Buddha’s Hand – Fo Shou

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[Medicinal use] The fruit of Citrusmedica L.var.sarcodatylis Swingle, a small tree or shrub of the family Citrusaceae.
[Nature and flavor and meridians] Pungent, bitter, sour, warm. Enter the lung, spleen, stomach, and liver meridians.
[Effects] Soothe the liver and regulate qi, resolve phlegm and relieve chest tightness.
[Clinical application] 1. Used for rib pain, chest and abdominal distension and pain, etc.
This product has a fresh smell and a mild medicinal property. Although it is a bitter and warm product, it has no disadvantages of being dry and strong. It can enter the lung, liver, spleen, and stomach meridians and can be used for all kinds of qi stagnation. It can be used to treat chest tightness caused by lung qi stagnation and spleen and stomach qi stagnation. It can be used with costus root, bitter orange peel, etc.; it can be used to treat liver qi stagnation and stomach pain caused by liver qi stagnation and liver qi attacking the stomach. It can be used with green peel, toosendan fruit, etc.
2. Used for cough with phlegm
This product has a weaker ability to resolve phlegm and relieve cough, but it also has the function of regulating qi and widening the chest. Therefore, it is very suitable for people with long-term cough with a lot of phlegm and chest tightness and pain. It can be used together with orange peel, loofah, loquat leaves, etc.
[Prescription name] Buddha’s hand citrus citrus citrus citrus citrus slices citrus citrus (dried, sliced)
[Genel dozaj ve kullanım] Bir ila üç qian kaynatılıp içilir.
[Additional medicine] Buddha’s hand flower: the flower of citrus citrus. The function and dosage are similar to Buddha’s hand.
[Comment] Buddha’s hand is pungent, sweet, sour, warm, and has a fresh smell. It can soothe the liver, relieve lung and stomach qi stagnation, and resolve phlegm. Although its ability to soothe the liver is inferior to that of green peel, and its function of resolving phlegm is weaker than that of tangerine peel, it can regulate the qi stagnation of the three meridians of the lung, spleen, and liver, and is mild without the disadvantages of dryness and heat, which is its strength.
【Literature Excerpt】《Compendium of Materia Medica》: “It regulates the qi of the upper Jiao and stops vomiting, and it invigorates the spleen by taking in food from the middle Zhou.”
This product is the dried fruit of Citrus medica L.var,sarcodactylis Swingle, a plant of the Rutaceae family. The fruit is harvested in autumn before or when it turns yellow, cut into thin slices longitudinally, and dried in the sun or at low temperature.
【Özellikler】
This product is a thin slice that is elliptical or oval, often wrinkled or curled, 6~10cm long, 3~7cm wide, and 0.2~0.4cm thick. The top is slightly wider, often with 3~5 finger-like lobes, the base is slightly narrower, and some have visible fruit stalk marks. The outer skin is yellow-green or orange-yellow, with wrinkles and oil spots. The flesh is light yellow-white or light yellow, with uneven linear or dot-shaped vascular bundles scattered. It is hard and brittle, and becomes flexible after being damp. It has a fragrant smell and tastes slightly sweet and then bitter.
【Tanılama】
(1) This product is light brown-yellow in powder form. There are many thin-walled tissues in the mesocarp, and the cells are irregular or quasi-circular, with unevenly thickened walls. The surface view of the epidermal cells of the pericarp is irregular polygonal, with occasional quasi-circular pores.

Calcium oxalate prisms exist in polygonal thin-walled cells in the form of polyhedrons, rhombuses or bipyramids.

(2) Take 1g of the powder of this product, add 10ml of anhydrous ethanol, ultrasonically treat for 20 minutes, filter, concentrate the filtrate to dryness, and add 0.5m of anhydrous ethanol to dissolve the residue as the test solution. Take 1g of the control medicinal material of bergamot, and prepare the control medicinal material solution in the same way. According to the thin layer chromatography method (General Rule 0502), take 2 of each of the above two solutions, spot them on the same silica gel G thin layer plate, use cyclohexane-ethyl acetate (3:1) as the developing agent, develop, take out, dry, and examine under ultraviolet light (365nm). In the chromatogram of the test product, at the corresponding position of the chromatogram of the control medicinal material, a fluorescent spot of the same color appears.
