Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Chapter 64 Eight Paintings (2)
【Efficacy and application】Regulating qi and relieving depression: used for liver stagnation and qi stagnation, hypochondriac pain, abdominal distension, single-use as a tea drink, or with Cyperus Cyperi, Angelica, Curcuma, Corydalis, Toosendan; for liver For stagnation of the stomach, distending pain in the chest, hypochondrium, and abdomen, nausea, and eating less, it can be used in the same way as Rhizoma Cyperi, Bergamot, Curcuma, Amomum, Toosendan, and Radix Paeoniae Alba.Activating blood circulation and regulating menstruation: for irregular menstruation, breast tenderness before menstruation, decocted with rice wine and brown sugar alone, or combined with angelica, chuanxiong, motherwort, white peony, etc.; used for bruises, rheumatic arthralgia, waist and leg pain , can be taken alone with soaked wine, or taken with formula.In addition, it can be decocted together with viola and dandelion to treat sores and mastitis.

In modern times, it is often used for chronic gastritis, gastric neurosis, esophageal spasm, chronic hepatitis, bronchitis, rheumatoid arthritis, bacillary dysentery, dyspepsia, menorrhagia in women, red and white vaginal discharge, etc.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 3-6g; or soak in wine; or boil ointment; or make tea.

[Modern Research] Flowers contain volatile oil (rose oil), and its main components are citronellol, geraniol, nerol, etc.In addition, it still contains quercetin, bitter substances, tannins and so on.Rose oil can promote bile secretion in rats.

For loquat leaves, see "Bielu of Famous Doctors".It is the leaf of Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) Lindl., an evergreen small tree of Rosaceae.Mainly produced in Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hunan, Hubei and other places.

[Synonym] Loquat leaves, sunburned loquat leaves.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] bitter, cool.Return lung, stomach warp.

【Efficacy and application】clearing heat and resolving phlegm: It is used for cough and asthma caused by phlegm heat obstructing the lungs, and the phlegm is yellow and sticky. Zong Jinjian"); used for cough due to dryness of the lungs and unpleasant phlegm, and is often compatible with mulberry leaves, Ophiopogon japonicus, donkey-hide gelatin, etc.Such as Qingzao Jiufei Decoction ("Medical Law").Suppressing adverse flow and anti-vomiting: used for stomach heat and vomiting, sour or dry vomit, and thirsty, it is often combined with Zhuru, reed rhizome, coptis, Radix Ophiopogon, etc.

Modern commonly used in acute and chronic bronchitis, bronchiectasis, acute and chronic gastritis, indigestion and so on.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 4.5-9g (15-30g for fresh products); decoction or into pills or powder.

[Cautions for use] This product is cold and cool, so people with wind-cold cough and stomach-cold vomiting should not take it.It should be used for broiling for cough relief, and raw for anti-vomiting.

[Modern Research] The leaves contain saponins, glucose, sucrose, fructose and amygdalin.The decoction has inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus in vitro.Amygdalin can separate hydrocyanic acid and have a certain cough-relieving effect; its hydrolyzed product benzaldehyde can inhibit yeast and prevent fermentation in the digestive tract.

See "Shaanxi Chinese Herbal Medicine" for loquat taro.It is the tuber of Xylanche himalaica G.Beck, a parasitic herbaceous plant of Liedangaceae.Distributed in Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan, Tibet and other places.

[synonym] loquat jade, cistanche cistanche, jinjin weight, jinjin pendant.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] pungent, slightly bitter, warm.It is slightly poisonous.Return liver, kidney channel.

【Efficacy and application】Warming kidney yang, dispelling rheumatism: for kidney deficiency, waist and knee pain, uterine cold and infertility, it can be taken with Buddha palm ginseng soaked in wine; for rheumatic arthralgia, it can be used with Qingyang ginseng, Tiegu powder, Dunail , white papaya and pig's feet are cooked together, and the meat is eaten with soup.Regulating qi and promoting blood circulation: for stomach distension and pain, it can be decocted with magnolia officinalis, akebia, woody, ginger, and licorice; for bruises, it can be taken alone with soaked wine, or ground into powder, and added with rice wine to make a paste for external application On the affected area, it can also be decocted with Yexiahua, Zhuzishen, and Eucommia in water, and drink as a primer.Detoxification and killing insects: For carbuncle sores, use ground powder and apply externally; for sore throat, use ground and boiled water for soaking; for mumps, rub the affected area with vinegar alone; for grass For black poisoning, it can be ground into powder and taken with cold boiled water alone; for schistosomiasis, it can be decocted with clematis, betel nut, basil, and fire grass root.

