Trichosanthes – gua lou

Trichosanthes – gua lou，Trichosanthes
[Medicinal Use] This product is the fruit of the plant Trichosanthes of the Cucurbitaceae family.
[Nature and flavor and meridians] Sweet, cold. Enters the lung, stomach, and large intestine meridians.
[Effects] Clears the lungs and resolves phlegm, relieves chest tightness and resolves stagnation, moisturizes and lubricates the intestines.
[Clinical Application] 1. Used for lung heat cough, yellow and thick sputum, and lung abscess.
Trichosanthes is sweet, cold, and refreshing, and has the effect of clearing the lungs and resolving phlegm. Therefore, it can be used for phlegm heat cough, thick sputum, cough and vomiting, and lung abscess. It is often used in combination with Anemarrhena, Fritillaria, Raw Coix Seed, and Winter Melon Seed.
2. Used for chest pain, flank pain, and breast abscess swelling and pain.
Trichosanthes can clear the accumulated heat in the upper part of the body and resolve the cementation of turbid phlegm, so it can clear the blockage of the chest and diaphragm, and treat chest pain and flank pain. When used, it is often used in combination with Xiebai. In addition, this product can also be used for breast abscesses at the beginning, swelling and pain but not purulent. It can be used with dandelion, frankincense, etc. to reduce swelling and dissipate lumps.
3. Used for constipation caused by dry intestines.
The kernel of Trichosanthes is moist and oily, good at removing phlegm and dirt and guiding stagnation, and has the effect of lubricating the intestines and relieving constipation. It can be used for constipation caused by dry intestines and is often used in combination with hemp seeds and Prunus mume seeds.
[Prescription name] Whole Trichosanthes (drugstores are equipped with one-third of stir-fried Trichosanthes peel and two-thirds of stir-fried Trichosanthes seeds), Trichosanthes peel, Trichosanthes peel, stir-fried Trichosanthes peel (all with stir-fried Trichosanthes peel, which has the effect of clearing the lungs and resolving phlegm, widening the middle and promoting qi), Trichosanthes seeds, stir-fried Trichosanthes seeds (all with stir-fried Trichosanthes seeds, broken when used, which has the effect of moisturizing and lubricating the intestines)
[General dosage and usage] Three to five coins, decocted and taken.
【Comments】1. The herb of Trichosanthes kirilowii, originally called Trichosanthes kirilowii, is recorded in the Ben Jing. In ancient times, the whole fruit was used without distinguishing between the skin and the kernel. For example, in the Han Dynasty Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Synopsis of the Golden Chamber, it was called Trichosanthes kirilowii, and was counted in pieces. It was not until later generations that the peel of the Trichosanthes kirilowii fruit was divided into Trichosanthes kirilowii peel, which is specialized in clearing the lungs and resolving phlegm, relaxing the middle and benefiting the qi, and is suitable for symptoms such as phlegm-heat cough, chest pain and flank pain; the seeds of Trichosanthes kirilowii are more effective in moistening and lubricating the intestines than the seeds of Trichosanthes kirilowii, and are suitable for constipation caused by dry intestines. If it is loose stools and diarrhea, it is not suitable for use; the skin and kernel are used together, called whole Trichosanthes kirilowii, which can clear the heat of the lungs and stomach and resolve phlegm and resolve knots, and moisten the dryness of the large intestine and lubricate the intestines to relieve constipation.
2. This product, when paired with Fritillaria, can clear away heat and resolve phlegm, moisten the lungs and relieve cough, to treat dry phlegm; when paired with Allium macrostemon, it can open the chest and disperse knots, promote yang and benefit qi, to treat chest pain.
3. As mentioned above, the ancient Trichosanthes or Trichosanthes used, and the present Trichosanthes. However, there is another “Trichosanthes” in pharmacies in Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Its skin is burnt yellow, similar to the skin of Trichosanthes, but the middle part of the seed is raised like a belt, shaped like a mantis head, which is different from Trichosanthes. It is the peel and seed of the herbaceous plant King Cucurbitaceae, which is different from this product and should be distinguished.
[Example of prescription] Trichosanthes Allium Macrostemon and White Wine Soup “Golden Chamber Synopsis”: Trichosanthes, Allium macrostemon, Pinellia, white wine. Treat chest pain that cannot lie down, heart pain that penetrates the back.
This product is the dried mature fruit of the plant Tichosanthes kirilowii Maxim, or Tichosanthes rosthorni Harms, of the Cucurbitaceae family. When the fruit matures in autumn, cut it off with the fruit stalk and place it in a ventilated place to dry in the shade.
[Eigenschappen]
This product is spherical or broadly oval, 7-15 cm long and 6-10 cm in diameter. The surface is orange-red or orange-yellow, wrinkled or relatively smooth, with rounded style residues at the top, slightly pointed at the base, and with residual fruit stalks.
