Gold does not change

Gold does not change

(Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou Army)

[synonyms] Sapium sebiferum (color atlas of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine), shiqinshu, shanwugui (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine), diwugui (Nanchuan Manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine), dibubu (Wenshan Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the tuberous root of Stephania chinensis.

[plant morphology] Stephania chinensis

Woody vines. The tuberous root is subglobose and the outer skin is grayish brown. The stem is hollow. Skin gray white, striped, glabrous. The leaves are alternate, membranous, broad triangular, round, shield shaped, 10-15 cm long and 14-20 cm wide, with blunt apex, indistinct shallow wavy margin, pale white below, 9 palmate veins, 5 forward and 4 backward; the veins of tender leaves are red, breaking off and flowing out red juice; the petiole is 20-30 cm long. The male inflorescence is nearly fleshy, the total pedicel is about 4 cm long and the branches are 1-1.5 cm long; the sepals are 6, narrowly obovate oblong; the petals are 3-4, short and broad obovate, with 2 glands on the inside. Drupe obovate, about 6 mm long and 6 mm wide, compressed, with 15-18 transverse ribs on both sides of the spine. The middle part of the ribs is flat and concave on both sides. It blooms in summer.

It grows on sunny hillsides, crevices, cliffs, and shrubs beside streams and ditches. Distribution in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Sichuan, Hubei, Zhejiang and other places.

[collection] all year round. Wash, slice and dry.

[chemical constituents] the root contains about 1% tetrahydropalmatine, flavonoid glycosides, amino acids, organic acids, sugars and phenols.

(1) analgesic, hypnotic and sedative effects

Ethanol extract, total alkaloid, non phenolic alkaloid and its crystal (tetrahydropalmatine) had obvious analgesic effect (hot plate method in mice), but phenolic alkaloid had no effect. L-tetrahydropalmatine 5 mg / kg can significantly relieve pain. Its sedative and hypnotic effects are the same as those of yanhusuo. See "yanhusuo".

② The effect on respiration and blood pressure

In anesthetized dogs, intraperitoneal injection of l-tetrahydropalmatine (15-80 mg / kg) had no significant effect on respiration. Low dose of l-tetrahydropalmatine had no significant effect on blood pressure, but high dose of l-tetrahydropalmatine decreased it.

[nature and taste] The Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou Army: "bitter, cold. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and toxin, strengthening stomach and relieving pain, dispersing blood stasis and detumescence. It can treat cough, sore throat, sore mouth and tongue, vomiting, diarrhea, dysentery, stomachache, carbuncle, swelling and poison, traumatic injury.

① "Clearing away heat and toxin, dispersing blood stasis and relieving pain" is a common Chinese herbal medicine manual of Guangzhou army. Treatment of stomach and duodenum hemorrhoids pain, tumefaction pain, neuralgia, toothache, acute gastroenteritis, bacillary dysentery, upper respiratory tract infection, sore throat. "

② Color atlas of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine: "invigorate the stomach, relieve pain, detumescence and detoxification. "

③ "Treatment of tuberculosis, carbuncle, abscess, dyspepsia, stomatitis" in Guangzhou Air Force's "manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine". "

④ Wenshan Chinese herbal medicine: "treat stomachache, abdominal distension, diarrhea, malaria. "

⑤ Nanchuan's "manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine": "treat mouth sores and fire wounds in soup. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 3-5 yuan; grind powder, grind juice or soak wine. External use: tamping, grinding, sprinkling or grinding juice coating.

[taboo] according to Nanchuan's Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines, "pregnant women should not take it. "