(Classic)

With different names, such as Dioscorea zingiberensis (Erxiong), Xuanhe (Wupu Materia Medica), Huihe (Bielu) and Wumeizi (Main Medicinal Materials in Liaoning).

The source is the fruit of Schisandra chinensis, a magnolia species.

Plant form Schisandra chinensis, also known as: rattan, Zanthoxylum bungeanum.

Deciduous woody vines, up to 8 meters long. Stem bark is grayish brown, lenticels are obvious, branchlets are brown and slightly angular. Leaves alternate with slender stalks; Leaf blade is thin and membranous; Oval, broadly obovate or even broadly elliptic, with a length of 5 ~11cm and a width of 3 ~ 7 cm, with a sharp tip, a wedge-shaped base and a broad wedge-shaped to round shape, with small teeth on the edge, green on the top and light yellow on the bottom, with fragrance. Flowers are unisexual and dioecious; Male flowers with long peduncle, perianth 6 ~ 9, oval, stamens 5, base connate; The female flower has 6 ~ 9 perianth, many pistils, spirally arranged on the receptacle, and the ovary is inverted pear-shaped without style. After pollination, the receptacle is gradually extended into a spike shape. Berry is spherical, 5 ~ 7 mm in diameter, crimson when mature, and contains1~ 2 seeds. The flowering period is from May to July. The fruiting period is from August to September.

Born in the mixed forest on the sunny slope, it is entangled with other plants. Distributed in Northeast China, North China, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan and other places.

Collect first frost, picking when the fruit is fully ripe, picking off branches and impurities, and drying in the sun; Store in a dry and ventilated place to prevent mildew and moth.

The dried fruit of medicinal materials is slightly spherical or oblate, with a diameter of 5 ~ 8 mm. The skin is bright red, purple or dark red. It is oily and has irregular shrinkage. The fruit is soft, and a constant number of them stick together; Contains1~ 2 seeds, kidney-shaped, brown, shiny, hard, and white kernel. The flesh is weak and special, and tastes sour. After the seeds are broken, they are fragrant and bitter. Purple, big grain, thick meat, oily and shiny are preferred.

Mainly produced in Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Hebei and other places, the commodity is commonly called "Schisandra chinensis".

There is also a kind of "Southern Schisandra chinensis", also known as "Western Schisandra chinensis", which is mainly the fruit of the plant Schisandra chinensis (see "Xueteng"). Its fruit is small, red, with thick skin, thin meat and poor quality. Sichuan, Hubei, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Yunnan and other places.

Other pharmacological effects

It can improve the vision of normal people and patients with eye diseases and expand the field of vision; It also has a good effect on hearing, which can improve the discrimination of skin receptors.

Chemical constituents include schizandrin, de-oxyschizandrin, neoschizandrin, schizan-drol, schisandrin, a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, and so on.

Processing Schisandra chinensis: screen the dust, remove impurities, put it in a steamer, take it out and dry it. Fructus Schisandrae Chinensis with wine: take the cleaned Fructus Schisandrae Chinensis, add yellow wine, mix well, put it in a jar, seal it, steam it in water, take it out and dry it in the sun when the wine is exhausted. In addition, honey steaming and vinegar steaming are also used, and the method is the same as wine steaming (Schisandra chinensis uses 20 kg of yellow wine per 100 kg, or 30 kg of honey, or rice vinegar 15 kg).

"On Leigong's Baking": "Anyone who uses (Schisandra chinensis) to chop into two pieces with a copper knife, soaks them in honey and steams them, but soaks them in pulp for two nights and bakes them for use."

The taste is sour and warm.

① Classic: "Sour and warm."

② Bielu: "Non-toxic."

(3) Tang Materia Medica: "The flesh is sweet and sour, and the core is hard, and it is salty."

④ Changsha Medicinal Solution: "It tastes sour, slightly bitter and salty, and the gas is astringent."

Meridian entering the lung and kidney meridians,

(1) Herbal Decoction: "Start with Taiyin, and get enough Yin meridians."

② Compendium: "Entering the liver and heart."

Functions are indicated for astringing lung, nourishing kidney, promoting fluid production, arresting sweating and astringing essence. Treat lung deficiency, asthma and cough, dry mouth and thirst, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, fatigue and emaciation, wet dream's spermatorrhea, chronic diarrhea and dysentery.

(1) astringing lung and relieving cough: it is used for cough and asthma due to deficiency of both lung and kidney, and is often combined with kidney tonics.

(2) Sewing semen to stop diarrhea: used for nocturnal emission and chronic diarrhea. Treating nocturnal emission is often combined with ootheca mantidis and calcined keel; For chronic diarrhea, it is often combined with nutmeg and Euryale ferox.

(3) Promoting fluid production and astringing sweat: used for thirst and night sweats in the mouth with insufficient vaginal fluid, often accompanied by Ophiopogon japonicus and raw oysters.

(4) All shock and collapse caused by qi and blood dissipation can be combined with tonics.

