Chinese medicine can save you, also known as silver bark, nine-layer bark, white orchid bark, bear bile wood, etc. It is the bark (second-layer bark) of the Ilex plant of the Ilex family, and its leaves and roots can also be used as medicine. It can be harvested throughout the year. The outer rough skin is scraped off, chopped, dried or used fresh. The leaves are mostly used fresh, and the roots are harvested in spring and autumn. Character identification: The root bark is in the shape of a roll or a slightly curled plate, with different lengths and a thickness of 0.3-0.5 (-1) cm. The outer surface is yellow or gray-brown, rough, often with horizontal wrinkles or slightly transverse protrusions; the inner surface is light brown or tan, with light longitudinal stripes. The texture is hard and brittle, the cross-section is slightly flat, slightly granular, yellow-white or light yellow-brown. The smell is slight, the taste is bitter and slightly astringent. The bark is thin, the edges are slightly rolled inward, and there are many oval-shaped protruding lenticels on the outer surface. The ones with thick skin, strong bitterness and no debris are better.

Efficacy of Jiubing Ying:

Nature and flavor are bitter and cold.

1. "Lingnan Medicine Collection": "Bitter taste."

2. "Nanning Drug Chronicles": "Bitter, cold, non-toxic."

The main functions are heat-clearing, detoxifying, dampness-reducing and pain-relieving. Treat colds and fever, tonsillitis, sore throat, acute and chronic hepatitis, acute gastroenteritis, gastric and duodenal ulcers, rheumatic joint pain, bruises, injuries caused by soup and fire.

1. "Lingnan Medicine Collection": "Clear heat and poison."?

2. "Nanning Drug Chronicles": "Cool and detoxify. Treat Sha syndrome and internal heat. Boil ointment It can be applied to heat sores. "?

3. Jiangxi's "Herbal Medicine Handbook": "It clears away heat and promotes dampness, reduces swelling and relieves pain. It can treat colds, fever, tonsillitis, sore throat, acute gastroenteritis, stomach and duodenum. Intestinal ulcers, bruises, rheumatism "?

4. "Lingnan Medicine Collection": "Bitter taste"?

5. "Nanning Drug Chronicles". : "Bitter, cold, non-toxic."?

Usage and dosage Oral administration: decoction, 3 to 7 yuan. External use: Pound and apply or boil into ointment and apply.

The functions of Bing Ying:

1. To treat Shasha and Intestinal Sha: 2 liang of Bing Ying, 1 liang of Mountain Bean Root, 2 liang of Aralia Grass, along the roadside Three or two chrysanthemums. Decoction in water and take.

2. To treat exogenous wind-heat headache: take one or two pieces of Bing Ying, boil it in water, and take it three times a day.

3. To treat sore throat: take three qian of Ganjiu Bing and boil it in water to make tea.

4. To treat bruises, swelling and pain: Grind two qian of Bing Ying bark into powder, add one liang of white sugar, and drink it with boiling water.

5. Treat burns caused by decoction: Grind dry rescue Bing into powder, mix it into a paste with cold boiled water, and apply it five to six times a day.

6. To treat general gastric cancer: 3 qian of Ilex japonica, 5 qian of egg shell, 3 qian of Crimson Schisandra chinensis, 3 qian of Bletilla striata, and 1 qian of Acorus calamus. ***Grind it into fine powder and take it for 5 qian each time, twice a day, after meals.

7. To treat gastric and duodenal ulcers: 2 liang of holly holly, 4 liang of jellyfish, 2 liang of crimson schizandra, and 1 liang of bamboo leaf pepper. ***Grind into fine powder and make into small particles. Take 5 minutes each time, three times a day.

8. To treat acute and chronic hepatitis: save one or two halves of Bing and five qian of Eight Anise King. Both medicines use bark. Scrape off the rough skin and slice. Add two bowls of water and fry until it reaches half a bowl. Take one dose a day in two divided doses.

9. To treat neurodermatitis: take three ounces of bear bile bark and boil it in water to wash the local area.