seed, no signs of animal diarrhea were found, and even anti-diarrhea effect, which indicates that the traditional Chinese medicine effect of hemp seed can be safely explored.

Others

Hemp seed oil has a lipid-lowering effect

clinical application

Treatment of constipation:

Whether Qi-deficiency constipation (constipation caused by weak gastrointestinal motor function), or intestinal dryness constipation (constipation caused by reduced intestinal water), cooking can be used to relieve constipation with hemp seeds. The elderly, the infirm and postpartum constipation is especially suitable, can be used blindly sesame seed, mashed boiled paste, add rock sugar, boiled into a paste to take. It can also be matched with other intestinal effects of drugs, such as postpartum constipation with angelica, cypress kernel, pregnancy constipation with trichosanthes kernel, almonds; Yin deficiency can add jade bamboo.

If the stomach is very hot and soft, the abdomen is full and there is constipation, the effectiveness of hemp seed alone is not enough, it should be combined with rhubarb, poncirus, etc., such as hemp seed kernel pills, this formula is also suitable for hemorrhoids and constipation, but the elderly and weak people are not suitable for use.

Nourishing Yin and replenishing blood: The experience of predecessors said that hemp seed "makes people fat and healthy for a long time", and the "hair is soft and the water is moist". In modern times, hemp seed has rarely been used as a tonic medicine, but in some tonics (such as Fumai Tang), hemp seed is added blindly to strengthen the effect of nourishing Yin moistening dryness. Because hemp seed contains protein (about 19%), vitamin E, lecithin and other nutrients, according to the analysis, it will also have a certain tonifying effect.

Others

1. Pill made of hemp seed is used for preoperative intestinal preparation of large intestine

2. Hemp seed (mashed) is used for external application to treat furunculus that have not become pus

3, with honeysuckle, licorice decoction, can cure stomach heat caused by stomatitis

4, when the uterine contraction force of women giving birth is weak, taking hemp seed can be midwifery