This product is the tuber of Pineilia (Pinellia ternata (Thunb.) Breit.), a perennial herbaceous plant of the Arisaema family. Available in most areas of our country. Mainly produced in Sichuan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Anhui and other places. In summer and autumn, it is excavated when the stems and leaves are luxuriant, the outer skin and fibrous roots are removed, dried in the sun, and then half grown. It is generally prepared with ginger juice and alum and used as medicine.

[Property]

Acrid, warm. toxic. act on spleen, stomach and lung channels.

[Efficacy]

drying dampness and resolving phlegm, downbearing counterflow to stop vomiting, eliminating stuffiness and resolving phlegm; external use subduing swelling to relieve pain.

1. For wet phlegm, cold-phlegm syndrome/pattern. This product is pungent, warm and dry, and is an important medicine for drying dampness and resolving phlegm, warming and resolving cold-phlegm. It is especially good at treating damp phlegm in zang-fu organs. To treat phlegm-dampness, cough qi counterflow and thick phlegm, it is often used with tangerine peel, such as Two Old Ingredients Decoction; to treat damp phlegm vertigo , then use Gastrodia Tuber and White Atractylodes Rhizome to resolving phlegm to calm the wind, and add Pineilia, White Atractylodes and Gastrodia Decoction. In recent years, Pineilia-based resolving phlegm relieving stuffy orifices decoction (Pineilia, White Atractylodes Rhizome, Sheng Nanxing, Alisma, Acorus, Cinnamon Twig) has been used clinically for resolving phlegm relieving stuffy orifices. , Chrysanthemum Flower) are effective in treating otogenic vertigo. To treat those with excessive dampness and phlegm, disharmony of stomach and qi and restless sleep at night, use Glutinous Sorghum to resolving phlegm harmonizing the middle and tranquilizing mind.
2. For stomach qi ascending counterflow vomiting. Pineilia asked for medicine to stop nausea. It can be used in any combination of medicinals for various reasons of vomiting, especially for phlegm-fluid retention or stomach cold vomiting. Often used with Fresh Ginger Rhizome, such as Minor Pinellia Decoction; if stomach heat vomiting is used, use Coptis Rhizome; stomach yin deficiency For vomiting, use stone, Ophiopogon Tuber; for stomach qi deficiency vomiting, use Ginseng and white honey, such as Major Pineilia Decoction. As for vomiting of pregnancy, although there is a taboo on pregnancy, there have been people in the past dynasties who used it as a remedy for calming fetus. In modern times, this product has been used as an injection for intramuscular injection to treat various vomiting cases.
3. Used for epigastric stuffiness, thoracic accumulation, plum-stone qi (globus hystericus), etc. Pineilia Xinkai Sanjie, resolving phlegm eliminate stuffiness. To treat epigastric stuffiness and dampness-heat retardation, use Dried Ginger, Coptis Rhizome, Skullcap Root to dispersing stagnation and Purging heat with bitter and pungent medicinals, relieving stuffiness and dispersing stagnation, such as Pineilia Heart-Draining Decoction; treating phlegm heat accumulation in the chest, with Trichosanthis Fruit, Coptis Rhizome, such as Minor Chest Bind Decoction; to treat plum-stone qi (globus hystericus), qi depression and phlegm coagulation, use Perilla Leaf, thick Supplement, Poria, etc., to regulate qi and relieving depression, resolving phlegm and dissipating mass, such as Pinellia and Magnolia Bark Decoction.
4. It is used for gall subcutaneous nodule, Yongju swelling and poisonous snake bite, etc. This product can dispersing phlegm when taken internally, and can subduing swelling to relieve pain when used externally. Treat gall subcutaneous nodule, with kelp, seaweed, Fritillaria Bulb, etc.; treat Yongju back gangrene , innominate swelling pain, poisonous snake bite, grind the raw product into powder for application or pound the fresh product for application.
5. In modern clinical practice, this product is also effective in treating cervical erosion of uterus when it is ground into powder and used locally. It is better if its chloroform extract is used; there is also an equal amount of this product and Arisaema Grind raw powder into pills and take it to treat coronary heart disease, which has certain effects on relieving colicky pain and improving electrocardiogram; grind this product with Acorus and blow into the nose and spray it to treat supraventricular tachycardia; and raw Pineilia with other Drugs to treat tumors, etc.

[Documentation]

1. Bielu: "Xiaoxin, abdominal, chest and diaphragm, phlegm-heat and congestion, cough abnormal rising of qi, epigastric distress, pain, stuffiness, seasonal epidemic, vomiting, carbuncle swelling, early abortion." "
2. Yixue Qiyuan: "Cure cold phlegm and cold-shaped drinks that hurt the lungs and cause cough. Dahe stomach qi, except stomach cold, take food. Treat Taiyin phlegm syncope headache, which cannot be cured. "
3. "The Secret Key to Indications" says: "Drying stomach dampness, resolving phlegm, benefiting the spleen and stomach, subduing swelling and dissipating bind, and removing phlegm and saliva in the chest."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoction, 3 ~ 10g, generally suitable for use. Preparation of Pineilia includes ginger Pineilia, Pro Formula Pinellia, etc. Ginger Pineilia is good at downbearing counterflow to stop vomiting; Pro Formula Pinellia is good at drying dampness and weak in temperature. Fermented Pineilia has the function of resolving phlegm and promoting digestion. As for Bomboo Juice Pineilia, its medicinal property changes from warm to cool, can clear and resolving heat phlegm, and is mainly used to treat hot phlegm and wind phlegm. Appropriate amount for external use.

[Precaution]

Anti-Aconite Mother Root. Its nature is warm and dry. Generally speaking, it should be used with caution due to yin deficiency, dry cough, hemorrhagic syndrome, hot phlegm, and dry phlegm. However, it can also be used after combination of medicinals heat-phlegm syndrome/pattern.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains sitosterol and glucoside, a variety of amino acids and volatile oils, saponins, spicy alcohols, choline, L-Ephedra base and other alkaloids, and a small amount of fat, starch, etc.

• It has a sedative effect on the cough center, can relieve bronchospasm, and reduce bronchial secretion to have an antitussive and dispelling phlegm effect;
• can inhibit the vomiting center and stop vomiting;
• contains glucural Acid derivatives have significant removing toxin effects;
• Pineilia has significant anti-early pregnancy effects in mice, and decoction can reduce intraocular pressure in rabbits.