Uses and composition of the Chinese medicine blood knot

Blood exhaustion Pinyin XUEJIE English name Dragon's Blood origin for the palm plant unicorn exhaust fruit and trunk in the resin.　At present, the domestic blood dry mostly for the lily family sword leaf dragon's blood tree or Cambodian dragon's blood tree resin. Imported blood exhaust is less common. Effects Promote blood circulation and dissipate blood stasis, relieve pain, stop bleeding and regenerate muscle, astringent sores.　Indications Swelling and pain in bruises, internal injuries and stasis; traumatic bleeding, scrofula, polycarbonates, sores ulcerated for a long time.　Sexual flavors and attributes Sweet and salty, flat. Lei Gong Gun Zhi Lun: "Slightly salty and sweet flavor." Tang Materia Medica: "Sweet and salty, flat, with a small poison." ③ "Materia Medica Monchuan": "Taste pungent and salty, flat, with a small poison."　It enters the heart, liver and spleen meridians. ① "Compendium": "Hand and foot syncope." ② "The Classic of Materia Medica": "Entering the foot syncopal meridian and the hand shaoyin meridian." (③) New Edition of the Materia Medica: "Entering the kidney."　Usage and dosage For internal use, crush into powder, 1-3 minutes; or put into pills; for external use, crush into powder and sprinkle, or put into poultices.　Contraindications ① "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Getting Mithraxin good." ② "Materia Medica Classic": "All blood diseases without stasis need not be used."　Compatibility 1: With myrrh, it enhances the power of activating blood circulation and breaking blood stasis, and is used for bruises, blood stasis, swelling and pain. 2: With frankincense, it invigorates blood circulation and generates muscle, and converges sores and stretches tendons, and can be used for malignant sores and carbuncles that do not close up for a long time, bleeding gold sores, and incompatibility with wounds.　Alias Ti Lin Qu Quite (Lei Gong Gun Zhi Lun), Sea Wax (Hou Ning Ji, "The Record of Medicines"), Kirin's Blood (Sheng Hui Fang), Wooden Blood Depletion (Dian Nan Materia Medica). The original plant Kirin Exhaustion is also known as: Thirsty Retention ("Tang Materia Medica"). Prescription Name Blood exhaustion, blood jie, blood force flower, blood knot, blood exhaustion powder, kirin exhaustion, etc. Latin Name The herb Resina Draconis The original plant Daemonorops draco Bl. Commodity Name Kirin Exhaustion: also known as blood exhaustion flower, is the fruit of the plant Kirin Exhaustion and the resin in the trunk of the tree. Mainly produced in Indonesia, Malaysia, Iran. China's Guangdong, Hainan, Taiwan and other places are also planted. Excellent quality, for the blood exhaust genuine. According to the quality of good and bad in turn is divided into unicorn brand, hand brand, crown brand, five-star brand four kinds of commodity specifications.　The original Zhuang blood exhaust: purely with Indonesia and other countries imported blood exhaust raw materials (without adding auxiliary materials) made of people. The surface is iron black.　Processing blood exhaust: for the use of blood exhaust raw materials mixed with auxiliary materials, the original white resin processing and refining into a person. The surface is dark red.　The brand name blood dry: the blood dry according to the quality of the unicorn brand, hand brand, crown brand, five-star brand, AA brand, triple A brand, chicken brand, goldfish brand, gold star brand, the sun brand and other specifications.　All outside the color black like iron, research surface red like blood, fire choking the nose for the best.　Animal and Plant Resources Distribution Indonesia, Malaysia, Iran; China's Guangdong, Taiwan is also planted. Medicinal value Harvesting and storage of herbs Take the fruits, put them in a steamer and boil them, so that the resin oozes out; or take the fruits and mash them, put them in a cloth bag and extract the resin, then decoct them into syrupy, and then cool them and solidify them into lumps. There are also cutting the trunk or drilling a number of small holes, so that the resin naturally seeps out and solidifies.　