Overview of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Bull's knee, alias: Baibei, bull's stem, foot stirrups, iron bull's knee, du bull's knee, waixian bull's knee, waixiu, real xi, waijian, earth bull's knee, Huaibei bull's knee, red bull's knee, bull's knee, bull's knee, bull's knee, bull's knee, sticky grass subroot, bull's knee, wild bull's knee, bones, bull's knee, for the amaranthaceae, the dried root of the bull's knee. Bitter, sour, flat. Attributed to the liver, kidney meridian.
1, activating blood circulation to dispel blood stasis, tonifying the liver and kidney, strengthening the tendons and bones, diuretic and diaphoretic, and inducing blood to flow downward.
2. It is used in raw form to dispel blood stasis, draw blood downward, and benefit the joints; used in cooked form to tonify the liver and kidney, and strengthen the tendons and bones.
Morphology
This product is elongated cylindrical, straight or slightly curved, 15-70cm long, 0.4-lcm in diameter, grayish-yellow or light brown in color, with slightly twisted fine longitudinal wrinkles, sparsely arranged lateral root scars, and transverse lenticel-like protrusions. The texture is hard and brittle, easy to break, softened by moisture, the section is flat, light brown, slightly horny-like li oil, the center vascular bundles of xylem is larger, yellowish-white, and its periphery is scattered with most of the yellowish-white dotted vascular bundles, which are arranged intermittently into two to four rounds. The flavor is slightly sweet and slightly bitter and astringent.
Identification of medicinal effectsWai Niu Knee tonifies the liver and kidney, strengthens the tendons and bones, activates blood circulation, and is used for amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, and lumbar and knee pain due to insufficiency of the liver and kidney.
Pharmacological effects of the extract and decoction of hyssop on the uterus of isolated rabbits, whether pregnant, non-pregnant have contractile effect. It has a transient hypotensive effect.
Chemical composition contains triterpenoid saponins, hydrolyzed to produce oleanolic acid, and contains a large number of potassium salts.
Dosage and administration 6--15g, decocted with water, or into pills and bulk.
Note: Hyssop is one of the four major medicines (yam, dihuang, hyssop, chrysanthemum). Because of its main production in Henan Xinxiang (used to be called "Huaiqingfu") and other counties so named. It is elongated and cylindrical, with a thicker upper end. The surface is gray-yellow or light brown. The texture is hard and brittle, and becomes pliable and easy to break by moisture. The center has a wooden heart. Section flat yellowish brown slightly horny, with veins points (vascular bundles) white arranged in 1:8 circles, the center of the vascular bundles larger yellowish white. Slightly acidic odor slightly sweet and bitter.
Sichuan hyssop
1, activate blood circulation and dispel blood stasis
Sichuan hyssop is often used in gynecology, injury and all kinds of stagnant blood stasis, often used in conjunction with the living flower, peach kernel, Angelica sinensis, and Yanhuisuo, which can activate blood circulation and regulate menstruation as well as dispel blood stasis to heal injuries.
2, strong bones and bones, through the blood
3, the good nature of the knee down, into the liver and kidney meridian, can tonify the liver and kidney, strong
tendons and bones, but also through the blood, joints, for the treatment of the waist and knees and lower limbs of the commonly used medicine.
4, bitter drain down
Chuan Niu Knee can lead blood downward, guide the heat downward, can cure the symptoms of blood heat in the upper part of the body, often with the side of cypress leaves, leucaena leucocephala, small artichoke and other medicines, in order to cure vomiting blood, epistaxis; and can also be used with yin-supporting and heat-clearing medicines, such as Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata, Gypsum, etc., with the cure for swollen and painful gums belonging to the deficiency of yin and fire; cure for the liver yang over-exuberance, qi and blood and go upward, headache, dizziness and dizziness, often with the liver leveling drugs such as It is often used together with liver leveling medicines such as ochre, dragon bone and oyster.
5, to promote protein synthesis
Chuan hyssop contains insect metabolic steroid hormone has a strong protein synthesis promotion effect.
Experiment: give mice ig or ipl subhydroxy promote decorticate steroidone after about 2 hours, that is visible in the mouse liver cell nuclei, mitochondria and microsomes in the efficacy of amino acid precursors increase in adulteration, the role of 4 hours is stronger, and the strength of its action and the effect is similar to that of 4-chloro-testosterone. The effect was similar to that of 4-chlorotestosterone, with an increase in protein synthesis in the kidneys, which returned to its original level after 4 hours. Cupric amaranthone also has a similar effect, only 5mcg per day to mice, that is, the effect can be seen without any toxic reaction.