This product is the mature fruit of Dutohmanspipe Fruit (Aristolochia contorta Bge.) or Dutohmanspipe Fruit (A. debilis Sieb. et Zucc.), a perennial vine of the family Dutohmanspipe Fruit. The former is mainly produced in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Hebei and other places, while the latter is produced in Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang and other places. The fruits are harvested in autumn when they turn from green to yellow, and are used raw or roasted in honey.

[Property]

bitter and slightly acrid, cold. act on lung and large intestine channels.

[Efficacy]

clearing the lung and resolving phlegm, relieving cough and asthma.

Mainly used for lung heat cough and asthma. This product is cold in nature and light in quality. It mainly enters the lung meridian. It has a bitter taste and relieves lung qi. It is good at resolving phlegm and relieving cough. It is most suitable for treating lung heat cough with phlegm and asthma. It is often used with White Mulberry Root-Bark, Skullcap Root, loquat leaf and the like; If lung deficiency means excessive fire, wheezing, coughing, dry throat, or blood in the sputum, use Donkey-hide Gelatin or the like to enrich yin and clearing the lung to relieve cough and asthma, such as Lung-boosting Donkey-hide Gelatin Soup. In addition, this product can clear away the accumulated heat in the large intestine and treat swelling and pain in hemorrhoids. It can clear away heat, calm the liver and lower blood pressure, and treat patients with hypertension and ascendant hyperactivity of liver yang.

1. Yaoxing Lun "The main lung qi is urgent, unable to sit still, and coughing continuously."
2. Bencao Jingshu "Dutohmanspipe Fruit, human lung It can remove heat and cause Qi to fall. If the cough is a disease caused by rising Qi, the cough will subside. It is also a lung heat disease and should be treated with blood hemorrhoids and fistulas. Moreover, hemorrhoids belong to the large intestine, and the large intestine and the lungs are the exterior and interior. If the heat in the internal organs is cleared, the heat in the fu organs will also be cleared, so it is also the main factor."

[Usage and Dosage]

Take it as a decoction, 3 to 10g; for external use, decoct it and smoke it for washing. It is generally used raw and used for lung deficiency, cough and chronic disease.

[Precaution]

The dosage should not be too large to avoid vomiting.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains alkali, magnolinine, acid, sub-acid, etc.

• decoction has a weak dispelling phlegm effect on anesthetized rabbits; for isolated guinea pig bronchial perfusion, 1% infusion can relax it and resist bronchospasm caused by pilocarpine, acetylcholine and histamine. .
• Dutohmanspipe Fruit Alkali subcutaneous injection can cause severe nephritis. Large amounts can cause hematuria, anuria, difficulty breathing, irregular pulse, and even respiratory arrest and death.