The efficacy and role of soap horn
Chinese medicine Name soap horn zaojiao
Alias big soap horn, soap pods, big soap pods, hanging knife.
English name Gleditsiae Sinensis Fructus.
Source Leguminosae The mature fruit of the soap pod Gleditsia sinensis Lam.
Phytomorphology Deciduous tree. Trunk and branches with solitary or branched spines, spines stout, reddish brown. Evenly pinnately compound leaves; leaflets 3~8 pairs; leaflets subleathery, long elliptic or ovate-lanceolate. Racemes axillary or terminal, flowers polygamous; calyx campanulate, lobes 4; corolla zygomorphic, yellowish, petals 4, ovate or elliptic; stamens 6-8; ovary striped, ovules numerous. Pods oblong, flattened, surface reddish brown or purple-black, glossy, covered with white waxy powdery cream. Seeds numerous, long elliptic, flattened, reddish brown, glossy. Flowering in May, fruiting in September to October.
Origin and distribution are born on mountain slopes and forest bushes. Most parts of China are cultivated.
Harvesting and processing in September ~ October fruit ripening harvest, remove impurities, dry.
Herbal properties long and flat, or slightly curved. The surface is uneven, reddish brown or purplish red, gray-white frost, rubbed off glossy, slightly pointed at both ends, hard. When dissected, it is light yellow, containing most seeds. The seeds are flat and oval, with a yellowish-brown and smooth outer skin, and a firm texture. The odor is pungent.
Sexual taste and attribution of warm, pungent, salty flavor. There is a small poison. Attributed to the lung meridian, large intestine meridian.
Functions and effects open the orifices to dispel phlegm, disperse lumps and swellings, moisten dryness and laxative. It is a gushing and vomiting medicine.
Clinical application dosage of 1 ~ 1.5 grams, multi-person pills; external use of the appropriate amount, powdered blowing the nose to sneeze, or boiled paste paste the affected area. It is used for treating stroke, unconsciousness, epilepsy, phlegm, pass through the orifices, laryngeal paralysis and phlegm obstruction, persistent phlegm, stool dryness; external treatment of carbuncles and swellings.
The main components contain a variety of saponins. The seeds contain fatty oil. Pharmacological experiments have shown that saponins can increase respiratory secretion to produce expectorant effect; still stimulate the gastrointestinal mucosa to produce diarrhea, corrosion of the gastric mucosa to produce absorption of toxicity; on some gram-negative enteropathogenic bacteria and some skin fungi have inhibitory effect.
Contraindications Pregnant women and hemoptysis, hematemesis patients should not take.
Soapberry Overview
Soapberry, also known as soapberry tree, is one of China's endemic saponaria species, vigorous growth, dioecious,
The female tree pods (saponaria) ability. Soapberry fruit is a natural raw material for pharmaceutical food, health care products, cosmetics and detergents; Soapberry seeds can be eliminated digestion and appetizing, and contains a species of plant gum (guar gum) is an important strategic raw materials; Soapberry thorns (soap needles) containing flavonoids glycosides, phenols, amino acids, has a high economic value. [1]
Chemical composition Editor
Containing soapberry saponin B-G (gleditsiasaaponin B-G), palmitic acid (palmitic acid), stearic acid, oleic acid, sterols, glutenol, twenty-nine carbon (nonacosane) and so on.
Geographical Distribution
Born on roadsides and domestic species, ditches and houses. Mainly produced in Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Hubei, Guangxi, Anhui
Application Editor
Functions and Indications：Dissipating swelling and toxins, draining pus and killing worms. Used for the beginning of carbuncle or pus without ulceration; external treatment of scabies, leprosy and leprosy.
It can be used in traditional Chinese medicine, mostly in the treatment of acne, granuloma, blood circulation, softening and dispersing knots.
If not taken in excess, the side effects are minimal.
Soap nuts
Soap nuts are a delicacy, and in recent years there are still a lot of chefs cooking with soap nuts. Soap nuts are the nuts of soap nuts, soap nuts can laxative, treatment of constipation. Soapberry nuts Nutritional components are very high, belonging to the high-energy, low protein, low-fat food, can reconcile the body's internal organs function, with the heart through the veins, clearing the liver and eyesight, spleen, nourishing the kidneys, expectorant and open, laxative, moisturizing skin, skin care, refreshing and replenishment of the efficacy of the gas. It is suitable for both young and old, especially for diabetic patients.
Production method: First, take 50 grams of soap nuts amalgamated, put into 5 pounds of thermos, add boiling water, cover the bottle, three hours can be added sugar consumption.
Second, take 10 grams of soap nuts amalgamated, put into a teacup or thermos, boiled water bubble drink, soap nuts cooked, remove the red skin, can be consumed directly. This method can cure toothache, sore throat, relieve tobacco and alcohol.
Third, take the appropriate amount of soap nuts amalgamated, soak in boiling water for 1?2 hours, cooked vegetarian or cooked rice porridge or eight treasures porridge, moist and refreshing, cold, hot food can be. In addition, cooking chicken soup or pork chop soup when adding soap nuts, are a good choice.