In modern times, it is often used for rheumatoid arthritis, bruises, functional infertility, irregular menstruation, boils, mumps, etc.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 3-6g; or soaked in wine; or powdered, 0.3-0.6g.External application: appropriate amount, powdered for applying; or dry blended.

【Caution】Do not take too much orally.Contraindicated for those with yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire and dry-heat cough.

【Modern Research】Contains ursolic acid components.

See "Newly Revised Materia Medica" for Banlangen.It is the root of Isatis tinctoria L., a cruciferous plant, or Baphicacanthuscusia (Ness) Brern., a plant of the Acanthaceae family.The former is mainly produced in Hebei, Jiangsu, Anhui, and Shaanxi; the latter is mainly produced in Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

[synonym] indigo root, blue indigo root, indigo root.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] bitter, cold.Return liver, stomach, lung meridian.

【Efficacy and application】clearing away heat and detoxification: used for head and face redness and pain, sore throat, mouth sores, carbuncle sores, mumps, etc. For example, Puji Xiaoxiaoyin ("Yifang Jijie"); used for exogenous fever, febrile disease at the onset, sore throat and headache, used alone, or used in the same way as honeysuckle and nepeta.Cooling blood and eliminating plaques: used for febrile diseases with high fever, rashes and rashes, dark purple tongue, often used together with habitat, comfrey, and scutellaria, such as Shenxi Dan ("Warm Jingwei").

Modern commonly used in influenza, meningitis, Japanese encephalitis, mumps, acute pharyngitis, tonsillitis, acute and chronic hepatitis and so on.For acute anicteric hepatitis, 15g of Radix Radix, 10g of Toosendan, 15g of Jiaobaizhu, 15g of Bupleurum, decocted in water; for acute pharyngitis and tonsillitis, 10g of Radix Radix, 10g of Shandougen, 12g of Honeysuckle, and Forsythia 12g, bellflower 6g, licorice 5g, decoct in water.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 9-15g.

[Cautions for use] Contraindicated for those who are physically weak but do not have excess fire, heat and poison.

[Modern Research] Contains indigoside, β-sitosterol, isatin, arginine, proline, glutamic acid, tyrosine, and anthraquinones.It has inhibitory effect on Bacillus subtilis, Staphylococcus aureus, Octococcus, Escherichia coli, Salmonella paratyphi, Shigella, Neisseria meningitidis type A, Leptospira, and influenza virus.

For pine knots, see "Compendium of Materia Medica".It is the pine knots of the evergreen trees of Pinaceae Pinus tabulae formisCart. or Pinus massoniana Lamb. and other branches.The former is mainly produced in Northeast China, North China, Northwest China and other places; the latter is mainly produced in various places in the south of the Yangtze River.

[Synonym] Ponderosa pine knot, Chinese pine knot, pine hammer.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] bitter, warm.GUIXIN, Liver Channel.

【Efficacy and application】Expelling wind, dredging collaterals and relieving pain: used for anemofrigid-damp arthralgia, limb pain and bruises and swelling.For the treatment of wind-cold-damp arthralgia, soak in wine alone, or in combination with Notopterygium, Duhuo, Fangfeng, Clematis, etc.; for bruises, swelling and pain, it can be used with frankincense, myrrh, and red peony.

In modern times, it is often used for rheumatoid arthritis, Kashin-Beck disease, bruises and pain due to falls.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 9-15g, or soaked in wine.External application: Appropriate amount, dipped in wine and rubbed.

【Cautions】Use with caution in patients with yin deficiency and blood dryness.

[Modern Research] Mainly contains cellulose, lignin, a small amount of volatile oil (turpentine) and resin.Clinical experiments have proved that it has the functions of expelling wind, sedation, pain relief and anti-inflammation.

For pine leaves, see "Compendium of Materia Medica".It is the leaves of Pinus tabulaeformis Carr. or P. massoniana Lamb., P. yunnanensis Franch., etc. of Pinaceae plants.

[synonym] bristle pine leaves, pine hair, mountain pine whiskers, pine needles.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] bitter, warm.GUIXIN, Spleen Channel.

【Efficacy and application】Expelling wind and dampness: used for arthralgia due to rheumatism, low back pain, weak feet, numb limbs and head wind headache, decocted or soaked in wine.Promoting blood circulation and dredging collaterals: used for bruises, fumigated and washed with decoction alone; or soaked in wine; ground into powder and taken; decocted with fresh leaves.Killing insects and relieving itching: used for stubborn ringworm, pruritus, eczema, paint sores, frostbite, windy scabies, eczema of the scrotum, etc., decocted with fresh leaves for fumigation and washing.

