Euonymus alatus

(rihuazi materia medica)

[synonyms] Wei spear, GUI Jian (Ben Jing), Shen Jian (Guang ya), Jun Ling (textual research on the name and reality of plants), Ba Shu, Si Leng Feng, Yun Yang, GUI Jian Chou (taxonomy of Chinese trees), Si Si Feng, Bi Ji chai (manual of Zhejiang traditional Chinese Medicine), Feng gun Lin (Chinese medicine Zhi), Shan Ji tiaozi (northeast medicine Zhi), Si Ji (Pharmacology), Qian Ceng PI, Dao Jian cha Yanling tea and sileng tea (economic flora of Liaoning).

[source] it is the branch or winged appendage of Euonymus.

Euonymus japonicus

Deciduous shrubs, up to 3 meters high, all smooth glabrous, many branched. The branchlets are usually quadrangular and greenish. The strong branches often have flat cork wings, which are 1 box meter wide and brown. Single leaf opposite, obovate to elliptic or broadly lanceolate, slightly membranous, 2-6 cm long and 1.5-3.5 cm wide, apex short or acuminate, margin serrate, sharp and dense, base acute or cuneate; glossy, dark green above, light green below, red in autumn, main veins slightly raised on both sides of leaves; petiole about 2 mm long. Flowers small, bisexual, yellowish green, usually 3-flowered into cymes; calyx 4-lobed; petals 4-rounded, margin sometimes microwavy; stamens 4-flowered, filaments short, inserted on disk; ovary connate with disk. Capsule, 1-3-locular, seperate, elliptic, smooth, green or purplish green. Seeds pale brown, elliptic or ovate, covered with colored aril. The flowering period is from May to June. The fruit is hot from September to October.

Born in the wild, or planted in the garden. It is distributed in the north, middle, East and southwest of China.

[collection] it can be harvested all year round. After cutting branches, remove tender branches and leaves and dry them in the sun. Or collect its wings and dry them in the sun.

[medicinal material] the dry branches are slender and cylindrical, with many branches, about 40-50 cm long and 0.4-1 cm in diameter. The surface is grayish green, with longitudinal wrinkles, with grayish brown flaky wings on all sides, similar to arrow feathers. The branch is hard and tough, hard to break, the section is yellowish white, coarse fibrous. The wing is light and brittle, easy to break, the section is flat, dark reddish brown, fine grained. The taste is bitter and astringent. It is better to have uniform branches and complete wings.

In most parts of the country, there is a lot of production.

[chemical constituents] the leaves contain epiterpenol, epiterpenoid, quercetin and euonyl. Seed oil contains saturated fatty acids (20%), oleic acid, linoleic acid, linolenic acid, hexanoic acid, acetic acid and benzoic acid. It also contains oxalic acid.

[pharmacological action] hypoglycemic effect. Sodium oxaloacetate extracted from Euonymus japonicus decoction can reduce blood glucose, urine glucose and increase body weight in normal or alloxan diabetic rabbits. For normal anesthetized dogs, intravenous drip can cause significant decrease of blood glucose. Oral administration of sodium oxaloacetate 5-10 mg / D for 40 days can cause hypoglycemia, islet cell proliferation, pancreatic β - cell proliferation and pancreatic α - cell atrophy, which indicates that sodium oxaloacetate can stimulate β - cells, regulate abnormal metabolic process and enhance insulin secretion. Oral administration of sodium oxaloacetate 100-1000 mg / D to diabetic patients can have certain effect.

The seed of Euonymus Euonymus contains cardiotonic glycosides, which have similar effects to trichinin, but also have moderate effects on reducing blood pressure, increasing coronary flow and contracting the intestine of guinea pigs.

[processing] remove impurities, soak them with water, take them out, cut them into sections and dry them in the sun.

"Lei Gong Paozhi Lun:" after picking (ghost arrow), only use arrow. Wipe on the red hair and stir fry it with crispy sauce. Every time you do one or two things, stir fry with a little crispy, and try your best to make it crispy. "

Bitter, cold.