【Denetleme】
Water content should not exceed 15.0% (General Rule 0832 Method 2).
【Extract】
Determine by hot leaching method under the alcohol-soluble extract determination method (General Rule 2201), using ethanol as solvent, and should not be less than 10.0%.
【İçerik belirleme】
Determine by high performance liquid chromatography (General Rule 0512).
Chromatographic conditions and system suitability test Use octadecyl tridane bonded tridacnaline as filler; methanol-water-glacial acetic acid (33:63:2) as mobile phase; detection wavelength is 284nm. The number of theoretical plates calculated based on the hesperidin peak should not be less than 5000.
Preparation of reference solution Take an appropriate amount of hesperidin reference substance, weigh accurately, and add methanol to make a solution containing 15ug per 1ml. Preparation of test solution Take about 0.5g of the powder of this product (passed through No. 5 sieve), weigh accurately, place in a stoppered conical bottle, accurately add 25ml of methanol, weigh, heat and reflux for 1 hour, cool, weigh again, make up the lost weight with methanol, shake well, filter, and take the filtrate.
Determination method 5, accurately aspirate 10ml of reference solution and test solution respectively, inject into liquid chromatograph, and determine.
This product contains hesperidin (C28H34015) of not less than 0.030% calculated on the basis of dry product.
Kaynatma parçası
[İşleme]
Remove impurities; or moisten thoroughly, cut into strips, and dry.
[Özellikler]
This product is oval, oval thin slices or irregular silk strips, often wrinkled or curled. The slices are 6~10cm long, 3~7cm wide, and 0.2~0.4cm thick; the top is slightly wider, often with 3~5 finger-like lobes, the base is slightly narrower, and some have visible fruit stalk marks. The silk is 0.4~10cm long, 0.2~1cm wide, and 0.2~0.4cm thick. The outer skin is yellow-green or orange-yellow, with wrinkles and oil spots. The flesh is light yellow-white or light yellow with uneven linear or dot-shaped vascular bundles. It is hard and brittle, and becomes flexible after getting wet. It has a fragrant smell and tastes slightly sweet and then bitter.
[Identification] [Inspection] [Extract] [Content determination]
Same as medicinal materials.
[Doğa, lezzet ve meridyenler]
Pungent, bitter, sour, warm. It enters the liver, spleen, stomach, and lung meridians.
[Fonksiyonlar ve endikasyonlar]
Soothes the liver and regulates qi, harmonizes the stomach and relieves pain, and dries dampness and resolves phlegm. Used for liver and stomach qi stagnation, chest and flank pain, stomach distension, poor appetite and vomiting, cough and sputum,
[Usage and Dosage]
3~10g.
[Depolamak]
Put in a cool and dry place to prevent mold and moth.
Foshan, a Chinese medicine name. It is the dried fruit of Citrus medica L.var.sarcodactylis Swingle, a plant of the genus Citrus in the Rutaceae family. It has the effects of soothing the liver and relieving depression, regulating qi and harmonizing the middle, and drying dampness and resolving phlegm. It is mainly used for chest and flank pain and distension caused by liver qi stagnation and liver and stomach disharmony, abdominal distension and pain caused by spleen and stomach qi stagnation, nausea and poor appetite, long-term cough with sputum, and chest pain.
Function
Soothing the liver and relieving depression, regulating qi and harmonizing the middle, and drying dampness and resolving phlegm.
Indications
Mainly used for chest and flank pain, abdominal distension and fullness caused by liver depression and qi stagnation and liver-stomach disharmony, abdominal distension and pain caused by spleen and stomach qi stagnation, nausea and loss of appetite, long-term cough with sputum, and chest pain.
Kullanım ve Dozaj
Oral: decoction, 3-10g; or brew tea.
Önlemler
Use with caution in patients with yin deficiency and heat, and qi deficiency without stagnation.
