Cyperus scariosus or Cyperus rotundus,an old famous Sedge from ancient Egypt and China.

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Cyperus Traditional Applications:Literature Origins.

Cyperus scariosus Extract INCI Name Cyperus Rotundus Extract CAS 85085-54-7 EINECS ELINCS No 285-381-3 Cyperus root extract Cyperus scariosus ethanol extract Cyperus scariosus aqueous-methanolic extract photo picture image Xiang Fu originally named "Sha Cao(cyperus grass)",registered in ancient China classics Ming Yi Bie Lu,listed as middle grade recipes.Ever since ancient herbal classics named Tang Ben Cao,it called Xiang Fu Zi.Ben Cao Gang Mu listed it to groups of fragrant grass,name as "Sha Cao Xiang Fu Zi",and noted:"Sha Leaf looks like old leek leaf and harder,luster and glittering as sword edge,got one stem during may to june it hollow in three arris,stem top grows out several leaves,blossom light blue flower,spike shape as millet spike,small seeds growing from it,root has fibre,root fruit 1 to 2 capsules,black hair grows on it,the bigger shape like sheep jujube and needle like for both sides,pick it and burn the hair,dry in the sun and for sell."

 Ancient China Books and Notes on Cyperus Root:

 Ming Yi Bie Lu note:taste sweet,light cold,no poison.Main for chest heat drive,nurish hair and skin,benefit people after long taken period,nurish Qi,grow beard and eyebrows.

 Teng Ye Ben Cao note: smells light cooling,taste sweet,sure the Yin herb among the Yang Herbs,no poison.

 Ben Cao note:get rid off heat in chest,nurish skin and hair,benefit Qi after long years taken,grow beard and eyebrows.Later people apply it for treatment of menstrual blood demise,thus this property not identified and noted in Ben Cao.

 Tu Jing note:Good for treatment bladder,stomach Qi stagnation,depression sorrowness and unhappiness,less appetite,skin itch and pox,slimming day by day,heart broken.Thus know this benefit Qi,its the Qi spice for blood.Recipes and formulas use it to treat blood demise,thus benefit Qi and stop blood.And this drive away cruor,get rid off old.Similar as Ba Dou,good for discharge and diarrhoea,stool obstruction.

 Ben Cao Yan Yi Bu Yi note:For all blood and Qi tonifying recipes and formulas apply cyperus root as guider,until Qi stagnation decomposed and blood renew,this means boosting Yang and nurish Yin.Strong enough to lowering Qi and drive away heat in chest and midriff.

