Collected throughout the year, but September to March is preferred.
The complete spines of the herb have many branches, and the main spines are cylindrical, 5-15 centimeters long, with a thick base of about 8-12 millimeters, and a sharp end; the branch spines are usually 1.5-7 centimeters long, and sometimes diverge into smaller spines. The surface is brownish purple, the tip is reddish brown, smooth or with fine wrinkles. The texture is hard, difficult to break. Herbs more longitudinally cut into oblique slices or thin slices, less than 2 mm thick, xylem yellow-white, the center of the light gray-brown and lax pith. Odorless, tasteless. Thin, pure and neat slices are preferred.
Mainly produced in Jiangsu, Hubei, Hebei, Shanxi, Henan, Shandong. In addition, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Anhui, Zhejiang, Guizhou, Shaanxi, Jiangxi, Gansu and other places also produce.
Chemical composition contains flavonoid glycosides, phenols, amino acids.
Concoction pick impurities; soaked in water, moistened through the slices, sun-dried.
The flavor is pungent, warm.
①Compendium: "Pungent, warm, non-toxic."
② "Medical Lin Compendium": "Pungent and salty, warm."
③Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine: "Warm, pungent flavor, with a small poison."
Functions and Indications: Searching for wind, pulling out toxins, subduing swellings and draining pus. It is used in the treatment of carbuncles, sores, plague, ringworm, and fetal clothes.
①Tu Jing of the Materia Medica: "Rice vinegar is boiled with tender prickly needles to make a thick decoction to apply to sores and ringworm."
②Yang Shi Ying: "can attract all the drugs upward, the treatment of the upper focus of the disease."
③ "Materia Medica Derivative Supplement": "treatment of carbuncle and gangrene has been ulcerated, can lead to the ulcer."
④《Compendium》："Treating carbuncle and swelling, envying breast, wind plague and evil sores, not being able to keep the cellular clothing down, killing worms."
⑤ "The Materia Medica Chong Yuan": "Removing wind and resolving phlegm, defeating toxins and attacking poisons. It is used to set children's convulsions, attack the onset of pox, and turn toxins into pulp."
6 "Sichuan Chinese Medicine": "Treatment of wind-heat sores and rashes, and can pass breast milk."
7 《Medicinal Herbs》："To cure tonsillitis."
Use and dosage Internal use: decoction of soup, 1 to 3 qian; or into pills, bulk. Externally: Apply with vinegar, sprinkle or mix with powder.
Contraindications and contraindications of the Materia Medica (本草經疏)："Where the carbuncle and gangrene have been ulcerated should not be taken, and pregnant women are also prohibited from taking it."
Selected prescription ① treatment of carbuncle and malignant poison, external hair inside hair, want to break unbroken, in the limbs, shoulders, back, belly and abdomen outside, then the pain is very swollen, in the chest and diaphragm, waist and coils, belly, stomach and intestines within the pain is very swollen: soapberry pods spines flying tip of one or two, frankincense, myrrh, Angelica sinensis, Rhizoma Ligusticum Chuanxiong, licorice two dollars, dahuric dahurian dahuric root, pollen, honeysuckle five dollars each. Water, wine each two bowls, decoct one bowl and a half. Take it after food when the poison is on the top; take it when the poison is in the middle with half fullness; take it in the lower part of the poison with empty heart. It can be eliminated if not yet done, and it will be ulcerated if it has been done. ("medical knowledge of the first collection")
② treatment of cancer whitlow sores: Soapberry (burned stock sex, research), white and a little, for the end, compress. ("Ren Zhai straight guide formula")
3 treatment of women's breast carbuncle: Soapwort (burnt sex) one or two, mussel powder one money. And research, each take a penny, warm wine down. ("Ren Zhai straight guide formula")
4 treatment of sores without a head: Soapberry (drying ash), for the end, each serving three money, wine, chewing sunflower seeds three, five, the former drug sent down. ("Ru Men Matters Relative")
5 treatment of hemorrhoidal disease, anal side itching pain more than: soap pods thorns two two (burned so that the smoke is exhausted), stinking simaroubaceae skin one or two (slightly roasted), wind one or two (remove the head of the reed), one or two of the red peony, Hovenia citrus shells one or two (bran fried yellow, remove the pith). Pound the above medicines into a fine powder, use one catty of vinegar, boil half of it to make a paste, then put down the rest of the medicines and make pills as big as a small bean, and take 20 pills with pan-fried antifungal soup every time before eating. ("Sheng Hui Fang" Soapberry Pill)
6) To treat abdominal sores in the intestines: Soapberry, no matter how much, a bowl of wine, decocted to seven minutes, take warm. If you don't drink wine, you can also decoct it in water. ("Lin's experience formula")
7 treatment of wind plague sores, physical disability limb loss, the shape of the disabled appearance of the change: Soapwort spines fly tip a catty (slightly fried, research for very fine powder), red chain snake a (chopped, boiled in wine, remove the bones to take the meat, baking), Hu Ma Ren three two, two bi bi bi of raw half-summers, the real lead powder one or two. All fried dry, research for the end, and soap pods thorns end, a total of water flood for the pill, such as green beans big, dry, into a clean magnetic bottle. Every morning and evening to take three coins, white soup down. ("Materia Medica Huiyin")
8 treatment of fetal clothing is not: Soapwort thorns burned for the end, each serving one money, warm wine down. ("Women's Supplement")
9 urinary lymphatic closure: Soapberry (burnt sex), broken old paper and other points. For the end, no ash wine service. ("General Records of the Shengji")
⑩ treatment of pediatric heavy tongue: Soapwort thorn ash, into the park nitrate or brain a little, gargle, mixed into the tongue, saliva from the elimination. ("Sheng Hui Fang")
Clinical application of the treatment of acute tonsillitis
Saponaria spicata 3 money decoction, morning and evening, 2 times divided service. Observation of 10 cases, 1 case is ineffective (complication of peri-tonsillar abscess), the rest are cured within 2 to 8 days. Most of the drugs in the next day, the body temperature and white blood cells that fall to normal, conscious symptoms and tonsil redness and swelling reduced.