[Variety Source]
This product is a beautiful steetgum resin deciduous tree plant phellodendron bark (Guan Phelloendron Bark) (Phellodendron amurense Rupr.) or yellow bark tree (Chuan Phelloendron Bark) (Phellodendron chinense Schneid .) Bark with cork removed. Guan Phelloendron Bark is mainly produced in Liaoning, Jilin, Hebei and other places; Sichuan Phelloendron Bark is mainly produced in Sichuan, Guizhou, Hubei, Yunnan and other places. Before and after Pure Brightness (5th solar term), peel off the bark, scrape off the rough bark, dry and flatten, moisten it, slice or shred it, and use it raw or roasted in salt water, wine, stir-frying to scorch.
[Property]
bitter, cold. act on kidney, bladder and large intestinal channels.
[Efficacy]
clearing heat and drying dampness, clearing heat and removing toxin, reducing fever and removing steam.
[Indications]
- Used for dampness-heat leukorrhea, heat stranguria, athlete's foot, and jaundice. This product is bitter and cold, clearing heat and drying dampness, and is better than clearing dampness-heat in lower energizer. Used for dampness-heat pouring down, leukorrhea is yellow and smelly, often equated with Chinese Yam, Gordon Euryale Seed, Plantain Seed Use, such as Transforming Yellow Decoction; used to treat bladder dampness-heat, burning urine, dripping pain, often used with Plantain Seed, Talc, Akebia Stem and other heat diuretic and stranguria products; treat dampness-heat pouring down, athlete's foot, swelling and pain in the feet and knees, often combined with Atractylodes Rhizome, Achyranthes Root can be used together, such as Three Marvel Pill; for dampness-heat diarrhea, it can be used with chinese pulsatilla root, Coptis Rhizome, ash bark and other medicines, such as Pulsatilla Decoction; used to treat dampness-heat jaundice and red urine, often combined with Gardenia is used together, such as Gardenia and Phelloendron Decoction.
- For sore and ulcer swelling and pain, eczema and eczema. This product can not only clear heat and drying dampness, but also clear heat and remove toxin. It can be used internally or externally to treat swelling and poisoning of sores and ulcers. For internal use, it is mostly used with Coptis Rhizome and Gardenia. For external use, grind this product into fine powder and use pig gall fel. Or apply egg to the affected area; to treat eczema, pruritus vuluae swelling of vulva, it can be used with Schizonepeta, Sophora, Cnidium Fruit can be used for internal or external washing. It can also be mixed with Indigo, Talc and Liquorice Root for grinding. Apply finely.
- For yin-deficiency fever, night sweat seminal emission. This product is good at clearing ministerial fire and reducing deficiency heat. Often used with Anemarrhena mutual reinforcement, and paired with Prepared Rehmannia Root, cornus, Tortoise Carapace and other nourishing yin and Use with reducing fire medicines, such as Anemarrhena, Phelloendron and Rehmannia Pill, Major Yin-Tonifying Pill.
[Documentation]
- Benjing: "Maintains heat in the five zang-organs of the intestines and stomach, jaundice, intestinal hemorrhoids, and is good for stopping diarrhea. Women with fistula disease have red and white lower limbs, and vaginal injuries and sores."
- Zhenzhunang: "Phelloendron Bark has six uses: purging bladder (dragon fire), the first element; diuresis and constipation, the second element; removing lower energizer and swelling, the third element; dysentery and seeing blood first, the fourth element; Pain in the navel is the fifth symptom; insufficiency in nourishing the kidneys and strengthening the bone marrow is the sixth symptom.”
[Usage and Dosage]
Decoction, take 5-10g or make it into pills and powder. Appropriate amount for external use. It is often used for clearing heat and drying dampness to remove toxin; it is often used for purging fire, removing evaporation and reducing fever, and it is often used for burning with salt water; it is mostly used for stirring-frying to scorch to stop bleeding.
[Precaution]
This product is bitter and cold and can easily injure stomach qi, so it should not be used by those with deficiency-cold of spleen and stomach.
[Modern Pharmacology]
This product contains berberine, Phelloendron Bark base and other alkaloids. In addition, there are Phelloendron Bark ketones, Phelloendron Bark lactones, etc. The antibacterial spectrum and antibacterial efficacy of Phelloendron Bark are similar to those of Coptis Rhizome. It has inhibitory effects on dysentery bacilli, disease caused by cold bacilli, subcutaneous node bacilli, Staphylococcus aureus, hemolytic streptococci and other pathogenic bacteria; it has an inhibitory effect on some skin diseases. The fungus also has inhibitory effects on Leptospira and hepatitis B surface antigen; it has a protective effect on platelets; external use can promote the absorption of subcutaneous blood; in addition, it also has choleretic, diuretic, antihypertensive, antipyretic and other effects, but its effect is not as good as Coptis Rhizome. Phelloendron Bark also has the effect of lowering blood sugar and promoting antibody production in mice.