| drug name | Forsythia |
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This product is the fruit of Forsythia (Forsythia suspensa (Thunb.) Vahl.), a deciduous shrub of the family Oleaceae. Produced in Northeast my country, North China, Yangtze River Basin to Yunnan. There are both wild and domestic species. White Dew (15th solar term) The first-ripe fruits are picked before the harvest and are still green in color, so they are called Qingqiao. If ripe fruits are picked before Cold Dew (17th solar term), they will be yellow. Once harvested, the green leaves are steamed and dried in the sun, and the seeds are sifted out for use in Forsythia. Qingqiao is the best and can be used raw.
bitter, slightly cold. Act on lung, heart and gallbladder channels.
clearing heat and removing toxin, eliminating carbuncle and dissipating stagnation, releasing exterior with pungent-cool.
- For carbuncle sores, scrofula subcutaneous nodule. This product is bitter and cold, and it mainly enters the heart meridian. "All kinds of pain, itching and sores belong to the heart." This product can not only clear the heart fire and relieve sores, but also disperse qi and blood to coagulate. It also has the effect of eliminating carbuncles and dissipating stagnation. Known as the “Holy Medicine of the Family”. To treat carbuncles and sores, it is often used together with products that remove toxin and dispersing swelling such as Lonicera, Dandelion, wild chrysanthemum flower; Treat scrofula subcutaneous nodule, often combined with Prunella, Fritillaria Bulb , Scrophularia Root, oyster shell Use the same products as those for clearing the liver and dispersing stagnation, resolving phlegm and reducing swelling.
- Used for external contraction of wind-heat and the onset of warm disease. This product is bitter and can purge fire, and cold can clear away heat. It enters the heart and lung meridians. It is longer than clearing heart fire and dissipates upper energizer wind-heat. Often used synonymously with Lonicera, Mentha, Great Burdock Achene, such as Lonicera and Forsythia Powder; To treat heat, nutrient-blood, and unconsciousness of the tongue, it is often used synonymously with Scrophularia Root, Pan bark, and Lonicera. clearing heat and removing toxin, eliminating heat in nutrient aspect through qi aspect, such as Nutrient-Clearing Decoction; treating heat invading pericardium, high fever unconsciousness, commonly used Forsythia clearing heart and reducing fire heart and Ophiopogon Tuber, lotus plumule are equivalent, such as Palace-Clearing Decoction.
- This product can also be used to treat heat stranguria astringency and pain. It is often used with Bamboo Leaf, Akebia Stem, lalang grass rhizome and other diuretics Usually used together with medicine, it has the effect of clearing heart and diuresis.
- Benjing: "Lord Hanre, rat fistula, scrofula, carbuncle, malignant sore, gall, tuberculosis, parasitic toxin."
- Rihuazi Bencao: "Cure sores and boils to relieve pain."
- Zhenzhunang: "Forsythia has three uses: one is to relieve heat in the heart meridian; the other is to remove upper energizer heat, two Also; it is the holy medicine of the sore family, the third one."
Decoct and take, 6~15g.
Deficiency-cold of spleen and stomach and qi deficiency should not be used by those with clear pus.
This product contains triterpene saponins, and the peel contains sterols, phenolic components (Forsythia phenol), alkaloids, saponins, oleanolic acid, coumarins, as well as rich vitamin P and a small amount of volatile oil.
- Forsythia has a broad-spectrum antibacterial effect, has a strong inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus and dysentery bacilli, and has certain inhibitory effects on other pathogenic bacteria, influenza viruses, and fungi.
- Has anti-inflammatory effects.
- The oleanolic acid contained in this product has cardiotonic, diuretic and blood pressure lowering effects.
- Vitamin P can reduce blood vessel permeability and fragility and prevent hemolysis.
- decoction has anti-emetic and anti-liver injury effects.