(1) The Classic: "Main qi, cough against qi, strain and deficiency, strengthen yin and benefit men's essence."

(2) Bielu: "Nourish the five internal organs, remove heat, and give birth to the muscles in the yin."

③ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Improving eyesight, warming water and dirty organs, curing wind, lowering qi, resolving food stagnation, cholera tendon-twitching, sarcoidosis, cooling dolphin air, eliminating edema, nausea, flatulence, quenching thirst, removing vexation and heat, relieving alcoholism and strengthening bones and muscles."

(4) Li Gao: "Promoting fluid production to quench thirst. "Treat diarrhea, replenish the deficiency of vitality, collect dissipated qi, and dilate the pupils."

⑤ Wang Haogu: "Treat asthma, cough, dryness and cough, strengthen water and suppress yang."

⑥ "Herbal Medicine": "Cold cough, five flavors in the south are strange, fatigue and injury, and five ignorance in the north are the best."

⑦ "Herbal Tongxuan": "Consolidating essence and astringing sweat."

Usage and dosage for oral administration: decoction, 0.5 ~ 2 yuan; Or into the pill, scattered. External use: grinding, mixing or decocting with water.

It is advisable to avoid exterior pathogenic factors and interior excess heat, or those with initial cough and rash.

(1) "Notes on Materia Medica Classics": "Cistanche deserticola makes it. Evil wilts. Victory over aconite. "

② "Herbal Classic": "It is forbidden to use Scutellaria for purging heat if the rash starts at first and stops drinking for a long time, and the liver has qi and the lung has excess heat."

3 "Materia Medica": "When you feel cold at the beginning, you should avoid it, for fear that it will not be scattered. "It's forbidden for the liver to swallow acid, lest it help the wood and hurt the soil."

Prescription ① for treating lung meridian cold and cough: poria cocos, licorice, dried ginger, asarum and Schisandra chinensis. The top is fine at the end. Every time you take two yuan, one cup of water, fry until seven points, remove me, take it warm, not timely. ("Jifeng Puji Formula" Wuwei Asarum Decoction)

(2) Cough treatment: four or two large poppy shells (to remove the pulp and break it, add a little white syrup into the water, bathe the shell to make it clean and fry it yellow), two or two Schisandra fruits (fresh ones, to remove stems, it is better to go north). The top is fine powder, and the white glaze is a pill, which is as big as a marble. Take one pill each time, one cup of water, smash it, fry it for six minutes, clarify it, and take it warm before going to bed, regardless of time. (Wuweizi Pill, "Health Jiabao Fang")

③ Treatment of phlegm cough complicated with asthma: Schisandra chinensis, alum, etc. For the end. Every time San Qian is taken, it is cooked with pig lungs, dipped in the end and chewed, and then boiled in white soup. (Puji Fang)

④ Treating lung deficiency and cold: Schisandra chinensis, when square red is ripe, is harvested, steamed, filtered, removed and boiled into thin paste. Measure the acid and sweet into the honey, then get angry until the honey is cooked. Once it is cold, store it in the container, make soup and take it from time to time. ("Materia Medica")

⑤ Treat heat-induced vitality, limb fatigue, shortness of breath, laziness, thirst and sweating; Or hot and humid fire, gold is made by fire, which is the source of cold water biochemistry, resulting in limp limbs, black eyes and feet: ginseng five dollars, Schisandra chinensis, Ophiopogon japonicus each San Qian. Decoct with water. ("Qian Jin Fang" Shengmai San)

⑥ Treatment of fatigue and emaciation, shortness of breath, nocturnal dreams, pain in the flesh and blood, pain in the back and phlegm, and slight wheezing: Schisandra chinensis, Dipsacus asperata, Rehmannia glutinosa, Pilose Antler (sliced, fried), and Radix Aconiti lateralis Preparata (processed, peeled umbilical cord). The top is the bottom, and the wine paste pills are as big as buttonwood. Take 20 pills each time with salt soup. (Wuweizi Pill, "Health Jiabao Fang")

⑦ Treatment of wet dream collapse: Wash one catty of Schisandra chinensis, soak it in water overnight, remove the pit by hand, then wash the pit with warm water to get the aftertaste, filter it with general cloth, put it in a casserole, boil it with slow fire, except for the weight of the casserole, boil it to 2 catty and 40% paste. After a few days, omit the fire, take one or two spoonfuls each time, and mix with hollow boiled soup. (Introduction to Medicine: Schisandra paste)

⑧ Treatment of renal diarrhea: Schisandra chinensis (picked), Evodia rutaecarpa (fine green). The first two flavors are fried and fragrant, and the fine powder is fine. Old rice drinks two yuan each time. (Wuweizi Powder of Skill Prescription)

⑨ Treating white turbidity and kidney deficiency, pain in both waist and back: one or two pieces of Schisandra chinensis, stir-frying red as the end, using vinegar paste as pills, and sending 30 pills in vinegar soup. Diarrhea, swallow with mugwort soup. ("Experience Recipe" Schisandra Pill)

⑩ Cure the rotten string wind eye: Schisandra chinensis and Vitex negundo, and wash them frequently with decoction. ("Talking about Wild Weng's Trial of Folk Prescriptions")

⑾ Treatment of ulcers and peeling skin: Five flavors can be preserved as before if they are fried, ground and applied. (New Edition of Materia Medica)

Clinical application ① Treatment of icteric infectious hepatitis.

