umbilical cord

umbilical cord

(notes on materia medica)

It's a new name for materia medica.

[source] umbilical cord of newborn infant.

[herbal medicine] the dried umbilical cord is slender, light yellow or dark brown, 10-15 cm long, with two arterial tubes and one venous tube. It is tough and difficult to break. The air is slightly fishy.

[pharmacological action] umbilical cord hormone has the effect of promoting the lethargy period of female mice, making uterus and ovary hypertrophy, uterine mucosa hypertrophy and proliferation; it also has this effect on castrated mice. Intravenous injection of umbilical cord hormone into young, ovariectomized or anterior pituitary removed rabbits can cause hypertrophy and proliferation of internal genital organs, so it is considered that it has sex hormone like effect. It has paralytic effect on frogs, mice and rabbits. Especially for rabbits, it can rapidly reduce blood pressure, produce spasm, and finally die of respiratory paralysis. It can dilate the blood vessels of frog hind limbs and rabbit ears, paralyze the isolated frog heart and frog skeletal muscle, and excite the intestine and uterus of rabbits.

The effect of umbilical cord extract is similar to that of umbilical cord hormone.

[processing] wash and rinse the umbilical cord. Add yellow rice wine and umbilical cord to the decoction of honeysuckle and licorice. Take out after boiling and dry. (1 yuan for each 20 umbilical cords with honeysuckle and licorice, 1 jin of clear water and 1 liang of yellow rice wine)

[flavor] sweet and salty, warm.

① "Ben Cao Hui Yan": "sweet and salty, temperature, non-toxic. "

② Yilin zuanyao: "sweet, bitter, salty, warm. "

[Guijing] Bencao Zaixin: "entering the heart, liver and lung meridians. "

Functions and indications: tonifying kidney, absorbing Qi, treating asthenia, fatigue and weakness, deficiency of Qi and blood, kidney deficiency, asthma and cough.

① Materia medica notes: "the main malaria, burning for ash, drink it. "

② "Gangmu": "detoxify foetus. Apply umbilical ulcer. "

③ "Materia medica Huiyan": "tonifying the kidney, relieving fetal toxicity and removing pox toxin. "

④ "Materia medica tongxuan": "nourish the blood. "

⑤ "Yinpianxinshen": it can treat asthenia and fatigue, absorb kidney qi, relieve asthma and cough, and collect sweat. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: grind powder, 2-6 points; into pills or decoction.

[prescription selection] ① treat deficiency of both yin and Yang, injury of both spirit and Qi and blood, deficiency and danger: one or two pieces of Kangqi (fried powder), one or two pieces of ginseng, two pieces of rehmannia, two pieces of Lycium barbarum, two pieces of renrufen. On the end, white wine cellar. Refined as a pill, the tung tree is big. Take two yuan each, drink rice. (kanqi pill in medical grade)

② Treatment of three yin long malaria: Nine umbilical cord (burning), two liang of Atractylodes macrocephala, five money of ginseng. Baking all for the end, into the child then boil aconite or two, pound paste and pill, Wuzi big, every morning take three money. (Ben Cao Hui Yan)

[famous scholar's discussion] 1. In the book of Materia Medica, it is said that "the umbilical cord, which is used in the book of Materia Medica to treat malaria, should be the deficiency and cold of malaria for a long time. "

② Yilin zuanyao: "the umbilical cord is beneficial to blood Qi, so it is also popular. Children are weak and can't get acne. This decoction is also effective. "

Chinese PinYin : Qi Dai