1, expelling wind and cold
This product can dispel wind, warm and dispel cold, and is a good medicine for dispelling wind and removing dampness. It can be used for treating diseases such as arthralgia due to wind-cold-dampness, lumbago and knee pain, and muscle contracture, and is especially beneficial to the elderly, the chronically ill and the infirm.
It can be used alone or together with Angelica sinensis, Achyranthes bidentata and Sanguisorba officinalis, such as Wujiapi wine in Compendium of Materia Medica. If rheumatism is painful, tendons and veins are cramped, and flexion and extension are unfavorable, it can be combined with the effect of papaya and loose joints, such as Wujiapisan in Shenshi Zunsheng.
2. Hurricane dehumidification
For those who suffer from cold and dampness, and the skin of feet is swollen and painful, acanthopanax bark is used to dispel wind and remove dampness. It is often used together with Folium Perillae, Evodia rutaecarpa, Areca catechu and ginger, and can also be taken as a pill with the efficacy and function of Radix Polygalae, such as Wujiapi Pill, an experienced prescription of Ruizhu Decoction.
3, liver and kidney, strong bones and muscles
Acanthopanax senticosus can tonify liver and kidney, strengthen bones and muscles, and can be used to treat liver and kidney deficiency, soreness of waist and knees, weakness of lower limbs, and slow walking of children. It should be combined with liver and kidney tonics such as Eucommia ulmoides, Dipsacus, Achyranthes bidentata and Tortoise Shell.
For example, Wujiapisan from Health-preserving Jiabao Prescription is used with Eucommia ulmoides and Achyranthes bidentata to treat liver and kidney deficiency and soreness of waist and knees. Wujiapisan, a summary of preventing miscarriage, is used together with tortoise shell, Achyranthes bidentata and papaya to treat children's retardation.
4. Promoting blood circulation and regulating menstruation
For women with emaciation, limb drowsiness, dyspnea, fever and hyperhidrosis due to blood stasis and qi deficiency, Cortex Acanthopanacis (nourishing liver and kidney, strengthening bones and muscles) can be used together with Cortex Moutan, Radix Angelicae Sinensis and Radix Paeoniae Rubra. For example, it can be used in Taiping Huimin and Hutchison Fang Ju.
5. Anti-inflammatory
At present, it is believed that the anti-inflammatory effect of acanthopanax senticosus is mainly caused by reducing the release of inflammatory mediators and inhibiting its inflammatory effect.
Experiment: Adding water decoction and alcohol precipitation and n-butanol extract can obviously inhibit the swelling of rats' feet caused by carrageenan, and continuous administration for one week can also obviously inhibit the proliferation of cotton ball granulation tissue in mice. The ethanol extract of Acanthopanax sessiliflorus can obviously inhibit the swelling of rats' feet caused by carrageenan, egg white and formaldehyde, the exudation of mice's air bags and the proliferation of cotton balls caused by croton oil, and can also obviously inhibit adjuvant joint swelling and allergic inflammatory reaction mediated by immune complex in rats.
6, reduce immunity
Acanthopanax senticosus decoction and alcohol precipitation have inhibitory effects on immune function, can significantly reduce the phagocytosis percentage and phagocytosis index of peritoneal macrophages in mice, and significantly inhibit antibody-forming cells in mice spleen. The experiment of half-heart transplantation in neonatal rats proves that Acanthopanax gracilistylus has certain anti-rejection effect and can significantly prolong the average survival time of transplanted myocardium.
7. Sedation and analgesia
The alcohol extract of acanthopanax senticosus has synergistic effect on subthreshold pentobarbital sodium, which obviously prolongs the sleep time of mice. The n-butanol extract and alcohol extract of Acanthopanax sessiliflorus can increase the pain threshold and have obvious analgesic effect.
8. Anti-cadmium mutagenesis and anti-stress effects
Cadmium is a heavy metal inducer, which has a strong mutagenic effect on germ cells, and can induce sperm malformation and micronucleus increase in bone marrow cells in mice.
