Decoction is suitable for raw use,
Reading is suitable for frying,
Stop bleeding is suitable for frying charcoal.
Name of loofah complex:
Loofah complex "Materia Medica Rexin"
Tianluo tendon "Pulse cause evidence treatment"
Loofah net "Medical forest compilation"
Loofah shell "Classification of herbs and medicines Sheng"
Loofah flesh "Hebei medicinal herbs"
Explanation of the name of the traditional Chinese medicine Loofah complex
The compendium of the cloud: "(loofah) old then sinews Luo weave, so there are silk, Luo's name." Into the medicine with its tendons, so the name loofah.
Silk gourd is also known as the sky silk gourd, Tian Luo, the brute gourd ("this formula"), Tian Luo melon ("Pu Ji Fang"),
Tian Hang melon, pure Yang melon, inverted Yang vegetable ("Diannan Materia Medica").
In addition, the same genus Yue silk melon Luffa acutangula (L.) Roxb. morphology and the above species is similar, but the stem, tendrils, ovary, fruit, etc. with longitudinal ribs. It is cultivated in southern Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, and Guangxi. The vascular bundles of the mature fruit are also used as medicine for loofah.
The Chinese medicine loofah;
Loofah all by the vascular bundles of longitudinal and transverse, mostly oblong, slightly thin at both ends, diameter 5-10cm, length varies, the surface of the yellowish-white, rough, and sometimes visible remnants of the pericarp and pulp.
Light, tough, rich in elasticity, cross-section with three cavities, occasionally see the residual black seeds. The odor is slight, and the taste is light.
The one that is large, complete, clean, tough, light yellowish-white in color and without seeds is preferred.
Chemical composition of Chinese medicine loofah
Loofah contains xylan (xylan), mannan (mannan), galactan (galactan) and so on.
Effects of Chinese medicine loofah
To activate the meridians and channels, clearing heat and removing toxins, diuretic and swelling, stopping bleeding.
The main treatment for chest and hypochondriac pain, rheumatism paralysis, contracture of tendons and veins, women's menstrual closure, lactation, phlegm-heat cough, carbuncle of heat poison, hemorrhoids, edema, dysuria, blood in the stool, and leakage of urine.
1. "Pulse Cause and Evidence": "Treat hernia."
2. "Medical forest compilation? Pharmacognosy: "Cooling the blood and seeping the blood, opening the meridians."
3. "Pharmacognosy": "Dredging wind and phlegm, lowering breast milk, eliminating carbuncles and swellings, detoxifying and killing worms, and bleeding hemorrhoids and leakage of stool."
4. "The Materia Medica again new": "through the meridians and channels, and blood, phlegm and smooth qi."
5. "Classification of herbs and medicinal properties": "the treatment of breast swelling pain, fire calcined sex punch wine service. Ground and mixed with sesame oil coated soup fire injuries."
6. "Study on the Usage of the Materia Medica": "Clearing away heat, resolving phlegm and opening up the channels."
7. Modern Practical Chinese Medicine: "It is a cool blood circulation, menstruation, detoxification medicine, which can pass breast milk and cure carbuncle and gangrene without convergence. It is also an analgesic and hemostatic medicine, used for intestinal bleeding, red diarrhea, uterine bleeding in women, testicular inflammation and swelling, bleeding hemorrhoids, etc."
8. "Shandong Traditional Chinese Medicine": "It is used for treating unfavorable urination, joint swelling and pain."
9. National Compendium of Chinese Herbal Medicine: "Clearing heat and removing toxins, promoting blood circulation, diuretic and swelling. It is used for treating soreness of sinews and bones, chest and hypochondrium pain, amenorrhea, lactation, mastitis, and edema."
10. Sichuan Chinese Medicine Journal (1979 edition): "Used for thoracic paralysis, sciatica, hemiplegia after stroke, fall and flutter injuries."
Effects of the traditional Chinese medicine loofah (pharmacological effects)
1. Analgesic, sedative effects
2. Anti-inflammatory effects
3. Other effects
Loofah extracts in vitro have the effect of inhibiting immune hemolysis. Loofah extract has strong anti-B encephalitis virus effect, but no direct inactivation.
