This product is an oil gum resin exuded from the bark of the Olive family shrub or tree myrrh tree (Commiphora myrrha Engl.) or other plants of the same genus. Mainly produced in Africa, Somalia, Ethiopia and India. From November to February of the following year, collect the oil gum resin that exudes from the cracks in the bark and turns into reddish-brown hard pieces in the air. Clean the bark to remove impurities, break it into pieces, and fry it.

[Property]

bitter and acrid, neutral. act on heart, liver and spleen channels.

[Efficacy]

dredging collaterals and relieving pain, resolving swelling to promote tissue regeneration.

The efficacy of this product is similar to frankincense. It can treat bruises, bruises, stasis, swelling and pain, surgical Yongju swelling and pain, sore and ulcer, long-lasting mouth ulcers, and all stasis and confidants. All kinds of pain are often used with frankincense mutual reinforcement. The difference between the two is that frankincense tends to move qi and stretch muscles; myrrh tends to disperse blood and remove blood stasis. In modern times, myrrh has been used clinically to treat hyperlipidemia to a certain extent.

[Documentation]

1. Yaoxing Lun: "The main focus is on injuries, blood stasis of confidants, fractures, bruises and pain in muscles and bones, damage by the golden blade, unbearable pain."
2. Bencao Gangmu: "It dissipates blood, reduces swelling, relieves pain and promotes tissue regeneration." "Frankincense activates blood circulation, and myrrh disperses blood, both of which can relieve pain, resolute swelling and promote tissue regeneration, so the two drugs are often used together."
3. Yixue Zhongzhong Canxilu: "Frankincense and myrrh, two drugs used together, are the key drugs to clear zang-fu organs and circulate the meridians. Therefore, all pains in the heart, stomach, flanks, abdomen, limbs and joints can be cured. It is also good at treating women's menstruation. Abdominal pain, postpartum static blood pain, menstruation can not be used nowadays. It has the power of ventilation and blood circulation, and is good at treating wind-cold-dampness impediment, numbness of the whole body, limb paralysis and all sore and ulcer swelling and pain, or the sore is hard and painless. It can remove toxin and dispersing swelling when applied to sores and ulcers. Although it is a medicine for relieving pain, it does not consume qi and blood, so it is a good medicine."

[Usage and Dosage]

Same as frankincense.

[Precaution]

Same as frankincense. If used together with frankincense, the dosage of both drugs must be reduced accordingly.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains resin (a and b rare myrrh acid, a, b and g myrrh acid, myrrh nitric acid, a and b rare myrrh phenol), gum (hydrolyzed to obtain arabinose, galactose and xylose), volatile oil, etc.

It has varying degrees of inhibitory effects on a variety of pathogenic fungi; the resin has a blood-lipid-lowering effect on hypercholesterolemia in male rabbits and can prevent patch formation.