Maidong maidong is the tuberous root of the lily plant Ophiopogonjaponicus (Thunb.) Ker-Gawl. Mainly produced in Sichuan, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and other places. Summer digging, repeated exposure to the sun, stacking, until 70-80% dry, remove the roots, dry, break the raw use.
Medicinal properties sweet, slightly bitter, slightly cold. Attributed to the stomach, lung and heart meridians.
Effects Nourishing Yin and promoting the production of body fluid, moistening the lung and clearing the heart.
Application
1. Stomach Yin deficiency. This product is sweet, soft and moist, bitter and cold in nature, and is good at nourishing stomach yin, generating fluids to quench thirst, and clearing heat in the stomach at the same time. Widely used in stomach yin deficiency with heat of the dry tongue and thirst, stomach and epigastric pain, hunger, vomiting, dry stools and so on. Such as the treatment of heat damage to the stomach yin, dry mouth and tongue, often with the raw land, bamboo, ginseng and other products used together. To treat thirst, it can be used with smallpox pollen and umeboshi. It is also used with half-summer and ginseng to treat Qi reversal and vomiting of insufficient stomach yin, such as Maimendong Tang ("The Essentials of the Golden Chamber"). It is also used with Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata and Radix et Rhizoma Ginseng to treat constipation caused by heat, such as Enriching Liquid Soup (《Warm Diseases Article Discussion》).
2. Lung Yin deficiency. This product is also good at nourishing lung yin, clearing lung heat, for Yin deficiency, lung dryness and heat of the dry nose and throat, dry cough with little sputum, coughing up blood, sore throat and hoarseness, etc. Often used with Colla Corii Asini, Gypsum, Mulberry Leaf, Loquat Leaf, etc., such as clearing the dryness and save the lungs soup ("Law of Medical Doctors").
3. Heart Yin deficiency. This product can be attributed to the heart meridian, but also can nourish the heart yin, clear the heart heat, and slightly in addition to the annoyance and tranquility. It can be used for heart yin deficiency with heat, insomnia, forgetfulness, palpitations and anxiety. It is suitable to be paired with products that nourish the yin and calm the mind, such as the Heavenly King's Heart Replenishing Dan ("Secret Anatomy of Regeneration") to be used together with Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata, Jujubae Nut, Cortex Piperitiae, and other products. If the heat is heartbreaking, and the mind is disturbed and less sleepy, it is appropriate to pair it with products that clear the heart, cool the blood and nourish the yin, such as Qingying Tang (《Warm Diseases Article Discussion》), which is used with Huang Lian (黄黄连), Sheng Di (生地), and Xuan Shen.
Use and dosage: decoction, 6-12g.
Abstract
1. Shennong's Classic of the Materia Medica (神农本草经)："Main cardiac and abdominal knots of qi stomach and collaterals of the veins are extinct, and leanness and shortness of breath".
2. "Materia Medica": "The medicine that clears the heart and moistens the lungs. The main heart qi deficiency, palpitations and anxiety, forgetfulness and trance, spiritual loss; or lung heat and lung dryness, coughing, lung impotence and leaf scorching, shortness of breath and asthma, fire in the lungs, hemoptysis and coughing up blood; or deficiency of heat, fluid dryness; or dryness of the spleen and stomach, constipation and difficult.
Modern research
1. Chemical composition: this product contains a variety of steroidal saponins, β-sitosterol, soy sterols, high isoflavones, a variety of amino acids, various types of polysaccharides, vitamin A-like substances, copper, zinc, iron, potassium and other ingredients.
2. Pharmacological effects: rabbits with maitake decoction intramuscular injection, can elevate blood glucose; normal rabbits orally maitake aqueous and alcoholic extracts of maitake has a hypoglycemic effect; maitake can enhance the phagocytosis of the reticuloendothelial system, elevate peripheral leukocytes, improve immune function; enhance the role of the pituitary-adrenocortical system, to improve the adaptability of the organism; can significantly increase the hypoxia-resistant ability of experimental animals, increase the flow of coronary arteries, have significant protection against myocardial ischemia. It can significantly improve the ability of experimental animals to withstand hypoxia, increase the flow of coronary artery, have obvious protective effect on myocardial ischemia, and can resist arrhythmia and improve myocardial contractility; improve the left ventricular function and anti-shock effect; and a certain degree of sedation and antibacterial effect.
3. Clinical study: It is reported that the treatment of patients with deficiency-heat evidence of plum nucleus qi, blood in stool and epistaxis with better efficacy is based on the treatment of Maimendong Soup (Maimendong, ginseng, half-summer, licorice, jujube and round-grained rice) (Henan Traditional Chinese Medicine, 2000, 5:9). With ginseng, northern schizandra each 6g, red ginseng 3g, decoction water for tea, 1 day 1 dose, 2 months for a course of treatment, the treatment of mild cerebral dysfunction syndrome 36 cases, cured 8 cases, 12 cases of apparent effect, 15 cases of improvement (Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1992, 1: 32); ginseng and wheat injection for the treatment of acute viral cardiomyopathies in 76 cases, and the combination of the appropriate antiarrhythmic drugs, 54 cases of apparent effect, 14 cases, ineffective 8 cases (Zhejiang Traditional Chinese Medicine, 2000, 5: 9). Ineffective 8 cases (Zhejiang Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1988, 8: 369); this product is also used for insomnia, pneumonia, chronic pharyngitis, pediatric bronchial asthma, pulmonary heart disease and other diseases reported.
The contraindications of drinking maitake in water
1. It is not suitable for patients with weak qi and cold stomach to take maitake, which will affect their health.
2. When consuming carp, it is not suitable to drink maitake tea, affecting the pharmacological effect.
3. Maitake can treat coughs and sore throats, but it is not suitable for patients with damp phlegm caused by stomach cold.
4. Coughs caused by colds and hives are not suitable for drinking maitake tea.
5. Maitake should not be with fungus at the same time, will reduce the role of the two foods, the loss of the yin-supporting effect of Maitake is the greatest.