Basic Information
Medicinal Name FRUCTUS LIQUIDAMBARIS
Lutong
Alias Jiu Kong Zi Maple fruit (《Southern Herbaceous and Tree-like》)、Maple wood on the ball (《De Sheng Tang Experienced Formula》)、Maple Xiang Guo (《Sophora West Magazine》)、Maple Fruit (《Huai Xi Journal》)、Maple Fruit (《Compendium of Gleanings and Picking Up of the Catalogue》)、Wolf's eye (《Compendium of Herbs Data》) , maple bulb (《Chinese Medicine Journal》), wolf's eye (《Manual of Traditional Chinese Medicine》), maple bulb (《Medicinal Herbs》), JiuKongZi (《Jiangsu Phytomedicine Journal》). Maple (《Medicinal Herbal Classic Collected Notes》)Also known as: Regalia (《Er Ya》), Maple (《Saying Wen》), Maple (《Er Ya》Guo Pu Note), Fragrant Maple (香枫), Maple Chen (《Compendium of Compendium》), Maple Chai Shue (《Plant Name Compendium》), Triangular Maple ("三角枫"), Triangular Tip (《Lingnan Caiyin Record》), Chicken Maple (鸡枫树), Chicken Claw Maple (鸡爪枫), and Maple with Large Leaves (大叶枫).
SourceThis product is the dried mature fruit inflorescence of Liquidambar formosana Hance, a maple tree of the Hamamelis family. The fruits are harvested in winter after ripening, removed from impurities and dried.
Medicinal parts: the plant's root (maple root), bark (maple bark), resin (white gum incense), leaves (maple leaves) and so on are also for medicinal use, each detailed in the special article.
Distribution of animal and plant resources: distributed in Shaanxi, Henan, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Qinghai, Tibet and other places. Herbs are mainly produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong and other places. In addition, Hubei, Henan, Guizhou and other places also produced.
Harvesting and storage: pick in winter, remove impurities, wash and dry.
Latin name: Fructus Lipuidambaris Liquidambar taiwaniana Hance,
TraitsThis product is a polyfloral fruits, from most of the small capsule collection, spherical, 2-3cm in diameter, the base of the total fruiting peduncle. Surface gray-brown or brown, with most of the sharp spines and rostral small blunt spines , 0.5 ~ 1mm long, often broken, small capsule apical dehiscence, a honeycomb of small holes. Light, hard, not easy to break open. It is light, hard, and not easy to break open. It has a faint odor and taste.
Taste and flavor attribution bitter, flat. Attributed to the liver and kidney meridians.
Functions and IndicationsExpel wind and activate the channels, promote water circulation. Used for joint paralysis, numbness and contracture, edema and distension, lactation and menorrhagia.
Dosage: 5-9g.
Store in a dry place.
Prescription name Lulutong, Jiu Kong Zi, Maple fruit (fried slightly charred, ringed to remove the thorns with)
General Dosage and Administration 5~15g, decoction. Excessive menstruation and pregnant women, should not be applied.
Accompanying medicine white gum incense: that is, the resin of incense tree. Bitter, pungent, flat. Function of blood circulation and swelling, muscle pain, external use to stop bleeding. Apply to sores and canker sores, trauma bleeding and other conditions. It is used internally and externally. The general dosage is 1.5 grams, into the pills and used externally in appropriate amounts.
Literature excerpts from "Gleanings from the Compendium of Materia Medica": "Relieve contracture of meridians and collaterals, paralyzing pain around the body, pain in the hands and feet and waist.