Radix Glehniae Radix Glehniae is the root of Adenophora verticillata (Thunb.) Fisch. or Adenophora A.StrictaMiq. of Campanulaceae. Location: Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places. Excavate in spring and autumn, remove fibrous roots, scrape off rough skin while fresh, wash and dry, and cut into thick pieces or short pieces for use.
The medicine is sweet and slightly cold. Enter the lung and stomach meridians.
Efficacy: nourishing yin and clearing lung, clearing stomach and promoting fluid production, invigorating qi and resolving phlegm.
app; application
1. lung yin deficiency syndrome. This product is sweet and slightly cold, which can tonify lung yin, moisten lung dryness and clear lung heat. It is also suitable for symptoms such as dryness due to yin deficiency and lung dryness with heat, less expectoration, hemoptysis or dry throat with hoarse voice. Its power of moistening lung and clearing lung is slightly inferior to that of Radix Glehniae. However, if the lung is dry and sticky with phlegm and expectoration is unfavorable, it can promote expectoration because it has certain expectorant effect; For the injured of both qi and yin, it can also slightly replenish the qi of spleen and lung, which can supplement both qi and yin. It is often combined with herbs such as Radix Glehniae, Radix Ophiopogonis, and Semen Armeniacae Amarum for moistening lung and clearing lung.
2. Syndrome of stomach yin deficiency. This product can nourish stomach yin, promote fluid production to quench thirst and clear stomach heat. It is suitable for dry mouth and throat with stomach yin deficiency and heat, constipation, red tongue and lack of body fluid, hunger and vomiting. The effect of nourishing stomach yin and clearing stomach heat is not as good as that of Radix Glehniae. However, this product can also tonify the spleen, and it has the effect of tonifying both qi and yin for the syndrome of deficiency of both stomach and spleen, especially for those who are not warmed up due to deficiency of both qi and yin in the late stage of fever. It is usually combined with herbs that nourish stomach yin and clear stomach heat, such as Polygonatum odoratum, Ophiopogon japonicus and Radix Rehmanniae, such as Yiwei Decoction (Treatise on Warm Diseases).
Usage and dosage: decocted, 9 ~15g.
Pay attention to anti-veratrum.
The differential drugs Radix Glehniae and Radix Glehniae come from two different plants, and because of their similar functions, they all have the main functions of nourishing yin and clearing lung, benefiting stomach and promoting fluid production (or nourishing yin of lung and stomach and clearing heat of lung and stomach). However, the effect of Radix Glehniae on clearing away lung and stomach is slightly stronger, and the syndrome of yin deficiency and heat in lung and stomach is more commonly used. Adenophora adenophora also has the functions of benefiting qi and eliminating phlegm, which is more suitable for patients with both qi and yin injury and dry phlegm and cough.
Abstract of ancient books
1. Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica: "Tonifying the middle, benefiting the lung."
2. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Clearing lung fire and treating chronic cough and lung flaccidity".
3. "Pieces of New Ginseng": "Clearing lung and nourishing yin, treating asthenia, cough and phlegm blood".
Modern research
1. Chemical composition: Adenophora verticillata contains triterpenoid saponins, flavonoids, mixtures of terpenoids and hydrocarbons, dandelion terpene ketone, β-sitosterol, carotene, saturated fatty acids, methyl adenophorate and adenophorol. Adenophora adenophora contains coumarins.
2. Pharmacological action: Adenophora Apricot can improve cellular immunity and nonspecific immunity, and inhibit humoral immunity, with the function of regulating immune balance; Adenophora verticillata has expectorant effect, and its expectorant effect is worse than that of Aster. 1% radix adenophorae extract has obvious cardiotonic effect on toad heart in vitro; In vitro, the water extract of Radix Adenophorae (1:2) has antifungal effect.
3. Clinical study: It is reported that this product is mixed with Ophiopogon japonicus, Lonicera japonica and other drugs to make honey pills, which can be used to slow down the throat on an empty stomach, 1 day for 3 ~ 5 times, and treat esophagitis 12 cases, 8 cases are cured, 3 cases are improved, and 1 case is ineffective (Fujian Traditional Chinese Medicine,/kloc-0)
What is Adenophora adenophora?
Alias: Radix Glehniae, Radix Glehniae, and Radix Glehniae.
Adenophora adenophora is Adenophora tetraphylla, Adenophora armeniaca or the same genus of Adenophora in Campanulaceae, and its roots are used as medicine. Planing in autumn, removing aerial parts and fibrous roots, scraping off rough skin and drying in the sun immediately. Compared with similar foods, the dietary fiber, calcium, carotene, carbohydrate, phosphorus, nicotinic acid, vitamins A and C of Adenophora adenophora are higher than the average, and they are divided into Adenophora adenophora and Glehnia adenophora. Generally speaking, they are both yin-nourishing drugs, which have the effects of nourishing yin, clearing lung, benefiting stomach and promoting fluid production, but they are bulky, loose in quality and poor in efficacy, and they specialize in clearing lung, eliminating phlegm and relieving cough. Radix Glehniae, also known as Radix Glehniae and Radix Glehniae, is slender in shape, firm and dense in quality, and has good efficacy. It specializes in entering the stomach and tends to nourish yin, promote fluid production and quench thirst.