[Variety Source]

This product is the root tuber of Fleeceflower (Polygonum multiflorum Thunb.), a perennial twining herbaceous plant of the Polygonum family. It is produced in most areas of my country, such as Henan, Hubei, Guangxi, Guangdong, Guizhou, Sichuan, Jiangsu and other places. Dig the leaves when they are withered in autumn and winter, cut off both ends, wash, cut into thick slices, dry, and call it raw polygonum multiflorum; mix it with black soybean juice, steam it until it turns tan inside and outside, and dry it in the sun. Make Shouwu.

[Property]

Polygonum multiflorum sweet and astrigent, slightly warm; act on liver and kidney channels. Radix Polygonum multiflorum sweet and bitter, neutral; act on heart, liver and large intestine channels.

[Efficacy]

Preparing Polygonum multiflorum tonifying and replenishing blood and essence, strengthening kidney and black hair; Raw Polygonum multiflorum preventing attack of malaria removing toxin, moistening intestines to relieve constipation.

[Indications]

1. Used for blood deficiency, dizzy vision, palpitation insomnia, shallow yellow lack of strength, liver kidney essence, vertigo tinn itus, weak waist and knees, seminal emission, belt collapse, premature graying of beard and other symptoms. . Preparing Shouwu can tonify blood and nourishing liver, replenish essence and strengthen kidney, blacken beard and hair, and strengthen muscles and bones. It can treat blood deficiency, shallow yellow, insomnia amnesia, etc. It has the effect of toning blood and calming the mind. It is often used with Prepared Rehmannia Root yellow, Chinese Angelica, Sour Jujube and other combinations of medicinals; it can treat kidney essence and blood deficiency, can tonify blood, nourish yin, and solidify essential qi. It is often combined with Chinese Angelica and Barbary Wolfberry Fruit , Dodder Seed are equivalent, such as Seven-Jewel Beard-Blackening Pill. In modern times, it is used for patients with hyperlipidemia, hypertension, coronary heart disease and liver deficiency and kidney essence blood deficiency. Shouwu, together with Salvia, Chinese Taxillus Herb, etc. Combination of medicinals, or direct treatment with Shouwu Yanshou Dan, has considerable effects.
2. It is used for consumptive malaria, intestinal constipation, Yongju and scrofula. Radix Polygonum multiflorum has the effects of preventing attack of malaria, moisturizing the intestines and removing toxin. To treat consumptive malaria, qi and blood depletion, it is often used with Ginseng, Chinese Angelica, etc., such as Fleeceflower and Ginseng Decoction; to treat constipation and blood deficiency. For patients with fluid deficiency, use Chinese Angelica, Hemp Seed and the like; to treat Yongju sore and ulcer, use Lonicera, Forsythia are used equally, such as "sore and wound doctor encyclopedia" Fleeceflower soup; to treat scrofula subcutaneous node, use Prunella, Paniculate Bolbostemma , Cyperus and the like (quoted from Bencao Huiyan).
3. In addition, for blood dryness producing wind, cutaneous pruitus, sores, etc., use the combination of medicinals Schizonepeta, Saposhnikovia Root, Sophora, etc. are effective when taken internally or decoctioned with Mugwort for external washing.

[Documentation]

1. Kaibao Bencao: "Mainly scrofula, eliminates carbuncles, treats wind sores on the head and face, cures five hemorrhoids, relieves heart pain, replenishes blood and qi, blackens hair and hair, improves color, long-term use Strengthens muscles and bones, replenishes essence, prolongs life, and also cures postpartum and leukorrhea diseases in women. "
2. Bencao Gangmu: "This product has a bitter taste, is bitter, nourishes the kidneys, warms and tonifies the liver, and has astringent properties. It astringes essential qi, so it can nourish the blood and liver, strengthen the kidneys, strengthen the muscles and bones, and blacken the hair. It is a nourishing medicine that is neither cold nor dry. It is superior to other medicines such as Rehmannia and Asparagus Root."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take, 10~30g. Tonifying and replenishing blood and essence, raw Shouwu is suitable to prevent attack of malaria, moisten the intestines and remove toxin.

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains anthraquinone derivatives, mainly Rhubarb Rhizoma phenol, Rhubarb Rhizoma element (Emodin), followed by Rhubarb Rhizoma acid, Rhubarb Rhizoma methyl ether and Rhubarb Rhizoma phenoanthrone. In addition, it also contains lecithin, etc.

1. Shouwu has an inhibitory effect on the increase in serum cholesterol in experimental rabbits, and can reduce the formation of membrane patches and lipid deposition in stirred pulse, thereby alleviating the formation of stirred pulse atherosclerosis;
2. It has an exciting effect on the body's frog heart, slows down the heart rate and increases coronary flow;
3. can enhance immune function, mainly enhancing the phagocytosis function of the reticuloendothelial system and cellular immunity;
4. also strengthens nerves and strengthens the brain. It has a nootropic effect;
5. causes the blood sugar of animals to first increase and then decrease;
6. promotes the production of red blood cells;
7. promotes intestinal peristalsis and has a purgative effect, etc.

After raw polygonum multiflorum is processed of materia medica, the sugar content increases, the content of bound anthraquinone derivatives decreases, and the content of free anthraquinone derivatives significantly increases, so the purgative effect no longer occurs.