[Variety Source]
This product is a perennial herbaceous plant of the japanese buttercup herb family Coptis Rhizome (Coptis chinensis Franch.), triangular-leaf Coptis Rhizome (Coptis deltoidea C.y.Cheng et Hsiao) or Yunlian (Coptis teeta Rhizome of Wall.). Coptis Rhizome is cultivated in multiple lines and is mainly produced in Sichuan, Yunnan and Hubei. Excavated in autumn, dried, used raw or plain stir-frying, ginger-roasted, wine-roasted, Evodia Fruit water-fried.
[Property]
bitter, cold. act on heart, liver, stomach and large intestine channels.
[Efficacy]
clearing heat and drying dampness, clearing heat and removing toxin.
[Indications]
- Used for gastrointestinal dampness-heat and diarrhea vomiting. This product is Great Cold (24th solar term), clearing heat and drying dampness better than Skullcap Root, especially clearing middle energizer dampness fire, used for dampness-heat middle resistance, qi Poor movement, abdominal stuffiness and fullness, nausea vomiting, often used synonymously with Skullcap Root, Dried Ginger, Pineilia, such as Pineilia Heart-Draining Decoction; treats dampness-heat diarrhea. In mild cases, it is effective when used alone. If diarrhea has abdominal pain and tenesmus, it can be used together with Aucklandia Root. For example: Aucklandia and Coptis Pill: If you have diarrhea and body heat, combination of medicinals Pueraria Root, Skullcap Root, Liquorice Root, add Pueraria, Skullcap and Coptis Decoction; if diarrhea has pus and blood, you can also add Chinese Angelica, Cassia Bark , Peony Root, Aucklandia Root, etc., such as Peony Root Soup. This product is good at removing dampness-heat from the large intestine of the spleen and stomach, and is an important medicine for treating dampness-heat and diarrhea.
- Used for heat-induced dysphoria and high-heat dysphoria. This product clears heat and removes toxin, especially good at clearing heart meridian fire. If triple energizer is hot, high fever dysphoria is often used synonymously with Skullcap Root, Phelloendron Bark, Gardenia, such as Coptis Detoxification Decoction; If the heat sin is raging, the Yin fluid has been damaged, the water is deficient and the fire is burning, and you are upset and sleepless, often use Skullcap Root, Peony Root, Donkey-hide Gelatin can be used equally, add Coptis and Ass Hide Glue Decoction; if the heart fire is internally damaged, forcing blood to act recklessly, hematemesis bleeding, it can be used with Skullcap Root and Rhubarb Rhizoma are used together, such as Heart-Draining Decoction.
- Used for Yongju boil and sore poison, skin eczema, ear and eye swelling and pain. This product clears heat and drying dampness, clears heat and removes toxin, and is especially good at treating boil and sore poison. Used to treat carbuncle boil and sore poison, mostly used with Skullcap Root, Gardenia, Forsythia, add Coptis Detoxification Decoction, to treat skin eczema, Coptis Rhizome can be used to make an ointment for external application; to treat ear canal boils and ear canal pus, Coptis Rhizome can be used to soak the juice and apply it to the affected area, or add withered alum or borneol, grind it into powder for external use to treat redness and swelling of the eyes. Use Coptis Rhizome to decoct the juice, or use human milk to infuse the juice into the eyes.
- In addition, this product is good at clearing stomach fire and can be used for vomiting intense stomach fire. It is often used with Bamboo Shavings, tangerine peel, Pineilia is used together; toothache, often used with Gypsum, Cimicifuga Rhizome, Danpi and the like, and swift digestion with Rapid ungering, often used with Unprocessed Rehmannia Root; this product also clears liver heat. If liver fire offends the stomach, liver stomach disharmony, side rib distending pain, vomiting acid swallow, it can be used with Unprocessed Rehmannia Root. YAO L>Evodia Fruit can be used together, such as Left Metal Pill.
[Documentation]
- Benjing: "The main heat is eye pain canthus, sobs, improving vision, intestinal abscess, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and the woman's vagina is swollen and painful."
- Zhenzhunang: "Its use is six: purging heart fire, one; removing middle energizer and warming, two; it must be used for all kinds of sores, three, removing wind-dampness, four: treating red eye outbreaks, five; stopping Seeing blood in the middle is six."
[Usage and Dosage]
Decoct and take 2-10g; grind into powder and swallow 1-1.5g, three times a day. Appropriate amount for external use. Stir-frying can reduce the coldness. Roasting with ginger juice clears the stomach and relieves vomiting, roasting with wine clears upper energizer fire, and stir-frying pig gall fel relieves excess fire in the liver and gallbladder.
[Precaution]
This product is very bitter and Great Cold (24th solar term). Taking it for a long time may damage the spleen and stomach. People with lung and stomach deficiency should not use it. Bitter dryness, damage to fluid, yin deficiency, body fluid damage, use with caution.
[Modern Pharmacology]
This product contains berberine (Coptis Rhizome), methyl Coptis Rhizome and other alkaloids. Among them, Coptis Rhizome element accounts for about 5% to 8%.
- Coptis Rhizome has a wide antibacterial range, against dysentery bacilli, disease caused by cold bacilli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, large intestine bacilli, diphtheria bacilli, whooping cough bacilli, subcutaneous node bacilli, staphylococci, and encephalomembraneitis It has a significant inhibitory effect on diplococci, hemolytic streptococci, and pneumococci; it also has an inhibitory effect on leptospira, amoeba, trichomoniasis, influenza viruses, and a variety of disease-causing skin fungi. Among them, it has the strongest inhibitory effect on dysentery bacilli. It can also enhance the phagocytic ability of white blood cells;
- it also has the effects of lowering blood pressure, choleretic, antipyretic, sedative, analgesic, antidiuretic, and local paralysis.
- In addition, it has a relaxing effect on vascular smooth muscles, and has a relaxing and exciting effect on uterus, bladder, and gastrointestinal smooth muscles;
- Berberine and some of its derivatives have anti-cancer effects.