Effects and functions of patchouli musk

Everyone has heard of musk in novels or TV series. As a kind of Chinese medicinal material, it has many effects. Let’s take a look with me below.

Introduction to musk

Musk is a type of Chinese medicinal material, and its medicinal source is from the musk deer family, such as forest musk deer, horse musk deer or musk deer and other mature male gland sacs. of dry secretions. After drying, it becomes granular or lumpy. It has a special aroma and bitter taste. It can be made into spices and can also be used as medicine. It is a central nervous system stimulant. It can relieve pain and reduce swelling when used externally. It is also very valuable. Musk has the effect of breaking blood and removing blood clots, so pregnant women should not consume it.

Effects and functions of musk

1. Effect on the central nervous system

Musk has the effect of stimulating the central nervous system and awakening. It can stimulate breathing, accelerate heartbeat, and increase blood pressure. High blood pressure; can increase the contraction of most hearts, showing a cardiotonic effect. The effect of musk on the central nervous system is a small amount of excitement and a large amount of inhibition.

2. Effects on the respiratory and circulatory system

Musk has an exciting effect on the isolated heart. Intravenous injection of musk tincture can increase blood pressure and increase the number of breathing. Artificial and natural musk ketone Intravenous injection also has a pressor effect in anesthetized cats, increasing the number and frequency of breathing. Experiments using cat papillary muscles and guinea pig tracheal smooth muscles have shown that musk can enhance the effect of catecholamines.

3. Effect on the uterus

Musk has a significant stimulating effect on both the isolated and in-situ uterus. The latter is more sensitive, and pregnant women are more sensitive than non-pregnant women. Non-pregnant stimulant effects occur more slowly but are longer lasting.

4. Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects

The dilute solution of musk tincture can inhibit Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus in the test tube. For rat arthritis caused by mycobacterial antigen injection, its anti-inflammatory effect is stronger than that of butanone.

5. Effect on the kidneys

Musk can enhance the effect of adrenergic receptors and enhance the effect of catecholamines.

6. Androgen-like effects

Scientific research shows that musk has androgen-like effects.

7. Inhibiting vascular permeability

Musk can inhibit vascular permeability and has certain health effects on the cardiovascular system.

8. Anti-early pregnancy effect

Musk has anti-early pregnancy effect, and the anti-pregnancy effect of musk ketone is not the result of animal poisoning.

9. Effect on immune function

Musk water-soluble protein can enhance humoral immunity and cellular immunity. It was observed experimentally that musk had no inhibitory effect on the production of antibodies in mice immunized with sheep red blood cells by intraperitoneal injection and intragastric administration of M. It seems to have an enhancing effect. Musk has no immune-inducing effect, but in the presence of antigenic sheep red blood cells, musk can significantly enlarge the spleen of experimental mice.

10. Anti-tumor effect

Scientific research shows that musk has a destructive effect on animal cancer cells in vitro and has a significant inhibitory effect on cellular respiration in animal tumor tissues.

11. Effect on smooth muscle

Musk can enhance the relaxing effect of isoproterenol and other substances on tracheal smooth muscle. It can also increase the effect of isoproterenol and other substances on adrenergic receptors Excitatory effects on the body.

12. Prevention of ischemic heart disorder

Musk has preventive and therapeutic effects on ischemic heart disorder caused by blood clots.

13. Reduce swelling

Musk has good effects on promoting blood circulation and dispersing stagnation, reducing swelling and analgesic, and is effective for oral and external use on sores, swelling and pain in the throat.

14. Urinary labor

Musk has the effect of inducing labor. It can be used for difficult labor, stillbirth, and retained afterbirth.

15. Treatment of angina pectoris

Modern clinical reports have achieved good results with oral administration of artificial musk tablets or artificial musk aerosol to treat angina pectoris.

16. Rejuvenate the mind and wake up the mind

Musk can be used to treat coma due to closed syndrome, because musk is used as a spicy scent to treat closed syndrome caused by various reasons. For example, the traditional Chinese medicine musk is used in Angong Niuhuang Pills and Suhexiang Pills to treat heat and cold syndrome.

17. Promoting blood circulation and relieving pain

Musk can be used to treat congestion and pain, such as blood stasis, amenorrhea, abdominal pain, bruises and other symptoms.

To treat blood stasis syndrome, it is often used together with traditional Chinese medicines such as Salvia miltiorrhiza, peach kernel, safflower, and Chuanxiong. In addition, because musk has the effect of promoting blood circulation and relieving pain, it can also be used to treat sores, swelling and pain in the throat, rheumatic paralysis, etc. For the treatment of sores, swelling and pain, it is often used together with traditional Chinese medicines realgar, frankincense and myrrh, such as Xingxiao Pills.

The medicinal value of musk

It has the effects of rejuvenating the mind, activating blood circulation and dispersing stagnation, relieving pain and reducing swelling, and promoting pregnancy. Mainly used to treat coma due to fever, stroke with phlegm, qi stagnation and violent seizures, nausea and coma, blood stasis, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, accumulation, abdominal pain, rheumatic arthralgia, bruises, carbuncle and malignant sores, sore throat, aphtha, toothache Cranic, bites from insects and snakes, dystocia, stillbirth, retained afterbirth.

