Chinese herbal medicine: efficacy and effect of elderberry

Elderberry

("Tang Materia Medica")

synonym wood capsule javanica ("Tang Materia Medica"), elderberry ("Cui Yan Yan Materia Medica"), renewed bone wood ("Compendium"), cuttings live ("Ben Jing Feng Yuan"), the seven-leaf Huang Jing, put stick row, coral with ( Wang Lianshi "Cai Yao Shu"), Iron Bone Scatter ("Botanical names of the real map Kao"), elderberry Dan ("Herbal and Wooden Recipes"), the seven leaves of the gold, penetrating bone grass ("Fujian Folk Medicine"), elderberry wind ("Sichuan Chinese Medicine Journal"). It is also used in the production of the herb "Bone-setting", "Bone-setting", "Bone-setting", "Bone-setting", "Bone-setting", "Bone-setting", "Bone-setting", "Bone-setting", and "Bone-setting".

The source is the stem and branches of Elderberry, Lonicera japonica.

Botanical Form Elderberry, also known as: poke tree, capsule tree, fair old tree, large-leaved elderberry, large-leaved capsule Sambucus, soothing tree, camphor tree.

Deciduous shrub or tree, 4 to 8 meters high. The stem is unangled and much branched; the branches are gray-brown and glabrous. Leaves simple pinnately compound to opposite; usually with 7 leaflets, sometimes 9 to 11, oblong-ovoid or elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, 4 to 12 centimeters long, 2 to 4 centimeters wide, apex acuminate, base oblique broadly cuneate, margins serrate, both surfaces glabrous. Terminal ovoid to long elliptic-ovate panicles, 6 to 9 cm in diameter; flowers white to yellowish; calyx campanulate, lobes 5, ligulate; corolla sympetalous, lobes 5, obovate; stamens 5, inserted on corolla, alternate with lobes, shorter than corolla. Berry-like drupe subglobose, black-purple or red, with 3-5 nuclei. Flowering period April to May. Fruiting period is from July to September.

Grows on sunny slopes or cultivated in gardens. It is distributed in Northeast, North, Central and East China, and west to Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan.

The plant's roots and root bark (elderberry root), leaves (elderberry leaves), flowers (elderberry flowers) are for medicinal purposes, each detailed article.

Gathering can be collected throughout the year.

Herbs dried stems and branches, more processed into oblique transverse slices, long elliptic, 2 to 6 cm long, about 3 mm thick, the skin is complete or flaking, the appearance of green-brown, with longitudinal stripes and brown-black dotted protruding lenticels; wood is yellowish-white, the annual rings are ring-shaped, very obvious, and there are fine white medullary lines, shooting outward, texture is meticulous; medulla is usually brown, intact or withered heart into a cavity, spongy The pith is usually brown, complete or hollow and spongy, easily cracked. The texture is light, and the odor is all weak. To piece of complete, yellow-white, no impurities is preferred.

Mainly produced in Jiangsu. In addition, Fujian, Sichuan, Guangxi, Zhejiang and other places are also produced.

The same plant hairy elderberry, sessile elderberry in a few areas are also equal to the medicine.

Pharmacological effects of elderberry decoction gavage 20 grams (raw) / kg, mice (hot plate method) has an analgesic effect, the strength of the effect is inferior to morphine, better than anakinra, after taking the drug, mice were quiet. The aqueous or alcoholic extract of sessile elderberry of the same plant has a diuretic effect on mice injected, this effect is not caused by the inorganic salts contained therein; diuretic at the same time often lead to diarrhea in mice.

Taste sweet and bitter, flat.

① Tang Ben Cao: "sweet and bitter, flat, non-toxic."

② "Gleanings from the Materia Medica": "There is a small poison."

③ Modern Practical Chinese Medicine: "Bitter, cold."

Functions and Indications Dispel wind, diuresis, blood circulation, pain relief. It is used to treat rheumatic tendon and bone pain, lumbago, edema, wind itch, addictive rash, postpartum hematemesis, swelling and pain of bruises, bone fracture, traumatic bleeding.

① Tang Materia Medica: "Main fracture, renewing the tendons and bones, removing wind itch and dental caries. Can be bath soup."

② "Thousand Golden Wings Fang": "beatings and wounds and maternal blood, all the blood does not work or more than, and boiled juice to serve."

③ Wang Lianshi "book of medicine collection": "Blood circulation and toxicity, wash all sores and scabies, ghost arrow wind."

④ "Hundred Herbs Mirror": "Treats stumbling and canker sores."

⑤ Modern Practical Chinese Medicine: "As an analgesic. It is used for treating hand and foot migraine and rheumatic lumbago, pain between bones, cold pain in the limbs and swollen feet. And bruises and bone pain, rubella, sweat rash, etc. for the bath soup material."

Usage and dosage for internal use: decoction, 3 to 5 money; or into pills, bulk, external use: pounded compresses or decoction of water fumigation.

Contraindications Pregnant women should not take.

The Essence of Pinhui: "Taking more will make people vomit."

① Treatment of damage to the bones: elderberry half a taels, good frankincense half a penny, red peony, Sichuan angelica, rhizoma ligusticum, natural copper each one or two. The above for the end, with four taels of yellow wax dissolved into the former medicine powder, stir, wait for warm and soft, the hands of the pill as a large dragon's eye. Such as injured tendons and bones and flash peg pain unbearable ninja, with a pill of medicine, a good old ashless wine soaked medicine, waiting for the medicine stains lose open, bearing heat sip, pain will stop. ("renewed this formula")

② treatment of nephritis edema: elderberry three to five money, decoction. ("Shanghai commonly used Chinese herbal medicine")

③ treatment of trauma bleeding: elderberry powder, external application. (Shanghai Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicine)

④ treatment of lacquer sores: elderberry stems and leaves four two, decoction and cooled to wash the affected area. (Shanxi Chinese Herbal Medicine)

⑤ Postpartum hematemesis. Use a handful of crushed elderberry, add one liter of water and boil it into half a liter, and take it down in several times.

Famous exposition of the new compilation of the Materia Medica: "Elderberry, into the bone joints, specializing in the continuation of the tendons and bones, fracture wine swallowing, wind and itch soup bath. Used alone to continue the bones and joints is strange, but the use of blood to activate the blood in the medicine, the bone is especially strange, but it is better to use it raw. To the dry wood with, its power is reduced by half, fried and reduced by half."

Attachment Elderberry is named for its function as a bone-splitter, but now it is also used clinically to treat acute and chronic nephritis edema, urinary incontinence, rubella itching and other conditions.