Cnidium monnieri

(Ben Jing)

[synonyms] Shemi (Ben Jing), shezhu (Wu Pu Ben Cao), Shesu (Guang ya), shechuanren (on medicinal properties), shechuanshi (Qian Jin Fang), Qiguo, shuangshenzi (classified herbal medicine), forehead huazi (Zhejiang Manual of traditional Chinese Medicine), wild fennel (Jiangxi Manual of traditional Chinese Medicine).

[source] it is the fruit of Umbelliferae snake bed.

[plant morphology] snake bed (Ben Jing), also known as Xu, Hui bed (Er Ya), Ma bed (Guang ya), Si Yi, Sheng Du, Zao Ji, Qiang mi (BIE Lu), bald flower.

Annual herb, 30-80 cm high. Stem erect, cylindrical, longitudinally ribbed, sparsely villous. The root leaves have petioles and short broad leaf sheaths at the base; the leaves are ovate, 2-3 times pinnate, and the final lobes are linear lanceolate with sharp apex; the leaves on the upper part of the stem are similar to those on the root leaves, but the petioles are shorter. Compound umbel terminal or lateral, 10-25 pedicels, 8-10 basal involucres, linear, ciliate; 8-10 small involucres, linear; calyx teeth indistinct, petals 5, white, obovate, apex concave, with narrow inflexed tongue; stamens 5, alternate with petals, filaments thin and long, anthers elliptic; ovary inferior, style 2, style base conical. The fruit is oval, winged and glabrous. The flowering period is from April to July and the fruiting period is from June to August.

It grows in the grass on the hillside, or in the field or beside the road. It is distributed in most areas of China.

[collection] when the fruit is mature and yellow, harvest it, cut the whole plant, knock down the fruit and dry it in the sun.

[medicinal material] the dried fruit is oval, composed of two parts, about 2 mm long. Its diameter is about 1 mm, grayish yellow, with 2 persistent style bases curved outwards at the top; the back of the fruit is slightly raised, with 5 raised ridges, and the junction surface is flat, with 2 Brown slightly raised longitudinal lines, including a light colored line. The peel is crisp. The seeds are small, gray brown and oily. It is fragrant, pungent, cool and numb. It is better to have full granules, grayish yellow and strong smell.

Mainly produced in Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places. In addition, it is also produced in Guangxi, Sichuan, Shaanxi and Shanxi.

[chemical constituents] the fruit contains 1.3% volatile oil, and the main components are pinene, camphene, Bornyl isovalerate and isoborneol. It also contains methoxyapinol, hesperidin, isosaxifragin, citrolactone, dihydrocaryol and its esters, acetate and isovalerate, hesperidin, isobutyryloxydihydrocaryol acetate. The root contains osthol, isosaxifragin, allo - apigenin B, toxophenol and apigenin B.

[pharmacological action] ① anti trichomonad effect

Using liver extract as culture medium, 10% and 20% Cnidium decoction had no or very weak killing effect on Trichomonas vaginalis, and methoxyapinol had no killing effect on Trichomonas vaginalis in vitro. Although it has been reported that it is effective for Trichomonas vaginalis, the reliability of the results needs to be further confirmed.

② Sex hormone like effect

The ethanol extract of Cnidium monnieri was subcutaneously injected into mice every day for 32 days. It could prolong the estrous period, shorten the estrous interval, increase the weight of ovaries and uterus in ovariectomized mice, and had similar sex hormone like effect. The method of increasing the weight of prostate, seminal vesicle and levator ani muscle (mice) proved that Cnidium monnieri extract had androgen like effect. It has no corrosive effect on vaginal mucosa of rabbits.

③ Other functions

There are different reports about the antifungal effect of Cnidium monnieri in vitro. It can prolong the life of chicken embryo for 6 hours and kill larvae in polluted water.

[processing] remove impurities, screen mud and sand, wash and dry.

① "Lei Gong Paozhi Lun" says: "when making snake bed, you need to use thick blue juice and grass root natural juice. When the two kinds of juice are soaked in the same way for three days, they are dried in the sun, but they are steamed with yellow juice. From noon to Haihe, they are dried in the sun. "

② "Rihuazi materia medica:" snake bed, where combined with medicine to take, that is, according to the shell to get kernel, micro fried poison that is not spicy, as soup wash disease is born to use. "

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

② Bielu: "Xingan, nontoxic. "

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

④ "Ben Cao Zheng" says: "it tastes bitter, has pungent Qi, and is warm in nature. "

[channel tropism] entering kidney and spleen channels.

① "Lei Gong's treatment of medicinal properties": entering the lung and kidney meridians. "

② "Ben Cao Hui Yan": "hand Shaoyang, foot Jueyin meridians. "

③ In Bencao Zaixin: "entering the spleen and kidney meridians. "

Functions and indications: warming kidney, helping Yang, dispelling wind, drying dampness, killing insects. Treatment of male impotence, scrotal wet itching, women with vaginal itching, uterine cold infertility, rheumatic arthralgia, scabies wet sore.

