This product is an oleoresin obtained from the trunk of Pinus massoniana (Pinus massoniana Lamb.), a plant of the same genus. It is the residue after distillation to remove the volatile oil. It is mostly harvested in summer. Use a knife to dig a V-shaped or spiral groove on the pine trunk to allow the oleoresin in the sapwood to flow out from the wound. After collection, water is added to distill the Knotty Pine Wood oil, leaving the remaining residue. , after cooling and solidification, it is rosin. Produced in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Anhui and other places.

Irregular translucent lumps of varying sizes. The surface is yellow, often with a layer of yellow-white frost powder. It is hard and brittle at room temperature, brittle, and has a bright cross section, like glass. Smells like Knotty Pine Wood oil and tastes bitter. It softens when heated and then dissolves, producing thick brown smoke when burned. The ones that are neat, translucent, oily and have a strong smell are better.

[Property]

bitter and sweet, warm.

1. Benjing: "bitter, warm."
2. Bielu: "sweet, nontoxic."
3. Yaoxing Lun: "sweet, neutral."
4. Bencao Zheng: "bitter and acrid; warm."

1. Leigong Paozhi Yaoxing Jie: "act on spleen and lung channels."
2. Depei Bencao: "act on hand taiyin i> and foot yangming channels. "
3. Bencao Qiuzhen: "act on liver and spleen channels."

[Efficacy]

dispelling wind and drying dampness, expelling pus drawing out toxin, myogenic and analgesic.

[Indications]

Treat Yongju, boil and sore poison, hemorrhoids and fistulas, malignant sores, scabies, alopecia areata, incised wound, sprain, wind-dampness, pestilential wind (leprosy) cutaneous pruitus.

[Documentation]

1. Benjing: "Maintains Yongju malignant sores, white sores and baldness on the head, scabies and pruritus, wind qi, installs five zang-organs, and removes heat."
2. Bielu: "Indicators of latent heat in the stomach, dry throat, consumptive thirst, and migratory impediment of dead muscles. Refining makes them white; the red ones indicate evil paralysis."
3. Yaoxing Lun: "Killing worms, used mainly for deafness; teeth with cavities, a few bites will not fall out; can stick to various sores, pus and blood, soft extract, muscle growth and pain relief, dispelling wind."
4. Rihuazi Bencao
5. I>Yixue Rumen: "Cure multiple arthralgia soreness, promote fluid production to quench thirst, strengthen teeth, improve ears and improve vision; add tonic kimono, tonifying yang, strengthen the penis, and make people have children."
6. Gangmu: "Strengthen the muscles and bones, unblock ears and eyes. Cure collapsed belts."
7. Bencao Beiyao: "Dispelling wind to remove dampness, detoxify killing worms."
8. Bencao Jing Liu: "rosin, tastes bitter but sweet, dry in nature, dryness can remove dampness and disperse wind-cold; bitter and dry, it can kill worms; sweet can remove heat, and disperse heat in the stomach If dryness of the throat and consumptive thirst stop themselves, wind-cold and dampness will cause the disease. The dampness of the earth will harm the skin, muscles and veins, and this is the cause of the dampness-heat. The blood is not stagnant, and the Rong Qi is unblocked without stagnation, so it treats gangrene and malignant sores; when Rong and heat dissipate, head ulcers, white baldness, scabies, and wind qi will all be cured. If the dampness is gone, Weiqi will be safe, the spleen and stomach will be healthy, and the five zang-organs will be free of disease. "
9. Bencao Huiyan: "rosin, if put into the ulcer dressing, It can be used to remove pus by drawing out toxin. It can be used for those who have the first onset of putrefaction or ulcer. For example, if the pus and blood have been exhausted for a long time, the blood is cold, and the flesh is loose and unrestrained, using this method will not only fail to produce new muscles, but will increase ulceration and delay It will flow to the flesh and damage the muscles and veins, which is unspeakable. Users should carefully examine it. ”

[Usage and Dosage]

External use: Grind into powder and sprinkle or mix for application. Oral administration: Take into pills, powder or soak in wine.

