Chinese Medicine

Chinese name

Root class

[source] it is the root of Cinnamomum officinale.

[plant morphology] Wuyao, also known as pangqi (a collection of Materia Medica), Zhuo, aizhang (compendium), xiangyezishu, baiyechai, fengfengsan, qingzhuxiang, qianzhuchai, qianchaitou, yanyuzichai.

Evergreen shrubs or small trees, up to 4-5 m high. The root is woody, enlarged and stout, slightly rosary. The bark is gray green. Branchlets densely rusty pubescent when young, smooth and glabrous when old; stems tough, not easily broken. Leaves alternate, leathery, elliptic to broadly obovate, 3-8 cm long and 1.5-5 cm wide, apex acuminate or caudate acuminate, base rounded or broadly cuneate, entire, green on top, glossy, glabrous except midrib, grayish white on bottom, glabrous by light brown villi, then smooth, veins 3, basal, very obvious; petiole short, pubescent. Umbel axillary, almost without pedicel; peduncle 1.5-3 mm long, hairy, clustered with many florets; flowers unisexual, dioecious, yellow green; perianth 6 pieces, almost equal in size, broadly elliptic, male flowers with 9 stamens, arranged in 3 rounds, the base of the innermost round with glands, anthers 2-locular; female flowers with multiple staminodes, ovary superior, spherical, 1-locular, ovule 1. Drupe subglobose, green at first, black at maturity. The flowering period is from March to April. The fruit period is from October to November.

It grows in the shrubbery of barren mountain or in the high grass where the sun is abundant and the soil is fertile. Distributed in Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Shaanxi and other places.

The leaves (leaves) and fruits (seeds) of this plant are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

There is another kind of Lindera in Guangxi, which is made of white glue wood. Its shape is similar to that of this species. The main difference is that its old leaves are densely covered with golden yellow or rust color, attached with pubescence and glossy. See article.

[collection] in winter and spring, the first summer is the best. After digging, remove the fibrous roots, wash and dry, the commodity is called "black medicine". Such as scraping off the embolus, slicing, drying, known as "Wu Yao pian.".

[medicinal materials] 1

It is spindle shaped, slightly curved, slightly pointed at both ends, expanded in the middle, or beaded, 10-15 cm in length, and 1-2 cm in diameter. The surface is yellowish brown or yellowish brown, with fibrous root scar, longitudinal wrinkle and transverse crack. The material is hard and not easy to break. The cross section is round, light brown and reddish, slightly powdery. The central color is deep, and the outer skin is brown and very thin. The xylem has radial texture and ring. It is better to be beaded, tender, powdery and light brown in cross section.

② Wuyao tablet

It is divided into thin slice and thick slice, which are round like slices. Sometimes the thick slice is obliquely cut into ellipse, with a diameter of 1-2 cm and a thickness of about 1.5 mm; the thickness of the thin slice is less than 1 mm. Flat and elastic. The cut surface is yellowish white to light brown and reddish, with radial texture and ring pattern. It is better to be smooth, light, without black spots and broken.

It is mainly produced in Zhejiang, Hunan, Anhui, Guangdong and Guangxi. In addition, it is also produced in Hubei, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan and Fujian. Wutai, Zhejiang Province, is the best medicine.

[chemical constituents] the root contains several sesquiterpenoids, such as cinnamonene, linarolide, hydroxylinarolide, linderanol, linderan, isolinderan and linderanone.

[processing] remove the impurities, separate the large and small strips, soak them with water, change the water according to the season, prevent the odor, and take out the slices in time. If it has been sliced in fresh time, sift off the dust.

[flavor] pungent, warm.

① Kaibao materia medica: "it is pungent, warm and non-toxic. "

② "Medicine Hua Yi" says: "the taste is pungent and slightly bitter, and the nature is warm. "

[channel tropism] entering spleen, lung, kidney and bladder channels.

① "Tang Ye Ben Cao": "enter the Foot Yangming and Shaoyin meridians. "

② "Lei Gong's treatment of medicinal properties": entering the lung and spleen meridians. "

③ "Into the foot Jueyin liver meridian, hand Taiyin lung meridian. "

④ "Materia Medica from the new": "up into the spleen, lung, bladder and kidney. "

[function indications] Shun Qi, Kai Yu, San Han, Zhitong. The treatment of Qi adverse chest and abdominal pain, persistent food does not disappear, nausea and vomiting, cold hernia, beriberi, frequent urination.

① "Materia medica notes:" in the main body, there is nausea and abdominal pain, food can't be consumed, the heaven is pestilent, the cold air between the bladder and kidney attacks the back Brawn, the blood gas of women, and the worms in the abdomen of children. "

② Rihuazi materia medica: "it can cure all Qi, remove all cold, cholera, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, carbuncle, furuncle, scabies, and relieve cold and heat. "

③ Wang Haogu: "Li Yuan Qi. "

④ "Compendium": "it can treat middle Qi, beriberi, hernia, syncope, headache, swelling and wheezing, stop urination and turbidity. "

⑤ "Materia medica tongxuan": "Li Qi Qing Yu Jie, Qi and blood coagulation stop, cholera vomiting and diarrhea, phlegm and food retention. "

⑥ Yucatalpa medicine solution: "breaking blood stasis, relieving pain and swelling. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 1.5 ~ 3 yuan; grind juice or put into pill or powder.