① Ben Jing: "it tastes bitter and cold. "

② Wupu materia medica: "bitter, nontoxic. "

③ "On medicinal properties": "there are small poisons. "

④ "Rihuazi Materia Medica" is sweet and astringent. "

⑤ "Compendium": "it tastes sour and astringent. "

[Guijing] compendium of materia medica: "entering foot Jueyin meridian. "

Functions and indications: breaking blood, dredging meridians and killing insects. Treatment of amenorrhea, Baihuang, postpartum stasis abdominal pain, abdominal pain due to insect accumulation.

① "The book of songs" says: "the woman in charge is bleeding and sweating. "

② Bielu: "the main evil abdominal pain, to white insects, eliminate skin wind toxin swelling, make Yin solution. "

③ "On medicinal properties": "breaking the old blood, dropping the fetus. The Lord is evil and has a pain in the waist and abdomen. "

④ Tang materia medica: "it can cure women's blood gas. "

⑤ "Rihuazi materia medica:" menstruation, breaking knots, hemostasis collapse, take, kill abdominal visceral insects, and postpartum blood abdominal pain. "

⑥ "Treatment of swelling and toxin" in the textual research on the names and facts of general objects. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1.5-3 yuan; or into pills, powder.

[taboo] pinhuijingyao: "pregnancy should not be taken. "

[prescription selection] ① for postpartum hemorrhage, hard pillow block, intermittent pain, deficiency of new birth, internal wind and cold stroke, lochia, firm swelling of umbilicus and abdomen (pain): one or two for each of honglanhua, Guijian (to remove the center wood), and one or two for each of Guijian (to remove the seedling and stir fry). The upper part is coarse powder. Take three coins for each serving, one large cup of wine, fry until seven minutes, remove the dross, and warm the porridge before eating. (kufang Danggui powder)

② Treatment of postpartum blood flow: Angelica one or two, two or two Guijianyu. On the second flavor, coarse pound sieve. Take three daggers and one cup of wine each time. Fry until six minutes. Remove the dross and warm up. Take it again. (Danggui drink in Shengji Zonglu)

③ For the treatment of heart pain, or stabbing the abdomen and flank, or shoulder and back pain: Guijianyu (soaked in soup, peeled and pointed, slightly yellow with bran), medicine, podophyllum (whisker removed), tangerine peel (soaked in soup, white flesh removed, roasted), Angelica (file, subtle), Guixin (Miao removed) and chuanerliang (file, research, slightly roasted). Apply medicine, pound fine Luo powder, add cinnabar, and grind well. Each service, regardless of the time, to warm wine tune down a money. (shenghuifang, ghost arrow feather powder)

④ Cure milk without juice: Ghost arrow five Liang. Six liters of water, boil four liters, remove dross. Take Bahe, and take it three times a day. Can also burn ash for the end, water clothing square inch dagger, three days. (Guangji Fang, one way ghost arrow soup)

⑤ Treatment of malaria: one point for Guijianyu and one point for dace carp (burning). On two flavor, pound for fine powder. Take every word, twitch in the nose, when the hair. (the word "Sheng Ji Zong Lu" scattered)

[discussion by famous experts] 1. In the book of materia medica: "the ghost arrow feather, as treated in the book of Materia Medica, seems to be dedicated to women's blood. As Su Song said, the ancient prescriptions are more like those who specialize in the evil Qi and the poison of the evil Qi, and those who are ill in the blood. It is also used in the treatment of men's fullness. That is to say, the ancient prescription described by Su Song is not specific for women. Most of the work is concentrated on blood. For example, in women, blood is the main factor, and it is more effective to cut the middle ear than in men. Su Gong said that the treatment of women's blood gas is effective, not without evidence. "

② "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": "ghost arrow is used to disperse evil blood, so" Ben Jing "has the treatment of blood collapse. "Bielu" is the treatment of abdominal pain, white insects and skin wind toxin swelling. In modern times, the treatment of rheumatism, arthralgia, postpartum hemorrhage, blood gathered in the chest, or partial to the flank rib less abdomen, four things times, plus Guijianyu, Xuanhusuo decoction. Because of its special nature, it can cause abortion. "

Chinese PinYin : Gui Jian Yu