The weight varies. It is brittle and easy to break. The inner surface is yellow-white with red-yellow silk veins. The fruit pulp is orange-yellow and sticky, and sticks to most seeds. It has a caramel smell and tastes slightly sour and sweet.
[Identificatie]
(1) The powder of this product is yellow-brown to brown-brown. There are many stone cells, several in groups or scattered individually, yellow-green or light yellow, square-shaped, rounded and polygonal, with fine and dense pores and fine and obvious pore grooves. The epidermal cells of the fruit skin are quasi-square or quasi-polygonal in surface view, with varying thickness of the peritrichous wall. The epidermal cells of the seed coat are quasi-polygonal or irregular in surface view, with slightly curved or straight keratinous stripes on the peritrichous wall. The thick-walled cells are larger, mostly scattered, brown, and of various shapes. Spiral vessels and reticular vessels are common.
(2) Take 2g of the powder of this product, add 20ml of methanol, ultrasonically treat for 20 minutes, filter, evaporate the filtrate, add 5ml of water to the residue to dissolve it, shake and extract it 4 times with n-butanol saturated with water, 5ml each time, combine the n-butanol solution, evaporate to dryness, add 2ml of methanol to the residue to dissolve it, and use it as the test solution. Take another 2g of the control medicinal material of Trichosanthes kirilowii and prepare the control medicinal material solution in the same way. According to the thin layer chromatography method (General Rule 0502), take 4 of each of the above two solutions and spot them on the same silica gel G thin layer plate, use ethyl acetate-methanol-formic acid-water (12:1:0.1:0.1) as the developing agent, develop, take out, dry, spray with 10% sulfuric acid ethanol solution, heat at 105℃ until the spots are clearly colored, and examine under sunlight and ultraviolet light (365nm) respectively. In the chromatogram of the test sample, spots of the same color or ultraviolet light spots appear at the corresponding positions of the chromatogram of the control medicinal material.
[Inspectie]
Not more than 16.0% (General Rule 0832 Second Method). Moisture
Total ash content Not more than 7.0% (General Rule 2302).
[Extract]
Determine according to the hot leaching method under the water-soluble extract determination method (General Rule 2201), not less than 31.0%.
Medicinal pieces
[Verwerken]
Flatten, cut into strips or cut into pieces.
【Eigenschappen】
This product is in irregular silk or block shape. The outer surface is orange-red or orange-yellow, wrinkled or relatively smooth; the inner surface is yellow-white with red-yellow silk veins, and the fruit flesh is orange-yellow, sticking to most seeds into a mass. It has a caramel smell and is sweet. It tastes slightly sour,
【Identification】【Inspection】【Extract】
Same as medicinal materials.
【Properties and Meridians】
Sweet, slightly bitter, cold. It enters the lung, stomach, and large intestine meridians.
【Functions and Indications】
Clears heat and removes phlegm, widens the chest and disperses knots, and lubricates the intestines. It is used for lung heat cough, turbid yellow and thick phlegm, chest pain, chest fullness, breast abscess, lung abscess, intestinal abscess, and constipation.
【Gebruik en dosering】
9~15g.
【Note】
It is not suitable to be used with Chuanwu, processed Chuanwu, Caowu, processed Caowu, and Fuzi.
【Opslag】
Put in a cool and dry place to prevent mold and moth.
Where is the main production area of ​​Trichosanthes kirilowii?
It is mainly produced in Shandong, Zhejiang and Henan.
Where is the main medicinal part of Trichosanthes kirilowii?
Medicinal parts of Trichosanthes kirilowii:
This product is the dried mature fruit of Trichosanthes kirilowii Maxim, or Trichosanthes rosthornii Harms, a plant of the Cucurbitaceae family.
When the fruit is ripe in autumn, cut it off with the fruit stalk and dry it in a ventilated place.
Characteristics of the medicinal parts of Trichosanthes kirilowii:
This product is spherical or wide oval, 7~15cm long and 6~10cm in diameter. The surface is orange-red or orange-yellow, wrinkled or relatively smooth, with round style residues at the top, slightly pointed at the base, and with residual fruit stalks. The weight varies,
It is brittle and easy to break. The inner surface is yellow-white with red and yellow silk veins. The fruit is orange-yellow, sticky, and sticks together with most seeds. It has a caramel smell and tastes slightly sour and sweet.
How are Trichosanthes kirilowii recorded in ancient books?
“Famous Doctors’ Records”: “Treats chest pain and brightens the face.
“Compendium of Materia Medica Volume 18”: “Moistens the lungs and reduces fire. Treats cough, removes phlegm, relieves throat, relieves large intestine, and eliminates carbuncle, swelling and ulcer. “Compendium of Materia Medica”: “Trichosanthes kirilowii fruit is thick and moist, so it is a good remedy for hot and dry phlegm. If it is used for cold phlegm, wet phlegm, phlegm caused by qi deficiency, and phlegm accumulated by food, it is useless and harmful.
