Epimedium is a relatively common kidney-tonifying medicinal material. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the kidney is the innate foundation of the human body. Kidney deficiency may affect the overall coordination of the body, so kidney-tonifying is also a focus of many people who like to maintain health. , there are many kidney-tonifying drugs, epimedium is more commonly used. So, what are the uses of Epimedium as medicine? What are the medicinal effects of epimedium?
Epimedium Epimedium is the Berberidaceae plant Epimedium brevicornum Maxim. and E. sagittatum (S.etZ.) Maxim. or E. Pubescens Maxim. Waiting for the whole grass. Mainly produced in Shaanxi, Liaoning, Shanxi, Hubei, Sichuan and other places. Harvest in summer and autumn when the stems and leaves are lush, cut off the above-ground parts, dry and chop. Use raw or roasted in suet oil.
The medicinal properties are pungent, sweet and warm. Returns to the kidney and liver meridians.
Effects: Tonify the kidneys and strengthen yang, dispel wind and remove dampness.
Application
1. Deficiency of kidney yang, impotence, frequent urination, weakness of waist and knees. This product is pungent, sweet, warm and strong, and is good at tonifying the kidney and aphrodisiac. It is effective when used alone, and can also be used together with other kidney-tonifying and aphrodisiac drugs. Use this product alone soaked in wine to benefit the husband's yang and relieve cold pain in the waist and knees, such as epimedium wine ("Food and Medicine Heart Mirror"); use it with Cistanche deserticola, Morinda officinalis and Eucommia ulmoides to treat kidney deficiency, impotence, spermatorrhea, etc. , such as the Essence and Marrow Replenishing Pill ("Danxi Xinfa").
2. Wind-cold-dampness paralysis, numbness of limbs. This product is pungent and warm, dispels cold, dispels wind and dampness, enters the liver and kidneys and strengthens the muscles and bones. It can be used for rheumatic arthralgia, muscle and bone problems and numbness of the limbs. It is often used together with Clematis, Xanthium, Chuanxiong and Cinnamon, which is the fairy spleen. Powder ("Sheng Huifang").
In addition, it is used in modern times for asthma and cough due to kidney yang deficiency and menopausal hypertension in women, and has good curative effect.
Usage and Dosage: Decoct and take, 3 to 15g.
Usage Note: People with yin deficiency and excessive fire should not take it.
Summary of ancient books
1. "Shen Nong's Materia Medica": "It treats impotence, pain in the stem, facilitates urination, replenishes energy and strengthens will.
2. "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Cure all cold wind and labor, strengthen the waist and knees, strengthen the heart, the husband can't afford Yang, the woman has Yin and have no children, the muscles and bones are tense, the limbs are ineffective, the elderly are comatose, and the middle-aged forgetful. ”
3. "Classification of Herbal Medicine Properties": "Cure cough, remove wind, nourish kidney and strengthen yang."
Modern research
1. Chemical composition: The chemical composition of epimedium plants is mainly flavonoids, and also contains lignans, alkaloids and volatile oils.
2. Pharmacological effects: Epimedium can enhance the secretory functions of endocrine systems such as the hypothalamus-pituitary-gonadal axis, adrenocortical axis, and thymus axis. Epimedium extract can affect the "impotence" model of small children. Mouse DNA synthesis, promotes protein synthesis, regulates cell metabolism, significantly enhances animal body weight and freezing resistance time, epimedium alcohol exudate can significantly enhance isolated rabbit heart coronary flow, epimedium decoction and ethanol decoction The intrusion fluid was injected intravenously into rabbits, cats, and rats, and all showed antihypertensive effects.
3. Clinical studies: Epimedium and American ginseng taken orally have significant effects on preventing and treating premature aging (Liaoning Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1992, 19(10): 26); grinding epimedium and dodder seeds into powder can treat impotence. Effective (Yunnan Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1989, 10 (6): 13); Epimedium extract tablets have good efficacy in treating viral myocarditis (Journal of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, 1984, 9: 523); Epimedium-based tablets are Erxian Shenqi Decoction can treat thoracic and lumbar osteoporosis in the elderly (China Orthopedics, 1994, 7(5):9); self-made Jiangu Decoction is effective in treating diabetic bone metabolism disorders (Heilongjiang Traditional Chinese Medicine, 2000, (1 ): 46). Epimedium combined with Maxing Shigan Decoction or Yupingfeng Powder is effective in treating asthmatic bronchitis in children (Jilin Traditional Chinese Medicine, 2002, 1:21).
Efficacy
(1) Efficacy of Epimedium root
Epimed root tastes pungent and sweet, and has a mild character. It has the functions of tonifying the kidneys and strengthening yang, dispelling wind and dampness, and strengthening muscles and bones. It mainly treats diseases such as kidney deficiency, impotence, nocturnal emission and premature ejaculation, cold sperm infertility, frequent urination and incontinence, soreness and weakness of the waist and knees.
In the treatment of impotence due to kidney deficiency, spermatorrhea and premature ejaculation, weak waist and knees, cold limbs and chills, and impotence and ejaculation, curculigo, cornus, cistanche and other medicines can be used in combination with epimedium root. In the treatment of weak waist and knees, you can use Eucommia ulmoides, Morinda officinalis, Gouji, etc. together with epimedium root.
(2) Effects of epimedium root
1. Endocrine effects
Epimed root can enhance sexual function. The main component of Epimedium root is Epimedium, which can significantly improve the development of epididymis and seminal vesicles in young mice, so Epimedium has androgen-like effects.
2. Effect on immune system function
In patients with kidney deficiency, the number of T cells, lymphatic rate, antibodies, antigens and phagocytic function of the reticuloendothelial system are reduced. Epimedium can be used to reduce Treatment with roots and other medicines will produce significant effects.
3. Effect on the cardiovascular system
Epimedium decoction and extract will protect the myocardial ischemia in rats with pituitary hormone. Intravenous injection of epimedium root decoction and ethanol extract into rabbits, cats and rats can reduce blood pressure. Efficacy
(1) Efficacy of Epimedium root
Epimed root has a pungent and sweet taste and mild properties. It has the functions of tonifying the kidneys and strengthening yang, dispelling wind and dampness, and strengthening muscles and bones. It mainly treats diseases such as kidney deficiency, impotence, spermatorrhea and premature ejaculation, cold sperm infertility, frequent urination and incontinence, soreness and weakness of the waist and knees.
In the treatment of impotence due to kidney deficiency, spermatorrhea and premature ejaculation, weak waist and knees, cold limbs and chills, and impotence and ejaculation, curculigo, cornus, cistanche and other medicines can be used in combination with epimedium root. In the treatment of waist and knee weakness, you can use Eucommia ulmoides, Morinda officinalis, Gouji, etc., which should be used in conjunction with Epimedium root.
(2) Effects of epimedium root
1. Endocrine effects
Epimed root can enhance sexual function. The main component of Epimedium root is Epimedium, which can significantly improve the development of epididymis and seminal vesicles in young mice, so Epimedium has androgen-like effects.
2. Effect on immune system function
In patients with kidney deficiency, the number of T cells, lymphatic rate, antibodies, antigens and phagocytic function of the reticuloendothelial system are reduced. Epimedium can be used to reduce Treatment with roots and other medicines will produce significant effects.
3. Effect on the cardiovascular system
Epimedium decoction and extract will protect the myocardial ischemia in rats with pituitary hormone. Intravenous injection of epimedium root decoction and ethanol extract into rabbits, cats and rats can reduce blood pressure.