① "Ben Jing" says: "a housewife has swelling and pain in her Yin, while a man has impotence and itching in his Yin. "

② Bielu: "warm in the lower gas, make women and children dirty hot, men Yin strong, good color, people have children. "

③ "Theory of medicinal properties": "it can cure the deficiency of men and women, dampness arthralgia, poisonous wind, persistent pain, and remove the lumbago of men. Bath man Yin, to wind cold, big Yiyang things. The main wind body itching, fried soup bath of Huang. Treatment of toothache and infantile convulsion. "

④ "Rihuazi Materia Medica" says: "it can cure sudden cold, warm husband's Yang Qi, help women's Yin Qi, attack blood stasis, waist and crotch pain, Yin sweat and wet ringworm, limb stubborn arthralgia, red and white belt, and reduce stool. "

⑤ "Preparation of raw herbal medicine nature": "apply sore to relieve itching, wash scabies. "

⑥ Changsha medicine solution: "blow your ears.". "

[usage and dosage] take orally: decoct soup, 1-3 yuan; or take pills. External use: fried water fumigation; or as a medicine (suppository); or research powder sprinkle, transfer application.

[should avoid] the lower Jiao has damp heat, or kidney yin deficiency, phase fire is easy to move, and the essence is not solid.

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② The classic of materia medica: "do not take it if there is fire in the kidney and heat in the lower part. "

③ "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": "kidney fire is easy to move, Yang is strong and essence is not solid, do not take it. "

[selected formula] 1. Treating yang deficiency: Fructus Cnidii, Fructus Cnidii, etc. On the three flavors, at the end, honey pills such as Wuzi. Take pills for three days. (Qian Jin Fang)

② For the treatment of leucorrhea due to cold and dampness: eight taels of Cnidium monnieri, six taels of meat, four taels, three taels, two taels (all stir fried), five taels of Kui, five taels of Xuelu jiao (roasted and quenched with wine). A total of fine powder, batter pill Wuzi big. Five yuan for each morning, white soup. (Fang Mai Zheng Zong)

③ To cure Yin cold and warm Yin: Fructus Cnidii kernel, with a little white powder, mixed together, such as jujube, wrapped in cotton, naturally warm. (snake bed powder in Synopsis of the Golden Chamber)

④ Treatment of women's itching: Cnidium or two, alum two money. Wash the soup frequently. (Linhu jijianfang)

⑤ Treatment of postpartum Yin off: Fructus Cnidii a liter, cloth wrapped hot iron, but also the treatment of postpartum Yin pain. (Qian Jin Fang)

⑥ To cure women's internal organs: one liter of Fructus Cnidii and two or seven pieces of plum. Five liters of water, boil two and a half liters, wash, ten days. (sengshen Jifang snake bed washing prescription)

⑦ Treatment of trichomonal vaginitis: a Cnidium five money, fried, douche vagina. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual) 2 Cnidium monnieri, 2 yuan, 3 yuan. Glycerin gelatin was used as the matrix to make (2G) suppository. One suppository was placed in vagina every day. (selected materials of new medical treatment of Chinese herbal medicine, Inner Mongolia)

⑧ Treatment of male Yin swelling pain: snake bed powder, chicken in the Yellow tune of the application. (Yonglei qianfang)

⑨ Cure scrotal eczema: Cnidium five money, decoct water to wash pudenda. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)

⑩ Treatment of tinea: snake bed solid, rammed powder, and pig fat application. (Qian Jin Fang)

(11) treatment of children's malignant sores: three points for greasy powder and one point for removing whiskers. Cnidium three points. For each application, wash the sores with warm salt soup, wipe them dry, and apply them with crude oil. (Sheng Hui Fang)

(12) it is used to treat children's fat sores at the lip and mouth, as well as ear sores, head sores and skin sores: one or two cases of alum (burnt ash), one or two cases of Cnidium. For the end, dry mixed sore. (general discussion on pediatric health)

To treat eczema, allergic dermatitis, lacquer tree allergy, tinea manus and pedis: Cnidium monnieri, eucalyptus leaves, neem bark, duck foot wood, each amount, fried water bubble wash the affected area, twice a day. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)

(14) for the treatment of swelling and pain of laryngopharynx in the winter moon, it is not allowed to prescribe medicine: Cnidium monnieri burns cigarette in a bottle, and smokes with bottle mouth, and its phlegm comes out from itself. (Sheng Hui Fang)

[clinical application] ① treatment of trichomonal vaginitis

First, rinse the vagina with 500ml of 10% Cnidium monnieri decoction, and then put in 2 pieces of 0.5g Cnidium monnieri vaginal tablets (made from Cnidium monnieri extract). Continuous treatment for 5-7 days as a course of treatment. After nearly 100 cases of observation, most of them can be cured after a course of treatment, trichomonas turned negative, itching disappeared, vaginal cleaning, leucorrhea disappeared or significantly reduced. In addition, the trial in non trichomonal vaginitis, but also reduce the role of leucorrhea secretion. There was no adverse reaction in patients with cervical erosion.

② Treatment of acute exudative dermatosis

Take 2 pairs of Cnidium monnieri, wrap them with gauze, add 1500 ml of water, boil them for half an hour; soak them with cotton pad, screw them half dry, warm compress them locally, cover them with oil paper or plastic cloth to keep a certain temperature and humidity, which can last for 0.5 to 1 hour. Pack 4-6 times a day. 880 cases were observed clinically. Most of them were treated for 5-10 days. The exudates decreased significantly and the inflammation subsided. No side effects were found. Also can grind Cnidium into fine powder

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