Achyranthes Root, or known as Huai Niu Xi in Pinyin, or known as Huai Niu Xi in Pinyin, is a common bulk Chinese herb. Being one of the most famous Four Huai medicines, it has a long history of cultivation and application in China. And it got its name because it was mainly produced in the historical Huai Qing Fu, where locates in today’s Jiaozuo in Henan province. In addition, the reason for the name of Niu Xi is twofold: the cylindrical Achyranthes have angular stem and enlarged node that looks like a bull’s knee, plus the healing power of this herb is just like the power of a bull. In TCM remedies it is commonly used as a medicine to unblock collaterals and activate blood. Clinically physicians love to prescribe it for the treatment of a variety of arthritis, osteoproliferation, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases (including coronary heart disease, cerebral thrombosis, and cerebral arteriosclerosis), and gynecological diseases (including emmeniopathy, leukorrheal diseases, and various antenatal and postpartum illness).

Achyranthes root benefits
This herb initially recorded in Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shen Nong’s Herbal Classic). It is widely cultivated outside of Northeast China and the best is produce in Wuzhi County, Jiaozuo city, Henan Province. It is characterized as stout, bright, and oily. As one of highly valued medicinal herbs, it has extensive medicinal uses and provides tons of health benefits. As a result, now it has been developed into achyranthes tea, extract, tablets, and so on. Li Shih-chen, the famous scholar and writer of the Bencao gangmu (Compendium of Materia Medica), ever commented that the nourishing power of Achyranthes root resembled the power of the bull. In terms of Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), there is a popular belief that it is good at descending in medicinal properties. That’s to say, it has an extraordinary healing power that can guide the stones formed in the gallbladder, kidney, bladder, and urethra downward and thus discharge them out of the body. In comparison, its pharmacology has a new convincing explanation.