Bignonia root

Bignonia root

(rihuazi materia medica)

Another name is Lingxiao Huagen.

[source] it is the root of Bignoniaceae plant Bignoniaceae, and the plant morphology is detailed in "lingxiaohua".

[collection] all year round.

[herbal medicine] the dry roots are long cylindrical, with yellowish or reddish appearance, longitudinal wrinkles, and sparse branch root and branch root fracture marks. The section is fibrous with filaments, brown in the periphery and light yellow in the center.

"Sweet and sour, cold. "

Functions and indications: cooling blood, dispelling wind and promoting blood stasis. Treatment of blood heat, wind, itching, rubella, waist and foot failure, gout.

① "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "it can cure hot wind, itching, swimming wind, rubella, blood stasis and leucorrhea. "

② "It can be used for blood" in the textual research on the names and facts of plants. "

③ Hangzhou medicine Zhi: Gynecology medicine. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 2-3 yuan; add pills, powder or wine.

[taboo] pinhuijingyao: "pregnancy should not be taken. "

[prescription selection] ① Zhifeng Yaojiao busui: Ziwei root (fried, filed), daoluo powder. Take two daggers each time, and adjust the hollow warm wine. (Ziwei powder in Shengji Zonglu)

② Treatment of large intestine deficiency cold wind secret: Lingxiao root (peeled, washed, baked) three Liang, Wuyao (file), ginseng each half two, Gleditsia seed 50. On the four flavors, mash for the end, refining honey pills, such as mung bean big. Take 10 to 15 pills each time, under warm water, twice a day. (Lingxiao Huagen pill in Shengji Zonglu)

③ Treatment of gout: Lingxiao flower root 2, 3 money. Soak or fry in wine. (collection of herbs in Lingnan)

④ Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis pain, hemiplegia: a Lingxiao root three to five money. Decoct soup, add red pond and yellow rice wine, take twice before breakfast and dinner. Two lingxiaogen, baoshilian, luoshiteng, Baimaoteng each two money. Take it by frying. (manual of Chinese herbal medicine by Su Yi)

[clinical application] treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis

Take 5 jin of fresh Bignonia root, add 10000 ml of water to fry it to 5000 ml, then distill out 2000-2500 ml, add 0.9% normal saline to make it isoosmotic, and sterilize it under high pressure for standby. Intramuscular injection, 1-2 times a day, 5 ml each time, 10 days as a course of treatment. 20 cases were treated, 12 cases were cured, 6 cases were significantly improved, and 2 cases were ineffective. In general, pain relief, redness and swelling subside, walking convenience and hypothermia can be seen after 1-4 injections. It is also effective for low back pain or limb pain caused by cold.