This product is a perennial herbaceous plant of the Chinese Gentian family Gentian (Gentiana macrophylla Pall.), Mahua Gentian (G. straminea Maxim.), thick-stemmed Gentian (G. crassicaulis Duthie ex Burk.) or the roots of small Gentian (G. dahurica Fisch.). The first three types are commonly called "Gentian" and "Mahua Gentian" respectively according to their different characteristics, while the latter type is commonly known as "Little Gentian". Mainly produced in Shaanxi, Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Sichuan and other places. It is excavated in spring and autumn, dried in the sun, removed from the reed heads, and sliced ​​into slices.

bitter and acrid, slightly cold. act on stomach, liver and gallbladder channels.

[Efficacy]

dispelling wind dampness, relieving paralysis and pain, reducing deficiency heat, clearing dampness-heat.

[Indications]

1. It is used for wind-dampness arthralgia, muscle spasm, hand and foot paralysis, etc. This product can dispelling wind-dampness, relax muscles and collaterals, and smooth joints. It is also a moisturizer in wind-dampness medicine, so it can be used for all kinds of wind-dampness paralysis and pain. But it is cold in nature and clears away heat, so heat arthralgia is more suitable. If the joints are ever swollen and painful, it is often used with Honeysuckle Stem, Stephania Tetrandra, Phelloendron Bark; if the wind-cold-dampness impediment , pain and coldness in the limb joints, which occurs immediately when cold, can be combined with Gastrodia Tuber, Notopterygium, Chinese Angelica, Sichuan Lovage Rhizome and other combinations of medicinals, such as Yixue Xinwu Gentian Gastrodia Tuber soup.
2. For steaming bone fever tidal fever. This product can reduce deficiency heat and eliminate steaming bone fever. It is often used with Anemarrhena, Chinese Wolfberry Root-bark, and turtle carapace. , such as Gentian turtle carapace soup.
3. For dampness-heat jaundice. This product can clear draining dampness, reduce fever and jaundice, and is often used together with Virgate Wormwood, Gardenia, Polyporus and other medicines. It can also be used alone. For example, "Hai Hai Ji Li Fang" uses it alone to treat jaundice.

[Documentation]

1. Benjing: "Main Hanre pathogenic qi, cold-dampness migratory impediment, limb joint pain, urination, urination."
2. Bielu: "Neck armpit carbuncle (acute pyogenic axillary lymphadenitis) swelling, headache, sweating, enlargement of the small intestine."
3. Bencao Gangmu: "Athroplegia, jaundice, polydipsia The disease must be treated by removing the dampness-heat of Yangming. If there is dampness in Yangming, the body will suffer from aching pain, and if there is heat, it will cause late afternoon tidal fever, steaming bone fever."
4. Bencao Zheng: "Severe nature, good at expelling water, causing phlegm and saliva, causing dampness-heat and fullness."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take, 5~15g. Large doses are available up to 30g.

[Modern Pharmacology]

Gentian contains three alkaloids, namely Gentian alkaloid A, B, and C, with Gentian alkaloid A being the most common. Also contains volatile oils and sugars.

1. Used for experimental arthritis, it can alleviate symptoms and accelerate swelling. The principle is that it indirectly affects the pituitary gland through the neurohumoral system, thereby strengthening the function of the adrenal cortex and increasing the secretion of cortical hormones.
2. It also has sedative, analgesic, antipyretic, blood sugar-raising, antibacterial, and diuretic effects.
3. Gentian water immersion agent has varying degrees of inhibitory effects on skin fungi, and ethanol immersion agents have inhibitory effects on anthrax bacilli, paradisease caused by cold bacilli, dysentery bacilli, staphylococci, and pneumococci, etc.