According to the observation of 102 cases, the effective rate is 85.3%, of which the basic cure rate (cure and remarkable effect) accounts for 76.4%. Especially, it has a better effect on three types: occult symptoms, stagnation of liver-qi and disharmony between liver and spleen. Schisandra powder can obviously reduce alanine aminotransferase (ALT) in infectious hepatitis, and it works quickly without obvious side effects, and it is suitable for many types. The basic cure rate of cases with low enzyme type (less than 300 units) can reach 84.2%, and the average medication 10. 1 day can take effect; The basic cure rates of high enzyme type (more than 500 units) and medium enzyme type (300 ~ 500 units) were 7 1.4% and 72% respectively, and the average taking time was 23.6 days and 25.2 days. However, after alanine aminotransferase (ALT) returns to normal, rebound phenomenon is often caused if the drug is stopped too early, so the course of treatment will vary depending on the disease. In principle, it is advisable to take ALT for 2-4 weeks after it returns to normal, so as to consolidate the curative effect. In a few cases, after taking the medicine, the alanine aminotransferase is stable when it drops to a certain level, or the therapeutic effect is not obvious. If the dosage is increased, it may still make the alanine aminotransferase drop to normal. Usage: dry Schisandra chinensis, grind it into powder, and pass through 80 ~100 mesh sieve. Adults should take it once 1 money, three times a day, and 30 days is a course of treatment. It can also be made into honeyed pills.

② Treatment of acute intestinal infection.

Take Schisandra chinensis 10 kg, decoct in water for 2-4 hours, remove residue and add 3 kg of brown sugar, and concentrate to 5000 ml. Generally, it is taken twice a day, and in severe cases, it is taken three times, with 50 ml each time. Children should reduce it at their discretion. 33 cases of acute bacillary dysentery were treated (including 8 cases of chloramphenicol 1 ~ 3 times, 3 cases of tetracycline 1 ~ 2 times,1case of hormone and 20 cases of fluid replacement). As a result, 29 cases were cured, 3 cases were obviously effective, and1case died. Toxic dyspepsia was 2 1 case (14 cases were rehydrated, and chloramphenicol was added in 5 cases). Results All cases were cured except 1 case of death: acute enteritis 10 cases (4 cases were rehydrated) were cured. The fever of 9 1. 1% cases dropped in1~ 4 days after taking the medicine. 82.7% patients had a negative stool within1~ 4 days. Schisandra chinensis has the effects of reducing fever and sweating, promoting fluid production and stopping diarrhea in acute intestinal infection, so it can be effective.

③ Treating neurasthenia.

It can make the symptoms of insomnia, headache, dizziness, dizziness, heartbeat and nocturnal emission disappear or improve, thus restoring health. According to the observation results of 73 cases, 43 cases were cured (68.9%), improved 13 cases (17.8 1%), treatment was interrupted 16 cases (2 1.20%), and was ineffective/kloc. Preparation and dosage: take 40 grams of Schisandra chinensis, soak it in 20 ml of 50% alcohol, shake it once a day, and filter it after 10; The residue is soaked in the same amount of alcohol 10 day and filtered. The two filtrates are combined, and the same amount of distilled water is added. Adults should take 2.5 ml each time three times a day, and the total amount of a course of treatment should not exceed 100 ml. You can also soak Fructus Schisandrae Chinensis in distilled liquor for 1 month, and make it into 40% tincture, with 2.5 ml of water each time and 7.5 ml twice a day for 2 weeks or 1 month.

④ Treating latent Keshan disease.

40% Schisandra tincture, taken three times a day, 30 drops or 2 ml each time. 10 day is a course of treatment, which can be used for 2 ~ 3 courses. Boil water many times after taking the medicine. After a course of observation, 8 patients (including 4 confirmed cases and 4 suspected cases of latent Keshan disease) showed that their conscious symptoms such as heartbeat, shortness of breath and dizziness all improved or disappeared. Arrhythmia has been improved, half of the murmur in apical area has been improved, and those with low blood pressure have also recovered, but the heart boundary and pulse have not been improved significantly after treatment. The ECG changes of some cases also returned to normal. After the treatment interval of one month, all patients can take part in general manual labor, and their condition has not deteriorated.

In addition, it was reported that Schisandra tincture was effective in treating 1 case of Pseudomonas aeruginosa cystitis, and the bacteriological and clinical symptoms reached the standard of recovery after 12 days.

Remind you: Schisandra chinensis, a Chinese herbal medicine, comes from the Internet. Please follow the doctor's advice before using it.