Effects Xiao Yan Ling 特效消炎靈 (Inflammation Relief)

Traditional Benefits of Nine-Knotted Flower Tea

1. Promotes Blood Circulation and Relieves Pain

Jiujie Tea is known for promoting blood circulation and relieving pain, making it an effective remedy for bruises and fractures. With a neutral nature and a bitter, astringent taste, it enters the liver and kidney meridians, helping to activate blood flow, unblock meridians, reduce bruising, and alleviate pain. It is commonly used in clinical settings to treat injuries, fractures, and contusions by reducing swelling, relieving pain, and accelerating bone healing.

2. Dispels Wind and Dampness

Jiujie Tea has the ability to expel wind and dampness due to its bitter and slightly cold nature. It helps to clear heat, detoxify, promote fluid metabolism, and alleviate jaundice. Wind-damp conditions often arise from external pathogens or internal dampness accumulation, leading to pain, swelling, and restricted movement. By clearing heat and toxins, Jiujie Tea eliminates damp-wind pathogens, promotes fluid excretion, reduces swelling, and alleviates pain, thus improving circulation and relieving symptoms of rheumatic pain, injuries, and fractures.

3. Regulates Menstruation

Also known as Chuān Xù Duàn (Dipsacus asperoides), Jiujie Tea has a sweet-bitter taste and a slightly cold nature. It enters the liver, kidney, and pericardium meridians, offering benefits such as activating blood circulation, regulating menstruation, relieving pain, detoxifying, cooling blood, and stopping bleeding. The active compounds, including dipsacus saponins and nortriterpenes, possess anticoagulant, antithrombotic, anti-inflammatory, and analgesic properties. It is commonly used to treat irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, postpartum blood stasis, bruises, ulcers, and insect bites. By promoting blood circulation and clearing toxins, Jiujie Tea may help alleviate menstrual pain and improve overall blood flow.

4. Strengthens the Spleen and Stomach

Jiujie Tea has a neutral nature and a sweet taste, entering the spleen and stomach meridians. It enhances digestion, promotes energy, and helps regulate fluid metabolism. Weak spleen and stomach function can lead to reduced appetite, dryness, thirst, fatigue, and sluggishness. Jiujie Tea strengthens the spleen and stomach, restoring normal digestive function, improving nutrient absorption, and increasing saliva production to relieve thirst and fatigue.

5. Promotes Saliva Secretion and Quenches Thirst

With a sweet taste and cool nature, Jiujie Tea enters the lung and stomach meridians, promoting saliva production, clearing heat, dissolving phlegm, and stopping bleeding. One of its primary benefits is quenching thirst. Rich in vitamin C and minerals, Jiujie Tea helps stimulate saliva secretion while also acting on the thirst-regulating center of the brain to reduce dryness and thirst.

6. Aids in Bone Healing

Chronic exposure to cold and dampness can lead to body aches, limb weakness, excessive fatigue, and reduced sweating. Jiujie Tea dispels wind, disperses cold, activates blood circulation, unblocks meridians, and alleviates pain. It is used to treat conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, limb weakness, joint pain, stiffness, and numbness. Its ability to facilitate bone healing stems from its properties that enhance blood circulation, promote fluid metabolism, and relieve pain, making it beneficial for bone and joint recovery.

7. Prevents Nausea and Vomiting

Jiujie Tea has a spicy taste and warm nature, entering the lung and stomach meridians. It helps dispel cold, stop coughing, reduce inflammation, and alleviate diarrhea and nausea. Vomiting often results from the stomach’s reversed energy flow, preventing food from staying down. Jiujie Tea warms the stomach, disperses cold, and prevents nausea caused by external cold invasion.

8. Strengthens Muscles and Bones

With a sweet taste and neutral nature, Jiujie Tea nourishes qi and blood, strengthens tendons and bones, and supports kidney function. Traditional practitioners have used it to treat conditions such as arthritis, muscle soreness, joint weakness, lumbar pain, and kidney deficiency. Its active compounds, including saponins, flavonoids, and polysaccharides, possess anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antioxidant properties. These contribute to improved blood circulation, muscle relaxation, and bone metabolism, ultimately enhancing musculoskeletal strength.

9. Promotes Urination and Reduces Swelling

Jiujie Tea has a sweet, slightly bitter taste and a cooling nature, offering heat-clearing, diuretic, and anti-inflammatory benefits. It is particularly effective in reducing water retention and swelling. Its cooling properties help to eliminate excess heat and inflammation while promoting urination, making it useful for treating edema, beriberi, and urinary difficulties.

10. Promotes Blood Circulation and Resolves Blood Stasis

With a cool nature and bitter taste, Jiujie Tea enters the lung and liver meridians, promoting blood circulation, expelling wind-dampness, and detoxifying the body. Its blood-activating effects are reflected in three key aspects:

• Unblocking Meridians: The active compounds in Jiujie Tea help expand blood vessels, reduce blood viscosity, and improve circulation.

• Stopping Bleeding and Resolving Stasis: It inhibits platelet aggregation and enhances blood vessel contraction, aiding in blood stasis resolution.

• Reducing Swelling and Pain: With anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties, Jiujie Tea helps relieve pain and reduce swelling.

11. Expels Wind and Dampness

Jiujie Tea has a mildly spicy, sweet taste and a slightly cooling nature, entering the liver and spleen meridians. It effectively dispels wind-dampness and clears heat. When wind-cold-damp pathogens lodge in the muscles and joints, causing body aches that worsen in cold or rainy weather, Jiujie Tea helps expel these pathogens. Additionally, it detoxifies the body, cools the blood, and relieves fever, headaches, and sore throats caused by wind-heat conditions. Its diuretic properties also help expel excess dampness, further supporting relief from rheumatic discomfort.