Cyperus, Cyperus rotundus, Xiang Fu 香附 Nutsedge, Nutgrass Xiang Fu (TCM) Musta, Mustaka, Motha (Skt) Nagarmotha, Saad-e-Kufi (Unani)

Dioscorides Materia Medica, Mathias, 1563

Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578

Sibthrop & Smith, Flora Graeca, 1806

Cyperus rotundus (Adam, 2017)

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Botanical name:

Cyperus rotundus

Parts used:

Root

Temperature & Taste:

Warm, dry. Pungent, slightly Bitter and Sweet.

Classifications:

2A APERIENT.    2C INCIDERS.    2H. CARMINATIVE.    2I. ANTISPASMODIC.    2S. STRENGTHENING
3E. DIURETIC.    3G. EMMENAGOGUE.    3H. LACTAGOGUE.    3M. ARTHRITIC
4e. STOMACHIC.    4g. HEPATIC.    4k. ARTHRITIC

Uses:

1. Moves Qi, Opens Obstructions of the Liver:
-hypochondriac distention and pain, chest and abdominal fullness
-‘deobstruent for the vessels’; ‘warming drug for the … Liver’. (Avicenna)
-‘improves complexion and renders a pleasant odour to the body’. (Avicenna)

2. Moves the Qi, Calms the Mind and Nerves:
-Anxiety, Stress, Depression, Hyper-emotionalism
-Headaches, Migraines; Hypertension
-improves Memory (Avicenna)
-Palpitations with Anxiety
-“good for treating a patient who is not happy and filled with depression”. (Su Song)
-“Relieves Melancholy of Six kinds”. (Li Shi Zhen)

3. Moves the Qi, Clears Damp, Benefits the Stomach:
-“weakness and coldness of the Stomach” (Avicenna)
-Indigestion, Poor Appetite
–Stomach and Abdominal Pain and distention
-Diarrhea from Cold and Damp; Inflammatory diseases of the Bowels
-Obesity

4. Move the Qi and Blood, Regulates Menstruation:
-benefits the Uterus; “useful for Coldness of the Uterus” … “panacea for Women’s diseases”. (Avicenna)
-Amenorrhea, Dysmenorrhea, Irregular Menstruation
-PMS, irritability, breast tenderness before Menstruation
-Morning Sickness, Restless Fetus disorder, Threatened Miscarriage
-important herb in gynecology and obstetrics
-“regulates Menstruation and good for treating 100 ante- and post-partum diseases”. (Li Shi Zhen)

5. Clears Wind-Damp, Promotes Urine:
-beginning of Edema
-Strangury (Avicenna); Dysuria, Bladder Ulcers
-Gravel, Stones (proven effect)
-“expels and dissolves Stones and proves to be very useful in Strangury”. (Avicenna)
-Arthritic pain, Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis
-Incontinence associated with Cold and Damp, or Qi stagnation

6. Promotes Milk
-promotes Breast Milk and improves quality (Unani)
-plaster can be applied to the breast as a Galactogogue.

7. Kills Worms
-regarded as effective for Worms in Unani, although it is rarely used for this purpose

8. Externally:
-paste of the fresh root is applied to Scorpion Bites
-dried paste or powder is applied to moist and spreading Ulcers
–difficult, putrid and corrosive Ulcers (Avicenna)
-topically for Mouth Ulcers
-topically to Herpes
-chewed for bad Breath
-Depilatory (Avicenna)
-boiled in oil and applied to the Bladder to promote Urine

Dose:

Powder: 1–3 grams

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Main Combinations:

1. Amenorrhea, Dysmenorrhea:
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10. Morning Sickness, Cyperus rotundus with  … available in PRO version
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12. Incontinence:
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Major Formulas:

Emmenagogue Decoction (Riverius)
Syrup of Mugwort (Augustana)
Powder to Warm and Bind the Belly
Letificans Electuary of Filius Zacharia

Chai Hu Shu Gan San
Ge Xia Zhu Yu Tang
Su He Xiang Wan

Cautions:

Generally Safe.
Not use in marked weakness, marked Yin deficiency or strong Heat.

Main Preparations used: