Gleditsia sinensis

Gleditsia sinensis

(supplement to materia medica)

[synonyms] Gleditsia sinensis (Sheng Hui Fang), Gleditsia sinensis (Introduction to medicine), Tianding (compendium), Gleditsia sinensis needle (Jiangsu Zhi Yao Zhi), Zaozhen (manual of Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the thorn of Gleditsia sinensis. The plant morphology is shown in the article "Gleditsia sinensis".

[collection] it can be collected throughout the year, but it is suitable from September to next March.

[medicinal materials] the complete spines have many branches, the main spines are cylindrical, 5-15 cm long, the base is about 8-12 mm thick, and the end is sharp; the branching spines are generally 1.5-7 cm long, and sometimes diverge into small spines. The surface is brownish purple, the tip is reddish brown, smooth or with fine wrinkles. It's hard and hard to break. The xylem is yellow white, and the center is light gray brown and loose pith. Odorless, light taste. Thin, pure and neat is preferred.

It is mainly produced in Jiangsu, Hubei, Hebei, Shanxi, Henan and Shandong. In addition, it is also produced in Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Anhui, Zhejiang, Guizhou, Shaanxi, Jiangxi and Gansu.

[chemical constituents] it contains flavonoid glycosides, phenols and amino acids.

[processing] remove impurities; soak in water, moisten thoroughly, slice and dry in the sun.

[flavor] pungent, warm.

① "Compendium": "pungent, warm, non-toxic. "

② Yilin zuanyao: "Xin, Xian, Wen. "

③ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it is warm in nature, pungent in taste, and has little poison. "

[function indications] wind search, detoxification, detumescence and pus discharge. Treatment of carbuncle, sore poison, Pandora, tinea, retained placenta.

① "Ben Cao Tu Jing": "rice vinegar boiled tender needle for thick fried, to apply sore ringworm. "

② Yang Shiying: "it can induce all kinds of drugs to go up and treat Shangjiao disease. "

③ "Supplement to the meaning of materia medica:" the treatment of carbuncle and gangrene has been ulcerated, which can lead to ulceration. "

④ "Gangmu": "cure carbuncle swelling, envy milk, wind plague, evil sores, the coat does not go down, kill insects. "

⑤ According to the book of Materia Medica Chongyuan: "remove the weathered phlegm, eliminate the poison and attack the poison. Set children convulsion hair twitch, attack acne hair, poison into pulp. "

⑥ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it can cure wind heat sore and rash, and can pass milk. "

⑦ "Medicine science": treating tonsillitis. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-3 yuan; or into pills, powder. External use: vinegar decocting and spreading, grinding powder sprinkling or dressing.

[taboo] herbal classic: "it is not suitable to take carbuncle and gangrene, and it is also taboo for pregnant women. "

[selection of prescriptions] ① for the treatment of carbuncle, it is poisonous, external and internal. If it wants to be broken but not broken, it is extremely painful and swollen outside the shoulder, back, abdomen and abdomen of the limbs, and extremely painful and swollen inside the chest, diaphragm, waist, flank, abdomen and stomach: Acacia, Feijian, frankincense, myrrh, angelica, Ligusticum chuanxiong, licorice, Angelica dahurica, pollen, honeysuckle, etc. Two bowls of water and two bowls of wine, and one and a half bowls of frying. Poison on the top, take after eating; poison on the middle, half full; poison on the bottom. If it is not finished, it will be broken. (Yi Jian Chu Ji)

② Treatment of cancer: Gleditsia angle thorn (burning, research), white and a little, for the end, apply it. (ren Zhai Zhi Zhi Fang)

③ Treatment of women with breast carbuncle: Gleditsia sinensis thorn (burning) one or two, mussel powder one money. Heyan, one money for each service, warm wine. (ren Zhai Zhi Zhi Fang)

④ For the treatment of sores, take three pieces of wine before burning and three pieces of dry herbs for each. (Confucianist family affairs)

⑤ For hemorrhoids, there is more itching and pain at the anal side: two or two Acacia thorns (burning to the end of smoke), one or two Ailanthus altissima Skin (slightly roasted), one or two Fangfeng (removing the head of reed), one or two red peony, one or two trifoliate orange (stir fried with bran to remove the flesh). Add medicine, mash for the end, with a jin of strong vinegar, boil half into paste, the next under the remaining medicine, and pills, such as beans, every time before eating, fried Fangfeng soup under 20 pills. (Gleditsia sinensis pill in Sheng Hui Fang)

⑥ Treatment of abdominal sores in the intestines: Acacia thorn no matter how much, a bowl of good wine, fried to seven points, warm. If you don't drink alcohol, you can fry it in water. (Lin's empirical formula)

⑦ Treatment of wind disease, body waste, limb damage, shape and appearance change: Gleditsia sinensis Feijian 1 jin (micro fried, ground into very fine powder), a red chain snake (chopped, boiled in wine, boneless meat, baked), three liang of flaxseed, two liang of raw Pinellia ternata, one or two of real lead powder. Stir fry and dry, grind into powder, and Acacia thorn powder, a total of water pan into a pill, such as mung bean, sun dry, into the net magnetic bottle. Every morning and evening three money, white soup. (Ben Cao Hui Yan)

⑧ Treatment of fetal membranes: Gleditsia sinensis thorn burning for the end, each serving a money, warm wine tune. (supplement to the good prescription)

⑨ Treatment of urine drenching: Gleditsia sinensis thorn (burning), ragged paper, etc. For the end, ashless wine service. (Sheng Ji Zong Lu)

⑩ Treatment of children's heavy tongue: Gleditsia angle thorn ash, into the sodium nitrate or brain a little, gargle, mixed with the tongue, saliva from the Xiao. (Sheng Hui Fang)

[clinical application] treatment of acute tonsillitis

Zaojiaoci 3 Qian decoction, morning and evening 2 times. 10 cases were observed, 1 case was invalid (complicated with peritonsillar abscess), the rest were cured within 2-8 days. On the next day, the temperature and white blood cells dropped to normal, and the symptoms and tonsil swelling were relieved.

Chinese PinYin : Zao Jiao Ci