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drug nameFrankincense
[Variety Source]

This product is a resin exuded from the bark of the small tree of the Olive family, the frankincense tree (Boswellia carterii Birdw) and its congeners. Mainly produced in Somalia, Ethiopia and other places in Africa. It can be harvested in spring and summer. Cut the bark of the tree trunk from bottom to top in order, allowing the resin to ooze out and solidify after a few days, and then it can be harvested. It is often used as medicine and stir-fried.

[Property]

Acrid and bitter, warm. act on liver, heart and spleen channels.

[Efficacy]

invigorating blood and removing stagnation to relieve pain, resolving swelling to promote tissue regeneration.

[Indications]

  1. It is used for external traumatology, injury, sore and ulcer. This product can not only invigorating blood and resolving stasis to relieve pain, but also invigorating blood to resolve carbuncle, dispelling putridity to promote tissue regeneration, and is an important medicine for external traumatology. To treat bruises, stasis, swelling and pain, it is often combined with myrrh, Dragon's Blood Resin and other medicinals, such as Seven-Li-Weight Powder; Treat sore and ulcer with initial onset of swelling, redness, heat and pain, often combined with Lonicera, Dahurian Angelica, myrrh etc. of medicinals, to clear heat and remove toxin, activate blood circulation and reduce swelling, such as Immortal Formula Life-Saving Decoction; if Yongju, scrofula, subcutaneous nodule, the lump is hard and does not disappear, combination of medicinals myrrh, musk, Realgar to remove toxin to dissipate carbuncle, add Wake-Up Subsiding Pill Black Catechu, Dragon's Blood Resin and the like can be used, such as Yizong jinjian rotten Granulation-Promoting Powder.
  2. It is used to block various pain syndromes in static blood. Such as blood stasis and pain in the abdomen, abdominal mass, abdominal mass and wind-dampness arthralgia, etc. This product is pungent and warm, can invigorate blood and remove stagnation, relieve pain, and can remove blood stasis, stretch muscles and relieve paralysis, so it can treat the above syndromes. To treat blood stasis and pain in the abdomen and abdominal mass, it is often used with Chinese Angelica, Salvia, myrrh, such as harmonizing collaterals efficacious pill. To treat wind-cold-dampness impediment, limb pain and numbness, it is often used with Qiang Pubescent Angelica and Gentian, such as Yixue Xinwu Impediment-Alleviating Decoction.

[Documentation]

  1. Bielu: "To treat wind edema poisonous swelling, remove malign qi." "To treat rubella rash and itchy poison."
  2. Rihuazi Bencao: "To stop it. cholera...abdominal pain, malaria, soft extract to relieve pain and increase muscle growth. Take it into pills and stir-fry slightly to kill the poison. "
  3. Bencao Gangmu: "Eliminate Yongju. Various poisons, expelling toxin to protect the heart, promoting blood circulation, relieving pain and stretching muscles, treating difficult delivery and fracture of women."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoction, 3-10g, should be stir-fried to remove the oil. Appropriate amount for external use, raw or stir-fried, grind into powder and apply externally.

[Precaution]

Pregnant women and those without stasis should not use it; this product has turbid qi and a bitter taste, and can easily cause nausea and vomiting, so it is not suitable for oral administration; people with weak stomachs should use it with caution.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains resin (mainly free α, β─ frankincense fatty acids, combined frankincense fatty acids, frankincense resin hydrocarbons), gums (mainly calcium and magnesium salts of arabinic acid, xanthan gum), volatile oil, and a small amount of bitterness. It has analgesic effect.

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