This product is the root of the Lauraceae shrub or small tree plant Lindera (Lindera aggregata (Sims) Kosterm.). Mainly produced in Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shaanxi and other places. It can be excavated throughout the year, the fine roots removed, sliced ​​fresh and dried in the sun. Use raw or fried with bran.

[Property]

Acrid, warm. act on lung, spleen, kidney and bladder channels.

[Efficacy]

moving qi to relieve pain, warming the kidney to dissipate cold.

[Indications]

1. It is used for chest and abdominal pain caused by congealing cold and qi stagnation. This product is a pungent powder that warms and relieves pain, dissipates cold and relieves pain. To treat chest and flank stuffy pain, it can be used with Longstamen Onion Bulb, Trichosanthis Fruit peel, and Corydalis Tuber. To treat abdominal distension and fullness pain, it can be used equally with Cyperus, Aucklandia Root, and Dried Tangerine Peel. To treat cold abdominal colic abdominal pain, it is often used synonymously with Fennel, green tangerine peel, Lesser Galangal Rhizome, such as Heavenly Platform Lindera Powder. To treat dysmenorrheal, it can be used with Chinese Angelica, Cyperus, Aucklandia Root, such as Jiyin Gangmu Lindera Soup.
2. For frequent urination and enuresis. This product has the effect of warming the kidney to dissipate cold, reducing urination and stopping diarrhea. To treat kidney deficiency, bladder deficiency and cold, frequent urination and infantile enuresis, often used with Sharpleaf Galangal Fruit and Chinese Yam, add Urination-Reducing Pill.

[Documentation]

1. Bencao Shiyi: "The main body is nausea abdominal pain,... retained food does not disappear, the weather is plagued by epidemic diseases, the cold air between the bladder and kidneys attacks the back, the woman's blood, and the child's abdomen "
2. Bencao Gangmu: "Cure athlete's foot, hernia, syncope headache, swelling and shortness of breath, and relieve frequent urination and white turbidity."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take, 3~10g.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains alkaloids and volatile oils. The main components in the oil are Lindera alkane, Lindera hydrocarbon, Lindera alcohol, Lindera acid, Lindera alcohol ester, etc. Lindera has a two-way regulatory effect on gastrointestinal smooth muscle, excitatory and inhibitory, and can promote the secretion of digestive juices. Its volatile oil can excite the cerebral cortex, promote breathing, excite the myocardium, accelerate blood circulation, increase blood pressure and induce sweating when taken internally; external application can dilate local blood vessels, accelerate blood circulation, and relieve muscle spasm pain.