Efficacy and action point of cortex fraxini

Efficacy

① Liver-heat, red eyes, swelling and pain, and blurred vision

This product can clear away heat, clear away liver fire, improve eyesight, and dispel blurred vision. It can be used to treat red eyes, swelling and pain and blurred vision caused by stagnation of liver meridian fire, and can be used to wash eyes with decoction alone; Or with Gardenia and Lophatherum Bambusae, such as Qinpi Decoction (The Secret of Outer Taiwan). If it is combined with Gentiana macrophylla and Saposhnikovia divaricata, it can treat liver meridian wind-heat and conjunctival congestion, such as Qinpi Decoction (Ophthalmology Longmu Lun)

② Damp-heat diarrhea and leukorrhagia

This product is bitter and cold in nature and astringent, and has the functions of clearing away heat and drying dampness, stopping dysentery and stopping leukorrhagia, so it can treat damp-heat diarrhea, which is urgent in the interior and then heavy. If it is used to treat damp-heat bet, it can be combined with peony bark and angelica, such as the prescription in Herbal Huiyan.

pharmacological effects

(1) anti-pathogen and anti-inflammation

① anti-inflammation: aesculin and aesculin have obvious anti-inflammatory effects. It has obvious inhibitory effect on experimental inflammation and edema, and its anti-inflammatory effect may be related to exciting adrenal cortex function.

② antivirus: it can inhibit influenza virus and herpes virus, so it can treat herpetic keratitis clinically.

③ Antibacterial: It has different degrees of inhibition on a variety of pathogenic bacteria. It has strong antibacterial activity against Shigella multiforme.

(2) promoting uric acid excretion and diuresis

aesculin can promote uric acid excretion in rats and rabbits, and its mechanism is to excite sympathetic nervous system and inhibit renal reabsorption of uric acid.

aesculin has diuretic effect. Aesculin has obvious diuretic effect on mice.

(3) Sedation, analgesia and anticonvulsant

Aesculetin A and Aesculetin B have obvious sedative effects. Aesculetin has obvious analgesic and anticonvulsant effects.

(4) Anti-allergic and antispasmodic

① Cough relieving, expectorant and antiasthmatic: Aesculin A and Aesculin B have obvious antitussive, expectorant and antiasthmatic effects.

② Spasm: Aesculetin has inhibitory effect on intestinal smooth muscle. Aesculetin can resist the spasm of tracheal smooth muscle caused by histamine and relax tracheal smooth muscle.

③ Anti-allergic: Aesculetin has obvious protective effect on vasoconstriction caused by leukotrienes released by allergic reaction.

(5) Others

① Anti-ultraviolet: Aesculin can protect the skin from eye damage and has obvious inhibitory effect on ultraviolet erythema in guinea pigs.

② anti-cataract: aesculin can inhibit aldose reductase in rat lens, so it has anti-cataract effect.

③ Anticoagulant: Cortex Fraxini and Aesculetin have significant inhibitory effects on platelet aggregation. Aesculetin has obvious anticoagulant effect.

Functions and functions of Cortex Fraxini

Functions and indications of Cortex Fraxini:

Clearing heat and eliminating dampness, relieving asthma and relieving cough, and improving eyesight. Treat bacillary dysentery, enteritis, leucorrhea, chronic tracheitis, red eyes, swelling and pain, tears in the wind and psoriasis.

① "The Theory of Medicinal Properties" records: "Improve eyesight, remove chronic heat in the liver, red eyes, swelling and pain, wind and tears; Cure children's body heat: take a soup bath. "

② "Bielu" records: "Treating men with oligospermia, women with leukorrhagia, children with epilepsy and fever can be used as eye-washing soup."

③ The Book of Meridians records: "Treating wind-cold-dampness arthralgia, washing cold, removing heat, and getting white film in the eyes."

④ "Herbal Decoction" records: "Diarrhea caused by heat is heavy, and lower energizer is weak."

⑤ Zhang Yuansu recorded: "Treating women's collapse."

⑥ "Rihuazi Materia Medica" records: "Washing liver, benefiting essence, improving eyesight, children's heat shock, skin wind arthralgia, reducing fever."

⑦ Shaanxi Chinese Herbal Medicine records: "Treating sty."

⑧ The Manual of Common Chinese Herbal Medicines in Heilongjiang recorded: "Treating enteritis and diarrhea."

⑨ Jilin Chinese Herbal Medicine records: "Treating blood due to intestinal wind."

function and indication of cortex fraxini

application and prescription of cortex fraxini:

attached prescription

① treatment of diarrhea: cortex fraxini San Qian. Decoct in water with sugar, and divide into parts. (Excerpted from the Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicines in Heilongjiang)

② Treatment of chronic bacillary dysentery: Cortex Fraxini, Radix Sangusorbae and Cortex Toona sinensis, San Qian respectively. Decoct with water. (Excerpted from Hebei Handbook of Traditional Chinese Medicine)

③ Those who treat diarrhea due to heat: Pulsatilla chinensis, Phellodendron amurense, Coptis chinensis and Cortex Fraxini. Serve four flavors, with seven liters of water, boil two liters, remove me, and take one liter warmly. If you don't heal, take a liter more. (Excerpted from Pulsatilla Decoction in Treatise on Febrile Diseases)

④ Treating red eyes and eye sores: Qin Pi is one big and two big. Soak a large amount of clear water in a white porcelain bowl, eat it for more than a long time in spring and summer, and see the blue color, that is, touch it with the head of a bamboo stick, order the blue juice, and lie on your back. In the eyes affected by the disease, you still follow it from the big canthus first, and you are not afraid of slight pain. You measure it for three or five degrees during meals, that is, you lie on your side and drain hot juice, but it lasts for more than ten degrees every day, but it lasts for two days. Avoid vinegar and radish (extracted from "Near-Effective Prescription")

⑤ Treatment of infantile convulsion, epilepsy, fever and heat of vaporization: Cortex Fraxini and Poria each have one cent, Radix Glycyrrhizae has five points, and 2 lampwick. Decoct with water. (Excerpted from Summary of Pediatrics)

⑤ Treating women with leukorrhagia and bleeding: three ounces of Qin Pi, two ounces of Cortex Moutan, one or two ounces of Angelica sinensis, all washed with wine, stir-fried and ground into powder, and refined honey is as big as maroon sycamore. Take five yuan every morning, with white soup. (Excerpted from Materia Medica)

⑦ Treatment of sty and dry stool: Cortex Fraxini, San Qian, and Radix et Rhizoma Rhei. Decoct with water. Pregnant women should not take it. (Excerpted from Hebei Handbook of Traditional Chinese Medicine)

⑧ Treatment of psoriasis: one to two bitter pomegranate peels. Add half a basin of water to decoct, and wash the affected area with the decoction once a day or every two to three days. The liquid medicine can still be used after it is warm, and it can be washed three times each time. Wash until you are cured.