Kimyasal bileşim
Contains volatile oils, flavonoids, polysaccharides, and coumarin compounds. The main ingredients are bergamot lactone, limonolactone, hesperidin, bucuroside (diosmin), etc.
Farmakolojik etkiler
1. Effects on the central nervous system: Intraperitoneal injection of bergamot alcohol extract into mice significantly reduced spontaneous activity, and significantly prolonged the sleep time of mice with sodium pentobarbital, and prolonged the death time of mice with strychnine convulsions.
2. Effects on the respiratory system: Bergamot decoction can counteract histamine-induced contraction of guinea pig isolated trachea. Citronellol isolated from Sichuan Buddha’s hand has an antagonistic effect on the contraction of the isolated trachea of ​​guinea pigs caused by histamine.
3. Effects on the cardiovascular system: Buddha’s hand alcohol extract can significantly increase the coronary flow of isolated guinea pig hearts and improve the hypoxia tolerance of mice. It also has a protective effect on myocardial ischemia caused by posterior pituitary hormone in rats. It has a preventive effect on chloroform-adrenaline-induced arrhythmias. Intravenous injection of alcohol extract into anesthetized cats has a certain inhibitory effect on the heart and hypotensive effect.
4. Effects on the digestive tract: Buddha’s hand alcohol extract has a significant inhibitory effect on the isolated intestines of rats and rabbits, and the in vivo intestines of anesthetized cats and rabbits.
5. In addition, Buddha’s hand has certain anti-inflammatory, antiviral, anticoagulant and hemostatic effects.
Related discussions
1. “Southern Yunnan Materia Medica”: nourish the liver and warm the stomach, stop vomiting, eliminate stomach cold phlegm, treat stomach pain, stop facial cold pain, and harmonize the middle qi.
2. “Compendium of Materia Medica”: boil wine and drink to treat phlegm and cough. Decoction to treat heart pain.
3. “Ben Jing Feng Yuan”: Specializes in breaking up stagnant qi. Treats heaviness after diarrhea, and uses old ones.
4. “Ben Cao Zai Xin”: Treats qi and soothes the liver, harmonizes the stomach and resolves phlegm, breaks up accumulations, treats choking and nausea, and eliminates symptoms of lumps and scrofula.
5. “Sui Xi Ju Diet”: Wakes up the stomach and resolves phlegm, wards off nausea, relieves hangover, helps digestion and relieves pain.
6. “Ben Cao Cong Xin”: Regulates the qi of the upper jiao and stops vomiting, promotes food in the middle zhou and strengthens the spleen.
Clinical application
1. Used for chest and abdominal distension and pain: This product has a fresh fragrance and mild medicinal properties. Although it is a bitter and warm product, it has no dryness and strong disadvantages. It can enter the lung, liver, spleen, and stomach meridians and can be used for all kinds of qi stagnation. It can be used with costus root, bitter orange peel, etc. to treat chest tightness caused by lung qi stagnation and spleen and stomach qi stagnation; it can be used with green peel, Chuanlianzi, etc. to treat liver qi stagnation and liver qi attacking the stomach.
2. Used for cough with phlegm: This product has weak phlegm-resolving and cough-relieving effects, but it also has the functions of regulating qi and widening the chest. Therefore, it is very suitable for those who have coughed for a long time with a lot of phlegm and chest tightness. It can be used with orange peel, loofah, loquat leaf, etc.
Related compatibility
Buddha’s hand with tangerine peel: Buddha’s hand is bitter and warm, and has the functions of soothing the liver and relieving depression, regulating qi and harmonizing the middle, and drying dampness and resolving phlegm; tangerine peel is bitter and warm, regulating qi and strengthening the spleen, and drying dampness and resolving phlegm. Buddha’s hand has a mild medicinal property and is good at regulating the qi of the liver and stomach. Tangerine peel has a stronger medicinal property and is good at regulating the qi stagnation of the spleen and stomach and strengthening the spleen. The two medicines are used together to enhance the function of regulating qi, drying dampness and resolving phlegm. It is suitable for spleen and stomach or liver and stomach qi stagnation syndrome, cough with phlegm, etc.
