What is maple balsam? What is the effect and effect? Usage and dosage of maple balsam

Liquidambar formosana is a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine, many people do not understand maple balsam, nor are they familiar with the efficacy and function of maple balsam. So today the editor will show you what maple balsam is? What is the effect and function of it?

What is maple balsam?

Liquidambar formosana, also known as white gum, white gum incense, is the dried resin of Liquidambar formosana, which is mainly produced in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Yunnan and other places. The tree trunk was cut in July and August to make the resin flow out, and it was harvested from October to April of the following year and dried in the shade. Liquidambar formosana has the effects of promoting blood circulation and relieving pain, detoxification, muscle production and cooling blood. It is mainly used for fall injury, carbuncle, hematemesis, bleeding, trauma and other symptoms.

Second, what is the effect and function of maple balsam?

1. Efficacy indications

Dispel wind and activate blood circulation; detoxify and relieve pain; stop bleeding; invigorate muscle. For carbuncle; rash; scab; toothache; arthralgia; paralysis; hematemesis; hemoptysis; traumatic bleeding; chapped skin.

2. Pharmacological action

Liquidambar formosana and its volatile oil could shorten the length and weight (wet weight and dry weight) of rabbit thrombus in vitro, and significantly inhibit thrombosis in rats. Test tube test showed that it could significantly increase the activity of plasmin and the content of cAMP in platelets. It is suggested that the antithrombotic effect of Liquidambar formosana and its volatile oil is related to the promotion of fibrinolytic activity and the increase of platelet cAMP, and suggests that the volatile oil may be the main hemostatic component of Liquidambar formosana.

3. Commonly used prescriptions

① treatment of sores: maple balsam, light powder, lard and smear. ("Renzhai points directly to Fang")

② to cure sore and soft furuncle: one or two maple balsam, dissolve in the porcelain, remove me, then dissolve, use 64 hemp seeds as mud, mix well into the glue, friend, oil half tablespoon head, column point water, try hard and soft to add glue oil, such as the size of the sore, stick it with silk stall plaster, one ointment can cure three or five furuncle. ("the Confucian family kisses" the jade cake son)

③ treatment of chancre; transparent maple balsam for the end, into the light powder, musk a little, with oil adjustment. ("Pocket prescription")

④ treatment of eczema: Liquidambar formosana powder, with Ruo leaf medicine inside paste. ("Pocket prescription")

⑤ treatment of infantile tinea miscellaneous sores: maple balsam, Phellodendron Phellodendri, light powder. The top is fine powder, and the sheep bone marrow is coated with ringworm. ("Confucian Family Affairs")

⑥ treatment of golden sore broken tendons: Liquidambar formosana application. ("prescription for the effective use of World doctors")

⑦ treatment of injuries: frankincense, maple balsam, asphalt equal parts (research). With fat sesame oil and flour agent, heavy soup boiled into ointment, do not offend copper and iron, pick it up like silk with a stick to form ointment. ("Jifeng Puji prescription" Maple Flavor Ointment)

⑧ treats toothache for years: Maple balsam is the end, wipe every day. ("prescription for the effective use of World doctors")

⑨ treatment of hematemesis more than: Liquidambar formosana is not much, fine study for powder, two dollars for each service, new water is adjusted. ("brief ways to help the masses")

⑩ treatment of bleeding: clam powder, maple balsam and so on. Mix it with good pine smoke ink. ("one hundred choices")

Usage and dosage

External use: appropriate amount, sprinkle or apply or make ointment stall paste, can also be made into smoking medicine. Oral administration: fried soup, 3-6g; generally into pills, powder.