[Precaution]

1. Yixue Rumen: "Do not take it alone, it will fill the stomach."
2. Bencao Jingshu: "The patient has blood deficiency and has fire, and it has nothing to do with the disease. Wind-cold: Those who are injured by dampness should not take it if it is salty."
3. Bencao Qiuzhen: "Do not take it if there is heat in the fire."

[Processing and Storage]

Store in a cool, dry place away from fire and heat.

rosin: Place it in a copper pot, heat it over low heat to melt it, remove the impurities, pour it into water, let it cool, take it out and dry it.

Preparation of rosin: decoct green onions into soup, add rosin powder, cook until rosin is completely melted, pour into cold water over heat, take out and dry in the shade. (100 kilograms of rosin, use 10 kilograms of green onions)

1. Tao Hong-jing: rosin is boiled with mulberry juice or wine until soft, and soaked in internal cold water for a few dozen times. If it is white and smooth, it can be used.
2. Bencao Tujing: Rosin is first refined and cured. The method is to add water to a large cauldron, set up a retort, use Imperata to borrow the bottom of the retort, and add yellow sand on top of the retort, as thick as it is allowed. Then put rosin on top, cook with mulberry wood, add hot water when the soup is reduced, and keep it full. When the rosin is all gone, put it into the cauldron, then take it out and pour it into cold water. After three passes of both condensation and steaming, it becomes as white as jade, which can then be used as medicine.

[Modern Pharmacology]

Rosin from Pinus tabulaeformis and Masson pine contains about 80% rosin anhydride and rosin acid, about 5-6% resin hydrocarbons, about 0.5% volatile oil and trace amounts of bitter substances.

[Modern Application]

To treat chronic tracheitis, mix rosin powder with an equal amount of Liquorice Root powder and mix thoroughly to form a powder. Take it 3 times a day, 5 minutes each time. A course of treatment lasts for 10 days. 256 cases were treated, 38 cases were recently controlled after one course of treatment, 53 cases were markedly effective, 117 cases were improved, and 48 cases were ineffective; the effective rate was 81.2%. Among them, the curative effect of the simple type is higher than that of the wheezing type; most cases show curative effect after taking the medicine for 3 to 8 days, with the most effective taking 5 days; it is of great significance to insist on taking Yaodui to improve the curative effect. During the medication period, edema occurred in 5 cases, and a few patients experienced dry throat. Generally, no additional treatment is required and it can subside on its own without stopping the medication.

[Selection of Prescriptions]