1. Treatment of stroke: Qingzhou white balls, add musk and grind them into pieces. Mix it with natural ginger juice and pour it into the nose. If the teeth are tight, it can be poured into the nose. ("Wei's Family Prescription")

2. Treat stroke and unconsciousness: 10 grams of musk. After grinding, add 100 grams of clear oil and mix well. ("Jisheng Prescription")

3. Treat phlegm and the mind: 0.5 grams of musk, moonstone, tooth soap. 5 grams each of alum and male essence. Grind the above ingredients evenly, store tightly, take 2.5 grams per serving. ("Biography of the Department of Ulcers")

4. To treat epilepsy in children with epilepsy, coma, and severe sleepiness: 25 grams of white silkworm (wash with soup, roasted to yellow), 0.5 grams of Tianzhu yellow ( Grind carefully), 5 grams of true bezoar (grind separately), 2.5 grams each of musk (grind) and borneol (grind). Mix well and grind thoroughly, take 2.5g each time, mix with natural ginger juice and take it without interruption. ("Pediatric Health General Prescriptions" Baijin Powder)

5. Treat cold accumulation in the kidneys, qi attack and pain in the heart and abdomen, which occur frequently: 25 grams of musk (finely grinded), 25 grams of asafoetida (wrap in flour) (slightly fried), 1.5 grams of dried scorpion (lightly fried), 50 peach kernels (fried and slightly yellow). Add the medicine and pound the Luo Wei, mix it with honey, and make it as big as a mung bean. Take 20 pills with hot wine regardless of the time. ("Sheng Hui Fang" Yong Xiang Pills)

6. To treat epilepsy and heartache: musk (grind separately, twist down after each decoction), 50 grams of woody scent (bruised), thirty-five peach kernels (fried with bran) , 50 grams of Evodia (soaked in water overnight, stir-fried and dried), and three betel nuts (simmered). Add the five flavors, except musk and peach kernels, coarsely mash and sieve, add the peach kernels, mix and grind evenly. Take 15 grams each time, add half a cup of water and half a cup of child's urine, boil until six minutes, remove the water, add 2.5 grams of musk, mix well and take it warm, twice a day. ("Muskey Decoction" in "Shengji Zonglu")

7. Treat bruises and blockage of breath: Divide tooth soap, Asarum, Nanxing, Borneol and Musk into equal parts, and blow the nose. ("Medical Prescriptions")

8. To treat toothache: a little musk soybean, one croton grain, 25 grams of asarum, grind the same medicine into fine powder, mix the pulp of jujube into pills, such as Corn is big. Wrap a pill in new cotton and bite it on the painful area. If there is saliva, spit it out. If there is a hole, take one pill. ("Sheng Huifang" Musk Pills)

How to identify musk

1. Sniffing

If the smell does not have a strong fragrance, or there is a fishy smell, If there is a bad smell, you need to identify the authenticity.

2. Oral taste

When you taste it, there is a tingling feeling on the tongue, and a refreshing taste that reaches the root of the tongue. The taste is pure, the aroma is good, and there is no fishy smell. If the taste does not tingle the tongue, is unpleasant, has an impure aroma, or has a fishy odor, you need to identify the product as fake.

3. Knead it with your hands

If it is soft, elastic and feels soft, it is a genuine product, otherwise it is a fake.

4. Fire

Place the aluminum foil on the fire and heat it. If the musk appears to jump, squirm, burst or make a popping sound, it will melt and form a cloud point like beads, and expand and appear. If it bubbles, does not emit flames, and does not emit sparks, it is genuine; otherwise, it is counterfeit.

Side effects of musk

1. Musk can easily cause miscarriage and should not be used by pregnant women.

2. Excessive dosage may cause mild headache, nausea, and loss of appetite. Excessive use has a depressive effect on the central nervous system. Irritating to gastrointestinal mucosa. Symptoms of poisoning: oral mucosal erosion, nausea, vomiting, tooth loss, blood in the stool, blood vomiting, and blood in the urine. In severe cases, respiratory center paralysis, heart failure, and widespread internal bleeding can lead to death.

3. Improper use of medicine can easily cause the fragrance to escape, which can lead to miscarriage. Ancient doctors believed that it should not be used by those with excessive yang and yin deficiency, rising but not falling, blood deficiency, cold, heat and night sweats. Nowadays, musk is often used as medicine in combination with other drugs to make pills. The indications should be well understood to avoid the wrong medicine.

Records of Musk Medical Book

1. "Herbal Classic": Mainly used to ward off bad qi, warm malaria, epilepsy and spasm, and remove three parasites.

2. "Bie Lu": Treats evils in the heart, severe pain in the stomach and intestines, bloating and fullness, wind poison, bankrupt woman, abortion, facial removal, and nebula in the eyes.

3. "Treatise on the Properties of Medicine": In addition to heartache, epilepsy, and diarrhea in children, to calm the mind and calm the nerves, take one pill of Orchid Gate, grind it carefully, and drink it with hot water to relieve urination. It can corrode all states.

4. "Rihuazi Materia Medica": kills internal organs insects, suppresses snake and silkworm bites, sand lice, stream and miasma poisons, and vomits wind and phlegm. It absorbs warm water from the uterus and relieves cold and diseases.

5. "Ren Zhai Zhi Zhi Fang": It can transform Yang and regulate pancreas. Can introduce medicine thoroughly.

6. "Compendium": Opens all the orifices, opens meridians, penetrates muscles and bones, relieves alcohol poisoning, and eliminates accumulation of fruits and melons. Treats stroke, qi, evil, phlegm and accumulation syndrome.

7. "Compendium of Materia Medica": Removes all malignant sores, hemorrhoids, leakage, swelling and pain, pus, rotting flesh, and ink spots on the face. Anyone with qi stagnation and illness should use it. If rat or insect bites cause sores, seal them with musk.

8. "Compendium of Materia Medica": Treats deafness, blurred vision, and coldness.