The efficacy and function of pangolin

Pangolin is the scale of mud carp, mainly produced in Guangxi, Guangdong, Yunnan, Guizhou, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hunan, Anhui and other places. The tail nail tablet has great efficacy, and Guangxi products are the best. They can be caught all year round. After catching them, they can be killed and scalded slightly in boiling water. The scales can be removed, washed and dried for use. Or sand scalded to bulge, wash, dry. Or after frying and then use vinegar quenching, when smashed.

[Medicinal properties] Salty, slightly cold. Return to liver and stomach meridians.

[Efficacy] Activating blood circulation and eliminating symptoms, dredging channels, lowering milk, reducing swelling and discharging pus.

[Application]

1.,. This product is good at walking and dispersing. It can activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and eliminate symptoms and meridians. Treatment of Jia, can be compatible with turtle shell, rhubarb, red peony and other medicinal, such as pangolin powder ("Gynecology Complete"). Treatment of blood stasis amenorrhea, can be compatible with angelica, safflower, peach kernel, such as Huayu Tang ("empirical formula").

2, rheumatism pain, stroke paralysis. This nature is good at walking, reaching internal organs, external meridians, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, clearing meridians and penetrating joints. Treatment of rheumatism arthralgia, joint dysfunction, numbness spasm, often with Szechuan lovage rhizome, notopterygium root, Agkistrodon acutus and other medicinal. For stroke paralysis, hands and feet can not be lifted, can be combined with Da Chuan Wu, etc., such as taking advantage of wind cream ("Three due to extreme disease prescription theory").

3. Postpartum milk is not available. This product promotes blood circulation and is good at dredging channels and lowering milk. It is an essential medicine for treating postpartum milk retention. It can be used only to grind the end, to drink, called Yongquan Powder (Compendium of Materia Medica). Clinical often and Wang Vaccaria, Akebia, Astragalus with, such as Jia Xialu Tang (Zhongshan Medical College,"Clinical Application of Traditional Chinese Medicine"). If matched with astragalus root, dangshen, angelica, white peony and other tonic qi and blood products, can treat qi and blood deficiency milk scarce. If compatibility angelica, bupleurum, chuanxiong, etc., can be treated due to liver qi stagnation caused by milk, breast pain such as milk Yongquan powder (Qingtai Hospital formula).

4, carbuncle sore poison, scrofula. This product can activate blood circulation to eliminate carbuncle, reduce swelling and discharge pus, make the pus disappear before it forms, and quickly ulcerate the pus. It is an essential medicine for treating sore and pain. At the beginning of sores and carbuncle, it is often combined with honeysuckle, trichosanthes, locust thorn, etc. to clear away heat and toxic materials, activate blood circulation and eliminate carbuncle, such as Xianfang Shengsheng Yin ("School Note Women's Complete Prescription"). Treatment of sore carbuncle pus into non-ulcer with yellow gas, angelica, locust thorn to support poison discharge pus, such as through pus powder ("surgical authentic"). For scrofula, it can be combined with selfheal, fritillary bulb and figwort to eliminate scrofula.

[Dosage and Administration] Decoction, 3~10g. Ground and swallowed, 1~1.5g each time.

Pregnant women should use caution. It is contraindicated for ulcers.

Modern Research

1. Chemical components: stearic acid, cholesterol, tricosanoylbutylamine, two aliphatic amides with carbon atoms of 26 and 29, L-seryl-L-tyrosine dipeptide and D-seryl-tyrosine dipeptide, volatile oil, water-soluble alkaloids, 18 elements, 16 amino acids and inorganic substances.

2. Pharmacological effect: The decoction can obviously prolong the coagulation time of mice and rats and reduce blood viscosity. Water extract and alcohol precipitation agent can dilate blood vessel wall directly, reduce peripheral resistance and significantly increase femoral artery blood flow. Water extract and alcohol extract have anti-inflammatory effect, water extract also has anti-myocardial hypoxia, increasing leukocyte effect.

3. Clinical study: 8 cases of ovarian tumor were treated with pangolin powder (parched pangolin, vinegar parched zedoary, vinegar parched sparganium, vinegar parched trogopterus dung, vinegar rhubarb, musk, etc.), and satisfactory results were obtained. pangolin compound (pangolin 12g, ginseng 9g, dendrobium 12 g, raw oyster 30g) was used as the main treatment, combined with other Chinese medicines for removing stones and removing stranguria. 29 cases of urinary calculi were treated, 13 cases of calculi were discharged, and the stone discharge rate was 65%. 45 cases of benign prostatic hyperplasia were treated with the powder of Pangolin and Cinnamomum cassia (6:4), 10g twice a day, washed with honey water for 20 days. The results showed that 29 cases were cured in the near future, and the total effective rate was 93.8%. In addition, pangolin can also be used clinically for the treatment of idiopathic hematuria, postoperative bleeding, recurrent aphtha, acute mastitis and so on.

4. Adverse reactions: individual patients took pangolin 15- 20g without indications, abdominal distension and stupor appeared a few minutes later, and yellow eyes, yellow body and abnormal liver function appeared the next day.

[Abstract of Ancient Books]

1. Compendium of Materia Medica: "Remove phlegm, malaria, cold and heat, wind arthralgia, rigidity and pain, unblock meridians, lower milk, eliminate carbuncle swelling, discharge pus and blood, unblock orifices and kill insects." "Pangolin, fresh in ancient prescriptions, modern malaria, sore, menstruation and lower milk, used as an important medicine. "'Pangolin,'says the proverb,' the king does not live, the woman eats the breast and flows.'"

2."Herbal Classic Shu":"Nature walks, blood stasis can be caused, meridians can be opened, so there are carbuncle elimination, pus blood discharge, lower milk, wound, acne and other uses."

3,"Medical Zhongshen Xi Lu":"pangolin, light taste, flat nature, fishy and channeling, its channeling nature, meticulous, so it can open the viscera, carry through the meridians, penetrate the orifices, where blood coagulation is a disease, can open it.