Roots of Catalpa bungei

Roots of Catalpa bungei

(records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

[synonym] Acanthopanax senticosus (Guizhou folk medicine).

[source] it is the root or root bark of Liriodendron chinense. The plant morphology is shown in the "bark of Catalpa bungei".

[collection] collect in late summer and early autumn, wash and dry.

[chemical composition] the root contains polysaccharide, which is hydrolyzed to obtain galacturonic acid, glucose, arabinose, galactose, rhamnose and xylose. Water soluble polysaccharides include dextran and pectin.

[nature and taste] 1. Sichuan records of traditional Chinese medicine: "it is cool in nature, bitter in taste and non-toxic. "

② Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "bitter taste, cool nature, small poison. "

Functions and indications: cooling blood, dispersing blood stasis, dispelling wind and removing dampness. Treatment of intestinal wind hemorrhoids blood, trauma, rheumatism and bone pain.

① "Collection of commonly used folk herbal medicines": "treating hemorrhoids, clearing heat and detoxifying. "

② Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "disperse blood, clear away heat, eliminate rheumatism. It is used to treat intestinal wind, lower blood, traumatic injury and rheumatic bone pain. "

③ Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "clearing heat, cooling blood, eliminating rheumatism, expelling pus and generating muscle. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction. 3 ~ 5 money, external use: tamping or boiling water washing.

[selected formula] 1. For the treatment of lower blood due to intestinal wind: Roots of Catalpa bungei and rhaponticum uniflorum. Stewed pig large intestine. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

② Treatment of infantile anal prolapse: thorn catalpa root, gallnut each five money to one or two. Boil and wash. (Chongqing herbal medicine)

3. Treatment of traumatic injuries: the root of fresh catalpa and 42 woodlouse worms. Take it orally. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)

④ Treatment of fracture: prick root, March bubble root, sow vine root, water hemp leaf each equal (fresh). Beat down, mix distiller's grains or wine, first reset the fracture with manipulation, then pack this medicine, then fix it with splint, and change it at the right time. (Guizhou folk medicine)

⑤ Itch treatment: cihuagen, saoyanggu, tiankuizi each two. Stewed pork suit. (Chongqing herbal medicine)

⑥ Treatment of muscle and bone pain: fresh thorn catalpa root two liang, Du Heng one money, jixueteng one or two. Take it in water. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)