Concoction of Chinese medicine loofah
1. Loofah take the original herb, remove impurities and residual seeds, hit flat, cut into small pieces.
Serial Ya Nei Zhi (串雅内编)："Delete the seeds and cut them into pieces." The raw product is long in expelling wind and resolving phlegm, and clearing collaterals and removing paralysis.
2. Stir-fry loofah take clean loofah pieces in the pot, stir-fry with mild fire until dark yellow, remove and let cool.
3. loofah charcoal take net loofah pieces of loofah in the pot, with the fire fried until the surface of the charred black, the internal charcoal brown, spray a little water, extinguish the sparks, remove and dry.
The evidence of the quintessence of treatment: "Lian Zi burning ash storage sex."
De Match Materia Medica: "Calcined charcoal to preserve sex." It has the effect of stopping bleeding after frying the charcoal, and is used in hemorrhagic cases such as blood in stool and leakage.
The properties and flavor of the Chinese medicine loofah
Sweet taste, cool nature. Attributed to lung, liver and stomach meridians. The body is light and fluent.
1. "Examination of Medicinal Properties": "Cool."
2. Zhang Bingcheng, "The Convenient Reading of the Materia Medica": "Sweet in flavor, cold in nature."
3. Study on the Usage of the Materia Medica: "Non-toxic. Attributes to the lung, stomach and liver meridians."
4. Nanning Drugs: "Sweet, flat."
The usage and dosage of the Chinese medicine loofah
Internally: decoction, 6-15g; or burnt and crushed, 1.5-3g each time.
Externally: appropriate amount, calcined and crushed and applied.
The application of traditional Chinese medicine loofah with
The quality of this light multi-luxury, good to go through the meridians and collaterals, blood and gas, so it is often used in the thoracic and hypochondriacal distension, rheumatism paralysis, contracture of the tendons and veins, the women's menstrual closure and breast milk and other evidence.
But its strength is moderate, so more and more with its medicines.
Where the liver is depressed, stagnant qi, the meridian is not smooth, the symptomatic chest and hypochondrium distension and pain, can be with gua vulgaris, yujin, citrus aurantium dulcis, yanhusuo, etc., in order to increase the broadening of the chest of the work of qi;
Where the rheumatism and dampness of paralysis, the meridians, the symptomatic joints, contracture of the tendons, can be with the rhizoma ligusticum, angelica sinensis, macrophyllum, papaya, wilsonia, and other phase of the Taiwan, in order to increase the effectiveness of the blood to remove the paralysis;
This product can also be used for the function of the menstruation
This product can be used with angelica, chuanxiong, ligusticum, xiangsui, saffron, etc. to increase the power of blood circulation and menstruation;
Anyone who has little breast milk or milk after delivery can be used with wang buliuxing, lutong, andrographis paniculata, pig's trotters, etc., to increase the effect of breast milk.
Clearing heat and removing toxins;
This product is sweet and cool, and functions to clear the lungs, resolve phlegm, detoxify and eliminate swelling, so it is often used in phlegm-heat cough, heat and toxin carbuncles and swellings.
Where the heat of the lung meridian is abundant, and the symptom is coughing with much phlegm, it can be combined with Psidium guajava, Sang Bai Pi, Bei Mu, and Qian Hu to increase the function of clearing the lung and resolving phlegm;
Where the heat and toxic congestion is abundant, and the symptom is localized carbuncle and swelling, it can be used with honeysuckle, dandelion, and Zi Hua Didin, in order to increase the effect of clearing heat and removing toxins; in the case of the breast carbuncle with heat and pain, it can be combined with dandelion, honeysuckle, Angelica Dahuricae, and Psidium Guajava, etc., in order to increase the effect of removing toxins and dispersing the knots. The power.
Diuretics and swelling of this product through the channels, can make the meridian water and moisture from the small stool, so it is often used in edema, urinary adverse evidence.
Whenever water stagnates and causes edema and ascites, it can be combined with Poria, Zelda, Donggua Pi and Job's tears to increase the effect of diuresis and seepage of dampness.
