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[Variety Source]

This product is the resin of the Storax tree (Liquidambar orientalis Mill.) of the Hamamelidaceae tree. Mainly produced in Africa, India and Turkey, it is cultivated in Guangxi, my country. In early summer, the bark is wounded or cut deep into the wood, allowing the fragrant resin to penetrate into the bark. In autumn, the bark is peeled off and the fragrant resin is extracted, which is ordinary Storax. If ordinary Storax is dissolved in alcohol, filtered, and the alcohol is evaporated, it is refined Storax. The finished product should be kept in a cool place and sealed.

[Property]

Acrid, warm. act on heart and spleen channels.

[Efficacy]

resuscitation: wake up the mind, eliminate filth and relieve pain.

[Indications]

  1. Used for cold unconsciousness. Storax has a strong pungent aroma, has a resuscitation effect, and is good at warming and clearing away impurities. Therefore, it is suitable for treating unconsciousness caused by coldness, green face, cool body, white coating, and slow pulse. For example, when treating apoplexy phlegm syncope, fright epilepsy, etc. that are caused by cold evil and phlegm turbid internal obstruction, it should be treated with musk, benzoin, sandalwood Equivalently used, such as Styrax Pill.
  2. Used for chest and abdominal cold pain, fullness and tightness. This product has the effects of warming and clearing, dissolving turbidity and opening up depression, dispelling cold and relieving pain. It is used to treat phlegm, blood stasis or congealing cold and qi stagnation, chest gastric stuffiness, cold pain and other diseases. It is often used with borneol, such as Coronary Heart Styrax Pill Or Su Bing drop pill.
  3. In recent years, Coronary Heart Styrax Pill or Su Bing drop pill have been used to treat coronary heart disease and heart colicky pain, which can relieve pain quickly, have good and long-lasting effects, and have no side effects. Styrax Pill is also useful for treating biliary ascariasis.

[Documentation]

  1. Bielu: "The main thing is to ward off evil,...warm malaria, parasitic toxin, epilepsy, remove three insects, and eliminate evil."
  2. Bencao Gangmu: , the fragrance of the gas flows, and it can penetrate all the orifices and zang-fu organs, so its function is to ward off all unhealthy gas. "
  3. Benjing Fengyuan: "It can penetrate all the orifices and evacuate all unhealthy qi. Whenever phlegm accumulates qi syncope, it must be enlightened first. The treatment of phlegm is based on regulating qi. All mountain mist diseases If the dampness attacks the meridians and causes uneven relaxation, it cannot be cured. However, it is contraindicated for those with dryness and yin deficiency.

[Usage and Dosage]

Take it as pill powder, 0.3~1g each time. Not included in decoction.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains free cassia bark acid, cassia bark fat and volatile oil. The components in the oil are styrene, vanillin, and ethyl vanillin.

Storax is an irritating dispelling phlegm drug with weak antibacterial effect and can be used for various respiratory infections; it also has a mild stimulating effect, which can relieve local inflammation and promote the healing of ulcers and wounds; it has the ability to enhance tolerance The role of hypoxic ability is to slow down the heart rate, improve coronary flow and reduce myocardial oxygen consumption in experimental myocardial infarction in dogs; it also has anti-platelet aggregation activity.

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