Hookah, the name of traditional Chinese medicine. It is the dried hooked stem branches of Uncaria rhynchophylla (Miq.) Miq.ex Havil, Uncaria macrophylla Wall., Hairy Hooker Uncaria hirsuta Havil., Chinese Hooker Uncaria sinensis (Oliv.) Havil. or Uncaria sessilifructus Roxb., Uncaria sinensis (Oliv.) Havil. or Uncaria sessilifructus Havil.

Mainly produced in Guangxi, Guangdong, Hunan, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and other places. The original plant was born in secondary forests in mountainous areas. Prefer warm and humid climate, intolerant of cold, with a deep layer of soil, loose and fertile, humus-rich sandy loam is most suitable for growth. Sweet in flavor, slightly cold in nature. Attributed to the liver, pericardium meridian. Efficacy wind spasm, clearing heat and calming the liver. Clinical use of the name hook vine.

The ancient Chinese medicine related to the discussion

The Materia Medica Compendium: Hook Teng, the hands and feet of the syncopated yin meridian medicine. Foot syncope yin main wind, hand syncope yin main fire. The disease of epilepsy and vertigo are all diseases of liver wind and phase fire. Crocus sativus, through the pericardium in the liver wood, wind quiet fire rest, then all the evidence since the removal. Or: into a few inches in the wheat steamed, fed to the horse easy to fertilize.

Adults head spinning dizziness, calm the liver wind, in addition to the heart heat, children fishing abdominal pain, hair rash.

Shaped like a bushy vine with a hook, purple. Ancient formula used more skin, the latter used more hooks, take its force sharp.

The Classic of Materia Medica: Hook vine endowed with spring gas to birth, "Ben Jing" gas slightly cold, non-toxic. Bao Sheng said bitter. Zhenquan said Ganping. Should be sweet and bitter are not very, odor Sydney peace also. For the hand Shaoyin, foot syncopal meridian medicine. Shaoyin main fire, syncope main wind, wind and fire fight, for cold and heat epilepsy. This medicine smells sweet and cold, straight gas two meridians, then the wind quiet fire rest and the liver heart Ning, cold and heat eclampsia since removed. Zhenquan main children screaming, blending heat congestion, guest disobedience fetal wind, also this intention. Convulsion

Mong Chyuan of the Materia Medica: sweet, bitter, slightly cold. It is not poisonous. Because of the similar hook fishing, so the name hook vine. Specializing in the treatment of young children, ignoring other disciplines. Cold and heat epilepsy, clonic convulsions in the hands and feet, fetal wind guest disobedience, convulsions in the mouth and eyes should be sought.

The Materia Medica multiply Ya: vine thorns such as hooks, in the virtual and through, away from the image of the bright, borrowing the shape to refer to things. The scripture: summer pulse like a hook, the southern fire. Into the heart, the heart of the blood of the gas is also hidden. Where the blood gas, cloth team twelve meridians, or left or right, or on or off, or branches of the genus, intersecting errors, resulting in twelve eclampsia for the cold and hot disease, Xian can be through the whole of the still turn like a ring with no end ear. More can be explained to the law wide, the power is really endless Tibetan, if only treatment of children, is the Department of the boy, the loss of husband carry on.

The medicinal solution: sweet and bitter flavor, slightly cold, non-toxic, into the twelve meridians. The main children's cold and fever, all kinds of eclampsia, fetal wind guest disobedience, hot congestion night crying, soothe the tendons and blood. The color yellow and tender, hook more good.

According to: Crochet is also the main qi and blood, so in the meridians everywhere. The only treatment for children, not into the rest of the formula.

Jingyue quanquan: taste slightly sweet and bitter, sex slightly cold. Can clear the hand syncopal fire, foot syncopal, foot shaoyang wind heat, so specializing in liver wind phase fire disease. Where adults and children alarmed by epilepsy and vertigo, rash day fishing, head spinning fever, etc., with the wind and quiet fire rest, then the evidence since removed.

Modern pharmacological research

1.? Crocus sativus has antihypertensive effect. Crocetin can inhibit the vasomotor center, directly and indirectly dilate the peripheral blood vessels, block the sympathetic nerve and ganglion, and can inhibit the release of nerve endings mediators.

2.? Crocus sativus has sedative and anticonvulsant effects.

3.? Crocus sativus can diastole intestinal, bronchial and uterine smooth muscle, against histamine-induced contraction, but weak against acetylcholine, can not fight against nicotine and 5-HT-induced spasm.

4.? Crocetin has an inhibitory effect on the contraction of isolated rat uterus induced by oxytocin and Ca2+ after high K+ depolarization, and can inhibit the respiration of frogs and mice, and narrow the pupil.

5.? Hooker's total alkaloids can inhibit histamine-induced asthma in guinea pigs.