Piper nigrum

Piper nigrum

(Fujian folk herbal medicine)

[synonym] Jian Feng Xiao (classified herbal medicine), tie hoop San, Lei Gong ye, Huang Zha ye, Shou Shou ye (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the leaf of the Cinnamomum sinense. For plant morphology, please refer to "Piper nigrum" section.

[nature and taste] Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "light, flat. "

Functions and indications: dispel wind, detoxify, disperse blood stasis and stop bleeding. It can cure cold, pain in muscles and bones, carbuncle, swelling and poison, traumatic injuries.

① Classification of herbal medicine: application of swelling toxin. "

② Fujian folk herbal medicine: "to prevent colds and heatstroke, take the leaves and dry them in the sun, and boil water instead of tea. "

③ Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "clearing away heat and toxin, detumescence and pain, astringency and hemostasis, dispelling wind. It is used to treat sores, furuncles, carbuncle poison, muscle and bone pain, and traumatic injuries. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan. External use: tamping or grinding.

[prescription selection] ① treatment of traumatic bleeding: Piper kaempferi leaf, grind the powder, and apply sesame oil. (Jiangxi herbal medicine)

② Cure cold headache fever: Mountain pepper tender branches one or two, white horse bone eight money. Take it in water. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)

③ Treatment of malignant sores and swelling: Piper kaempferi leaves, hibiscus leaves, carapace cotyledon. Mash and apply externally. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)

[clinical application] it can treat various inflammatory diseases, such as acute and chronic tonsillitis, lymphadenitis, pharyngitis, tracheitis, etc

Take 2 jin of dry pepper leaves and make injection by distillation method. Each injection is 5ml (including 5g crude drug), one intramuscular injection each time, 2-3 times a day. 279 cases were treated, 183 cases were cured, 51 cases were improved, the effective rate was 83.9%. No side effects were found in the course of medication, and the injection was painless.