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drug nameAquilaria
categoryRegulate Qi
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[Variety Source]

This product is the resin-containing wood of the evergreen tree plant Aquilaria (Aquilaria agallocha Roxb.) and white Aucklandia Root (A. sinensis (Lour.) Gilg) of the Thymeaceae family. White Aucklandia Root is mainly produced in Hainan, Guangdong, Yunnan, Taiwan and other places; Aquilaria is mainly produced in Southeast Asia, India and other places. It can be harvested all year round. Cut the resin-containing wood, remove the resin-free part, and dry it in the shade. File the ends. For raw use.

[Property]

Acrid and bitter, warm. act on spleen, stomach and kidney channels.

[Efficacy]

moving qi to relieve pain, warming middle and arresting vomiting, improving qi reception and relieving dyspnea.

[Indications]

  1. For chest, abdominal distension and fullness pain. This product is pungent and warm in nature, and is good at dispersing pudendal coldness and moving qi to relieve pain in the chest and abdomen. Treats abdominal distension and fullness pain caused by congealing cold and qi stagnation, often used with Lindera, Aucklandia Root, Areca Seed, Add "Healthy Home Treasure" Aquilaria Four Milled Ingredients Decoction. To treat deficiency-cold of spleen and stomach cold pain, it is often used with Cassia Bark, Dried Ginger, Aconite Lateral Root, etc. Use, such as Weisheng Baojian Aquilaria, Cinnamon Bark and Aconite Daughter Root Pill.
  2. For stomach cold vomiting. This product is pungent and warm, dissipates cold, tastes bitter and reduces diarrhea, and is good at warming stomach and dissipating cold, downbearing counterflow to stop vomiting. To treat cold evil in the stomach, vomiting clear water can be used with Dried Tangerine Peel, mountain spicy tree fruit, Pepper Fruit, such as Shengji Zonglu Aquilaria Pills. To treat stomach cold for a long time, it can be used equally with Persimmon Calyx, Cardamon Fruit, and Perilla Leaf.
  3. For deficiency-type dyspnea syndrome. This product can not only arm the kidney to improve qi reception, but also downbear counterflow and relieving panting. It is suitable for treating deficiency-type dyspnea syndrome of deficiency and coldness of the kidney and failure of kidney to receive qi. It is often used with Cassia Bark, Aconite Lateral Root, Psoralea and the like, such as Black Tin Pill. To treat phlegm-fluid retention of upper excess and lower deficiency, it is often used with cultivated puple perilla fruit, Pineilia, Magnolia Bark Equivalent.

[Documentation]

  1. Bielu: "Cure wind edema poisonous swelling, remove malign qi."
  2. Rihuazi Bencao: "Tune the middle, replenish five zang-organs , tonifying yang, warming the waist and knees, stopping spasm, vomiting and diarrhea, cold wind paralysis, joint indifference, wind-dampness cutaneous pruitus, dysentery. "
  3. Bencao Jingshu: " Aquilaria is an important medicine for treating cold air, adverse qi, and qi stagnation."

[Usage and Dosage]

Take it as a decoction, 1~3g, preferably to be decocted later; or take infused juice, or powder into pills, 0.5~1g each time.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains volatile oil. The oil contains benzyl acetone, p-methoxybenzyl acetone, etc. In addition, it also contains hydrogenated cassia bark acid, p-methoxy hydrogenated cassia bark acid, etc. This product has an inhibitory effect on the movement of the isolated small intestine of rabbits. The volatile oil contained in it can promote the secretion of digestive juices and gall fel.

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