Gleditsia sinensis, a traditional Chinese medicine.
Alias Gleditsia sinensis, Gleditsia sinensis, Gleditsia sinensis, Hanging Knife and Chicken Habitat.
English name Gleditsia sinensis.
Mature fruit of Gleditsia sinensis. Leguminosae
Deciduous trees in plant form. The trunk and branches have solitary or branched spines, which are thick and reddish brown. Even pinnate compound leaves; 3 ~ 8 pairs of leaflets; Leaflets are nearly leathery, oblong or ovate-lanceolate. Racemes axillary or terminal, with mixed flowers; Calyx campanulate, lobes 4; Corolla symmetrical, pale yellow, petals 4, oval or oval; 6 ~ 8 stamens; Ovary strip, ovules are numerous. Pods are long and flat, with reddish-brown or purple-black surface and luster, and frosted with white waxy powder. Seeds are numerous, rectangular, flat, reddish brown and shiny. Flowering in May and fruiting in September ~ 65438+ 10.
Distribution of origin is born on hillsides and forests. It is cultivated in most areas of China.
Harvesting and processing: fruits are harvested in September-65438+10, removed impurities and dried.
Medicinal materials are characterized by being long, flat or slightly curved. The surface is uneven, reddish brown or purplish red, covered with grayish white powder cream, shiny after wiping off, slightly sharp and hard at both ends. It is light yellow after cutting and contains most seeds. Seeds oblate, oval, yellow-brown, smooth and hard. The smell is pungent.
Sexual taste is warm, pungent and salty. A little poisonous. Enter lung meridian and large intestine meridian.
Efficacy and function: inducing resuscitation and resolving phlegm, dispersing stagnation and relieving swelling, moistening dryness and relaxing bowels. It belongs to emetic.
The clinical dosage is 1 ~ 1.5g, Duoren Pill Powder; Appropriate amount for external use, grinding into powder, blowing your nose when sneezing, or sticking plaster on the affected area. It can be used for treating middle-aged rheumatism, coma, epilepsy with excessive phlegm, ignorance, throat obstruction with excessive phlegm, stubborn phlegm, and dry stool. External treatment of carbuncle and swelling.
Pharmacological study of antibacterial drugs. Toxicity: hemolysis and cytotoxicity to other tissues, especially to the central nervous system. Pharmacological experiments show that saponins can increase respiratory secretion and produce expectorant effect; It also stimulates gastrointestinal mucosa to produce diarrhea, corrodes gastric mucosa and produces absorption poisoning; It can inhibit some gram-negative intestinal pathogens and some skin fungi.
The chemical composition contains many kinds of saponins, and the seeds contain fatty oil. In addition, it also contains fisetin, lutein, betulinic acid, betulin, corticosterone and other components.
Contraindications: It is not suitable for people with weak constitution, pregnant women and patients with hemoptysis and hematemesis.