Concocting method Wipe off the dust, crack it into small pieces, put it in a lime altar to dry in dry weather in winter, and then crush it with brittleness. Lei Gong Gun Zhi Lun: "If you want to make it, first grind it into powder and sift it through a sieve, do not pound it with other medicines, for it will turn into flying dust." Historical Evidence From "Lei Gong Gun Zhuo Lun": "Wherever possible, do not use the blood of the sea mother, which is really similar to Ti Lin Qu Qu Yuan, except that it tastes salty and has a fishy odor. Tiffin exhausted taste slightly salty and sweet, like gardenia gas is also." ① "Tang Materia Medica": "Ti Lin exhaust, tree name thirst stay, metaphorical bee honey, hacking with," Wu record "called the red gum." (2) "Kai Bao Ben Cao": "Other notes, purple mine, Ti Lin exhaust, two things with the article, the efficacy of the whole different. Purple mine color red and black, its leaves as large as a plate, mine from the leaves out. Ti Lin exhaust, color yellow and red, ...... leaves like cherry, triangular, exhaust from the wood out." ③ "Herbal Tujing": "Ti Lin Exhausted, now out of the southern countries and Guangzhou." (4) "Compendium": "Ti Lin Exhaustion is resin, purple minerals are made by insects. According to the "Yitong Zhi" cloud: blood exhaust tree, slightly like myrrh tree, its muscle red color, the collection method is also under the tree digging can, axe felled the tree, fat flow in the can, ten days to take, more out of the countries of the eclipse, people try, to penetrate the fingernails for real. Dugu Tao "Dangfang Jianyuan" cloud: this thing to fire, there is red juice gushing out, long time and ash does not change the original color of the true." (5) "Updated pseudo-medicine articles discernment": "blood dry color to bright red light, the texture of the body to be loose, try to penetrate the nails for real, burned with fire, red juice gushing out, into the paper without trace halo, long time and grey unchanged the color of the TiLin exhaustion, the best. The color purple and black, the quality is firm, outside the bamboo Ruo package for the whip dry, a little second, the pseudo made of rosin fire paint, into the fire drop paper has traces of halo, it is appropriate to identify." Identification of herbs, dry resin in the form of indeterminate lumps, varying in size, the surface has grooves and cloth lines left because of the cloth package, reddish brown or purple-brown. Hard and brittle, purple-brown to black-brown cross-section, glassy luster, sometimes with small holes. Burning with fire, smoke choking. Research into the powder is bright crimson color. No aroma, taste sweet and salty, chewing sand-like. To the appearance of the color black as iron, research powder red as blood, burning the smoke choking the nose of the best. Mainly produced in Malaysia, Indonesia, Iran and other places. In addition, there are Socotra blood exhaust, the Agave plant Dracaena ombet Kotschy's resin, was a small teardrop-shaped or fragmented, but not 2 cm long, cross-section of glass-like, wine-red flakes. No benzoic acid odor when heated. Produced in East Africa. China Yunnan found a kind of mountain iron tree Pleomele cambodiana (Pler. ex Gagn.) Merr. et Chun, also known as: Cambodian dragon's blood tree, its resin and the role of the above species. For the original plant, see the article "Leaves of Mountain Iron Tree".　①To treat injuries to the muscles and bones, pain unbearable: unicorn blood one or two, myrrh one or two, Angelica sinensis one or two (filed, slightly fried), Angelica dahurica two or two, red peony one or two, Gui Xin one or two. Pound fine Luo for loose, each service, to warm wine under two money, day three, four service. ("Sheng Hui Fang" unicorn blood san) ② treatment of abdominal blood clots: blood exhaust, myrrh, talc, moutan skin (with boiled) each one or two. For the end, vinegar paste pills, sycamore seed size, take it. (《Extracting Yuan Fang》) ③To treat postpartum septic blood rushing to the heart, chest fullness and shortness of breath: real blood exhaustion, research into a fine powder, warm wine mixing service. ("Zhu's Collection of Examined and Tested Medical Formulas") ③ Treating epistaxis: Blood Depletion, Pu Huang and other parts. (④) For epistaxis: Blood exhaust, Pu Huang, etc. Powdered and blown. (⑤ Treatment of scrofula that has been broken and the pus is not stopping: blood exhaustive (fried) two and a half money, twenty jujubes (burnt to ashes), half a taels of dried dihuang (not to be minced). The above three flavors, are finely ground such as powder, to adjust the saliva paste sores. ("Bo Ji Fang" blood exhaustion scattered)