This product is an erect perennial herbaceous plant of the stemona root family stemona root (Stemona sessilifolia (Miq.) Miq.). The tuberous root of the trailing stemona root (S. japonica (BL.) Miq.) or the leafy stemona root (S. tuberosa Lour.). Mainly produced in Anhui, Jiangsu, Hubei, Zhejiang, Shandong and other places. Excavate it in spring and autumn, remove the fibrous roots, wash it, blanch it in boiling water or steam it until there is no white core, take it out, dry it in the sun, cut it into thick slices and use it raw, or roast it with honey.

[Property]

sweet and bitter, slightly warm, act on lung channel.

Treatment of influenza, enterovirus, and various viral colds, Chinese medicine is more refined, non-toxic, and effective than Western medicine

Moistening lung and relieving cough, killing worms.

[Indications]

1. For new chronic cough disease cough, whooping cough, pulmonary tuberculosis cough. This product is sweet, moist and bitter, slightly warm but not drying. It is specially used for moistening lung and relieving cough. It can be used regardless of external contraction, internal damage, fulminant cough disease or chronic cough. Can be used alone or in combination of medicinals. To treat wind-cold cough, use Schizonepeta, Platycodon Root, Aster, etc., such as Cough-Stopping Powder, if chronic cough disease persists and is deficient in both qi and yin, then use Astragalus Root, Coastal Glehnia Root, Ophiopogon Tuber, etc., such as stemona root soup, to treat pulmonary tuberculosis cough, those with yin deficiency should be treated with Coastal Glehnia Root, Ophiopogon Tuber, Tendrilleaf Fritillary Bulbetc. Modern clinical practice mainly uses this product, combined with Skullcap Root and Salvia, to treat lung subcutaneous nodes. It has certain effects on the conversion of phlegm bacteria and the absorption of lesions. To treat whooping cough, it can be used alone; it can also be used with Fritillaria Bulb, Aster, Willowleaf Rhizome, etc.
2. For pinworms, vaginal trichomoniasis, head lice and scabies, etc. This product has the effect of killing worms and can be used in contact with killing worms agents. To treat enterobiasis, use this product to decoct it thickly and keep it for enema before going to bed; to treat vaginal trichomonas, it can be used alone or combined with decoctions such as Cnidium Fruit and Sophora for a sitz bath. For external washing; to treat head lice, body lice and scabies, 20% ethanol solution or 50% decocted with water can be applied externally.

[Documentation]

1. Bielu: "It cures the abnormal rising of qi."
2. Zhenglei Bencao quoted Tao Hong-jing as saying: "It cures the cough and also cures it." "
3. Yaoxing Lun: "Treatment of lung heat, abnormal rising of qi and cough, mainly nourishing the lungs."
4. Rihuazi Bencao: "Treatment Ascaris and steaming bone fever, kill roundworms, roundworms, and pinworms."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoction, 5-15g; appropriate amount for external use. For chronic cough disease, honey should be used for dry cough.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains a variety of alkaloids: such as stemona root alkaloids, stemona root alkaloids, protostemona root alkaloids, secondary stemona root alkaloids, erect stemona root alkaloids, stemona root alkaloids, stemona root alkaloids, etc. It also contains sugar and lipids. classes, proteins, amber acids, etc. stemona root base has a central antitussive effect; it has a relaxing effect on isolated guinea pig bronchial smooth muscle caused by histamine; decocted with water agent and alcohol infusion agent have obvious killing effect on head lice, clothes lice, etc.; it is effective on rat pinworms. It has significant killing effect; it has inhibitory effect on human subcutaneous node bacilli. In addition, it has inhibitory effects on a variety of cocci, bacilli, and dermatophytes; it can also reduce the pathogenicity of Asian influenza A virus in mice, and has a therapeutic effect on infected mice.