1. Cure all swellings and poisons: 8 liang of rosin, 2 qian of copper green, 5 qian of Hemp Seed, pound them together to make an ointment, it is very good to spread and apply. ("Strange Syndrome Odd-ingredient Formula")
2. To treat boils and swollen, Yongju, boil and sore: 2 liang of rosin powder, 200 ml of alcohol, heat to dissolve, seal the bottle and set aside. Dip a dry cotton ball into the liquid and apply it to the affected area once or twice a day. ("Selected Exhibition Materials of Chinese Herbal Medicine in Jiangsu Province")
3. Treat Yongju Swelling and ulceration: pus is dripping, but the pus head does not come out: take one ounce of rosin and drip frankincense , true myrrh (put both on the tiles, and bake the oil) for five qian each, and camphor for one qian. They are all finely powdered and mixed into the poison to remove the pus and disperse the poison. ("Surgery Encyclopedia")
4. To treat all fistulas: Make rosin into powder, fill the sore hole until it is full, three or four times a day. ( Shenghui Fang )
5. Treatment of lymphatic subcutaneous node ulcers: one or two yellow incense, grind into fine powder. If there is pus, sprinkle it dry. If it is dry, use lard to apply it. ("Compilation of Prescriptions of Chinese Medicine in Qinghai Province")
6. To treat scabies eczema: Grind rosin finely, add an appropriate amount of calomel, and mix evenly. Apply oil to the scabies first, and then rub the powder into it. (Liujuanzi Guiyi Fang)
7. To treat cutaneous pruitus scabies: use five qian of refined rosin, one or two each of Rhubarb Rhizoma and Pipi; five qian each of camphor and Areca Seed. The total is very fine powder, use one or two lard, grind it into pills, add eight qian of Mercury and grind again, use Mercury to disperse until no spots are visible. Whenever you encounter cutaneous pruitus scabies, rub pills on the sores. ( Liujuanzi Guiyi Fang )
8. Treatment of neurodermatitis: Take appropriate amounts of rosin and lard, cook them into a paste, and apply to the affected area several times a day. (Guangxi "Chinese herbal medicine New Medical Methods Formulary")
9. To treat wet itching of the scrotum and ulcers: use Baner rosin as powder, paper roll as a tube, put three Pricklyash Peel pills into each stick, soak it in the lamp for three nights, and take out the point Burn it, pour oil on it and apply it on it; wash it with rice swill first. ("Simple Recipe")
10. To treat frequent soft furuncle: 8 liang of clear asphalt, 2 liang of patina, 3 qian of Sesame Oil, 3 qian of male pig gall fel. First dissolve the asphalt, then put it into the oil bladder, pour it into the water, pull it out, and put it in the container. Every time you use the scarf silk stickers, you don’t need to change them again. (Gangmu Jade Ointment)
11. To treat white bald scalp sore (tinea alba) in children: 5 qian each of rosin and red lead, and 3 qian calomel. Make a fine powder and mix it with vegetable oil and apply it on it; first wash it with rice soup and apply it once a day. ("Jian Ji Prescriptions")
12. To treat tinea capitis: one and a half pounds of alum, grind it into pieces, three liang of tender rosin, and half a pound of fresh lard. Wrap rosin in oil, light the lard with pine wood, let the rosin oil melt and drip, add dry alum after cooling, mix thoroughly, apply to the affected area to make scabs form; remove the scabs and apply again the next day, without washing with water. ("Selected Exhibitions·Dermatology")
13. Cure all wind-heat sore (pityriasis rosea), head sores in children: 10 taels each of asphalt, yellow wax, and sesame oil, 14 croton fruit. First, boil the asphalt, sesame oil and yellow wax into juice; then add the Croton Fruit, stir continuously until the Croton Fruit is charred, remove the Croton Fruit; add two ounces of greasy powder, stir evenly, let it cool, and apply it on the sore . (Weisheng Baojian Ruanqing Paste)
14. Cure multiple arthralgia, various winds, unbearable pain in joints of body: rosin 30 pounds of exercise fifty times, wine boiled ten times, twenty times can also be used; Bake three liters of crispy cake, warm it, mix it with three liters of rosin, mix thoroughly, and drink it with a square-cun spoon of wine on an empty stomach, three times a day. ( Qianjin Fang )
15. Treatment of multiple arthralgia: one liter of pine paste, three liters of wine, soak for seven days, take one dose, repeat every day, and recover after several doses. ( Qianjin Fang )
16. To treat liver deficiency and eyesores: make one pound of rosin, brew two buckets of rice, seven buckets of water, two buckets of koji, make wine and drink it frequently. ( Gangmu )
17. To treat tight lips in children: apply rosin to it. ( Shenghui Fang )
18. To treat toothache: scrape loose grease, soak in boiling water, rinse mouth. ("Binhu Collection of Simple Prescriptions")
19. Toothache for insect infestation: Refined rosin one tael, vegetable oil three qian, boil over fire, condense, add 5 minutes of real Toad Venom, stir evenly with tendon, take the size of rice grains, Enter the toothache gap. ("Plum Plum Master's Collection of Prescriptions")
20. To treat prolonged deafness in ears: 3 liang of rosin (refined), 1 liang of Croton Fruit, mix well and pound well, you can take pills, wrap them with thin cotton and stuff them into the ear holes, Grade I Yi . ("Prescriptions collected by Plum Master")
21. To treat women's leucorrhea: five ounces of rosin, two liters of wine, boiled dry, put into a fine wooden mortar and pestle, wine flour and water paste pill, as big as Wuzi. Take 100 pills each time with warm wine. ("Zhao Yuan Fang")
22. Treatment of pestilential wind (leprosy), cutaneous pruitus, loss of beard and eyebrows, and purple blisters all over the body and face: No matter how much rosin is, fry it in a casserole nine times, fry it once each time, leave it overnight, and nine times. If it is fried like sand for a second time, it can be taken only if it is good. If you take this medicine, you must not eat salt for the rest of your life. If you do it, you will get sick. ( Diannan Bencao )