Jinniu

Jinniu

(materia medica seeks the original)

Alias: capsicum, Capsicum ("Ben Jing"), pig pepper, pepper, dog pepper ("Biao Lu"), * jiao (Tao Hongjing), golden pepper ("materia medica scripture"), tauru Gong, two side needles ("south of the Five Ridges collection"), mountain pepper ("Guangzhou flora"), tiger, pepper, pepper, "Guangxi Chinese veterinary medicine", "tiger", "tiger", "tiger Lu Chuan".

[source] roots or branches of Zanthoxylum nitidum, a Rutaceae plant.

Zanthoxylum nitidum

Liana woody, glabrous. On the midrib of young branch, petiole and leaflet, there are hooked spines. The leaves are singularly pinnate compound, 7-15 cm long; the leaflets are 3-9, with short stalks, leathery and bright, ovate to ovate oblong, 4-7 cm long and 2-3.5 cm wide, the apex obtuse or short acuminate, the base rounded, the margin with scattered circular serrations or almost entire. Flowers small, axillary, sessile panicle, inflorescence 2.5-5 cm long; sepals 4, very small, ovate triangular; petals 4, oblong ovate, about 2 mm long; stamens of male flowers 4, slightly longer than petals, carpodendron apex often 4-lobed; staminodes of female flowers very short, carpodendron 4. Mature carpels 1-4, purplish red, wrinkled when dry. Seeds ovate, black and shiny. The flowering period is from March to April. The fruit period is from September to October.

Most of them grow in the shrubbery of low hill and slope land. Distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Yunnan, Hunan and other places.

[collection] it can be collected all year round, washed, sliced and dried in the sun.

[medicinal materials] the dried roots are mostly cut into thin slices, yellow, surrounded by 1-6 mm thick yellowish brown cortex, often with small brown spots. The cross section is smooth, and most of the holes can be seen under the magnifying glass. It's hard. It tastes bitter and numb.

It's hard, warm and poisonous.

① Ben Jing: "bitter, warm. "

② Guangzhou army's "manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine": "hard work, mild temperature. "

③ Guangzhou Air Force's Manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines: "Xin, Ping, there are small poisons. "

Functions and indications: dispel wind, dredge collaterals, reduce swelling and relieve pain. It is used to treat rheumatism, bone pain, laryngitis, scrofula, stomachache, toothache, traumatic injury, scald caused by soup and fire.

① "Ben Jing": "the main wind cold dampness Bi, calendar section pain, in addition to limb Jue Qi, knee pain. "

② Qian Jin Fang: "to control water, the whole body is swollen, the branches and leaves of pig pepper are fried like a pot, take a dagger on an empty stomach, three days a day. Itch, wash with juice. "

③ "Dietotherapy Materia Medica": "the main thief wind is acute. "

④ "Fengyuan of Ben Jing": "it can dredge meridians and remove wind toxin and dampness. "

⑤ "Seeking the source of Materia Medica": "to treat phlegm fire, to steal the core, and to close the throat, to remove the skin, to decoct water and drink. "

⑥ Lingnan caiyao Lu: "Li Dieda and snakebite. If you have toothache, gargle with boiling water. "

⑦ Lu Chuan's materia medica: "Jiegu, detumescence, pain relief, removing blood stasis. It's used to treat stomach injury, tummy and heartache, stomachache, toothache. And treat the snakebite. "

⑧ "Dispelling wind and activating collaterals" in the Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou Army. Treatment of lumbar muscle strain, tetanus, soup, fire burns. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 2-3 yuan; grind powder or soak wine. External use: decocting and washing; tamping, wine grinding and spreading.