In modern times, it is often used for rheumatoid arthritis, lumbar muscle strain, chronic bronchitis, vitamin C deficiency, nutritional edema, bruises, fungal skin infections, and prevention and treatment of epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, influenza, hookworm, etc.For the prevention of epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, 2500g of fresh pine leaves and 60g of licorice can be used, decocted to 40000g, 250g each time for adults, twice a day for 2 consecutive days, and children should reduce it accordingly.For the prevention of colds, use fresh pine leaves to make 3% concentrated solution, take 100mL each time, once a day, take 30 consecutive days a week, and take it for 1 weeks.For the treatment of chronic bronchitis, take 2g each of pine leaves and cypress, decoct and concentrate to 5mL, add sugar 90mL or honey 200g, make a total of 100mL, take 60 times, 300mL each time, 3 days as a course of treatment.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 9-15g (30-60g fresh leaves), or soaked in wine.External application: appropriate amount, decocted for washing.

[Cautions for use] This product is warm in nature, so it should not be used for blood deficiency and wind dryness.

[Modern research] Masson pine leaves contain volatile oil, quercetin, tannins, etc.Yunnan pine leaves contain volatile oil, sugar, carotene, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin C, vitamin E, vitamin K, etc.It has sedative, analgesic, antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, hypolipidemic, anti-aging, anti-hepatitis B virus and other functions.

Songyao see "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica".It is the solid resin obtained from the pine oil obtained from the trunk of Pinus massoniana Lamb. or the same genus of Pinaceae, and the volatile oil is removed by distillation.Mainly produced in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Hubei, Hunan, Yunnan and other places.

[synonym] pine resin, pine paste, rosin incense, white galbanum, yellow incense, resin incense, rosin.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] bitter, sweet, warm.Return liver, spleen channel.

【Efficacy and application】Expelling wind and dehumidification: used for rheumatism arthralgia, soreness and soreness during the period, only use soaked in wine.Drying dampness and killing insects: It is used for skin itching due to rheumatic insect poison, wind mange, alopecia areata, eczema of the scrotum, powdered and applied or mixed with vegetable oil.To treat scabies, it can be combined with rhubarb, Piper longum, camphor, and mercury to grind finely together, blended into pills, and rubbed on sores when used; to treat children's baldness, it can be combined with light powder and Huangdan to make powder, and mixed with tea oil; To treat children's eczema, it can be mixed with calcined gypsum, dry alum, realgar, and borneol as powder, and Vaseline to make an ointment; to treat neurodermatitis, it can be mixed with lard in appropriate amount, boiled into a paste and applied to the affected area.Pulling out pus and promoting muscle growth: used for carbuncle and gangrene, furuncle, furunculosis, ground into powder, heated to dissolve with ethanol, dipped in a dry cotton ball to get the medicinal solution and applied to the affected area; Myrrh and camphor are fine powder, mixed with the affected part.

It is commonly used in modern times for psoriasis, eczema in children, scabies, chronic bronchitis, etc.To treat chronic bronchitis, you can mix rosin powder with the same amount of licorice powder evenly, 1.5g each time, 3 times a day, and 10 days is a course of treatment.

[Usage and Dosage] External application: Appropriate amount, grind into powder and sprinkle or apply.Oral administration: 0.5 ~ 1g; into pills, powder, or soaked in wine.

[Modern Research] Contains rosin anhydride, rosin acid, resinous hydrocarbons, volatile oil and trace amounts of bitter substances.Rosin ethanol solution applied to the skin of rabbits can prevent the infection of schistosome cercariae.

See "Guizhou Herbal Medicine" for pine wormwood.It is the whole plant of Phtheirospermum japonicum (Thunb.) Kanitz, a 1-year-old herbaceous plant of Scrophulariaceae.Distributed in all parts of the country except Xinjiang and Qinghai.

[Synonyms] Artemisia glutinosa, Artemisia velvet, Earth capsicum, Grass capsicum, Bell capsicum, Big leaf basil.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] pungent, cool.Return liver, gallbladder, lung meridian.

【Efficacy and application】clearing heat and promoting dampness: for damp-heat jaundice, it can be decocted with rock cabbage, cortex bark, small yellow grass, wood knot grass, and licorice; for edema, dysuria, single-use decoction.Heat-clearing and detoxifying: For wind-heat and cold, it can be decocted with ginger; for sores, swelling and pain, it can be ground into powder and applied with white wine.

Modern commonly used in viral jaundice hepatitis, colds and so on.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 15-30g.External application: appropriate amount, decocted for washing; or powdered for applying.

