Cimicifuga

Cimicifuga

(Ben Jing)

[synonyms] Zhou Shengma (Ben Jing), Zhou MA (BIE Lu), Ji Gu Shengma (Tao Hongjing), GUI Lian Shengma (compendium), and LV Shengma (notes of Medical Science).

[source] rhizomes of Cimicifuga, Cimicifuga Xingan and Cimicifuga Trifolium.

[plant morphology] 1. Cimicifuga, also known as horse urine stem and fire tube stem.

Perennial herbs. The rhizome is irregular and massive, with hollow stem marks, and fibrous roots are many and long. Stem erect, branched, 1-2 m high, sparsely pilose. Leaflets ovate or lanceolate, 2-4 cm long, 1-2.5 cm wide, margin deeply serrate, green above, gray green below, pubescent on both sides. Flowers bisexual; sepals 5, ovate, imbricate, 3-veined, white, with eyelashes; honey leaves (staminodes) 2, apex 2-lobed, white; stamens many, filaments of different lengths, longer than sepals; carpels 2-5, glandular hairs, ovules many. Follicles oblong, slightly flat, apex with short persistent style, slightly curved. There are 6-8 seeds. The flowering period is from July to August. The fruiting period is September.

It grows under the forest and in the grass on the hillside. It is distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Hubei, Qinghai, Gansu, Shaanxi, Henan, Shanxi, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Jiangsu and other places.

② Xingan Cimicifuga, also known as: DILONGYA (Shengjing Tongzhi), kulongyacai (Tieling county annals), Dahuer Cimicifuga, kucaiyang, cooliya, kuzhuang CAI.

Perennial herbs. The rhizome is thick with obvious hollow stem mark and many fibrous roots. Stem erect. Single, more than 1 m high, densely pilose. The leaflets are ovate to ovoid, 5-11.5 cm long, the central leaflet is 3-lobed or lobed, the margin is deeply serrated, both sides are pilose. The flower is unisexual, dioecious, rarely bisexual; there is a small bract under each flower; the male sepal is 5, obovate, with 3 veins; the honey leaf is 2, the apex is 2-lobed, the top of each lobe often has an obvious anther; the stamen is many, the filament length is different, slightly flat, the anther is ovate Ovary degenerated; female carpel 5, sessile. What's more, 5. The seeds are numerous. The flowering period is from July to August. The fruiting period is September.

Born in hillside and shade. Distributed in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Hubei, Sichuan, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and other places.

③ Cimicifuga trifoliata

Perennial herbs. The rhizome is thick with round hole like stem mark and many fibrous roots. Stem erect, 1-1.5 m high, smooth or sparsely pilose. The petioles of the central leaflet are longer, and the petioles on both sides are shorter, white and pilose; the leaflets are ovate to broadly ovate, 9-11 cm long and 5-9 cm wide, and the central leaflets are 3-lobed, with coarse serrations on the edge, and pilose on both sides; the leaves on the upper part of the stem are smaller, and the petioles are very short. Inflorescence complex racemose; pedicel and peduncle are gray pilose; flowers bisexual; calyx 5, broadly ovate, early fall; nectary leaves long ovate, with a nectary at the top, yellow white; stamens many, filaments short, slightly flat, anthers oval, 2-locular; carpel 3-5, separated, smooth, glabrous, with short stalk, ovules many, style short, stigma small. It has 3-5 fruit, short persistent style at the apex, glabrous. The flowering period is from July to August. The fruit period is from August to September.

It grows in the wild grass and beside streams. Distributed in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning and other places.

[collection] dig in spring and autumn to remove the aboveground stems, seedlings and soil. When the fibrous roots are dry, burn them with fire or hit them with bamboo baskets and dry them in the sun.

[medicinal material] 1

Also known as: Sichuan Cimicifuga (compendium), is the dry rhizome of plant Cimicifuga. They are irregular blocks with many divergences, and their sizes vary greatly. They are 3.5-13 cm in length and 0.7-6 cm in diameter. The surface is grayish brown to dark brown, the round cavity of stem base mark is very dense, the component is disproportional protuberance, the hole diameter is 0.4-1 cm, the cross section of the hole wall has radial grooves, and reticular vascular bundles can be seen at the abscission of the outer skin. There are many fine roots around, which are hard and hard. The body is light and hard, not easy to break, and the section is gray green. It has no smell, but slightly bitter taste. It is better to be big, black skin, no fine roots, white or light green section.

It is mainly produced in Shaanxi, Sichuan, Qinghai and Yunnan. In addition, it is also produced in Guizhou, Xinjiang, Henan and other places.

② Cimicifuga asiatica

Also known as: hole bud root, bitter root. It is the dry rhizome of plant Cimicifuga. It is an irregular mass, mostly divided into nodules, 9-18 cm in length and 1-1.5 cm in diameter. The surface is dark brown, rough and uneven. There are dense round hollow stem base marks on the top. The inner wall of the cave shows reticular pattern. There are fine roots around it. The quality is firm and spiny. The lower side is uneven and has fine root marks. The body is light and hard, not easy to break, the section is uneven, fibrous and green. The smell is slight, the taste is bitter and astringent. Hypertrophy, black brown skin, no fine roots and greenish section are preferred.

It is mainly produced in Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Hebei and Shanxi. In addition, it is also produced in Hubei, Inner Mongolia and other places.

