[Variety Source]

This product is the root of Saposhnikovia Root (Saposhnikovia divaricata (Turez.) Schischk.), a perennial herbaceous plant of the Umbelliferae family. Mainly produced in Northeast China, Hebei, Sichuan, Yunnan and other places. Excavated in spring and autumn, dried and sliced ​​for raw use or stir-frying to scorch.

[Property]

Acrid and sweet, slightly warm. act on bladder, liver and spleen channels.

[Efficacy]

It can dispel wind, eliminate dampness, relieve pain, relieve spasm and diarrhea.

[Indications]

1. For common cold headache, rubella cutaneous pruitus. This product is pungent and warm, with a rising odor. It is pungent and is good at treating wind. It not only disperses wind evil on the surface of the muscles, but also removes moisture from the meridians. It is good at relieving pain and is slightly warm but not dry. For the treatment of syndrome/pattern of common cold due to wind-cold, headache, body pain, and aversion to wind-cold, it is often combined with Schizonepeta, Notopterygium, Pubescent Angelica can be used together with other medicines, such as Schizonepeta and Saposhnikovia Toxin-Vanquishing Powder; it can also be used to treat external contraction, wind-dampness, headache, heavy body and limb pain. YAO L>Notopterygium, Chinese Lovage and other medicines can be used together, such as Notopterygium Overcoming Dampness Decoction; it can also be used to treat syndrome/pattern of common cold due to wind and heat, fever aversion to wind, sore throat and slight cough, often combination of medicinals Mentha, Cicada Slough, Forsythia and other pungents -cool exterior-releasing medicinal Same use. To treat rubella cutaneous pruitus, use a combination of medicinals such as Sophora, Schizonepeta, Chinese Angelica, etc. Used together, such as Wind-Dispersing Powder.
2. Used for wind-dampness. This product dispelling wind dispels cold, overcomes dampness and relieves pain. It is suitable for those with wind-cold-dampness impediment, joint pain and acute tendon spasm. It can be used in combination of medicinals Notopterygium, Cinnamon Twig , Turmeric and other wind-damp-dispelling medicinal, such as Impediment-Alleviating Decoction.
3. For tetanus certificates. This product can dispelling wind and relieving convulsion. It is used to treat internal wind toxin invasion, penetrating through the meridians, inducing internal wind, and tetanus syndrome with opisthotonus. It is often used in combination of medicinals Gastrodia Tuber, Arisaema, giant typhonium rhizome and other medicines can be used together, such as Jade-like Vitality Powder.
4. In addition, it is used for liver depression, spleen damage, abdominal pain and diarrhea. This product can be used to stop diarrhea when stir-fried. Often used in combination of medicinals Dried Tangerine Peel, Peony Root, White Atractylodes Rhizome, such as Pain and Diarrhea Vital Formula. This product is stir-frying to scorch and can still be used to treat liver depression, abdominal pain, diarrhea and bloody defecation.

[Documentation]

1. Benjing: "It is mainly used for strong wind, dizziness and headache, aversion to wind, wind evil blindness is invisible, wind spreads all over the body, joint pain."
2. Bencao Huiyan: "It is responsible for all kinds of wind, general paralysis, joint pain, cramps of limbs, wilting impediment, epilepsy and other diseases."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take, 3~10g.

[Precaution]

People with yin deficiency with effulgent fire and blood deficiency with convulsions should use with caution.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains volatile oil, mannitol, bitterness, acids, polysaccharides and organic acids.

This product has antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic and anti-convulsant effects. The fresh juice of Saposhnikovia Root has certain antibacterial effects on Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus. Decoction has different effects on dysentery bacilli and hemolytic streptococci. degree of inhibition.