There are many types of traditional Chinese medicine in traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine is actually a system with a large number of types and quantities. Therefore, there are still many unknowns about traditional Chinese medicine that we need to explore, understand and learn. Many rare traditional Chinese medicines actually have many important effects, such as Shiwei. So, what are the effects of Shiwei in general?
Shiwei is a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine and is listed as a medium-grade medicine in "Shen Nong's Materia Medica".
Alias: Shiwei, Shiwei.
Source: It is the dried stalked leaves of various kinds of Shiwei, such as fern Polypodiaceae perennial herbaceous plants, including Shiwei, Lushan Shiwei, feltweed, stalked Shiwei, and Beijing Shiwei, all of which are wild.
Origin: Mainly produced in East China, Central South, and Southwest regions. In addition, it is also distributed in North China, Northwest China, and Northeast China. It likes to grow in warm, humid mountain forests and streams.
Character identification: The leaves are mostly lanceolate and sometimes halberd-shaped. They have long handles and come in different sizes. The smallest ones are 5 to 10 centimeters long, and the largest ones are 30 to 60 centimeters long. The surface of the leaves is yellow-green, with many longitudinal brown-black stripes on the old leaves. The back is densely covered with star-like soft hairs like felt, which are gray-white or camel when young. When old, they are covered with sporangia, which are brown, and the leaves are leathery, hard and brittle, with no air and a slightly bitter taste.
The leaves are preferably large, thick, light green on the surface and brown on the back.
Main ingredients: Contains saponins, anthraquinones, flavonoids triterpenoids, isomangiferin, etc.
Pharmacological effects: 1. Diuresis; 2. Clear away heat and stop bleeding; 3. Antibacterial, with varying degrees of inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus aureus, Proteus, and Escherichia coli; 4. Anti-influenza virus.
Preparation: Brush off the star-shaped hairs and sporangia on the back, cut into shreds and use raw.
Nature and flavor: sweet, bitter, slightly cold.
Meridians returned: Enter the lungs and bladder meridian.
Function: diuretic and relieve stranguria.
Indications: hot stranguria, bloody stranguria, astringent and painful urine.
Clinical application: Practical application is not as common as _Zhu, 萆_. However, it still has its specialties in diuresis, clearing away heat and stopping bleeding.
1. It is used to treat hot stranguria, difficulty in urination, astringent pain, and is used with psyllium seed, talc, etc.
2. It is used to clear away heat and stop bleeding, such as bloody stranguria or stone stranguria with hematuria. It can be used with angelica root, peony root, purpurea, etc., and the prescription is Shiwei Powder. If you have vomiting blood due to fever, you can use 50g of Shiwei, thickly decoct it and take it immediately.
3. In recent years, it has been tried to treat leukopenia, with red dates, such as Shiwei Red Date Decoction: 30g Shiwei, 15g red dates, decoction in water, one dose per day.
Dosage: 6~30g.
Prescription example: Shiwei Powder Modification ("Puji Prescription"): Shiwei 30g, Eclipta 18g, Purpura 12g, White Peony 12g, Qumai 12g, Mallow Seed 30g, Atractylodes. 12g, 18g of talc, 9g of Angelica sinensis, 4.5g of Zhigancao, decoct in water and take it to treat kidney stones and hematuria.
Note: There are many original plants of Shiwei and they are distributed over a wide area. The product is divided into two categories: large-leaf stoneweed and small-leaf stoneweed, which are equally medicinal. However, the back side of the leaves must have dense brown-yellow pubescence in order to be used medicinally. A variety of tile reeds, domino ferns, and star ferns have sporangia arranged in two rows of dots on the back of the leaves without star-like dense pubescence, so they are not used for medicinal purposes.
Fufang Shiwei Capsule:
Fufang Shiwei Capsule is mainly synthesized from four kinds of drugs: Shiwei, Astragalus, Sophora flavescens, and _Zhu. It can cool down, remove dampness and heat, and improve the urethra. The effect of ailments is a capsule. This medicine has a slight fragrance and tastes a bit bitter. Patients who suffer from irregular urination, frequent urination, urgent urination, painful urination, edema of the lower limbs, acute and chronic glomerulonephritis, pyelonephritis, cystitis, urethritis, etc., can take this medicine. These are compound Shiwei. Diseases that capsule medicines can treat.
However, because Fufang Shiwei capsule contains Sophora flavescens, and the active ingredient of Sophora flavescens is matrine, researchers found in experiments that matrine has anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic and immunity-weakening effects. , is a drug with low toxic content. Under certain conditions, it has the ability to inherit toxicity. If used improperly, dizziness, nausea, stomach discomfort, local pain, etc. may occur.
In addition, when using Compound Shiwei Capsules, patients should be careful not to smoke, drink alcohol, eat spicy food, and not use it with nourishing Chinese medicine at the same time.