Lycium barbarum bark is also called Lycium barbarum bark, which is the root bark of Lycium barbarum tree. It is produced all over the country. It is dug in early spring or after autumn, peeled off the root bark, dried and cut into sections for medicine.

First, the efficacy application

Cortex Lycii tastes sweet, light and cold. Enter the lung and kidney meridians.

Efficacy can cool blood, reduce steaming, and clear away lung heat. It is characterized by good governance, sweating, steaming, fatigue and heat.

It is often used to treat hot flashes due to yin deficiency, night sweats due to bone steaming, cough due to lung heat, hemoptysis, epistaxis, internal heat and thirst.

Summary of famous works:

Classic: "Governing five internal evils, quenching thirst in heat, and arthralgia in weeks."

Pearl Capsule: "Relieve bone, steam muscle heat, quench thirst, rheumatism, strengthen bones and muscles, and cool blood."

Herbal Decoction: "Purging kidney fire, lowering lung fire, eliminating fire in cells, reducing fever, and invigorating vital qi."

Compendium of Materia Medica: "Removing deficiency heat of liver and kidney in lower energizer."

"Medicinal Solution of Jade Sorbus": "Clearing liver and purging heat, cooling bones and removing steaming, stopping hematemesis and bleeding, stopping heat and quenching thirst."

Compendium of Materia Medica: "Sweet and cold. Lowering fire in the lung, purging liver and kidney deficiency heat, cooling blood and nourishing vital qi. Therefore, internal treatment of five internal pathogenic heat, vomiting blood and urine, coughing and quenching thirst. External treatment of muscle heat and sweating, upper head wind pain, middle chest pain, lower large intestine. Cured in common cold, where the table is uncertain, the corpse is steamed with sweat. "

"Medical Experience in the West": "Treating sweating and bone steaming can stop hematemesis and epistaxis, clear away kidney heat, dredge two stools, and treat two stools with blood due to heat. Moreover, its downward force can clear up the heat caused by floating in the upper jiao, and those with lung heat injury and cough can be cured by taking it. "

Second, compatibility and application

1. Used for yin deficiency and blood heat, bone steaming and hot flashes, night sweats and other syndromes. Cortex Lycii is good at clearing away deficiency and heat, which is an important medicine for treating sweating and bone steaming. It is often combined with Rhizoma Anemarrhenae and Carapax Trionycis, namely Digupi Decoction. It can also be combined with Liuwei Dihuang decoction to nourish yin and clear heat, which can increase the curative effect.

"Materia Medica Seeking Truth": "Although it is the same as Cortex Moutan in treating bone steaming, Cortex Moutan is pungent and can treat bone steaming without sweat, which is sweet and can treat bone steaming with sweat."

Li Dongyuan said: "Siwutang is added with cortex Lycii and cortex moutan to cure women's bone steaming."

2. Used for cough and asthma due to lung heat. Cortex Lycii can clear away lung heat and stop cough and asthma. It is often combined with Cortex Mori, Radix Glycyrrhizae and japonica rice, that is, Xiebai Powder. This prescription was originally a prescription for children, which is suitable for children with lung fullness, shortness of breath and cough.

3. It is used for hematemesis, epistaxis and other symptoms caused by blood heat. Cortex Lycii has the effect of clearing away heat and stopping bleeding, and is often combined with herbs such as cogongrass rhizome and cacumen Platycladi.

To treat urinary bleeding, you can wash it with new cortex Lycii, pound natural juice or add water to decoct it.

Cortex Lycii also has the function of expelling heat and stopping polydipsia, which can be used for the syndrome of thirst quenching and polyuria. It is often combined with herbs such as Rehmannia glutinosa and Trichosanthes root to nourish yin and promote fluid production.

Wang Angyan: "Spit blood and urine, pound fresh juice."

Iii. Usage and dosage

Cortex Lycii is often used as decoction, and it is also suitable for pill powder. The usual dosage of decoction is several grams to more than ten grams; If it is the main medicine in the prescription, it can also be used to more than tens of grams.

Fourth, the application of attention

Bone skin is cold and cool, so it is not suitable for people with exogenous wind, cold, fever and spleen deficiency and loose stool.

"Materia Medica": "Deficiency and fire are strong and spleen and stomach are weak, so those who eat less and have diarrhea should reduce it."

Wang Angyan: "People with slippery bowels avoid Lycium barbarum, and those with moderate cold avoid bone skin."

Zhang Xichun said: "The lung with common cold for cough should not be used, and it should be concentrated by its performance."

-notes on actual combat of TCM: 2 1.5.26 am, second draft # notes on actual combat of TCM #