Pueraria lobata

Pueraria lobata

(Chinese medicine and plant records)

[synonyms] Vitis amurensis root, Sophora mollis root (Jilin traditional Chinese medicine manual), shanhuazi root, guangguangye root (Shandong traditional Chinese Medicine).

[source] it is the rhizome of Menispermaceae. The plant morphology can be seen in the article "kudzu".

[collection] from April to may or from August to October, the stumps, fibrous roots and soil were removed and dried in the sun.

[medicinal materials] the dried rhizomes are cylindrical (all Sichuan commodities are open to each other and are semicircular strips), 30-50 cm long and 1-5 cm in diameter. They are often twisted, with sparse fine roots, fine root marks or bud marks. There are rhizome residues at the top, with longitudinal wrinkles and few lenticels. The appearance is brownish yellow to brownish black (grayish white or grayish brown when the coarse skin is scraped off), the cork is easy to peel off, and the interior is light yellow. The fracture surface is flat and fibrous; the xylem is dark yellow and divided into bundles, usually 8-15 bundles or as many as 18 bundles, radiating like a wheel; the pulp is cotton white. Without Qi, it tastes bitter. It is better to have long rhizome, yellow outside and white inside, and no fibrous root.

Produced in Hebei, Shandong, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Sichuan and other places.

[chemical constituents] the stems of Pueraria lobata from Japan contain alkaloids such as kaempferine, kaempferine, kaempferine, Corydaline, stephanine, stephanine, tetrandrine and n-demethyltetrandrine.

The roots and stems of Pueraria lobata from the former Soviet Union contain alkaloids such as stephanine, tetrandrine, n-demethyl-tetrandrine, Dauricine, Magnolia alkaloid, kaempferine, sinomenine and isosorbine.

[nature and taste] 1. Sichuan records of traditional Chinese medicine: "bitter and pungent in taste, cold in nature, non-toxic. "

② "Common folk herbs in Zhejiang Province": "bitter, cold. "

Functions and indications: dispel wind and heat, regulate qi and remove dampness. For tonsillitis, pharyngitis, rheumatism, numbness, edema, beriberi, dysentery, enteritis, stomachache and abdominal distension.

"Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals": "dehumidification, dispelling wind, promoting qi and diuresis. Treatment of bladder edema, wind swelling, beriberi wet swelling, rheumatic joint pain. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 0.5 ~ 3 yuan.

[prescription selection] ① for dysentery and enteritis: Radix Puerariae, five to one or two yuan, fried in water; or radix puerariae, five yuan, three yuan, fried in water. (Zhejiang folk herbs)

② Treating numbness of limbs: five bucks of kudzu root. Take it in water. (Zhejiang folk herbs)

③ Treatment of taeniasis: kudzu root 1 to 3 money. Take it in water. (Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines in Northeast China)

④ Treatment of stomachache and abdominal distension: Radix Puerariae or Caulis vine two to three coins. Take it in water. (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

[clinical application] treatment of tonsillitis and laryngitis

Take Pueraria lobata and Bidens bipinnata 2.5 kg each, grind and sift them, and make them into extract tablets, 0.5 g each. Take 2-4 tablets each time, 3 times a day. 16 cases of tonsillitis and 4 cases of laryngopharyngitis were treated. Except for 2 cases of high fever with antipyretic drugs, no other drugs were used. The course of treatment ranged from 2 to 5 days, with an average of 3.15 days.

In addition, various preparations (needle, tablet and decoction) of Pueraria lobata can also be used to treat chronic tracheitis.

Chinese PinYin : Bian Fu Ge Gen