Effecten
Trichosanthes kirilowii has the effects of clearing heat and removing phlegm, widening the chest and dispersing knots, moistening dryness and lubricating the intestines.
What are the main effects and clinical applications of Trichosanthes kirilowii?
Trichosanthes kirilowii is used for lung heat cough, turbid yellow and thick phlegm, chest pain, knot Chest fullness, breast abscess, lung abscess, intestinal abscess, constipation.
Phlegm-heat cough, lung heat and dry cough
Treat phlegm-heat blocking the lungs, coughing with yellow sputum, thick and difficult to cough up, chest and diaphragm fullness, often used with Scutellaria baicalensis, Arisaema cinerea, Citrus aurantium, etc.
Treat dryness and heat damaging the lungs, dry cough without sputum or less sputum with sticky texture, and difficulty in coughing and vomiting, often used with Fritillaria cirrhosa, Radix Trichosanthis, Morus alba, etc.
Chest pain, chest congestion
Treat chest pain and heart pain caused by phlegm stagnation and qi stagnation, and chest yang deficiency, wheezing For those who cannot lie down due to cough and spitting, it is often used with Xiebai and Pinellia. .
· Treat phlegm and heat in the chest, chest and diaphragm fullness, and pain when pressed, and often use it with Coptis chinensis and Pinellia.
Breast pain, lung abscess, intestinal abscess
· Treat breast abscess at the beginning, redness, swelling, heat and pain, often use it with Angelica sinensis, frankincense, myrrh, etc.
Treat lung abscess with cough and spitting pus and blood, often use Houttuynia cordata and Reed root.
Treat intestinal abscess, often use Patrinia scabra and Sargentodoxae.
Intestinal dryness and constipation
It is often used with Hemp Seed, Rehmannia glutinosa, Scrophularia ningpoensis, etc.
What other effects does Trichosanthes have?
In my country’s traditional food culture, some Chinese medicinal materials are often widely consumed as food ingredients by the people, that is, substances that are both food and Chinese medicinal materials according to tradition (i.e. edible drug substances). According to the documents issued by the National Health Commission and the State Administration for Market Regulation, Trichosanthes can be used as both medicine and food within a limited range of use and dosage.
Trichosanthes is often used as a food ingredient. The recipes for medicinal diet are as follows:
Cough with phlegm
1 yellow ripe Trichosanthes. Take out several seeds, put peeled almonds in it, burn them to preserve their essence, and make them into pills with vinegar paste, as big as walnuts. Take 20 pills each time, and drink white radish soup before going to bed.
Dry lung, heat and thirst, constipation of large intestine
Take the pulp of ripe Trichosanthes in September and October, mix it with dried kudzu powder, bake it dry, fry it over low heat, and grind it into powder. After eating and sleeping at night, take 9g with boiling soup.
Children’s fever and cough
Grind the Trichosanthes peel into fine powder and make cakes with the same amount of flour and bake it until it is yellow and dry, then grind it into fine powder. Take it with sugar water, 3g each time, 3 times a day.
Note: The use of Chinese medicinal materials must be based on syndrome differentiation and treatment, and should be used under the guidance of professional Chinese medicine practitioners. Do not use it at will, and do not listen to Chinese medicine prescriptions and advertisements at will.
What are the compound preparations containing Trichosanthes?
Gua Kui Xie Bai Ban Xia Tang
It can promote yang and disperse knots, remove phlegm and reduce qi. It is mainly used to treat chest yang deficiency Chest pain caused by phlegm and qi. Chest fullness and pain, or even chest pain that goes through the back, wheezing, coughing, shortness of breath, qi rushing from the ribs to the heart and chest, white and greasy tongue coating, deep and tight pulse.
Gualou Xiebaijiu
Promote yang and dissipate stagnation, activate blood circulation and remove phlegm. Suitable for wheezing, coughing, chest pain, heartache and blood stasis, etc.
Xiaoxianxiong Decoction
Clears heat and resolves phlegm, relieves chest pain and dissipates stagnation. Mainly used for chest congestion caused by phlegm and heat. Chest tightness, pain when pressed, or chest tightness and pain , or cough with thick yellow sputum, red tongue with yellow greasy coating, and slippery and rapid pulse.
Children’s antitussive oral liquid
Clears heat and soothes the lungs, eliminates stagnation and relieves cough. It is used for cough caused by food stagnation, phlegm and heat in the lungs, aggravation at night, phlegm in the throat, abdominal distension, and bad breath in children.
Modern research progress on Trichosanthes
Modern research results show that this product has multiple pharmacological effects such as antitussive, expectorant, vasodilator, anti-ulcer, anti-myocardial ischemia, and anti-.
