The efficacy and function of Phytolacca

Phytolacca acinosa is also known as radish, swelling elimination, water lotus, etc. It is the dry root of Phytolacca acinosa or vertical sequence Phytolacca acinosa, which has the effect of detumescence by water, urination and detoxification, and has therapeutic effect on edema, fullness, obstruction of stool, carbuncle swelling and sore poison. Let's take a look at the efficacy and function of Phytolacca acinosa together!

Medicinal Value of Phytolacca acinosa

[Taste] bitter taste, cold nature.

[Meridians] Lung, spleen, kidney and large intestine meridians.

[Efficacy] Purging water to detumescence, dredging two stools, detoxifying and resolving masses, treating edema and fullness, obstruction of two stools, external treatment of carbuncle swelling and sore poison.

The medicinal effects of pokeberry

1. Purgation and diuresis: pokeberry tastes bitter and cold in nature. It is mainly used for sedimentation, dredging two stools, so that water dampness can be divided into two stools, so it can be used to treat edema, fullness, beriberi, jaundice and other syndromes.

2. Detumescence and resolving masses: Phytolacca oleifera has bitter taste, cold nature and poison. Bitter can clear away dampness, cold can clear away heat and control fire, and poison can attack poison with poison. Therefore, it can be used to treat carbuncle, sore, scrofula and other diseases.

Pharmacological Action of Phytolacca acinosa

1. Enhance cellular immunity: Phytolacca saponin can promote the phagocytic function of white blood cells in mice. Phytolacca acinosa saponin is a bioactive substance that activates nucleotide reductase. It can stimulate the activity of B cells to thymidine and promote DNA metabolism, so it has the function of enhancing cellular immunity. PWM can also stimulate IgM production by spleen lymphocytes of mice with the help of T cells.

2. Adrenocorticotropic function: It can improve adrenocortical function. It does not have an adrenocortical hormone-like effect, but excites the pituitary-adrenal cortex system by affecting the central nervous system. The content of vitamin C in adrenal gland could be decreased obviously by intragastric administration of ethanol extract. The ethanol extract could obviously inhibit the foot swelling induced by formaldehyde in rats. Phytolacca triterpenic acid also has obvious anti-inflammatory effect.

3, diuretic and purgative effect: Phytolacca root extract perfusion toad kidney, can make capillary dilation, blood flow accelerated, significantly increased urine volume. The potassium content also promotes diuresis. Small doses have diuretic effect, large doses reduce urine volume.

4. Antitussive, antiasthmatic and expectorant effects: Alkaloids have obvious antitussive effects, while pokeberry decoction and tincture have no antitussive effect. Decoction and tincture have obvious expectorant effect. Water decoction has the strongest effect. Phytolacca saponin also has significant expectorant effect. Phytolacca alkaloids have no expectorant effect. Its expectorant mechanism is the result of directly stimulating respiratory mucosa, causing increased glandular secretion and promoting cilia movement. Subcutaneous injection of the decoction and tincture into guinea pigs had no antiasthmatic effect.

5. Antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and anti-virus: decoction and tincture have inhibitory effect on influenza virus. Phytolacca americana peptide is an antiviral protein that inhibits replication of mammalian poliovirus and can treat polio. Water decoction, tincture of influenza bacilli, a variety of dysentery bacilli, pneumococci have inhibitory effect on skin fungi also have inhibitory effect. Triterpene acids extracted from Phytolacca acinosa L. have anti-inflammatory effects similar to hydrocortisone on rat foot swelling.

Medicinal Selection of Phytolacca acinosa

1, water control emphysema full: raw pokeberry (cut such as hemp beans), red beans equal points, crucian carp three (to intestinal scales). On the three flavors, the two flavors of real fish belly, with cotton tie, three liters of water, slowly boil beans rotten, fish, only take two flavors, empty stomach food, with fish juice sent down, even after two days, again, but three doses.

2, governance ten kinds of water, water: Phytolacca root (take a natural juice), Kansui end of a money. On the use of a dog, fine grinding, the same tune on the medicine, only for-clothing, hollow clothing, day noon underwater. Avoid salt for 100 days and licorice for three days.

3. Treatment of swelling due to water vapor, shortness of breath, irritability and thirst, poor defecation and defecation, and those who cannot take hot medicine: Alisma orientalis, Phytolacca acinosa, Red Bean (fried), Notopterygium root (removed from reed), Abelina peel, pepper eye, Akebia stem, Gentiana root (removed from reed), Poria peel, betel nut. Divide equally, finely cut, take four coins each, one and a half cups of water, five slices of ginger, fry for seven minutes, remove the residue and take it warm, regardless of time.

4. Treatment of sudden death syndrome: crush the root of pokeberry, steam it, put new cloth on the abdomen, put medicine on the cloth, cover it with clothes, change it cold, change it for several days, do not rest overnight.

5, the treatment of addiction is not weak, hypochondriac pain hard as stone: a liter of raw pokeberry root juice, one or two almonds (soup dip skin tip). Grind kernels and let them rot. Mix them with pokeberry root juice. Grind and filter to obtain juice. Fry them with fire. Every time he takes it, he takes it big, adjusts it with hot wine on an empty stomach, and gradually adds it to help evil things.

6, treatment of postpartum blood clots attack the heart, pain can not bear: Shanglu (dry), Angelica (cut, fried) each point, purple Wei, cattail pollen each one or two. On the four flavors, Luo is scattered, and the fasting wine is adjusted to the next two coins.

7, treatment of lymph node tuberculosis: Shanglu three money, brown sugar for the lead, decoction.

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9, cure all swelling poison: pokeberry root and salt a little, pound apply, day again easy.

10, cure sore injury water poison: pokeberry root pounded, cloth wrapped ironing, cold that is easy.