This product is the tuber of Corydalis Tuber (Corydalis yanhusuo W. T. Wang), a perennial herbaceous plant of the foxtail millet family. Mainly produced in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hubei, Hunan and other places. Excavate when the stems and leaves are withered in early summer, remove the fibrous roots, boil in boiling water until the white core is almost gone, take it out and dry it in the sun. Cut into thick slices or mash and use raw; or roast in vinegar.

[Property]

Acrid and bitter, warm. act on liver, spleen and heart channels.

[Efficacy]

Promotes blood circulation, moves qi, and relieves pain.

Mainly used for Qi, blood stasis and various pain syndromes. This product is pungent and warm, and "can promote blood circulation, middle qi stagnation, and blood stagnation in the qi, so it is specially used to treat various pains throughout the body." Its analgesic effect is excellent, no matter what kind of pain syndrome, it can be used in combination of medicinals.

• To treat chest impediment, use Trichosanthis Fruit, Longstamen Onion Bulb or Salvia, Sichuan Lovage Rhizome, etc.;
• To treat stomachache, use White Atractylodes Rhizome, Immature Orange Fruit, Peony Root, etc.; If it's cold, go with Cinnamon Twig or Lesser Galangal Rhizome; if it's hot, go with gardenia and Chinaberry Fruit; if it's more qi Those with stagnation, match Cyperus, Aucklandia Root; those with blood stasis, match Salvia, Trogopterus Dung > .
• To treat liver depression, stagnation and rib distending pain, use Bupleurum, Curcuma Root, etc.;
• To treat women's dysmenorrheal and postpartum stasis and abdominal pain, use it Chinese Angelica, Carthamus, Cyperus, etc.;
• To treat cold abdominal colic abdominal pain, use Fennel, Evodia Fruit, etc.;
• To treat bruises and injuries, use frankincense, myrrh;
• To treat wind- dampness refers to numbness and pain, used with Gentian, Cinnamon Twig, etc.

[Documentation]

1. Leigong Paozhi Lun: "Cures heart pain and the desire to die."
2. Kaibao Bencao: "Cures breaking blood stasis, various postpartum disease causes. This is caused by: Menstrual irregularities, abdominal lumps, metrorrhagia, postpartum blood circulation, bleeding due to injury, or rubbing with alcohol or boiling food."
3. Bencao Gangmu: "Corydalis Tuber can promote blood circulation, middle qi stagnation, and blood stagnation in the qi, so it specializes in treating various pains throughout the body."

[Usage and Dosage]

Decoct and take 3-10g; grind into powder and take 1.5-3g. Use more vinegar after preparation. After vinegar is prepared, the solubility of its active ingredients can be greatly improved and the analgesic effect can be enhanced.

Corydalis Tuber A, Corydalis Tuber A, Corydalis Tuber A, Corydalis Tuber B, Corydalis Tuber B, and Corydalis foxtail millet were isolated from the tubers of this product. Alkaloids such as Coptis Rhizome Base, Corydalis Tuberine, Corydalis Tuberine and many other alkaloids.

• It has analgesic effect, the potency is 1/10 of opium, opium and opium have stronger effects, followed by opium, and opium also has obvious analgesic effect;
• Opium has It has obvious sedative, hypnotic and tranquilizing effects, and also has grade I central antiemetic and hypothermic effects.
• Alcohol extract, especially dehydroCorydalis Tuber A, can significantly expand the coronary blood vessels of animals, increase coronary blood flow, and is effective against certain experimental arrhythmias. The water-soluble part of the total alkali is effective against premature ventricular contractions and has the same effect as Quinidine is similar.
• Dehydrocordine can protect rats from experimental ulcer disease and reduce gastric juice secretion, gastric acid and pepsin amounts.

[Modern Application]

In modern times, it has been used clinically to treat a variety of visceral spasmodic or non-spasmodic pain, with good results. It is also used to treat neuralgia caused by pestilential wind (leprosy), and for local anesthesia surgery using 0.2% Corydalis Tuber base injection.