[Modern Research] Contains pine artemisinin, carnoside, and astragalin, etc.

See "Kaibao Materia Medica" for pine nuts.It is the seed of Pinus koraiensis Sieb et zucc., Pinus massoniana Lamb., etc., evergreen trees of Pinaceae.

[synonym] pine nuts, sea pine nuts, Silla.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] sweet, warm.Return liver, lung, large intestine channel.

【Efficacy and Application】Moistening the intestines and laxative: It is used for the elderly with physical weakness, women with postpartum body fluid deficiency, and blood-less intestinal dryness and constipation.Moisturizing the lungs and relieving cough: For cough due to dryness of the lungs, you can pound 30g of pine nuts and 60g of walnut kernels together, and add honey to collect the paste.

In modern times, it is often used for constipation in the elderly, after illness, and women after childbirth.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 4.5-9g; or into ointment or pill.

[Cautions for use] Contraindicated for those with loose stools and damp phlegm.

[Modern Research] Mainly contains fatty oil, mainly oleate and linoleate.In addition, it still contains tetrandrine, volatile oil, protein and so on.It has the effect of inhibiting experimental aortic atherosclerosis in rabbits, and has a good melting and dissolving effect on cholesterol and mixed gallstones with high cholesterol content.

See "Compendium of Materia Medica" for pine bark.It is the bark of the Pinaceae plant Pinus massoniana Lamb. or its plants of the same genus.

[synonym] red pine bark, pine bark, pine bark.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] bitter, warm.Return lung, large intestine channel.

【Efficacy and application】Expelling wind and dampness: For rheumatic bone pain, decoct pine bark (remove the rough bark), Caragana root, madder, scorpion vine, and tiger thorn.Promoting blood circulation and stopping bleeding: used for bruises, sprains and intestinal wind bleeding.To treat bruises, you can use pine veneer to store it, grind it into powder and apply it; to treat intestinal wind and blood, you can take the wood-pasted skin and file it finely, bake it to make it half-dry, and then stir-fry it over low heat and take it dry, such as Songpi powder ("Yang's family Tibetan recipe").Squeezing sores and promoting granulation: used for carbuncle sores, scalds caused by water and fire, and eczema, just use an appropriate amount, stir-fry the yellow powder into powder, and mix it with sesame oil.

In modern times, it is often used for rheumatoid arthritis, bruises, sores, furuncles that persist after a long time, burns, etc.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 9-15g; or powdered.External application: appropriate amount, powdered for applying; or decocted for washing.

【Modern Research】Contains L-pimaric acid, tannins, etc.

For pine pollen, see "New Revised Materia Medica".It is the pollen of the Pinaceae plant Pinus massoniana Lamb. or plants of the same genus.

[synonym] pine flower, pine powder, pine yellow.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] sweet, astringent, warm.Return liver, stomach warp.

【Efficacy and Application】Reducing dampness and sores: For eczema and eczema, it can be used together with Phellodendron Phellodendron, Sophora flavescens, Indigo Daisy, and rosin. First, grind the first four ingredients into powder, then melt the rosin, and apply the powdered sesame oil to the affected area. .Convergence and hemostasis: used for hematemesis, hemoptysis, and blood in stool, can be used alone, 2g each time, taken with cold boiled water; used for traumatic bleeding.Can be used alone on the affected area.In addition, stir-fried black pine pollen and fried red yeast rice are researched together, and the white sugar is adjusted to cure children with chronic diarrhea and body heat; mixed with mint leaf decoction and honey, it can cure epidemic poison diarrhea; mixed with lotus seed meat, yam, coix seed, Gorgon fruit, Tribulus terrestris, japonica rice flour, and sugar are mixed well and boiled into a cake, which can cure spleen deficiency and diarrhea in the elderly and children, such as spleen-relieving cake ("Shou Shiqing Edition").

Modern commonly used in traumatic bleeding, upper gastrointestinal bleeding, chronic enteritis, dysentery, eczema and so on.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 3-9g, or take after mixing.External application: Appropriate amount, dry sprinkle or apply.

[Cautions for use] Use with caution for those with blood deficiency and internal heat.

[Modern Research] Contains oil, potassium, magnesium, sulfur, manganese, zinc, iron and other trace elements.

See "Newly Revised Materia Medica" for maple willow bark.It is the bark or root bark of Pterocarya stenoptera DC., a deciduous tree of Juglandaceae.Mainly distributed in the south of the Yangtze River Basin and in Shaanxi, Shandong, Henan and other places.

[synonym] maple poplar bark, hemp willow bark.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] pungent, bitter, warm.It is slightly poisonous.Return liver, large intestine channel.

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