Research on ancient and modern Chinese medicine: August

August Letter:For the common family plants Mutong, cloverleaf, White Bentong fruit.

I. Summary of Classics< /span>

1. Cui Yuxi’s “Food Sutra”: “In August, when you eat food, you will lighten (phlegm) water, and stop red and white, and then benefit.”< /p>

2. Meng Xu: “Zhaping in August. Thick intestines and stomach, people can eat, lower Sanjiao, remove bad qi, and it is better to eat with children.” “Tong Twelve Meridians.”

3. ​​”Compendium of Materia Medica”: “In August, Zhali urinates, clears the bowels, clears the irritable heat, and eats it to relax the heart, quench thirst, and relieve qi. .”

4. “Food Materia Medica”: “In August, it is cold, non-toxic. It mainly closes the appetite, nausea, and can’t eat, except for the heat of Sanjiao.”

5. “Compendium of Materia Medica”: “Boiled with honey water in August to cure dysentery.”

6. “Nanjing Folk Herbal Medicine”: “August treatment for low back pain.”

7. “Sichuan Chinese Medicine Chronicle”: “August treatment is mild in nature, bitter and astringent in taste. , non-toxic. Soothes the liver, absorbs kidney qi, cures bladder hernia and vomits blood.”

8. “Medicine Science”: “August, August, qi, and blood circulation. , insecticide, detoxification, pain relief. It is used for liver and stomach qi pain, hypochondriac pain, menstrual pain and other symptoms.”

9. “Shaanxi Chinese Herbal Medicine”: “August Zhashu Liver and kidney, invigorating spleen and stomach. Treating indigestion, abdominal pain, diarrhea, hernia, and uterine prolapse.”

10. “Chinese Materia Medica”: “August Flavor Slightly bitter, neutral in nature. Returns to the liver, stomach, and bladder meridians. Soothes the liver and stomach, promotes blood circulation and relieves pain, softens and dissipates stagnation, and facilitates urination. It controls the stagnation of qi in the liver and stomach, and helps distending pain in the abdomen, abdomen, and flanks. , diet, diarrhea, diarrhea, colic pain, low back pain, amenorrhea dysmenorrhea, gall tumor scrofula, malignant tumor.

11. “Traditional Chinese Pharmacy” in August, suffering, Ping. Return to the liver and stomach meridians. Soothing the liver and regulating qi, dispelling stagnation.

12. “Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine”: Zhagan in August, cold. Soothing the liver and regulating qi, promoting blood circulation and relieving pain, removing trouble and diuresis. Control liver and stomach qi pain, stomach heat and food stagnation, polydipsia, white dysentery, low back pain, hypochondral pain, hernia, cave meridian, uterine prolapse.

Second, modern research

1. Ingredients: peel contains zirconate-3-buckthorn Glycosyl arabinoside, hederain-3-xylosylarabinoside, hederain-3-rhamnosylarabinoside, oleanolic acid-3-glucosylarabinoside, hederain-3 -Arabose-28-rhamnosyl diglucoside, oleanolic acid-3-rhamnosyl arabinose-28-rhamnosyl diglucoside, hederagenin-3-rhamnosyl Arabinose-28-rhamnosyl diglucoside, hederagenin-3-xylosylrhamnosyl arabinoside, arjunoic acid, etc. Seeds contain saponins AQ-A, AQ-B, AQ-C, AQ-D, AQ-E, AQ-F, AQ-G; also contain fatty oils, which mainly contain glycerol oleate, glycerol linolenic acid and palmitate acid glycerides.

2. Function: “Clinically used in the treatment of ureteral calculi

Third, the supplementary formula

1. Treatment of lymph node stenosis: 4 taels of August zha, Jin Ying Zi, Hai Jin Sha Root, 8 taels of Tian Kui Zi. The decoction is divided into three days and served. (Su Medicine “Handbook of Chinese Herbal Medicine”)

2. Treatment of flatulence and stuffiness: one or two of clover root or fruit, decoct in water. (“Commonly used herbal medicines in Zhejiang folk”).