[should avoid] Qi deficiency and internal heat should not be taken.

① Introduction to medicine: "evacuation is more important than communication. You should not take more. "

② The classic of materia medica: "the disease belongs to Qi deficiency. It is not suitable for women to take all the diseases of yin deficiency and internal heat. "

③ Fengyuan of Ben Jing: "fire can't be seen. "

[storage] store in a cool and dry place to prevent moths.

[selection of prescriptions] ① the treatment of wind and wind attacks the limbs, joint pain, numbness all over the body, dizziness; paralysis, sharp language, cramped muscles and veins; beriberi, difficult gait, weak feet and knees; the woman's blood wind, the old man's cold air, attacks the chest, stabbing pain in both flanks, abdominal distention, vomiting and diarrhea, bowel purring: (remove the root, joint), (remove the flesh), black medicine (remove the wood), white (remove the silk, mouth, stir fry), (bran stir fry), (stir fry) One or two for each. For the fine powder, each take three money, water, ginger three pieces, jujube one, fried to seven minutes, warm. (Wu Yao Shun Qi San in Ju Fang)

② It can cure cold air, blood gas, fat gas, Qi in the stomach, Qi in the stomach, Qi in the stomach, Qi in the stomach, Qi in the stomach, Qi in the stomach, Qi in the stomach, Qi in the stomach, Qi in the stomach, Qi in the stomach, Qi in the stomach, Qi in the stomach, Qi in the stomach, Qi in the stomach, Qi in the stomach, Qi in the stomach, Qi in the stomach, Qi in the stomach, Qi in the stomach, Qi in the stomach, Qi in the stomach. Divided into the end, warm wine, Tongbian tune down. (health home formula)

③ Treatment of heart and abdomen pain: black medicine, water mill juice, into a piece of orange peel, Su Yiye, Jianfu. (Linhu jijianfang)

④ It is caused by seven emotions: Tiantai Wuyao, Xiangfu, etc. Two yuan for each serving, the soup of Lantern heart is in tune. (Wuyao SHUNQI powder in Yishui xuanzhu)

⑤ Treatment of pain, Qi and blood stagnation: Xiangfu (salt, wine, stool, four points system), Wuyao, a total of fine powder, wine under four or five points. (Xiangfu powder of shenzhai Yishu)

⑥ Seven sentimental treatment, breathing on the gas, do not eat boring:,,, aloes, Tiantai black medicine. Apply the medicine, grind the water, and make seven cups. Boil for three or five minutes, then warm up. (jishengfang Simotang)

⑦ Treatment of headache due to Qi syncope, woman's excessive Qi and postpartum headache: chuanxiongshu, Tiantai Wuyao, etc. are classified as the end. Two yuan per serving, green onion and tea. (compendium)

⑧ Treatment of postpartum adverse gas, food stagnation pain: tangerine peel, Fructus aurantii each half money, one money, black medicine, Xiangfu each two money, seven to one money, fried. (the book of Shen Zunsheng)

⑨ Before and after the treatment of fetal blood gas disharmony, abdominal distension pain: Wuyao, Xiangfu, Chuanxiong (all wine fried) each three money. Take it in water. (Essentials of Materia Medica)

⑩ Treatment of postpartum abdominal pain: Tiantai Wuyao, dudanggui, for the end, Doulin wine. (Wu Yao San in Zhu Shi Ji Yi Fang)

(11) one or two or eight dollars for small intestinal hernia. Water for two minutes, fried for one hour, dew for one night, hollow hot suit. (Sun Tianren Jixiao Fang)

(12) one or two black herbs for treating dry and wet beriberi and one point Dill (stir fried with two ingredients to make it yellow). The same as the end, warm wine under two money. If dry beriberi, with a neem, cypress paste water a liter, fry to five, adjust. (Wu Yao San in Bo Ji Fang)

The first time to treat the pain of beriberi is to wipe the soil with cloth, scrape the scraps of porcelain tiles, soak in good wine for one night, then take it in the morning and warm it up. It is better to take a little musk deer. If the pain enters the abdomen, boil the chicken with black herbs and water in a pot for one day, remove the chicken, slice it and dip it in the soup. (Yonglei Qianli)

(14) treatment of kidney deficiency and cold, urine slippery number and white turbidity and other diseases: Tiantai Wuyao (fine file), yizhizi (large, peeled, fried). Equal, for the end, do not use fried yellow for the end, hit paste pills, such as big, dry exposure. Each take 50 pills, chew dozens of fennel, salt soup or salt wine. (Guzhen pill in Wei's family's prescriptions, i.e. Suoquan pill in women's prescriptions)

To treat children's slow convulsion, lethargy or convulsion: use black medicine to grind water. (Ji Ji Xian Fang)

(16) treatment of infantile malnutrition: divide Tiantai Wuyao, Tiantai Wugu and wuguchong equally, and add% 5 (for example, use one or two Taiwu Yaojing powder and five indigo naturalis powder). Grind together fine powder, and even. Take warm boiled water every morning for one to three yuan, even for one month. (Zhejiang Journal of traditional Chinese Medicine). 12：32(560)，1958)

Xiehe treatment of blood, blood dysentery: black medicine is not much, charcoal fire burning nature, pound Luo for the end, chensu rice and pills, such as big. Take 30 pills each time and drink rice. (Wu Jin in Shengji Zonglu)

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