Chinese prickly ash skin

Chinese prickly ash skin

(records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)

[source] the bark of Ailanthus bungeana, a Rutaceae plant. For plant morphology, please refer to "eating dogwood".

[collection] bark was peeled and dried before and after the beginning of summer.

[herb] the dried bark is plate-shaped or curly, 1.5-2 mm thick. The outer surface is bluish gray or light grayish brown, with many wrinkles and shallow grooves, with irregular papillary spikes; the embolus is easy to fall off, exposing the light brownish yellow endothelium; the inner surface is yellowish white, or slightly brown, smooth, with fine longitudinal lines. It is tenacious, and its section is lobed. The taste is slightly bitter.

Produced in Zhejiang, Fujian and other places.

This product is used as Pittosporum bark in some areas.

[chemical constituents] the bark contains konjac alkaloid, Magnolia alkaloid, tetrandrine and volatile oil. The root contains dictamnine, zanthoxylin a, helianthine, tetrandrine and zanthoxyline. The root bark contains zanthoxylin A and hesperidin. The wood contains dictamnine, konjac alkaloid, Magnolia alkaloid and so on. The leaves contain volatile oil, resin and phenolic components. The volatile oil contains methyl nonylketone. β - sitosterol was also isolated from crude drugs.

[nature and taste] Wenling County drug resources list: "bitter, flat. "

[functions and indications] 1. Zhejiang TIANRI yam Zhi: "it is used to treat women's postpartum joint wind pain. "

② "Wenling County drug resources list": "dispelling wind and dampness, dredging meridians, killing insects. It is used to treat snakebite, contusion, lumbocrural pain, scabies and hydrocele. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan.