Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Chapter 75 Eight Paintings (13)
See "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" for Selaginella.It is the whole plant of Selaginella tamariscina (Beauv.) Spring.Mainly produced in Shandong, Liaoning, Hebei, East China, Central South and other places.

[Different names] Shenzhushi, Huiyang grass, Immortal grass, Immortal grass, Wannian pine, Resurrection grass, Seeing water and returning sun grass, Evergreen, Bergamot grass, Tiger claw, Selaginella, Rock pine, Everlasting grass, Nine dead Resurrection Grass, can't be killed.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] pungent, flat.Return liver channel.

【Application】Promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis: used for amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea due to blood stasis, often used together with angelica, chuanxiong, peach kernel, safflower, etc. It is often compatible with frankincense, myrrh, hematoxylin, and dried blood.Removing blood stasis and stopping bleeding: This product is fried with charcoal to stop bleeding without leaving stasis, and can treat various bleeding syndromes.For those with blood heat, it can be combined with red peony root, paeonol, and raw land, etc.; for intestinal heat and blood in the stool, it can be combined with Burnet, Sophora japonica, etc.; , Mugwort Charcoal, etc.In addition, external application of powder can cure wound bleeding; fresh product smashed for application can cure water and fire burns.

In modern times, it is often used for amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, bruises, various bleeding syndromes, burns, etc.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 6-12g; or made into pills.External application: appropriate amount, smashed for applying; or ground into powder and sprinkled.

[Cautions for use] This product is used raw to break blood, and stir-fried to stop bleeding.Pregnant women should not take it.

[Modern research] The leaves of this product contain cycad amiflavones, spike fir amiflavones, etc.The decoction has an inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus by the plate punching method.

Jian Shenqu see "Compendium of Materia Medica Supplements".It is a fermented koji made by mixing wheat flour, bran and various medicines.Mainly produced in Fujian and other places.

[Synonyms] Quanzhou Divine Comedy, Fan Zhiqu, Baicaoqu, Wanyingqu.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] bitter, warm.Return spleen, stomach warp.

【Efficacy and application】Digesting food and invigorating the spleen: It is used for indigestion, nausea without eating, body fatigue, abdominal pain and diarrhea.Relieve exterior and remove dampness: For common cold, summer-dampness and dysentery, it can be compatible with Huoxiang, Perilla, Tangerine Peel, Poria, etc.

In modern times, it is often used for indigestion, colds, acute gastroenteritis, bacillary dysentery, etc.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 6-9g; or into pills or powder.

Jiangzhenxiang see "Emergency Materia Medica by History and Cards".It is the root heartwood of the leguminous plant Dalbergiaodorifera T.Chen.Mainly produced in Hainan, Yunnan and Guangxi.The imported Jiangzhenxiang is the heartwood of Indian Dalbergia.

[Synonym] Wisteria incense, Jiangxiang, Jiangzhen.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] pungent, warm.Return liver, heart, spleen channel.

【Efficacy and Application】Promoting blood circulation, promoting qi and relieving pain: used for all pains caused by qi stagnation and blood stasis, single use or formula.For hypochondriac pain, it can be used with turmeric, peach kernel, and loofah; for stomach pain, it can be used with Puhuang, Wulingzhi; for traumatic pain, it can be used with frankincense and myrrh; for hernia, it can be used with black medicine, cumin, Toosendan: to treat chest pain and heartache, it can be combined with Chuanxiong, Chishao, Danshen, and safflower, such as Guanxin No. [-] prescription.Removing blood stasis and hemostasis: For bleeding from inguinal sores, use ground powder for external application alone; for internal wounds and hematemesis and hemoptysis, it can be made into fine powder together with stamens, frankincense, and myrrh, and taken with children's stool or rice wine.

In modern times, it is often used for bruises, coronary heart disease, angina pectoris, carbuncle, furuncle, swelling and pain.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 3-6g, or powdered and swallowed 1-2g, or in pills or powder.External application: appropriate amount, grind into powder and apply.

[Modern Research] Mainly contains flavonoid derivatives and so on.It has antithrombotic, anticoagulant, increased coronary flow, slowed heart rate, mildly increased heartbeat amplitude, anticonvulsant, analgesic and other effects.

See "Shen Nong's Herbal Classic" for Asarum.It is the whole plant of Asarum heterotropoides F.Schm.vat.mandsh uricum (Maxim.) Kitag. or Asarumsieboldii Miq. of Aristolochiaceae plant.It is mainly produced in Northeast China and Shaanxi.

[Synonym] Xiaoxin, Xicao, Shaoxin, clover, golden pot grass, northern asarum, mountain ginseng, Liaoshixin, Huaxixin.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] pungent, warm.Return lung, kidney channel.

【Efficacy and application】Diverging wind and cold: used for exogenous wind and cold, aversion to cold and fever, headache, body pain, often combined with Qianghuo, Fangfeng, Nepeta, etc., such as Jiuwei Qianghuo Decoction ("It's Difficult to Know"); , aversion to cold, fever, and deep pulse, it can be used with ephedra and aconite, such as ephedra aconite asarum decoction ("Treatise on Febrile Diseases").Warming lung decoction: used for phlegm and cough, often combined with dried ginger, poria cocos, schisandra, and licorice, that is, Linggan Wuwei Jiangxin Decoction ("Golden Chamber Synopses"); , can be compatible with Ephedra, Guizhi, Pinellia, etc., such as Xiaoqinglong Decoction ("Treatise on Febrile Diseases").Expelling wind and relieving pain: used for wind-cold migraine headache, toothache, rheumatic arthralgia.To treat headache, it is often compatible with Chuanxiong, Qianghuo, Baizhi, etc., such as Chuanxiong Cha Tiaosan ("Taiping Huimin Heji Bureau Prescription"), and it can also be used with realgar equal amount of powder into the nose. Pain the left nose, that is, Zhiling Powder ("Shengji Zonglu"); treat rheumatism and arthralgia, often use it with notopterygium, Fangfeng, and Gentiana chinensis; treat toothache, use decoction alone for rinsing, or use the same amount as Piper longum Decoct hot soup, such as Asarum Decoction ("Shengji Zonglu"), or decoct the same amount of nepeta and dew honeycomb, that is, Asarum Powder ("Yuyaoyuanfang"). If stomach fire and toothache, It can be used for gargling with cork and gypsum decoction.In addition, grind it into powder and apply vinegar to the umbilicus to treat aphthous ulcers; grind it together with saponins and blow the nose to cure sudden coma and trismus.

Modern commonly used in upper respiratory tract infection, chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, pneumonia, rhinitis, sinusitis, rheumatoid arthritis, periodontitis, coronary heart disease angina pectoris, roundworm abdominal pain, etc.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 1.5-9g, powdered 1-3g.External application: Appropriate amount, grind into powder and blow nose, apply on navel, or decoct in water for gargle.

[Cautions for use] Contraindicated in patients with qi deficiency, hyperhidrosis, blood deficiency, headache, and yin deficiency cough.Anti Veratrum.

【Modern Research】This product contains volatile oil, etc.Animal experiments have confirmed that volatile oil has antipyretic, sedative, analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects.The infusion has local anesthetic effect on frog sciatic plexus, guinea pig intradermal nerve endings and human tongue mucosa.Alcohol infusion and volatile oil have inhibitory effects on Gram-positive bacteria, Bacillus subtilis, Salmonella typhi, Shigella, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis in vitro.

See "Zhejiang Folk Medicines Commonly Used" for thistle leaf.It is the root or flower of Cirsium lineare (Thunb.) Sch.Bip.var.pallidum (Kitam.) Ling, a perennial herb of Compositae.Distributed in East China and Sichuan.

[Synonyms] wild safflower, mountain safflower, pointed thistle, striped thistle.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] sour, warm.Return liver, kidney channel.

