Pine leaf

Pine leaf

(notes to the classic of Materia Medica)

[synonym] bristles, pine leaves (shenghuifang), pine hair (simple formula), pine whiskers (preparation of raw herbs), pine needles (Guangzhou army's "manual of common Chinese herbal medicine").

[source] leaves of Pinus tabulaeformis, Pinus massoniana and Pinus yunnanensis. See "Songjie" for details of plant morphology.

[collection] it can be collected all year round, and the one in December is the best. Dry in the sun after harvest and place in a dry place.

[medicinal materials] the dried pine leaves are needle shaped, about 12-18 cm long and 0.1 cm thick. They are two leaves in a bundle, and are covered with leaf sheaths about 0.5 cm long, which are dark brown. There is a long rill in the center, the surface is smooth, dark green, light and crisp, and slightly smelly.

[chemical constituents] the leaves of Pinus massoniana contain volatile oil (α - pinene, β - pinene, camphene, etc.), flavonoids (quercetin, kaempferol, etc.) and resin.

The leaves of Pinus yunnanensis contain volatile oil, sugar, carotene and vitamin C.

(1) bielu: "it tastes bitter and warm. "

② "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "warm, non-toxic. "

[Guijing] Bencao Zaixin: "entering the heart and spleen meridians. "

Functions and indications: dispelling wind and dampness, killing insects and relieving itching. It can treat rheumatism, flaccid arthralgia, traumatic injury, insomnia, edema, wet sores and scabies. And can prevent and cure epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, influenza, hookworm disease.

① Bielu: "it is mainly used for rheumatic ulcer, hair and five internal organs. "

② "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "fried material frostbite, rheumatic ulcer. "

③ "Compendium": "to wind pain foot arthralgia, kill rice insects. "

④ "Raw herbal medicine nature preparation": kill, dry water, stop itching, bury mouth (close sore). Wash chancre, cure scabies. "

⑤ "Huiyue medical mirror": "Dispelling pestilence. "

⑥ "To treat neurasthenia, vitamin C deficiency and nutritional edema; to prevent and treat epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis and influenza. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 3-5 yuan (1-2 Liang fresh leaves); or soak in wine. External use: wash with boiling water.

[prescription selection] 1. It is not feasible to cure foot weakness and arthralgia: cut 60 Jin of pine leaves carefully, take four buckets and nine liters of water and four stones, and brew five buckets of rice as usual; do not cook pine leaf juice, add pickled rice and feed rice, and brew mud to seal the head, and send it for seven days. The way to drink is to get drunk. (Thousand Golden Prescriptions pine leaf wine)

② Treatment of low back pain: one or two leaves of Pinus massoniana, decoct in water to remove slag, add rock sugar to take one or two. (prescription of Jiangxi folk herbal medicine)

③ Rule calendar Festival Wind: pine leaves 30 jin, wine two stone five Dou, stains 37 days, take a close, mouth five, six degrees. (Qian Jin Fang)

④ Treatment of swelling and pain: mountain pine must be soaked in wine; its residue plus a clam, Chui Fu the affected area. (essential preparation of raw herbs)

⑤ Treatment of traumatic injury: Pinus massoniana branches and leaves, baked, ground into very fine powder. Take it twice a day, one money for each time, and warm sweet wine. (prescription of Jiangxi folk herbal medicine)

⑥ Treatment of traumatic injury, sprain, skin pruritus, lacquer sores, eczema: fresh pine leaf Decoction fumigation, washing several times. (Zhejiang folk herbs)

⑦ Treatment of rheumatism: Pine hair (fried black) one or two, light powder, camphor each three money. If it is wet, mix it dry. If it is dry, apply it with oil. If it is itchy, apply it with rice vinegar. And treat chilblain. (authentic surgery)

⑧ Treatment of wind and scabies, and experience wind pain, foot weak flaccid arthralgia: Pine hair take new, mash baked, each with pine hair two liang, medlar two liang, dip wine drink, always take, not drunk, long service effect. (authentic surgery)

⑨ To cure head wind and headache, four liang of fresh pine hair should be mashed, roasted, dipped in wine and drunk from time to time. The dregs should be taken out, pasted on the top door and wrapped in cloth for the first three days. (Fang Mai Zheng Zong)

⑩ In the treatment of apoplexy, the mouth is remote, the teeth are urgent, and the tongue can't turn: a jin of green pine leaves, mash the juice out, a bucket of sake, stains for two nights, near the fire for one night, take half a liter for the first time, and gradually one liter, the sweat on the head and face stops. (Qian Jin Fang)

(11) treatment of insomnia, vitamin C deficiency, nutritional edema: fresh pine leaves one to two, decoction. (Zhejiang folk herbs)

(12) treatment of wind, swelling and pain of teeth: a grasp of pine leaves, a combination of salt and two liters of wine. Fried and rinsed. (Sheng Hui Fang)

Treatment of scrotum wet itching: Songmao Decoction frequency wash. (simple formula)

(14) prevention of hookworm disease: appropriate amount of pine needles, water fried into thick juice, in the barefoot field, wipe the feet and legs. (Xuzhou, selection of new medical therapies based on single prescription)

[clinical application] 1

The concentrated decoction of 1:1 was made from fresh pine needles. Each person took 30 ml (equivalent to 12 fresh raw medicines) once a day for 2 days a week for 5 weeks. Five weeks later, the statistics showed that there were 1 857 patients in the medication group, 223 patients (12%), and 481 patients (31.1%) in the control group. After taking the medicine, a small number of people had different degrees of gastrointestinal reactions, mainly manifested as nausea and stomach discomfort. After heating and flavoring with sugar, the reaction was obviously reduced.

② Prevention of epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis

Take 5 jin fresh pine needles, 2 liang licorice, add 100 Jin water, fry to 80 Jin. For adults, take 0.5 kg twice a day for 3 days; for children, take less and add goose grass powder for 7 days.

③ Treatment of chronic tracheitis

Take 3 taels of pine needles and 3 taels of Platycladus orientalis (half Jin fresh), wash and chop them, add appropriate amount of water, boil them for 1 hour, filter them, and then add water to decoct the filter residue; the two filtrates are combined and concentrated to 200 ml, and add 100 ml of syrup or 2 taels of propolis to form 300 ml (1.5 g crude drug per ml). Three times a day, 100 ml each time, 10 days as a course of treatment. 80 cases of clinical trial treatment, the short-term effective rate was 91.25%.

The famous scholar's treatise, Ben Cao Hui Yan: "loose hair, remove rheumatism, and cure tinea, scabies and sores. Dry nature, fried black good to rheumatism, stubborn ringworm wet rotten, soak not dry, and apply winter frostbite. It can be used to treat wind and scabby disease, or wind pain, or impotence of beriberi, or headache of head wind. The above diseases are suitable for patients with rheumatism. If they are caused by blood deficiency and wind dryness, they are forbidden. "

Chinese PinYin : Song Ye