③ Cimicifuga officinalis

It is the dry rhizome of Cimicifuga trifoliata. Its shape is very similar to that of Cimicifuga, but it is slightly larger and less divergent, with a diameter of 1.5-2 cm. There are several deep round cavities on it, with a diameter of 2 cm. It is hard and light in quality. The section is yellowish white and flaky. There are large cavities in it. The section of the tunnel wall has radial grooves. Without Qi, the taste is slightly bitter. It is better to be big, neat, black skin, no fine roots and gray section.

It is mainly produced in Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang and other places.

"Guangdong Cimicifuga" produced in Guangdong and Fujian is the root of the Compositae plant mahuatou, which is also used as Cimicifuga locally. See article "Guangdong Cimicifuga".

[processing] remove impurities, soak slightly, wash, remove, moisten, slice and dry.

"Lei Gong Paozhi Lun" says, "if you can pick it, scrape it with a knife, then soak it in the natural juice of Polygonatum for one night, then dry it, file it, steam it and dry it suddenly. "

[flavor] sweet, pungent, slightly bitter, cool.

① Ben Jing: "it tastes sweet and spicy. "

② Bielu: "sweet and bitter, flat, slightly cold, non-toxic. "

③ "The secret of indications" says that the nature is warm and the taste is pungent. "

④ Tang Ye Ben Cao: "slightly bitter, slightly cold. "

[channel tropism] entering lung, spleen and stomach channels.

① Qiyuan of Medicine: "foot Yang is good for stomach, foot Taiyin is good for spleen. "Hands and feet are bright. "

② Tangye materia medica: "Shouyang Mingjing, Taiyin Jing. "

③ According to the interpretation of Materia Medica classic: "Taiyin lung meridian of human hand, Taiyang bladder meridian of foot, Taiyang small intestine meridian of hand, Shaoyin heart meridian of hand, Yangming stomach meridian of foot". "

④ Ben Cao Zai Xin: "entering the liver and lung meridians. "

Functions and indications: ascending Yang, publishing, penetrating rash, detoxifying. It can be used to treat Qi epidemic, headache, cold and heat, sore throat, aphthous ulcer, impervious macula, middle qi depression, chronic diarrhea, prolapse of anus, women's collapse, belt, uterus falling, carbuncle swelling, sore and poison.

① Ben Jing: "it is mainly used to detoxify all kinds of poisons and ward off warm diseases and obstructing evils.". "

② Bielu: "the main evil, abdominal pain, Qi poison, headache, cold and heat, wind swelling, throat pain, mouth sores. "

③ "Theory of medicinal properties": "treating infantile wind, convulsion and epilepsy, seasonal heat disease. It can cure Stomatology, odour, heat, pus and blood. In addition to the heart and lung wind poison, heat blocked, mouth sores, boredom. Treat carbuncle, pea sores, and wipe the sores with water. "

④ "Rihuazi Materia Medica" says: "calm your soul, swim in the wind, swell your poison, and have a bad breath. "

⑤ "Tang Ye Ben Cao": "secret of indications": it can control lung flaccidity, cough, spit pus and blood, and sweat. "

⑥ "Diannan Materia Medica" says: "it can relieve children's pox and rash, relieve sore poison, sore throat (swelling), wheeze and cough with hoarse voice. Lung heat, pain in stopping teeth. Milk moth, gill. "

⑦ The compendium of Medical Sciences: "eliminate macular rash, steal blood, treat Yang depression, dizzy transport, chest and hypochondriac deficiency pain, long diarrhea, heavy, turbid, bring down, collapse, blood drenching, lower blood, Yin flaccid, foot cold. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-3 Qian; or into pills, powder. External use: grind the end to adjust to apply, decoct water to gargle or rinse.

[taboo] it should not be taken when the upper part is full and the lower part is empty, the Yin is deficient and the fire is strong, and the measles has passed through.

① According to the classic of Materia Medica, it is forbidden to treat such diseases as hematemesis, epistaxis, cough, phlegm, fire due to yin deficiency, insufficiency of kidney channel, Qi inversion, vomiting, palpitation, palpitation, and mania. "

② "To match the materia medica": "typhoid disease at the beginning of the sun, pox and rash to see the standard, under the yuan is insufficient, yin deficiency Huoyan, four banned. "

[prescription selection] ① for typhoid fever, epidemic febrile disease, wind heat, strong heat, headache, limb pain, and sore rash: dried Pueraria (filed), Cimicifuga, Paeonia lactiflora, and licorice (filed, roasted). On the same for coarse powder, each take four money, water one and a half, fry to one, the amount of size and it, warm take all the time, (Yan's children's Fang Lun Shengma Gegen Tang)

② Treatment of infantile pox, rash unknown, fever, headache, cold, cough, breast moth cheek: Cimicifuga five points, Peucedanum eight points, gange five points, Scutellaria one money, gardenia eight points, fried burdock one money, licorice three points, Platycodon five points, mint five points, Chuanxiong one money. Decoct the wick. (Cimicifuga Decoction in Materia Medica of Southern Yunnan)

③ For the treatment of spot sores in Tianxing, the head, face and body look like fire sores in a moment. They all wear white paste and live with their decisions (if they are not treated immediately, the dramatist will die in a few days. If they are treated badly, the sores will be purple and dark, and the evil spirit will disappear only when they are old): Boil Cimicifuga with thick water and wash it with pickled cotton. Bitter wine stains cook well, but the pain is unbearable. (behind the elbow)

④ Treat thunder head wind, head swelling pain, hate cold strong heat, like typhoid: Cimicifuga, Atractylodes each five money, a lotus leaf. Take it by frying. (Qingzhen Decoction in yifangjijie is Cimicifuga in Suwen Bingji

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