This product is the fruit of the leguminous deciduous tree plant Chinese Honeylocust Fruit (Gleditisia sinensis Lam.), also known as Chinese Honeylocust Fruit. Those with a flat and long shape are called big Chinese Honeylocust Fruit; small fruits produced after the plant is injured and bent into a crescent shape are called Abnormal Chinese Honeylocust Fruit, also known as small Chinese Honeylocust Fruit, and they are both used as medicine. Mainly produced in Sichuan, Hebei, Shaanxi, Henan and other places. Pick ripe fruits in autumn, dry them, slice them (without removing the seeds) and use them raw or fried.

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Acrid and salty, warm. slightly toxic. act on lung and large intestine channels.

[Efficacy]

Eliminate stubborn phlegm, opening orifices and unblocking block, dispelling wind and killing worms.

[Indications]

1. It is used for symptoms of stubborn phlegm blocking the lungs, cough and wheezing with excessive phlegm. The pungent properties of this product can ease the airway, and the salty content can soften cemented phlegm. Therefore, if you have difficulty with dyspnea, thick phlegm, or difficulty lying down, you can grind Chinese Honeylocust Fruit into powder, make a pill with honey, and take it with jujube soup, that is, Jingui Yaolue Chinese Honeylocust Fruit Pills. In modern times, this product has been combined with Ephedra and pig gall fel to make a tablet to treat cough, wheezing and phlegm.
2. It is used for syndromes of excessive phlegm and obstruction of the orifices. The taste of this medicine is pungent, and it causes sneezing when entering the nose, and vomiting when entering the throat. It can relieve cough and relieving stuffy orifices, so it can be used by people with excessive phlegm and saliva such as apoplexy, phlegm syncope, epilepsy, pharyngitis, etc. If mixed with Asarum, grind it into powder, blow into the nose and sneeze, it will be Tongguan Powder; or mix with alum to make powder, mix it with warm water, and then spit out phlegm and saliva. resolving phlegm for resuscitation The refreshing effect, namely Saliva-Diluting Powder.
3. In addition, boiling the ointment for external application can treat sores that have not yet ulcerated. It has the effect of dispersing knots and reducing swelling; soaking in vinegar and grinding it into powder and applying it can treat psoriasis. It has the effect of dispelling wind and killing worms and relieving itching. In modern times, it has been used to treat constipation and mild dynamic intestinal obstruction. Use 12 grams of Chinese Honeylocust Fruit and 12 grams of Asarum, grind them into powder, add 120 grams of honey and mix thoroughly. Heat the suppository, 1 strip at a time, and insert it into the anus.

[Documentation]

1. Benjing: "Main migratory impediment of dead muscles, pathogenic qi, tears in the limelight, semen, beneficial nine orifices."
2. Bencao Gangmu: " It can relieve swollen and large intestinal qi, cure pharyngitis, pharyngitis, cough, wind and pestilent qi and scabies. "It has a pungent taste and dry nature, and the air will float and disperse. Blow it to guide it, and it will clear the upper and lower orifices; take it." To treat wind-dampness, phlegm, asthma and swelling, it can kill worms; apply it to disperse swelling and disinfect it, and treat wind-dampness. "
3. Benjing Fengyuan: "The two soaps, big and small, are slightly different in treatment. To treat wind phlegm, tooth soap is the best. If it is to treat damp phlegm, dazao is the best."

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[Usage and Dosage]

Grind more and take it, 1~1.5g; you can also add it into decoction, 1.5~5g. Appropriate amount for external use.

[Precaution]

The dose for oral administration should not be too large, otherwise it may cause vomiting and diarrhea. This product is pungent and has a strong wandering property, so it should not be taken lightly by those who are not stubborn or strong in phlegm syndrome/pattern. It should not be used by pregnant women, those with qi deficiency and those with bleeding tendencies.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains triterpenoid saponins, etc. Saponins can stimulate the gastric mucus membrane and reflexively promote the secretion of respiratory mucus, thereby producing dispelling phlegm effects: decoction has an excitatory effect on isolated rat uterus; it has an inhibitory effect on Viola trichophyton and Nocardia stariformis. A large amount of saponins contained in Chinese Honeylocust Fruit not only stimulate the gastrointestinal mucosal membrane, causing vomiting and diarrhea, but also corrode the gastric mucosal membrane, causing absorption poisoning, and even systemic toxicity, causing hemolysis, especially affecting the central nervous system, first spasming and then Paralysis, paralysis of the respiratory center and death.

[Supplementary Medication]

Chinese Honeylocust Fruit thorn: It is the thorn of the Chinese Honeylocust Fruit tree, also known as Chinese Honeylocust Fruit needle. Pungent and warm in nature and flavor. Function: Expelling pus, dispelling wind and killing worms. It is used for the initial onset of ulcers or the symptoms of pus that cannot be ulcerated, as well as for tinea, leprosy, etc. Decoction and take 8 to 10 grams. For external use, apply an appropriate amount of vinegar to the affected area. Yongju should not be used if it has collapsed.