 Ben Cao Gang Mu note:Cyperus root character calm and not cooling,smells fragrant and change,smells bitter and spreading,light bitter and lowering,light sweet and peace,thus good for leg faint and liver Yin,hand less Yang and apply as main herb for San Jiao Qi,and connect 12 jing qi fen.Taken raw,its effects claw up to chest and midriff,out reach to skin;take prepared,go down to liver and kidney,out for waist and feet.Fried till dark,stop bleeding,make a virgin child fried it,the recipe got enter blood and tonify weakness;fried with salt water,enter into blood and nurish driness.Fried with salt,tonify kidney Qi;fried with drink liquid,boost circulations;fried with vinegar,clear away depression and accumulations;fried with ginger liquid,decompose phlegm.Combines with ginseng and cang zhu,benefit Qi;combines with angelica and wild yam,benefit blood;combines with radix aucklandiae,smooth stagnation;combines with sandalwood,manage Qi and wake up spleen;combines with lignum apuilariae resinatum,lowering various Qi;combines with fragrance and cang zhu,settle all depressions;combines with gardenia fruit and rhizoma coptidis,lower heat;combines with poria cocos,cross help heart and kidney;combines with fennel and psoreala fruit,guide Yuan Qi to origin;combines with magnolia bark and pinellia tuber,eliminate swell;combines with perilla leaf and green onion stem,drive away evil;combines with rhioxma curcumae aeruginosae,eliminate ruffian and block;combines with folium artemisiae argyi,benefit blood qi and warm uterus,general watcher guider of all Qi dysfunction,owner and mater for women disease.Ancient classical books all note it benefit Qi,but folk saying it consume Qi,and benefit women but not man,i do not agree.For the reasons,women generally process and work with blood,Qi smooth and no illness,for the Old spirit dried up and blood shut,only depend on Qi,for the child Qi growing day after day,thus make shape solid and stable day by day.For almost all cases of disease,Qi stagnant and depressed,thus cyperus root for Qi relations applied as master positions in recipes and formulas,this ancient people knows rarely. Combines with ginseng,astraglus root,with licorice root,speed and quick for weakness and nervousness.When i travel outside in fields,carry my cucurbit and food,give out Huang He Pills for hundreds of disease,Qing Nang Pills for women disease,all use cyperus root as guider,quick and agile.Folks asks me a lot for it,person who apply it shall think outside this recipes.Huang He Pills got its name from Baht Cloth Old recipes at Yellow Crane Tower,thus name it Yellow Crane pills.This recipes apply cyperus root 1 jin,Rhizoma Coptidis 0.5 jin,sun dried and powder,water mix pill to size similar as to Wu Zi,as sensations from outside,take with soup of green shallot and ginger;for internal injury,take with rice soup;for Qi disease,take with aroma soup;for blood disease,take with drink;for phlegm disease,take with ginger decoction;for fire,take with water,other cases can be deduced by analogy. As for Qing Nang Pills,got it once Zhao Ying Jie Zhen Ren Mother sick,awarded by folk witches.This recipe take lightly fried cyperus 1 jin,Wu Yao(lightly prepared) 5 liang and 3 qian,powder, water vinegar boil to make pills,take as guide according to illness and conditions,for examples,for headache,take with tea;for phlegm and Qi stagnation,take with ginger decoction;for blood conditions,take with drink.Thus functions excellent.

 Its Character light bitter and sweet hot,main for foot and hand faint,and hand yang lack.Easy enter into 12 jing,come into arteries veins.Combines with virgin child piss,vinegar,chuan xiong,cang zhu combines and works excellent.Use variously for coldness and epidemic disease,benefit 3 jiao,decompose six depressions,eliminate food amass,phlegm,abdomen bulge, foot smell,stop pain from heart,limbs,head,teeth and eyes,ears,cure carbuncle and ulcer,hematemesis,menstrual bleeding and hematuria,women bleeding,menstrual irregular,nearly all disease before fetus and after.

 Modern Researches:

 Nutgrass is used to treat poor appetite, diarrhea, dysentery, fevers, parasites, gastritis, indigestion, and sluggish liver. It is said to tone the liver, spleen, and pancreas, and to treat malabsorption. Nutgrass can also be used to treat high blood pressure, bloody stool and urine, and vomiting blood, breast tumors, candida, colds, flu, and colic. It helps treat convulsions, moodiness and depression, premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and the pain and cramps associated with PMS, menopause, and heart palpitations. In India they use Nutgrass in hair and skin products as it stimulates sebaceous glands near the hair roots. The oil extracted from this plant is used in perfumery. A decoction of the roots and tubers is used as an antidote to any kind of poison.

 This herb contains a volatile oil with b-pinene, cyperene, a-cyperone b-cyperone and a-cyperol as its main ingredients. It also contains alkaloids, flavonoids, triterpenes, etc.

 The 5% nutgrass flatsedge extract can inhibit the isolated uteri of experimental animals by reducing their contractility and tension. Its volatile oil has a mild estrogen-like action. Its water decoction can reduce the tonicity of the intestinal canal and counter acetylcholine. The water solutions of its total alkaloid, glycosides, flavonoids and phenolic compounds have cardiotonic and hypotensive effects.

 Nutgrass flatsedge oil can inhibit Staphylococcus aureus and its extract can inhibit some fungi. The plant is rated 8th amongst 250 potentential antifertility plants in China.

 The plant is used in the treatment of cervical cancer.

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last edit date:30th,June.2009.