Overview of traditional Chinese medicine
Curcuma longa, alias: poncuma longa mao, _ medicine, poncuma longa, Guangmao, poncuma longa, green ginger, qiangqi, Guangjiao, black heart ginger, wenjiao, is the rhizome of Curcuma longa, an herb of the ginger family. Bitter, pungent, and warm. Attributed to the liver and spleen meridians.
1. Dispelling blood stasis, promoting menstruation and eliminating symptoms: It is used for menstrual closure and abdominal pain caused by blood stasis and qi stagnation, and obstruction in the abdomen and lumps in the abdomen, etc. It has the effect of breaking blood stasis, dispelling blood stasis, promoting qi circulation and relieving pain, for example, Sanlang Pill, (Zhenzhi quanjiao zhuangji curcuminoxu san).
2. Qi-moving and eliminating stagnation: used for food and drink stagnation, abdominal distension and pain, has the effect of Qi-moving, eliminating stagnation and relieving pain, such as Curcuma longa pills.
Drug morphology
Curcuma longa is ovoid, long ovate, conical or long fusiform, apical more blunt tip, base obtuse rounded, 2 ~ 8cm long, 1.5 ~ 4cm in diameter. gray-yellow to gray-brown surface, the upper part of the link protruding, with rounded, slightly concave fibrous root scars or residual fibrous roots, some of them each side of the 1 series of subsided bud scars and class of rounded lateral rhizome scars, and some of them can be seen knife cut scars. The root is heavy, solid, and gray in cross section. Weight, solid, gray-brown to blue-brown cross-section, waxy, often with gray-brown powder, cortex and column easily separated, endothelial ring brown. Gas slightly fragrant, taste slightly bitter and pungent. Guangxi curcuma links slightly protruding, cross-section of yellowish brown to brown, often with yellowish powder, endothelial ring yellow-white. The section of Curcuma longa is yellowish brown to brown, often with yellowish to yellowish brown powder. Aromatic or slightly fragrant.
Identification of medicinal effects
This product can not only break the blood and expel blood stasis in order to eliminate stagnation and pass the menstruation, but also can move the qi and dissipate knots in order to dissipate the obstruction and eliminate stagnation, so it is "the most important medicine for the treatment of stagnation of qi," it "belongs to the foot syncopated yin liver, the liver is the most important medicine". "It is a medicine for the qi portion of the foot syncopal liver meridian. It also has anti-tumor effects.
Pharmacological effects 1. anti-tumor effects. 2. can prolong the blood clotting time.
Chemical composition contains volatile oil, the oil for a variety of sesquiterpenes, there are curcuminoids, curcuminoids, curcuminoids, curcuminoids, curcuminoids, curcuminoids, curcuminoids, curcuminoids, curcuminoids, curcuminoids, curcuminoids, curcuminoids, curcuminoids, furan dienone, etc..
Dosage and administration 3--10g, decoction with water, or into the dose. Appropriate amount for external use.
Use note menorrhagia and pregnant women are contraindicated.
Accompanied by vinegar Curcuma longa: focusing on the liver meridian blood, enhance the effect of breaking the blood to eliminate symptoms. Such as the three prongs of the pill.
Specific efficacy
1, break the blood and qi
Curcuma longa is pungent, bitter and warm, break the blood and qi, dissipate blood stasis and eliminate thinning, eliminating the accumulation of pain, break the blood and qi, dissipate blood stasis and eliminate thinning, eliminating the accumulation of pain, for obstruction of the masses, stasis of blood and menstrual closure, chest paralysis and heart pain.
2, eliminate accumulation and relieve pain
Curcuma longa belongs to the liver and spleen meridian, can move qi and relieve pain, eliminate food and resolve accumulation, can be used for the accumulation of stagnant qi, epigastric distension and pain.
3, anti-tumor
Curcuma longa preparation in vitro on the mouse Ehrlich ascites cancer cells, ascites-type hepatocellular carcinoma cells and other tumors have obvious inhibition and destruction. In addition to killing tumor cells, Curcuma longa also enhances cellular immunogenicity, which induces or promotes the body's immune rejection response to tumors.
4, anti-early pregnancy
The alcoholic extract of the rhizome of Curcuma longa is extremely effective components of rats and mice have a very significant anti-early pregnancy, and dogs also have a certain effect of anti-natalization. The decoction of Curcuma longa likewise had an antipregnancy effect on mice.
5, pit bacteria
Curcuma volatile oil test tube can inhibit the long staphylococcus aureus hemolytic streptococcus, Escherichia coli, typhoid fever, Vibrio cholerae.
6, hepatoprotective
An alcoholic extract of Curcuma longa and volatile oil of carbon tetrachloride, thioacetamide-induced elevation of alanine aminotransferase in mice has a significant reduction in the amount of sulfobromophthalein retention of sodium only to respond to the hepatic histopathology is reduced.
7, slow down renal failure
Rabbits with glycerol saline to acute energy failure, intravenous administration of Curcuma longa injection after the pathological changes were significantly reduced, and no death.
8, inhibition of platelet aggregation and anti-thrombosis
Curcuma longa aqueous extract in rats, ADP-induced platelet aggregation has a significant inhibitory effect, and can significantly reduce the viscosity of the blood, shorten the electrophoresis time of the red blood cells. Its aqueous alcoholic precipitation, liquid intravenous injection also has very significant inhibitory effect on thrombosis in rats.
9, anti-inflammatory
The mice infused warm tulip volatile oil 200mg/kg of vinegar peritonitis has a very significant inhibitory effect, the mice intraperitoneal injection of warm tulip volatile oil, scalded localized oedema, croton oil-induced ear inflammation has a significant production of the use of the rat intraperitoneal injection of the volatile oil, the cotton wool granulomas have a significant inhibitory effect.