If the water compulsion abdominal distension, can also be used with Ba Dou, such as the "Compendium" cited Song will be the formula.
Hemostatic charcoal can stop bleeding, often with palm charcoal to treat blood in the stool, leakage, such as "Jiangxi traditional Chinese medicine" treatment of uterine bleeding, hemorrhoidal blood.
The Chinese medicine loofah attached prescription
1. Cure chest pain.
Steamed filiformes, red peony, white peony, Yanhuosuo 9g each, 6g of green peel. decoction. ("Anhui Chinese herbal medicine")
2. Intercostal neuralgia.
Silk gourd 12g, Xiangshu, yujin 9g. water decoction. ("Hebei Chinese herbal medicine")
3. Cure chest paralysis and heart qi pain.
Silk gourd Luo 15g, orange Luo 3g, Salvia miltiorrhiza 10g, Allium sativum 12g. decocted with water. ("Sichuan Chinese medicine" 1979 edition)
4. Treatment of paralysis and contracture, numbness of joints.
Silk gourd, Angelica sinensis, Gui Zhi 9g each, papaya, the system of nanxing 6g each. (Chinese common Chinese herbal medicine)
5. Treatment of rheumatic arthralgia.
Silk gourd Luo 15g, Lonicera japonica 24g, Wilsonia 12g, Chrysanthemum 15g. decocted with water. ("Shandong Chinese herbal medicine manual")
6. Treatment of arm pain.
Silk gourd 3 inches, gentiana 6g, qiangwu 3g, saffron 4.5g. Decocted with water. (Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, "Selected Prescriptions for Common Diseases")
7. Treatment of hemiplegia after stroke.
Silk gourd, hyssop 10g each, mulberry branches, astragalus 30g each. water decoction. (Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine Journal, 1979 edition)
8. Treatment of menstrual failure.
Silk gourd Luo (calcined, research), every three money, under the wine. (Maximilian single prescription selection)
9. Treatment of breast milk or milk can not be.
①Silk gourd 40g, water decoction. (China's common Chinese herbal medicine)
②Silk gourd 30g, fig 60g. stewed pig's hooves or pork to serve. ("Sichuan Chinese Medicine Journal" 1979 edition)
10. Treatment of small intestine gas pain, around the umbilicus rushing heart.
Silk gourd, burnt and stored in powder. Each serving of three coins, hot wine mix down. (The study of the use of the herb)
11. Mastitis.
Silk gourd Luo 15g, dandelion 60g, Juniperus communis 15g, water decoction. ("Shandong Chinese herbal medicine manual")
12. Treatment of acute mastitis, sores, boils and poisons.
Silk gourd, dandelion 9g each, honeysuckle, dandelion 15g each, fried hedgehog 12g. decoction. ("Anhui Chinese herbal medicine")
13. Treatment of hemorrhoids leakage and prolapse of the anus.
Silk gourd, burned, with years of lime, andrographis for the end. To pig's gall juice, chicken and sesame oil and paste, collect on is stopped. (The study of the use of the herb)
14. Treatment of eczema.
Silk gourd 60g. decoction of water to wash the affected area. (Shandong Chinese herbal medicine manual)
15. Treatment of edema, ascites.
Silk gourd 60g, water decoction. (Same as above)
16. The treatment of external summer dampness, limb drowsiness, short and red urine.
Silk gourd Luo, winter melon skin, raw Coix Mi 30 g. Decoction. (The Complete Book of Traditional Chinese Medicine)
17. Treatment of water compulsion abdominal distension.
Old loofah peeled one (cut), Ba Dou fourteen. With fried beans yellow, go to the beans; to melon with Chen Cang rice and then fried, go to the melon. Research rice for the end, the paste pill sycamore big.
Each serving one hundred pills, white soup. ("Compendium" cited Song Huizhi Fang)
18. Treatment of uterine bleeding, hemorrhoidal blood.
Silk gourd, palm, each equal parts. Stir-fried into charcoal, *** research. Each serving 1.5g, 3 times a day. ("Jiangxi Traditional Chinese Medicine")