This product is a perennial herbaceous plant of the Dutohmanspipe Fruit family, Northern Asarum (Asarum heterotropides Fr. Schmidt var. mandshuricum (Maxim.) Kitag.) Seoul Asarum (Asarum sieboldii Miq. var. seoulense Nakai) or the whole plant of Asarum (Asarum sieboldii Miq.). The first two are commonly called "Asarum" and are mainly produced in Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang; the latter are mainly produced in Shaanxi and other places. Harvest in summer and autumn, dry in the shade and use raw.

[Property]

Acrid, warm. slightly toxic. act on lung, kidney and heart channels.

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

dispelling wind, relieving stuffy orifices, relieving pain, warming lung and resolving fluid retention.

[Indications]

1. For wind-cold common cold, yang deficiency external contraction. This product dispelling wind dispels cold, reaches the outside and enters the inside. It enters the lung meridian and disperses on the surface wind-cold. It is often used with Notopterygium, Saposhnikovia Root and Dahurian Angelica. The treatment is generally wind- cold common cold, such as Nine-lngredient Notopterygium Decoction; enters the kidney meridian and removes interior cold evil, often with Aconite Lateral Root, Ephedra is used together to treat aversion to cold without sweating, fever and yang deficiency external contraction, such as Ephedra, Asarum and Aconite Decoction.
2. Used to treat headache, sinusitis, toothache and paralysis. The pungent aroma of this product spreads, dispelling wind and cold, relieving stuffy nose, and relieving pain. It is used to treat external contraction, wind evil, and headache. It is always used with Sichuan Lovage Rhizome, Dahurian Angelica, Notopterygium, such as Tea-Blended Ligusticum Powder; if it is used to treat pain, it will be as if it were broken, and the pulse will be weak and tight. It should also be used with Sichuan Lovage Rhizome, Ephedra and Aconite Lateral Root can be used together, such as Asarum soup. For the treatment of wind evil affecting the lungs, nasal congestion, sinusitis, headache and runny nose, it can be used with Magnolia, Dahurian Angelica, Cocklebur Fruit and the like. use. To treat cold toothache, you can use Asarum alone or decoct it with Dahurian Angelica for gargling, or add long pepper together with decoction and gargle Asarum soup (Shengji Zonglu ) all have good effects; if the stomach fire is toothache, it should also be supplemented with Gypsum, Coptis Rhizome, Cimicifuga Rhizome can be used together with stomach fire clearing medicine; if the toothache is infested by worms, it can be used with honeycomb, a decoction of killing worms to relieve pain, and be gargled. To treat wind-cold-dampness impediment, waist and knee cold pain, it is often used with Pubescent Angelica, Chinese Taxillus Herb, Saposhnikovia Root and the like. , such as Pubescent Angelica and Taxillus Decoction.
3. It is used to stop drinking due to cold phlegm, qi counterflow and wheezing and coughing. This pungent powder warms dryness, can not only dissipate exterior cold externally, but also lower qi and eliminate phlegm, warm lung and resolving fluid retention, so it can be used to treat external contraction wind-cold, incontinence of water drinking, wheezing and coughing, excessive and thin phlegm. , often used synonymously with Ephedra, Cinnamon Twig, Dried Ginger, such as Minor Green-Blue Dragon Decoction; If there is no external pathogen, it is purely cold phlegm that stops drinking and involves the lungs, and those with qi counterflow asthma and cough can be used with Poria, Dried Ginger, Schisandra Fruit is equivalent to Potia, Licorice, Schisandra, Ginger and Asarum Decoction.
4. In addition, this product is Xin Wen Xing Powder, with a clear aroma, which can be used to clear the resuscitation and wake up the mind after blowing the nose and sneezing. It is used to treat sudden lockjaw, air blockage, coma, complexion, paleness, and trismus caused by attack of noxious factor or phlegm syncope, which belong to syndrome/pattern of obstruction and excess syndrome/pattern. It is often used with Chinese Honeylocust Fruit Grind into powder and mix well, blow a little into the nose and sneeze, such as Tongguan powder; it can also be used alone as powder, blow into the nose and sneeze.

[Documentation]

1. Benjing: "Mainly responsible for cough, headache, joints of body, wind-dampness, dead muscles... improving vision, benefiting nine orifices."
2. Bencao Bieshuo: "If Asarum is used alone, it cannot pass the powder on half coin. If it is used too much, the air will be stuffy and the person who cannot pass will die."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoction and take, 2 to 5g; powder into pills, use 0.5 to 1g. Appropriate amount for external use.

[Precaution]

It is contraindicated for yin deficiency with yang hyperactivity headache, dryness of the lung damage to yin dry cough. Counter false hellebore .

Traditional Chinese medicine can effectively treat dry eye syndrome, floaters, retinopathy, and various chronic eye diseases

This product contains volatile oil, the main component of which is methyl Clove oleyl phenol, and also contains sassafras, N-isobutyldodecatetraenamine and racemic nor-Lindera base.

1. Asarum volatile oil, water and alcohol extracts have antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, sedative, anticonvulsant and local anesthetic effects respectively; large doses of volatile oil can first excite and then inhibit the central nervous system, showing a certain toxic side effect;
2. Its alcohol extract and volatile oil have antibacterial effects in vitro experiments;
3. The racemic nor-Lindera base contained in it has a wide range of effects such as strengthening the heart, dilating blood vessels, relaxing smooth muscles, enhancing lipid metabolism, and raising blood sugar;
4. >The sassafras contained in it is highly toxic and a carcinogen, and is easily destroyed by high temperatures.