Willow bark

Willow bark

(Zheng Lei Ben Cao)

[source] phloem of branch or root of Salix babylonica. See "willow branch" for plant morphology.

[collection] all year round. The cork and xylem were removed and phloem was taken.

[chemical composition] hydrous glycoside and 3.10-9.12% tannin.

[pharmacological action] salicin has antipyretic effect. See the "willow branch" section.

[nature and taste] "Tang Materia Medica" and "Zhi Pi is bitter, cold and non-toxic. "

Functions and indications: dispel wind and dampness, reduce swelling and relieve pain. It is used to treat rheumatism, bone pain, wind swelling, pruritus, jaundice, drenching, mastitis, toothache and scald.

① "Tang Materia Medica" says: "the branch skin is mainly used for phlegm, heat and drenching disease; it can be used for bath soup, with wind swelling and itching; it can be used for wine boiling, with toothache. "

② Compendium: "decocting and taking it can cure jaundice and turbidity; boiling and ironing with wine can relieve pain and swelling, remove wind and relieve pain and swelling. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-2 Liang. External use: decocting water, boiling in wine or frying hot, warm ironing.

[selection] 1. To treat malaria and rheumatism and bone pain: remove the heart of willow branches and the thick yellow and black skin on the outside, and use the green skin for one or two to one or two to five yuan. Take it in water. (collection of herbs in Lingnan)

2. Treat the pain of Qi injection or wind attack: swelling of Baijiu and hot pressed iron. (Yao Seng Tan's collected prescriptions)

③ Treatment of women's mastitis: peel willow root, tamp, warm fire, silk bag storage, ironing, cold easier. (behind the elbow)

④ Treatment of wind insect toothache: Willow white skin, volume, such as a big finger, mouth, to juice stains root, count. (ancient and modern prescriptions)

⑤ For those who are burned by the fire of the soup and have not yet formed sores, the skin of willow white should be carefully cut and fried with pig ointment. (behind the elbow)

⑥ Treatment soup fire burn into sores: Willow skin ash, powder coated. (behind the elbow)

⑦ Treatment of otitis media: Willow Bark (burning) two money, alum, borneol each one money. Grind the fine flour and blow the ear. (selected materials of new medical treatment of Chinese herbal medicine, Inner Mongolia)