Promotes blood circulation to regulate menstruation, nourishes the liver and kidneys, strengthens bones and muscles, induces diuresis to cure strangury (a painful discharge of urine, drop by drop) and conducts fire (blood) downward.
Blood circulation and detumescence: Huai Niu Xi(Ox knee root origined from Huai Qing area) a main composition used in recipes for blood circulation and detumescence.As to its characteristics and main functions,Huai Niu Xi or Ox Knee root from Huai Qing area of Henan China taste bitter,sour,smooth,enter liver kidney. Crude ox knee root applied for drive away gore,connect pulse and organs,treatment for women gore and slow circulation,menstrual close,dystocia and sticky amnia,rheumatism and pain,joint inflexible,wrench and frustrate,gore pain,both good at boost circulation and pain prevention,hematemesis for blood heat, throat disease and toooth pain from Yin weakness and inside heat,swimming and headache for Yin weak and untable Yang Qi.Boost urine,treatment for blood urine,urethra difficult and pain.Ox knee root drink wine decoction can be used to tonify liver and kidney,strong bone and muscle,nurish and cure deficiency of liver and kidney,waist and knee pain,limply.
Down direction herb guider: conducts fblood downward,Huai Niu Xi also functions good for Jing guidement,which means it could lead blood go below direction,so to reduce heat upgoing,thus release properties of heat lead and let out from bottom.Zhu Danxi ever noted:"(it,the ox knee root) can guide other herbs go down direction,for the bone pain lower cases,better apply it.",many herbs of TCM functions in body no lower than knee,and their power need combined with ox knee to go down below knee,so this is a very special uses of Ox Knee root.Ox-knee root acts predominantly on the lower half of the body and are used in the treatment of aching back and knees and asthenia of the lower limbs.
Treatmenr for scarce and difficult disease: Huai Niu Xi is a good herb for scarce and difficult disease treatment.Doctor Li Shizhen noted in his famous book Ben Cao Gang Mu about ox knee root:"Niu Xi is a herb for Yin deficiency and Yin faint.Drink wine prepared ox knee root tonify liver and kidney,raw ox knee root can drive away evil blood,two kinds.",a book named Ji Yao Fang(Medicine Recipes Gather) written by Fang Yi Wu noted:"an old person suffering from disease from drench,hundred herb no function.Applied ox knee root,effective and cured hundred herbs no function,a village herbalist boil ox knee root into concentrated decoction,named it as Di Sui Tang(Decoction drink of Earth Marrow),take 5 times daily,althoug not recovered very soon,yet appearance better day after day,got fine and recovered after many days.The ill come out 10 years later,take the ox knee root again and got cured.".an ancient book named Zhou Hou Fang(Elbow behind recipes) noted:"treatmenr for difficult urine,suffering pain in phallus,use ox knee root with leaves,boil in wine drink and take it,effect."
From modern medicine opinion,a medicine named Mai Luo Ning Zhu She Ye(Venation Smooth Injection) main for disease of blood and heart brain,majorly obtained from ox knee root.Bath liquid made from Huai Niu Xi extraction saps good for partial body blood circulation,good treatment effects proved for waist and knee wrench,joint pain.
