1, aster efficacy and role
Moistening the lungs down the gas; phlegm cough. The main cough; lung deficiency cough; lung impotence carbuncle; cough spitting pus and blood; urinary incontinence. It is used for coughing with much phlegm, coughing for a new long time, coughing up blood through labor.
1, "Ben Jing": the main cough against the upper air, cold and heat in the chest knot gas, to remove compulsion, impotence _, An Wu Zang.
2, "Treatise on Medicinal Properties": tonifying the deficiency and lowering the qi, treating the rebellious qi in the chest, labor qi deficiency and heat.
3, "Other Records": treatment of coughing and spitting pus and blood, stopping asthma palpitations, the five labors of the body weakness, supplementing the deficiency, pediatric eclampsia.
4, "Rihuazi Materia Medica": regulating the middle and lung impotence and vomiting blood, eliminating phlegm and cough.
5, "Tang Materia Medica": treatment of asthma, impotence.
6, "Materia Medica from the New": specializing in the treatment of blood and phlegm, for the blood of the labor of the sacred medicine. It can also facilitate the small intestine.
7. Derivation of the Materia Medica: Benefiting lung qi.
8, "Materia Medica Rexin": moistening the lungs and lowering qi, cold phlegm and asthma.
2, the medicinal value of aster
1, used for external wind-cold, phlegm, cough, can be used with thorns, Baiqian, Chen Pi and so on. For the treatment of lung deficiency and prolonged cough, use 9 grams of roasted aster, 4.5 grams of Scutellaria baicalensis, 9 grams of asparagus, 9 grams of Sang Bai Pi, 6 grams of almonds, 6 grams of Platycodonopsis, 6 grams of Agaricus, 6 grams of Chuanbei, 6 grams of Zhimu, 6 grams of Radix Panax Ginseng, 12 grains of schizandra, 1.5 grams of licorice and decocted in water.
2, dry stools: aster 500g decoction three times, the liquid is concentrated to viscous, add 500g of honey to boil, cooled and bottled to keep spare. Each back to serve 20ml, hot water mixing service, morning and evening each time. It has the effect of promoting the lungs and moistening the intestines, and is more suitable for the elderly who are weak and have dry stools. It is more effective for those who have difficulty in urination and retention of urine in old age, such as those who are weak from prolonged illness or postpartum.
3, long cough: aster, mother of pearl, winter flowers, almonds 10g each, sizzling mulberry bark, mother of pearl 15g each, Citrus aurantium, tangerine red 12g each, Salvia divinorum, maitake 30g each, Scutellaria baicalensis, sizzling licorice 6g each, water decoction to be taken, one dose per day, 250 to 300 ml each back, 10 days for a course of treatment.
4, whooping cough: Bacopa, aster 9g each, ochre 10g, white silkworms, rhizoma ligustici, white aconite, frankincense 5g each, bile 3g, decocted in water, take a dose every day.
5, hot cough: aster, fried almonds, Platycodon grandiflorus, zhebeimu 9g, maitake, system loquat leaf, sasanqua 10g, sizzling ephedra, before the white, licorice 6g, rehmannia root 20g, gypsum 15g, water decoction to be taken, a dose a day, pediatric dosage is reduced.
3, the clinical application of aster
1, expectorant effect
The Chinese medicine believes that the aster has the function of warming the lungs, lowering the qi, eliminating phlegm, and stopping cough. Experiments show that the decoction has expectorant effect without antitussive and asthmatic effect; benzene and methanol extracts also have expectorant effect.
2, antibacterial effect
Aster in vitro against Escherichia coli, dysentery bacillus, metaplasma, typhoid fever bacillus, paratyphoid fever bacillus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Vibrio cholerae and other 7 kinds of gram-negative intestinal pathogens have a certain degree of inhibition; and antipathogenic fungal effect.
3, antiviral effect
Water decoction in chicken embryo urinary bladder has obvious inhibition of influenza virus.
4, Tumor-suppressing effect
It is reported that the isolated epimediterpene alcohol has tumor-suppressing effect on mouse Ehrlich ascites carcinoma; it is also reported that cyclic peptide analogs isolated from n-butanol extracted portion of the root of Asteraceae have antitumor activity against S180.
4, aster concoction method
1, purification: remove impurities.
2, cut: remove impurities, wash, slightly moist, cut thick slices, dry.
3, shelling:
(1) honey: take the aster slices, the first will be diluted with the right amount of boiling honey, add the aster mixed, smothered. Set in the pot with a gentle fire frying does not stick, remove, let cool. Each aster 100 kilograms, with 25 kilograms of refined honey.
(2) stir-fry: take the aster in a hot pan, stir-fry with moderate heat until old yellow or slightly charred.
(3) steaming: take the aster net slice, placed in a steamer, steamed for about 1 hour (counting from the upper air) removed, dry.
(4) bran system: the first pan is hot, pour the bran, to smoke, add the aster slices, stir-fried to light yellow, sieve the bran can be, every aster 100 kg, with 25 kg of bran.
5, aster dosage
Internally decoction, 0.5-3 money; or into the pill, bulk. Chinese medicine 6-9 grams, water decoction. The Mongolian medicine is mostly used in pills and bulk preparations.
6, aster side effects
This product is not a moisturizing medicine, so all the lung yin insufficiency, deficiency and inflammation of the fire should be used with caution, and must be used, can only be in the nourishing yin heavy dose of discretionary addition of a small amount of aster with.
7, the preservation of Chinese herbs
(1) low temperature
molds and pests are not easy to grow below 10 ℃, and oil, melting, adhesion, odor loss, decay and other deterioration of herbs is not easy to occur at low temperatures, so the herbs will be placed in a cool, dry place (such as refrigerators), is conducive to the preservation of their The active ingredient.
(2) Avoid light
Like flowers and leaves of the kind of herbs that are easy to change in the light, should be stored in a dark place and ceramic containers, colored glass bottles, to avoid direct sunlight.
(3) classification
according to the characteristics of the herbs classified storage, such as hedgehog skin, melon atrophy and other fleshy, sweet-smelling herbs are prone to insects, should be placed in the smoky warehouse; far-flung, half-summer, etc. are easy to mildew, should pay attention to the ventilation, sunlight. In addition, the highly toxic herbs should be labeled with eye-catching labels, special custody, to prevent poisoning by misuse.
(4) sealed
Seeds of herbs (lentils, malt, Coix seed, etc.), sealed to prevent rats from tearing; easy to weather (manganese nitrate, etc.) and volatile (ice chips, etc.) herbs, airtight storage to avoid loss of active ingredients. Sealed, the drugs in a clean glass bottle, after the lid tightly, with a wax circle drops in the mouth of the bottle to seal on the line. In addition, ceramic jars, vacuum bags are also good sealing containers.
(5) combined hiding
Pepper and fishy animal herbs (antler, dillon, etc.) stored together, can prevent animal herbs moth deterioration; will be diarrhea and danpi in one place, diarrhea is not easy to moth, danpi is not easy to deteriorate.
(6) insecticide
The cuttlebone, dew beehive and other animal medicines should be steamed before preservation, to avoid hatching eggs; at the same time, available chemicals can be fumigated to kill the pests, usually save a small amount of medicinal herbs can be ignited sulfur to generate sulfur dioxide fumigation, preservation of a large number of medicinal herbs can be sprayed chlorine bitterness fumigation.