Latin name Magnolia officinalis Rehd. Et Wils.
Chinese name Houpu
Latin name Magnoliaceae
Chinese family name Magnoliaceae
Species name Magnolia Magnolia Magnolia etc.
Property
Bitter, acrid, warm. Returns to the spleen, stomach, lung, and large intestine meridians.
Efficacy
Dry dampness and eliminate phlegm, remove Qi and fullness.
Application
1. Damp resistance in the middle coke, abdominal fullness. This product is bitter, dry, and pungent, can dry dampness, and remove gas and fullness. It is an essential medicine for eliminating fullness. It is often used in combination with Cangzhu and Chenpi, such as Pingweisan ("Heji Jufang").
2. Food accumulation stagnation, abdominal distension and constipation. This product can be in the middle of the air, eliminating accumulation and leading to stagnation. Often used together with rhubarb and citrus aurantium, such as Houpu Sanwu Decoction ("The Brief Introduction of the Golden Chamber"). For those with constipation caused by heat, it is combined with rhubarb, mirabilite and citrus aurantium to achieve the effect of lowering the heat, eliminating accumulation and guiding stagnation, that is, Dachengqi Decoction ("Treatise on Febrile Diseases").
3. Phlegm and cough. This product can dry dampness and eliminate phlegm, and relieve asthma. If the phlegm is obstructing the lung, the lung qi does not descend, and those with cough, asthma and chest tightness can be used in the same way as Suzi, Chenpi, and Pinellia, such as Suzi Jiangqi Decoction ("He Ji Ju Prescription"). If the cold drink turns heat, chest tightness, asthma, phlegm in the throat, irritability, and ephedra, gypsum, almond, etc. are used, such as Houpu Mahuang Decoction ("Golden Chamber Synopsis"). If you suffer from asthma, and it is caused by exogenous wind-cold, you can use it with Guizhi and almonds, such as Guizhi and Houpu Xingzi Decoction ("Treatise on Febrile Diseases").
In addition, if the seven emotions are stagnant, phlegm and qi are mutually obstructed, if there is material obstruction in the pharynx, the pharynx cannot be swallowed, and the spit can not be spit out, this product can also be used to dry dampness and eliminate phlegm. , Poria, Su Ye, Ginger and other medicines, such as Pinellia Houpu Decoction ("Golden Chamber Synopsis").
Abstract of ancient books
1. "Shen Nong's Materia Medica": "mainly stroke typhoid fever, headache, cold and heat, palpitation, qi and blood paralysis, dead muscle, and remove three insects."
2. "Famous Doctors": "Mainly warming the middle, replenishing qi, eliminating phlegm and lowering qi, treating cholera and abdominal pain, fullness, cold in the stomach, persistent vomiting in the chest, diarrhea, drenching, dispelling panic, removing and retaining heat, Stop irritability and thicken your stomach."
3. "Compendium of Materia Medica" quoted Wang Hao's old saying: "maintains the fullness of lung qi, which causes wheezing and coughing."
Modern Research
1. Chemical composition: about 1% volatile oil, mainly β-eucalyptol and honokiol in the oil. In addition, it also contains a small amount of magnocycline, magnokidine and tannin.
2. Pharmacological effects: Magnolia decoction has inhibitory effects on pneumococcus, diphtheria bacillus, hemolytic streptococcus, bacillus subtilis, Shigella and Shigella spp, staphylococcus aureus, bacillus anthracis and some dermatophytes. Honokidine and isohonokiol have obvious central muscle relaxation effects. Honokidine and magnocarine can relax striated muscle. For the intestine, small doses are excited, and large doses are inhibited. Magnolol can prevent and treat experimental gastric ulcer. Magnolia officinalis has the effect of lowering blood pressure, and reflexively causes breathing excitement and heart rate increase when lowering blood pressure.
3. Clinical research: According to reports, Magnolia officinalis or appropriate compatibility can also be used to treat various other diseases, such as: Magnolia officinalis 35g, Citrus aurantium 30g, Rhubarb 20g, 130 cases of intestinal obstruction were treated, and the effective rate was 85.3% (Journal of Chinese Medicine). , 1989, 5:39); use Magnolia 9-15g, add water to decoct 2 times, and take it in a day to treat muscle rigidity, and the effect is good (Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1985, 6:419); use Magnolia, Citrus, Rhubarb 9 g each of Glauber's salt (red), X-ray rapid enterography was used to diagnose 10 cases of right colon cancer (Shanghai Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1983, 4:21); Magnolia bark could also be used to prevent postoperative intestinal adhesions and amenorrhea disease.