【Efficacy and Application】Promoting blood circulation and dispelling blood stasis: for irregular menstruation, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, decocted with water alone; for bruises, decocted with water alone, and taken orally with rice wine.Detoxification and detumescence: For mastitis swelling and pain, carbuncle sores, you can mash fresh roots and scallions, heat, spray rice wine and apply appropriate amount to the affected areas.

In modern times, it is often used for irregular menstruation, bruises, mastitis, boils, etc.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 15-30g.External application: appropriate amount, smashed for applying.

Guanzhong see "Shen Nong's Herbal Classic".Dryopteris crassirhizoma Nakai or Lunathyrium acrostichoides (Sw.) Ching, Blechnum orientale L., Woodztardia japonica (Lf) Sm. Rhizome and petiole base of Osmunda japonica Thunb., Osmunda japonica Thunb., Matteucia struthiopteris (L.) Todaro, etc.Pteridophyta spp. is mainly produced in Northeast China; Emei fern is mainly produced in North China and Central China; black fern is mainly produced in Central China and South China; ,northwest.

[Synonym] Guanjie, Guanzhongtan, Guanzhong, Guanzhong, Guanzhong, Guanzhong.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] bitter, slightly cold.Return liver, spleen channel.

【Efficacy and application】clearing away heat and detoxification: used for prevention and treatment of exogenous wind-heat, warm macule, sores and swelling, mumps, alone, or in combination with Folium Folium Isatidis, Radix Isatidis, Honeysuckle, Forsythia, etc.Cooling blood and hemostasis: used for hematemesis due to blood heat, epistaxis, hematuria, blood in stool, bloody dysentery, metrorrhagia, stir-fried charcoal alone or in combination.For those who vomit blood, take Guanzhong charcoal, blood remaining charcoal, and arborvitae juice to cook together, that is, Guan Zhong Decoction ("All Diseases Rejuvenating"); for metrorrhagia, hematuria, and blood in the stool, it can be used together with cuttlefish bone.Insecticide: used for roundworms, pinworms, tapeworms, hookworms and other intestinal parasitic diseases.To treat roundworms, it is often decocted with the same amount of neem root bark; to kill pinworms, it can be used alone to fumigate the anus with decoction, or to use with neem root bark and crane lice; to kill tapeworms, it can be used with betel nuts and thunder pills; Hookworm, can be compatible with betel nut, neem root bark, perilla, torreya, thunder pill, crane lice, etc.

Modern commonly used in the prevention and treatment of influenza, measles, Japanese encephalitis, meningitis, mumps, bacillary dysentery, viral pneumonia, functional uterine bleeding, bronchiectasis hemoptysis, tuberculosis hemoptysis , Bronchiectasis hemoptysis, upper gastrointestinal bleeding, postpartum hemorrhage, tropical eosinophilia, ascariasis, hookworm disease, enterobiasis, burns, etc.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction, 4.5-9g, or pills or powder.External application: Appropriate amount, powdered for application, or fumigated.

[Cautions for use] Contraindicated in patients with yin deficiency with heat and spleen and stomach deficiency.Pregnant women use with caution.

【Modern research】The rhizome of Phyllostachys pratense contains lentinic acids, flavanic acids, tannins, volatile oil, etc.The rhizome of black fern contains chlorogenic acid.The rhizomes of fern fern contain tannin and a large amount of precipitation.The rhizome of Osmanthus aurantiaceae contains apical leaf tumansterone A, hydroxyl promoting peeling and promoting ecdysterone.The rhizomes of pod fern contain apicalleaf catesterone A and arachidonic acid-based fatty acids.The decoction has obvious inhibitory effect on influenza virus; it has certain inhibitory effect on Shigella, Salmonella typhi, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, Proteus, Staphylococcus aureus and skin fungi.Trichofern chrysogenum, pod fern, Osmanthus chinensis, and dog ridge fern have different degrees of inhibitory effects on Ascaris suum.Trichomonadin contained in Trichomonas chrysogenum is highly toxic to tapeworms, which can paralyze the insects and prevent them from attaching to the intestinal wall. The tapeworms can be expelled from the body after taking Epsom salt; Osmanthus rhizomes can significantly shorten blood coagulation time.

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