drug name | Chinese Wolfberry Root-bark |
[Variety Source]
This product is the root bark of the Solanaceae deciduous shrub plant Barbary Wolfberry Fruit (Lycium chinensis Mill.) or Ningxia Barbary Wolfberry Fruit (Lycium barbarum L.). Distributed throughout the north and south of my country. Excavate it in early spring or after autumn, peel off the root bark, dry it in the sun, cut it into sections and use it as medicine.
Benjing The Barbary Wolfberry Fruit mentioned in the above article: "One is a wolfberry root and the other is a ground bone." It can be seen that the Barbary Wolfberry Fruit zi is not a Chinese Wolfberry Root-bark.
[Property]
sweet and bland, cold. act on lung, liver and kidney channels.
[Efficacy]
Cooling blood reduces steam, clears the lungs and reduces fire.
[Indications]
- For yin-deficiency fever, night sweat steaming bone fever. This product is sweet, cold and moist, can clear away the deficiency heat of the liver and kidneys, and removes sweating steaming bone fever. It is a good product for reducing deficiency heat and treating steaming bone fever. It is often used with Anemarrhena and turtle carapace , Starwort Root and other combinations of medicinals, such as Chinese Wolfberry Root-bark soup.
- For lung heat cough. This product is sweet and cold, and is good at clearing lung heat. It can remove the lurking fire in the lungs, and then the purification will occur on its own. Therefore, it is often used to treat lung fire stagnation, qi counterflow, cough panting, skin steaming heat and other syndromes. It is often used with White Mulberry Root-Bark, Liquorice Root are equivalent, such as White-Draining Powder.
- It is used for hematemesis, epistaxis, hematuria and other blood-heat hemorrhages. This product herbs sweet in taste and cold in nature, clears away heat, cools blood and stops bleeding. It can be taken alone with wine, or can be combined with lalang grass rhizome, Platycladus Same as blood-cooling hemostatic.
- In addition, this product has the function of clearing heat and eliminating steaming, promoting fluid production to quench thirst, and can be used with Unprocessed Rehmannia Root 黄, Snakegourd Root and Schisandra Fruit are used equally to treat internal heat and consumptive thirst.
[Documentation]
- Benjing: "The main five elements are pathogenic qi, hot middle consumptive thirst, Zhoubi."
- Zhenzhunang: "Relieves steaming bone fever, muscle heat, consumptive thirst, wind-warmth paralysis, strengthens muscles and bones, and cools blood."
- Tangye Bencao: "Relieves kidney fire, lowers pent-up fire in the lungs, and removes cellulite. Fire, reduce fever, replenish healthy qi."
[Usage and Dosage]
Decoct and take, 6~15g.
[Precaution]
It should not be used by those with external contraction wind-cold fever or spleen deficiency loose stool.
[Modern Pharmacology]
This product contains betaine, beta-sitosterol and linoleic acid. In addition, it also contains cassia bark acid, various phenolic substances, etc. Chinese Wolfberry Root-bark water and alcohol extract has an antipyretic effect on fever rabbits; this product has the effects of lowering blood pressure and blood sugar; it also has the effect of lowering serum cholesterol and stimulating uterus: it has antipyretic effects on disease caused by cold bacilli and A Paradisease caused by cold bacilli and Gallinarum flexneri have strong inhibitory effects.
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