[prescription selection] 1. For the treatment of closed throat, the water can't be drunk: the root of Jinniu is put into the ground, crushed, boiled with brown sugar, and made into marble, containing chemical. (materia medica seeks the original)

② Treatment of rheumatism and bone pain: Zanthoxylum nitidum root skin three money, an egg. Take it in water. (Lu Chuan Ben Cao)

③ Stop toothache: one or two needles dry root three to five money. Take it in water, or grind it into powder and take it in water. (the Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of the Guangzhou Army) two two needles, four Liang, one or two brothers and one or two kings. Add 500 ml of 75% alcohol (DIP), use cotton to dip the medicine into the affected area. (prescriptions of new Chinese herbal medicine)

④ Treatment of traumatic injury, rheumatism and bone pain: one or two roots of Zanthoxylum nitidum, one jin of wine, seven days later, take 5-10 ml each time, three times a day; or three to five money root of Zanthoxylum nitidum, fried. (selected Chinese herbal medicines in Yunnan)

⑤ Treatment of scald: Zanthoxylum nitidum dry root, grind into powder, sprinkle layout department, use Zanthoxylum nitidum before dusting, wash with boiling water. (new selection of practical Chinese herbal medicine in Guangxi)

⑥ Treatment of mouth sores: Zanthoxylum nitidum fresh root skin with a little brown sugar, mashed topical. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

⑦ Treatment of snake bite: one or two roots of fresh Zanthoxylum nitidum. Decoct with water and apply with fresh root wine. Two Zanthoxylum nitidum dry root research powder, each time three money, boiled water delivery service; another take the powder transfer rice swill external application. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

[clinical application] 1

2 ml (equivalent to 3 g of root bark) of Jinniu injection was injected intramuscularly once or twice a day. More than 500 cases of neuralgia, headache, rheumatic pain and gastrointestinal colic were treated. Generally, the pain can be relieved after 5-10 minutes. The analgesic effect of injection made from Zanthoxylum nitidum and Aesculus Aesculus was observed in 205 patients. The effective rate was 95%. Generally, it takes 3-10 minutes to relieve pain, and the effect lasts for 4-8 hours. For biliary ascariasis, intestinal ascariasis, ulcer pain effect is particularly good.

② Used for surface anesthesia and local anesthesia

The surface anesthetic made from Zanthoxylum nitidum was used in stomatological surgery instead of chloroethane. 101 teeth (84 patients) were extracted and 98 teeth were painless. 18 cases were incised with gingival abscess and 14 cases were painless. Usage: use a small cotton ball dipped in liquid medicine, put it around the gum or on the surface of abscess that needs to be operated on, ask the patient to bite it, and the operation can be carried out after 1-2 minutes. If the 0.5% solution can be used for local anesthesia, it can be used in 62 cases of general outpatient minor surgery, tubal ligation, tonsillectomy, appendectomy, etc. the anesthetic effect is stable, no adverse reactions, no liver and kidney damage and other shortcomings. The anesthetic effect was produced about 3-6 minutes after injection.

⑧ Treatment of lumbocrural pain

With 20% Jinniu solution, iontophoresis with low frequency DC induction electrotherapy machine, once a day, 20 minutes each time, 10 times as a course of treatment. After observation, it has a better effect on lumbar muscle strain, sprain and contusion. It can also relieve the symptoms of sciatica caused by lumbar hypertrophy and intervertebral disc prolapse. According to the statistics of 153 cases, the effective rate is more than 90%. In the course of treatment, some cases of pain relief, but did not disappear, and after the termination of treatment can continue to alleviate. Individual cases of skin rash, skin flushing and congestion and other allergic phenomena can be desensitized with infrared light for 10-15 minutes, or with cold wet towel. In addition, 189 cases of rheumatoid arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis were treated with intramuscular injection of Jinniu injection (1ml / time, containing 100mg of active ingredients) every day. The effective rate was more than 90%. Most patients showed the effect within 6-6 days.

④ Treatment of acute tonsillitis

Take 1 liang of powder from the second layer of rhizome of Zanthoxylum nitidum, add amber powder for 5 minutes, mix well, spray on the surface of tonsil and pharynx; it can also be made into tablets. Four to six times a day, 1 gram each time. 28 cases of acute tonsillitis, peritonsillar abscess and parapharyngeal abscess were cured after 2-6 days (average 3.7 days). In general, the patient's condition improved after 12-24 hours of medication. The symptoms were as follows: body temperature decreased, hemogram was normal and symptoms improved.

⑤ Allergic reaction

A case of anaphylactic reaction was reported 10 minutes after the injection. The symptoms were itchy and red skin, especially cheek and hairline, mild irritability, shortness of breath, nausea and vomiting, and elevated blood pressure. After oral administration of 1 cup of white sugar water, the symptoms gradually disappeared after 1 hour.

Chinese PinYin : Ru Di Jin Niu