1, anti-cancer and anti-tumor
The ZhiMa extract has no significant effect on the isolated uterus of pregnant rabbits. From the Xiling ZhiMa rhizome divided into β-sitosterol treatment of squamous skin cancer, cervical cancer has better efficacy and no side effects. The mechanism of anti-tumor action of saponins is related to their strong inhibition of the pump of cell membrane.
2, therapeutic health
1, anti-inflammatory and choleretic: mangiferin has a significant anti-inflammatory effect. Mangiferin extracted from the leaves of the mother of pearl has obvious choleretic effect; can also inhibit platelet aggregation.
2, cough and other effects: isomangiferin has obvious cough, expectorant, cardiac, diuretic, obvious sedative effect.
3, anti-ulcer: Zhimai decoction has a significant inhibitory effect on stress ulcers.
4, promote digestion: niacin contained in Zhi Mu has the effect of maintaining the health of the skin and nerves and promoting the function of the digestive tract.
3, Zhi Mu medicinal contraindications
1, "Bie Lu": "more than serving people leakage."
2, "Introduction to Medicine": "Where the lungs in the cold cough, kidney qi deficiency, no fire symptoms and the ulnar pulse is weak, it is prohibited."
3, "Materia Medica": "impotence and easy to lift and easy to impotence, diarrhea and spleen weakness, dietary indigestion, gastric deficiency and uncontrollable food, kidney deficiency and loose discharge and other certificates, the law and prohibited."
4, the spleen and stomach cold, loose stools should not be served. The original Benjing Feng: "the external surface evidence is not removed, diarrhea, dry thirst avoided. Spleen and stomach deficiency and heat people mistakenly served, people for diarrhea to reduce food, so the deficiency loss taboo."
4, the use of medicine
(1) used for warm fever disease, high fever and irritability, thirst, pulse flooding, such as solid heat in the lungs and stomach, and lung fever, asthma, phlegm yellow and thick. Zhimu is bitter and cold, which can clear lung heat in the upper part and stomach fire in the middle part, so it is suitable for diseases with solid heat in the lung and stomach. It is often used together with Gypsum to enhance the effect of Gypsum in clearing heat and diarrhea.
(2) It is used for fever due to yin deficiency, cough due to deficiency and thirst. Zhimu can diarrhea lung fire and nourish the kidney, so it can not only clear the actual heat, and can clear the deficiency heat. In clinical practice, it is often used together with cypress, and matched into yin nourishing medicine, such as Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan, to treat yin deficiency and fire, tidal fever and bone vapor. And this product with nourishing yin and moistening the lungs, such as sasanqua, maitake, chuanbei, etc., can be used for lung deficiency and dry cough; with clearing heat and generating fluids, such as smallpox pollen, maitake, powdered Pueraria lobata, etc., can be used to treat thirst.
(3) Zhimu is bitter and cold in nature but not dry, it can clear the lungs, cool the stomach in the middle, and diarrhea the kidney fire in the lower part. With scutellaria baicalensis, it can diarrhea lung fire; with gypsum, it can clear stomach heat; with cypress, it can diarrhea kidney fire. Zhi Mu can clear solid heat and reduce deficiency heat, but its effect of nourishing yin and generating fluids is weak. It can be used in cases of yin deficiency and internal heat, lung deficiency and dry cough, and thirst, etc. It must be combined with yin nourishing drugs to bring its effect into full play. This product can moisturize the dryness of the bowels, so it should not be used for those who have a spleen deficiency and loose stools.