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drug nameAmber
[Variety Source]

This product is a fossil-like substance transformed from the resin of ancient Pinaceae plants, such as maples and pine trees, after being buried underground for many years. Mainly produced in Yunnan, Guangxi, Liaoning, Henan, Fujian and other places. It can be mined at any time. After digging it out from the ground or coal seams, remove sand, gravel, soil and other impurities and grind it into powder for use.

[Property]

sweet, neutral. act on heart, liver and bladder channels.

[Efficacy]

setting heart and calming mind, invigorating blood and resolving stasis, diuretic and treating stranguria.

[Indications]

  1. Used for restlessness, palpitation insomnia, infantile convulsion and epilepsy. amber is of high quality, calming and calming the mind. It can calm the mind and calm the mind due to failure of mind to keep to its abode, palpitation due to fright insomnia, amnesia dreamfulness and other symptoms. It is often used with Cinnabar, Milkwort Root, Acorus and other combinations of medicinals, such as amber Mind-Stabilizing Pill. It is used to treat infantile convulsion, high fever, unconsciousness convulsion, epileptic seizures, spasm convulsion and other diseases. It also has the effect of calming convulsion and relieving convulsion. It can be used with Arisaema, Tabasheer, CinnabarEqually used, such as Dragon-Embracing Pill.
  2. Used for syndrome/pattern of blood stasis obstruction and stagnation. This product enters the heart and liver blood, has the effect of invigorating the blood to unblock meridians, dissipating blood stasis and eliminating diseases, and can be used to treat various blood stasis syndrome/patterns such as blood stasis swelling and pain, amenorrhea dysmenorrheal, heart stabbing pain, abdominal mass, abdominal mass, etc. If this product is ground into powder and taken infused, it can treat scrotal and labial hematoma in women, postpartum blood stasis, swelling and pain, etc.; it can be used with Chinese Angelica, Zedoary Rhizome, Lindera and other combinations of medicinals, namely "Lingyuan Prescription" Amber Powder, can treat blood stasis, amenorrhea and dysmenorrheal; and Sanqi Commonly used, grind into powder and take it, it can treat heart blood stasis and obstruction, chest impediment, heart pain; with Sparganium Rhizome, turtle carapace, Rhubarb Rhizoma and other combinations of medicinals, invigorating blood to dissipate bind, softening, hardening and dissipating the disease effect, can remove abdominal mass stuffiness block, such as Li Xunfang Amber Powder.
  3. For stranguria, ischuria. This product also has the effect of diuresis and treating stranguria, so it is used to treat stranguria, frequent urination, painful urination and ischuria, difficulty in urination. For example, "Zhizhi Fang" uses amber alone as a powder, and it will be effective immediately after taking Deng Xin Decoction. And because amber can disperse blood stasis and stop bleeding, it is especially suitable for blood stranguria. Use Fistular Onion Stalk to decoct and take infused amber to treat sand and gravel stranguria; this product is a combination of medicinals Christina Loosestrife and Sea Gold Sand, Akebia Stem and other diuretic and stranguria products are used to treat urolithic stranguria or heat stranguria.
  4. In addition, this product can be used externally as a myogenic and astringent drug for carbuncles and sores.

[Documentation]

  1. Bielu: "Anti five zang-organs, calm the soul,... eliminate static blood, clear the five stranguria."
  2. Bencao Shiyi: "Stop bleeding. , promote muscle growth, and heal incised wounds."
  3. Bencao Yanyi Buyi: "The ancient prescription is used to facilitate urination. It is effective in drying the spleen soil. The spleen can transport and transform, and the lung qi decreases, so urination can be smooth. If there is less blood, it will be unfavorable, and it will cause the patient to suffer from irritability."

[Usage and Dosage]

Grind into powder and take infused, 1.5~3g each time. Not included in decoction.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product mainly contains resin and volatile oil. In addition, it contains amber oxyrosin acid, amber rosin acid, amber silver pinic acid, amber fatty alcohol, amber rosin alcohol and amber acid, etc.

Amber acid has a central depressant effect, which can significantly reduce the spontaneous activities of mice and prolong the sleep time of mice caused by pentobarbital; it is also effective against audiogenic convulsions in rats, electroconvulsions in mice, and strychnine-induced drugs. Sexual convulsions, all have antagonistic effects.

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