Experiment: The water extract can reduce cadmium-induced sperm malformation and micronucleus increase of bone marrow cells in mice by continuous gavage for 5 weeks, and the inhibition rates are 63.9% respectively.
% and 74.3%. The total saponins of Acanthopanax gracilistylus can obviously prolong the swimming time, the survival time of heat stress and the hypoxia tolerance time under normal pressure in mice.
9. Promote nucleic acid synthesis
Acanthopanax senticosus can increase the DNA synthesis of liver and spleen cells in young rats, and Acanthopanax senticosus polysaccharide can promote the DNA synthesis of liver cells in mice with carbon tetrachloride-induced liver injury.
10, the edible taboo of acanthopanax bark
1, liver and kidney deficiency, people with fire should also avoid using acanthopanax bark, and the lower body should not use acanthopanax bark without cold and dampness. Classic of Materia Medica: "The fire in the lower half without wind, cold and dampness should not be used, and the liver and kidney are deficient, and the fire should also be avoided." ; "Ying Ben Cao": "People with lung qi deficiency and water deficiency should not use it."
2, in order to make, Acanthopanax senticosus is afraid of snakeskin and Scrophularia. Notes on Materia Medica: "Long-term ambition is the cause." Afraid of snakeskin and Scrophularia. "
1 1, Addendum of Acanthopanax senticosus
① Treat beriberi of men and women, swollen, wet and painful joint skin, eat and drink vigorously, and don't forget things: Acanthopanax senticosus (soaked in wine) and polygala tenuifolia (soaked in wine, easy to peel). Doing it above is the end. It is made of soaked medicinal liquor in spring, autumn and winter, and wine in summer. Pills are as big as buttonwood trees. Take forty or fifty capsules each time, and send them with hollow warm wine. (Wujiapiwan, experience prescription of Ruizhu decoction)
② Treating rheumatism, flaccidity and arthralgia, strengthening bones and muscles, and filling essence: Acanthopanax senticosus, washing and scraping bones, decocting juice to make it drink; Or cut into pieces, bagged, soaked in wine and boiled, or added with Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae and Radix Sanguisorbae. (A Compendium of Wujiapi Wine)
③ Treatment of lumbago: Cortex Acanthopanacis and Cortex Eucommiae (fried). The master is the end, and the wine cream pill is as big as a buttonwood tree. Take 30 capsules each time with warm wine. (Wu Jia Pi San is from "Healthy Family Treasure")
④ Treatment of crane knee wind: eight taels of acanthopanax bark, five taels of angelica sinensis, four taels of Achyranthes bidentata and a barrel of ashless wine. Boil three incense sticks and take them twice a day to get drunk. ("Surgical Dacheng" Wujiapi wine)
⑤ Treatment that can't be done at the age of four or five: Acanthopanax senticosus, Radix Cyathulae (soaked in wine for two days) and Fructus Chaenomelis (dried) are equally spread. The top is the bottom, two yuan each time, twice a day with hollow rice soup, and then half a glass of good wine to drink after taking it, still measuring the size of the child. (Wujiapisan, summary of baby protection)
⑥ Treating deficiency: Acanthopanax bark and Lycium barbarum root bark fight each other. The first two flavors are finely cut, five barrels of water, seven barrels of juice, four barrels of juice and one barrel of koji, leaving three barrels of bibimbap. How much rice is added, cooked and eaten as usual, how much willfulness. ("Qian Jin Fang" is the same as five drinks)
⑦ Treating women's blood wind fatigue, haggard face, drowsiness of limbs, dyspnea, less gas inhalation, fever and excessive sweating, dry mouth and tongue, and not thinking about diet: one or two of Cortex Acanthopanacis, Cortex Moutan, Radix Paeoniae Rubra and Radix Angelicae Sinensis. The top is the end, take one money at a time, water Yi Deng, copper coin dipped in oil as medicine, fry for seven minutes, take it warm, three times a day. ("Fang Ju" fried powder)