Chinese herbal medicine: efficacy and function of Pinus elliottii

("Kaibao Herbs")

Different names of pine nuts (sea medicine materia medica), pine nuts (materia medica) and Silla pine nuts (compendium).

The source is the seed of Pinus koraiensis of Pinaceae.

Plant morphology Korean pine, also known as: sea pine (Kaibao Materia Medica), silkworm pine (Outline), fruit pine, red fruit pine and Korean five-leaf pine.

Evergreen trees, up to 30 meters high. The bark is grayish brown with scales. Branchlets dark brown, densely rusty brown, new branches brown, densely hairy. Needle-shaped leaves, a bunch of 5 needles, thick and hard, triangular, 8 ~ 12 cm long, dark green in appearance, with 5 ~ 7 rows of white stomatal lines inside and fine serrations at the edge; Leaf sheaths fall off early. Flower unisexuality; Male inflorescence is cylindrical, born at the base of new branches, dense spike-shaped, red and yellow; Female inflorescence is born at the top of the main branch or reading branch, solitary or several aggregated, with long handle. The cone is large, oval, 9 ~ 14 cm long and 6 ~ 8 cm in diameter, green first and then yellow; Fruit scales are rhombic or scaly-ovate, with slender downward curving tips and coarse hairs, each with 2 seeds. The seed is ovoid triangle, wingless, reddish brown, long 12 ~ 18 mm, wide 9 ~ 16 mm. Flowers bloom in May. The fruiting period is 10 ~ 1 1 month.

It grows on wet gentle slopes or well-drained flat land, and forms mixed forests with broad-leaved trees. Distributed in the northeast.

Collect ripe fruits, dry them in the sun, remove the hard shell, take out the seeds and store them in a dry place.

74% of fatty oil contains chemical components, mainly oleate and linoleic acid ester. It also contains tetrandrine, protein and volatile oil.

Korean pine oleoresin contains α-pinene and β-pinene, camphene, carene -3, cedrene, myrcene, dipentene, β-toluene, γ-terpinene, p-cymene, cymene and Isocymene. 5- dimethoxystilbene, cis-neofir enol, 18- nordehydroabietic acid-4alpha-alcohol, 19- nordehydroabietic acid -4( 18)- alkenyl dehydroabietic acid-15- hydroxy rosin.

Two alkaloids were isolated from leaves: 4-α- piperine and rosin.

Sweet and warm in nature.

① "Herbal Medicine of Haiyao": "Sweet in taste, warm in nature and nontoxic."

2 "Kaibao Materia Medica": "Sweet in taste, warm in nature and non-toxic."

(3) Drug Solution of Sorbus pohuashanensis: "Sweet and pungent in taste, flat in qi."

Meridian enters the liver, lung and large intestine.

① "Medicinal Solution of Corn": "Entering the spleen of foot Taiyin, the large intestine meridian of hand Yangming, the heart meridian of hand Yin and the liver meridian of foot Jueyin."

(2) dispensing of essential drugs: "entering the lung and large intestine meridian."

Function: It is mainly used for promoting fluid production, calming wind, moistening lung and intestine, and treating wind obstruction, dizziness, dry cough, hematemesis and constipation.

① Herbology of sea medicine: "Main wind warms the stomach."

2 "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Dispel wind and cold, deficiency of qi, tonify deficiency, moisten skin and nourish five internal organs."

3 "Kaibao Materia Medica": "To control wind, dizziness, muscle loss, whitening, eliminating dampness, moistening five internal organs without hunger."

(4) Materia Medica: "Treating Virtual Secrets with Baiziren."

⑤ Outline: "Moisten the lungs and treat dry cough."

⑥ Materia Medica Xuan Tong: "Benefiting lung and relieving cough, benefiting qi and nourishing blood, moistening intestines and quenching thirst, and seeking wind in warming."

⑦ "Herbal rejuvenation": "Runfei Jianpi, astringent cough, stop vomiting blood."

Oral administration and dosage: decocted, 1.5 ~ 3 yuan; Or ointment or pills.

Should avoid "Materia Medica from the New": "loose stool is slippery; Those who are wet are also forbidden. "

Prescription 1: Treating wind arthralgia, wind-cold, qi deficiency, strain of five internal organs, cough and spitting, night sweats due to bone steaming, mental trance, anorexia and nocturnal emission: pine nuts 82 ounces, Ophiopogon japonicus 1 kg, Rosa laevigata 82 ounces, Lycium barbarum 8 ounces, water decoction, less refined honey. Take more than ten teaspoons of white soup every morning and evening. (Su Shi)

② Treatment of lung dryness and cough: one or two pine nuts and two walnuts. Grinding paste, and half cooked honey. Two yuan each time, after eating the soup. (Feng Xuangan Chuanfang)

(3) The secret recipe for treating old age: the leaves of Platycladus orientalis, hemp seeds and pine nuts are equally divided and studied together, and the white wax pills are as big as tung nuts. Drink less Huang Dan soup and eat twenty or thirty tablets before eating. (materia medica)

4 Run the heart, lungs and intestines: cook porridge with pine nuts and rice. ("Three Books of Scholars" Pine Nut Porridge)

Famous experts discuss ① The Classic of Materia Medica: "Sea pine nuts smell sweet. Warming and tonifying yang meridians can lead to stroke and moisture in joints, and muscles will be dizzy due to wind. " Warm belongs to yang, sweet and nourishing blood, full of blood, so five feet are self-moistening, white and not hungry. "

(2) Ben Feng Jingyuan: "Sea pine kernels are sweet, beneficial to the lungs, clearing the heart, relieving cough, moistening the intestines, and have the merits of Platycladus orientalis and Sagittarius, the effect of warming the middle warmer and benefiting yin, and the good medicine for resolving phlegm and dry cough in the heart and lungs."

③ "Herbal Solution of Sorbus fragrans": "Pine nuts are the same as Platycladus orientalis seeds, which can moisten the lungs and relieve cough, moisten the intestines and clear secrets, switch joint pain, moisten the skin, and make it glorious. It is also a good product."

Remind you: this Chinese herbal medicine, sea pine seed, comes from the internet. Please follow the doctor's advice before use.