Identification of medication
Fresh Buddha’s hand and Buddha’s hand slices: Both fresh Buddha’s hand and Buddha’s hand slices have a fragrant smell and have the functions of soothing the liver and relieving depression, regulating qi and harmonizing the middle, and drying dampness and resolving phlegm. However, in general clinical practice, raw product slices are used more often, and fresh products are used less.
Related drugs
Shanhaidan capsules, Wujunzhidan tablets, Weisu granules, jaundice hepatitis pills, and Shengxue Tiaoyuan soup.
Related prescriptions
Baizhu Hezhong soup (“Popular Treatise on Febrile Diseases”).
Medicinal diet therapy
Buddha’s hand pumpkin chicken
1. Efficacy: tonify the middle and replenish qi, strengthen the spleen and nourish the stomach.
2. Raw materials: 10g fresh bergamot flower, 1 old pumpkin, 750g young chicken, 250g edamame, onion, peanut, ginger, refined salt, rice wine, glutinous rice wine, MSG, soy sauce, brown sugar, sorghum, pepper, fermented bean curd, refined vegetable oil, rice flour, appropriate amount.
3. Method: First wash the bergamot petals, fry the sorghum and pepper, and grind them into coarse powder. Wash the chicken, chop it into pieces, mix it with the above seasonings and marinate it for a while, then add rice flour and vegetable oil. Remove the membrane of edamame, wash it, and mix it with the same seasoning as the chicken. Scrub the pumpkin, make a 7 cm square opening around the stalk, remove the stalk as a lid, use a long spoon to dig out the pulp and seeds, then put in half of the edamame grains, half of the bergamot flower, and then put in the chicken pieces, then put in the remaining bergamot flower and edamame grains, cover it, put it on a plate, and steam it in a steamer until it is cooked.
4. Usage: Serve with meals.
Harvesting and processing
It blooms and bears fruit after 4-5 years of cultivation. It is harvested in batches, mostly in late autumn when the peel changes from green to light yellow-green. Cut it with scissors, choose a sunny day, cut the fruit into 4-7mm slices, and dry it in the sun or oven.
Processing method
Take the original medicinal material, remove impurities; or spray with clean water, moisten it slightly, chop it, and dry it in the sun.
Storage method
Store in a dry container in a cool and dry place.
Medicinal material properties
This product is an elliptical or oval slice, often wrinkled or curled, 6-10cm long, 3-7cm wide, and 0.2-0.4cm thick. The top is slightly wider, often with 3-5 finger-like lobes, the base is slightly narrow, and some have visible fruit stalk marks. The outer skin is yellow-green or orange-yellow, with wrinkles and oil spots. The flesh is light yellow-white, with uneven linear or dot-shaped vascular bundles scattered. It is hard and brittle, and flexible after getting wet. Fragrant, slightly sweet and bitter.
Plant species
Citrus genus, Rutaceae.
Morphological characteristics
Evergreen small tree or shrub. Old branches are gray-green, young branches are slightly purple-red, with short and hard thorns. Single leaves are alternate; petiole is short, 3-6mm long, without wing leaves, without joints; leaf blade is leathery, oblong or obovate-oblong, 5-16cm long, 2.5-7cm wide, blunt at the tip, sometimes slightly concave, base nearly rounded or wedge-shaped, with shallow wavy blunt serrations on the edge. Flowers are solitary, clustered or in racemes; calyx is cup-shaped, 5 shallowly lobed, lobes are triangular; petals are 5, white inside, purple outside; stamens are numerous; euryale is oval, narrow and pointed at the top. The fruit is ovate or oblong, with a split tip like a fist, or open like a fingertip, the number of cracks represents the number of carpels, the surface is orange-yellow, rough, and the flesh is light yellow. There are several seeds, ovate, with a pointed tip, and sometimes incompletely developed. Flowering period is April-May, and fruit ripening period is October-December.
Distribution area
Grows in tropical and subtropical areas. It is cultivated in Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan and other places in my country.
Authentic production area
Mainly produced in Guangdong, Fujian, Yunnan, Sichuan and other places.