Usage method
Trichosanthes has the effects of clearing heat and removing phlegm, widening the chest and dispersing knots, moisturizing and lubricating the intestines. . Generally, Trichosanthes slices are used, both for internal and external use.
How to use Trichosanthes correctly?
When taking Trichosanthes decoction orally, Trichosanthes peel is 6~12g, Trichosanthes kernel is 9~15g, and whole Trichosanthes is 9~15g.
When using Trichosanthes externally, take an appropriate amount of Trichosanthes and pound it and apply it to the affected area.
The peel of Trichosanthes is good at clearing the lungs and reducing phlegm, promoting qi and widening the chest; the seed of Trichosanthes is good at moistening the lungs and reducing phlegm, and smoothing the intestines and relieving constipation; the whole Trichosanthes has both effects. Trichosanthes can be processed by different methods to produce Chinese medicinal materials such as Trichosanthes and Honey Trichosanthes. Different processing methods have different effects, so please follow the doctor’s advice for specific medication.
Trichosanthes is generally used in decoctions, decocted and taken, or made into powder or pills for consumption. However, the use of Chinese medicinal materials must be treated according to syndrome differentiation and should be used under the guidance of professional Chinese medicine practitioners. It should not be used at will, and it is even more forbidden to listen to Chinese medicine prescriptions and advertisements at will.
What drugs should be used with Trichosanthes at the same time?
Anti-Aconitum, it should not be used with Chuanwu, processed Chuanwu, Aconite, processed Aconite, and Aconite.
The combined use of Chinese medicine and the combined use of Chinese and Western medicines require syndrome differentiation and treatment, and clinical individualized treatment.
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Medication Instructions
Gualou is cold and smooth, so people with spleen deficiency, loose stools, cold phlegm, and wet phlegm should not take it.
What precautions should be taken when using Gualou?
It is anti-aconite and should not be used with Chuanwu, processed Chuanwu, Caowu, processed Caowu, and Fuzi.
This product has a caramel smell and tastes slightly sour and sweet. It is best to have thick skin, wrinkled, and sufficient sugar.
During the medication period, you should pay attention to avoid eating cold, raw and cold foods, spicy and greasy foods, and avoid smoking and drinking.
Pregnant and breastfeeding women: If you are pregnant, planning to become pregnant, or are breastfeeding, please inform your doctor in time and consult whether Chinese medicine can be used for treatment.
Children: Children’s medication must be carried out under the guidance of a doctor and adult supervision. Please properly store the medicinal materials and do not give your own medicinal materials to others. .
·Avoid using copper or iron utensils to decoct medicine.
How to identify and use Trichosanthes kirilowi?
Trichosanthes kirilowi ​​peel and Trichosanthes rosthornii Harms
Trichosanthes kirilowi ​​peel is the dried mature peel of the Cucurbitaceae plant Trichosanthes kirilowi ​​Maxim,. or Trichosanthes rosthornii Harms. It is sweet and cold in nature and enters the lung and stomach meridians. It has the functions of clearing heat and resolving phlegm, promoting qi and widening the chest. It is suitable for cough with phlegm and heat, chest tightness and flank pain. It should not be used with Chuanwu, processed Chuanwu, Caowu, processed Caowu, and Fuzi.
Trichosanthes kirilowi ​​seeds are the dried mature seeds of the Cucurbitaceae plant Trichosanthes kirilowi ​​Maxim. or Trichosanthes rosthornii Harms. It is sweet and cold in nature and enters the lung, stomach, and large intestine meridians. It has the functions of moistening the lungs and resolving phlegm, lubricating the intestines and relieving constipation, and is suitable for dry cough with sticky phlegm and intestinal constipation. It should not be used with Chuanwu, processed Chuanwu, Caowu, processed Caowu, and Fuzi.
Trichosanthes and Honey Trichosanthes
Trichosanthes tastes sweet, slightly bitter, and is cold in nature. It enters the lung, stomach, and large intestine meridians. It has the functions of clearing heat and removing phlegm, relieving chest congestion, and moistening and lubricating the intestines. It is often used raw, and its effects of clearing heat and removing phlegm, relieving chest congestion and dispersing congestion are stronger than those of Trichosanthes peel, and it has a laxative effect (the laxative effect is weaker than that of Trichosanthes kernel). Generally, if the condition is mild, Trichosanthes peel can be used for those with weak spleen and stomach, and the whole Trichosanthes peel can be used for those with severe conditions and constipation. It is often used for lung heat cough, thick phlegm that is difficult to come out, chest pain, chest congestion, breast abscess, lung abscess and other symptoms.
Honey Trichosanthes has a stronger moisturizing effect, and its use and usage are similar to those of Honey Trichosanthes peel, especially suitable for those with dry lung cough and dry stool.