Soapberry powder
Also known as electroplating cleaning agent, is a plant surfactant, the product is the company and the relevant scientific research institutes *** with the development of new products, soapberry powder is widely used in the metal plating industry, metal surfaces in the plating before the treatment of soapberry powder, with the de-oiling and decontamination, plating, polishing and brightening, the use of soapberry powder on the surface of the cleaning materials without any corrosion, it is better than It is better than any other kind of chemical cleaning agent, is the most ideal natural and efficient surface-active cleaning agent. Soapnut powder can also be used in pesticide factories to produce wettable powder. Soap horn powder can also be used in aerated brick factory production of various specifications of aerated bricks, it mainly plays a foaming role. Chain factory can also be widely used.
Soapberry bark
It is a natural industrial washing products, can be used for animal fur products cleaning and processing, processing of fur with fur soft, glossy good advantages. Can also be extracted from the soap horn skin of pharmaceutical hormones and other materials.
Soapberry beans
Also known as soapberry seeds, this product is the production and development of beauty and hair products the most ideal natural raw materials. It is also the main raw material for the production of phytolacca and saponaria gum.
Soapberry rice
Also known as soapberry kernel, this product is the production of edible gum natural organic raw materials, widely used in porridge and other food additives.
Saponin
saponin A general term for ligands that exist in the plant kingdom with a polycyclic compound as a ligand. The ligands are called saponin ligands, and the sugar components are usually D-glucose, D-galactose, and L-arabinose, but there are also methylpentoses and furfuryl acids as sugar components. Most saponins are amorphous powders, soluble in aqueous methanol, hot dilute ethanol, insoluble in other organic solvents. The aqueous solution has the property of consistently producing foam and shows protective colloidal properties. It can be used as detergent, emulsifier, foaming agent. It is not easily permeable to folding, but can improve the permeability of other substances to cell membranes, etc. It can form insoluble compounds with sterols, alcohols, and phenols. As a ****tone, it is characterized by hemolytic effect. This is due to the combination with cholesterol in red blood cells. It also has mucous membrane stimulating effect, some also have diuretic effect, triterpenoid system saponins are widely distributed. Saponins from the roots of American farnesia, farnesia root, frangipani root, the rhizome of licorice, and the bark of Quillaja are well known. The distribution of saponins of other known steroidal compound systems is limited to the Liliaceae, Potatoaceae, and Gentianaceae. Saponins from the roots of Sarsaparilla of the lily family and from the leaves of digitalis, such as mauve saponins, aerial saponins, and various saponins.
Spina Gleditsiae
Spina Gleditsiae (English) Chinese Honeylocust Spine Alias: Tendin, Soap Needle, Soap Pod Spine.
Source: the spines of the legume Soapwort Gleditsia sinensis Lam.
Phytomorphology: deciduous tree, spines cylindrical, often branched. Pinnately compound leaves alternate clusters, leaflets 6 to 16, ovate to long ovate, 3 to 8 cm long, 1 to 2 cm wide, apex pointed, base cuneate, margin denticulate. Racemes axillary and terminal, flowers polygamous; calyx 4-lobed; petals 4, yellowish; stamens 6 to 8; ovary hairy along the suture. Pods flat and long, 12-35cm long, 2-4cm wide, purple-brown, sometimes covered with white wax powder. Flowering in May, fruiting in October.
Garden use editor
Soapberry crown shade thick, long life, very suitable for shade trees and four side of the green tree species. In addition, the soap horn fruit is rich in pancreatic soap, so you can decoction instead of soap use; seed oil can be used as a lubricant and soap, medicinal ringworm and laxative effect; soap thorns and pods can be used medicinally; leaves, pods boiled in water can also kill red spider. Soapberry wood is hard, corrosion-resistant and wear-resistant, but easy to crack, and the new logging material has a very strong odor, so only can do furniture, building columns and piles, utensils on the handle and handle.
Common species of the same genus
.1.G. melanacantha
(G. melanacantha Tang et Wang): its main characteristic is the branchlets gray-green, glabrous, branching spines, but slightly compressed, black-brown. Leaves pinnately compound, with 6-22 leaflets, margin crenulate. Dioecious, pods bar-shaped, papery, brownish-black, twisted, up to 20-30 cm long.
2. Japanese soap pod
(G. japonica Miq.): similar to the mountain soap pods, and mountain soap pods, the main difference between this species of branchlets greenish brown to russet. The leaflets are obviously larger and thicker than those of G. japonica, and the leaves on the new branches are more bipinnately compound, and the pods are long, flat, rounded, twisted, and vesicularly elevated.
3. Hog's Tooth Soap
(G. officinalis Hemsl): This species is similar to the soap pods, dry skin dark gray-black, deep longitudinal fissure, spines single or branched, conical, russet, common in the old branches at the fork of the dense growth, gray branchlets, lenticels significant, a back even-numbered pinnately compound leaves, there are 6-16 leaflets, the edge of the irregular serrulate, petiolules dark brown densely tomentose. Petiolules dark brown and densely tomentose. The pods are of two types: the small fruit is sickle-shaped, plump and seedless; the large fruit is flattened, straight or slightly curved, with several seeds. Both large and small fruits have long beaks. Reddish brown after ripening, dusted with frost. Shandong Zoucheng specialty tree species, pods into medicine.
4. Wild soap pods