Gangsong

Gangsong

(Pharmaceutical Bulletin (6): 2281958)

[synonym] sakamu (Luchuan materia medica), broomstick, pine twig, Cordyceps serpentina, jiersong (Guangxi Traditional Chinese medicine annals), Changsong, shasong (Guangxi Medicinal plant directory), xiangchai, broomstick (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual).

[source] it is the whole grass or root of Pinus thunbergii.

Pinus thunbergii

Dwarf shrubs, rare for small trees, up to 1-2 meters high. Many branches, bald. Leaf blade linear conical, 5-10 mm long, 0.3-0.5 mm wide, apex pointed, with groove above, protuberance below and glandular dots. Flowers small, white, solitary in leaf axils, 2 bracts at the base, with short stalks; pedicel 1-1.5 mm long; calyx tube campanulate, 5-lobed, ca. 1 mm long, membranous, persistent; petals 5-rounded, ca. 1 mm long; stamens 10, 8-thin, shorter than petals; ovary 3-locular, with several ovules in each locule. Capsule ca. 1 mm, dehiscent at upper part. Seeds have horns. The flowering period is from July to August.

Born in hills, streams, swamps. It is distributed in southern China, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other places.

[collection] it can be harvested all year round, dried or fresh.

[chemical constituents] the leaves contain 0.9-1.8% volatile oil, 58% of which are α - pinene and β - pinene, 0.7% paracymene, 7.4% 1,8-cineole, 3.1% limonene and dipentene, 10% linalool, ANISOL, borneol and terpineol, 1.4% sesquiterpene, 3% sesquiterpenol, 2.4% phenols and 5.5% crystalline phenols. In addition, it also contains triadimenol.

"Bitter, cold, non-toxic. "

Functions and indications: removing blood stasis, relieving pain, diuresis and killing insects. Treatment of traumatic injury, rheumatic pain, gonorrhea, scabies, tinea pedis.

① Flora of Guangzhou: treating fever. "

② Lu Chuan Ben Cao: "detumescence, pain relief, removing blood stasis, killing insects. It can cure coma, scabies, ulcer and snake bite. "

③ "Nanning drug records": "convergence, insecticidal, hemostatic, analgesic, myogenic. Wash sore and itch with water. "

④ "Guangxi Traditional Chinese medicine annals": "it has the function of promoting diuresis. Treatment of bladder heat, adverse urination, itching, skin heat. Fried water to wash the skin itching, eczema; leaves, tamping, treatment of centipede injury; branches and leaves, steaming oil, treatment of sores and leprosy, etc. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.8-1 Liang. External use: fried, washed or tamped.

[prescription selection] 1. Treatment of bruises and blood stasis caused by contusion: gangsongye LiuQian. Mash, rinse, wring juice, filter, add sugar for four or two meals. (Lu Chuan Ben Cao)

② Treatment of heart disease: fresh pine root, tea root, kiwi root each two, a pig heart. Stew together.

③ Treatment of rheumatism, stomachache, abdominal distension, diarrhea: gangsonggen five money to one or two. Take it in water.

④ Treatment of tinea pedis, skin itching: Pine whole grass fried water fumigation.

⑤ Treatment of centipede, scorpion, wasp sting: fresh pine amount. Smash the external application.

⑥ Treatment of liver cirrhosis: gangsong, Saxifraga, waerteng, gourd tea each three money. Take it in water, one dose a day. (2) Jiangxi herbal medicine manual is published below.)

Chinese PinYin : Gang Song