Herbal Medicine: Efficacy and Effects of Dried Lacquer

Dried Lacquer

(Ben Jing)

AKA Lacquer Dregs, Lacquer Bottom, Lacquer Feet (Handbook of Chinese Herbs).

Source is the dried product of the processed resin of lacquer tree, family Lacertaceae.

Botanical Forms Lacquer tree ("Shu Ben Cao") also known as: mountain lacquer, slag seedling.

Deciduous tree, up to 20 meters high. The bark is gray-white and smooth when young, then dark gray and rough, with irregular longitudinal fissures. Young branches are pilose and gradually fall off. Winter buds are borne at branch apex. Leaves simple pinnately compound, spirally alternate, 22-75 cm long; petiole 5-9 cm long, base expanded; leaflets 11-15, ovate or rectangular-ovate, 7-15 cm long, 3-7 cm wide, apex long-acute, base broadly cuneate or irregularly rounded, entire; glabrous or puberulent on upper or midvein, initially finely hairy below, densely light brown hairy along veins with age; petiolules short. Flowers unisexual or bisexual; dioecious or polygamous; inflorescences paniculate, axillary; pedicels pubescent; flowers dense and small, yellowish green; male flowers with calyx 5, oblong, petals 5, rectangular-ovate, purplish, and stamens 5, inserted on margin of disk, filaments short, with staminodes; female flowers with smaller stamens, ovary 1-loculed, style short, stigma 3-lobed. Infructescence pendulous, drupe compressed-orbicular, 6-8 mm in diam. Flowering period May to June. Fruit ripening in November.

Born mostly on sunny, windswept slopes. It is distributed in Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangdong.

The plant's root (lacquer root), root bark and dried bark (lacquer bark), heartwood (lacquer heart), resin (lacquer), leaves (lacquer leaves), seeds (lacquer seeds), etc. are also for medicinal use, detailed in the article.

Collection of the general use of lacquer barrels leftover lacquer feet, sun-dried. Closed storage, fire prevention.

The dried resin of the herbs is irregular lumps. Surface dark brown or brown, rough, granular or honeycomb, glossy. The texture is hard, not easy to break, the section is not flat. Slightly lacquer odor. With fire can burn, black smoke, lacquer odor is stronger, to block whole, color black, hard, lacquer odor is better.

Chemical composition of dry lacquer is raw lacquer in the role of lacquer enzyme in the air under the oxidation of the black resin material.

Concocted take clean dry lacquer smashed into small pieces, placed in a calcined pot, covered with a smaller caliber pot, on the white paper, the two pots along the edge of the joint, sealed with yellow mud, heating calcined to the extent that the white paper was charred yellow. Cease fire simmering cool, remove the broken into. Or placed in the pan fried until the smoke is exhausted, burnt black storage can also be.

"Rihuazi Materia Medica": "into the medicine must be crushed and fried, do not, damage to the human stomach and intestines. If it is wet lacquer fried dry is better."

Taste pungent, warm, toxic.

① "Ben Jing": "flavor pungent, warm."

② "Treatise on Medicinal Properties": "Taste pungent, salty."

③ Element Zhang: "Pungent, flat, poisonous."

③ Elementary Zhang: "Pungent, flat, poisonous."

③ The herb enters the liver and spleen meridians.

① "Lei Gong Cannonical Medicinal Explanation": "Into the stomach, large and small intestine meridians."

② "Materia Medica Seeking Truth": "Into the liver, spleen."

Functions: breaks blood stasis, eliminates accumulation, kills worms. It is used to treat menstrual closure, obstruction in the abdomen, blood stasis, and accumulation of worms in women.

① "Ben Jing": "Lord of absolute injury, renewing the tendons and bones, five slow six urgent, wind, cold and damp paralysis."

② "Other Records": "Cure coughs, eliminate blood stasis, lumps and lumbago, women's hernia, the obstruction of the abdomen, the small intestine, remove roundworms."

③ "Treatise on Medicinal Properties": "Can kill three insects, the main woman's meridians."

④ Elemental Zhang: "Cutting the accumulation of stagnation of years of deep and firm knot, and breaking the blood stasis of day-long condensation."

⑤ "Original Materia Medica": "Women's post-partum blood transportation, more dry lacquer fire smoked nose."

Usage and dosage Internal use: into pills, bulk, 0.8 ~ 1.5 money. External use: burning smoke.

Contraindications Pregnant women and those who have no stasis are advised to take with caution.

① "Materia Medica Classic Collected Notes": "Half-summer for the make. Fear of chicken seeds."

② "by partial prescription": "afraid of paint people can not take."

③ "Materia Medica from the new": "The virtual man and habitually large sores to avoid."

④ "The Materia Medica seeks the original": "The stomach is weak people avoid it."

① Treatment of women's blood and gas pain unbearable, the husband of the small intestine gas handful of pain: dry lacquer one or two (for the end), wet lacquer one or two. First wet lacquer into the choshi simmer, such as a meal has come to the fire, and dry lacquer end of a mixing and pills such as half a soap big; each serving of nine, warm wine swallowed, no time. If the small intestine and bladder gas pain, dental emergency, but good offices to open the teeth, warm wine into a pill poured down. ("by partial prescription" two holy pill)

② women's umbilical knot, as big as a cup of liters, menstruation, seizures to and fro, dysentery lean, this is the gas impediment, according to the strong flesh if the jail can not be cured, the end of the cure: the end of dry lacquer a catty, the raw rhubarb thirty pounds (mashed and twisted to get the juice), the fire dry lacquer decoction, so that the pill can be served after eating, such as a wu zi large three pills, three times a day. ("Completing the lack of elbow after the prescription")

③ treatment of cytotoxicity, and bad blood can not be: dry lacquer (crushed, fried to make smoke), angelica (cut, roasted) one or two. On the two flavors pounded Luo for loose. Each service two money dagger, with the thorn wine mix down, when a service, the following for the degree. ("General Records of the Sheng Ji" dry lacquer scattered)

④ treatment of nine kinds of heart pain, and abdominal coagulation stagnant gas: tube dry lacquer two two. Crushed, fried smoke out, fine research, vinegar batter and pills, such as a sycamore seed large, each serving five pills to seven pills, hot wine, vinegar soup also get, no time to take. ("Brief Jizhong Fang")

⑤ Treatment of pediatric roundworm heartache: dry lacquer one or two (crushed, fried to smoke out). Pound fine, Luo for the bulk, each service to the new draw water, an oakley sunglasses outlet, empty heart under a word, but three services, when to take down the worms. ("Sheng Hui Fang")

6 treatment of five labor seven injuries: dry lacquer, cypress people, cornelian cherry, sour jujube kernel each equal parts. For the end of the honey pill, such as the size of a stout. Take two or seven pills, under warm wine, two times a day. ("Thousand Gold Formula")

(7) treatment of paralysis of the throat can not be pin medicine: dry lacquer burned smoke, sucked with a tube. ("General Records of the Holy Spirit")

Reminder: dry lacquer This herb is from the Internet, please follow the doctor's advice before use.