Family name: Oleaceae
Plant species: trees
Extraction site: bark. In spring and summer, the bark of the trunk is cut from bottom to top in order to let the resin seep from the wound, and solidified into a hard block after a few days and collected. Take medicine and stir-fry more.
Extraction method: distillation
Description: colorless or light yellow, with resin fragrance.
Volatility: medium to slow
Attribute: masculine
Main producing areas: northern Ethiopia, Somalia and southern Arabia. Source: This product is the oleoresin of Olibanum (an olive plant) and several plants belonging to it.
Efficacy: regulating qi and promoting blood circulation, relieving pain and chasing poison.
Management:
Treat qi stagnation and blood stasis, chest pain, carbuncle, sore, swelling, traumatic injury, dysmenorrhea, and postpartum blood stasis. (1) "Bielu": "Treat the toxic swelling of feng shui and eliminate evil spirits." "Cure wind addiction? Itchy poison. " ② Addendum to Materia Medica: "Treating deafness, choking in wind, women's blood gas, making wine, regulating wind and cooling, and stopping large intestine leakage?" Cure the sore and let it disappear. "3" Rihuazi Materia Medica ":"Stop cholera, heart and abdominal pain. The ointment relieves pain and grows meat. " ④ Compendium of Materia Medica "Treating Insomnia." ⑤ "Pearl Capsule": "The pain of fixing menstruation." ⑥ Outline: "Eliminating carbuncle and generating carbuncle, caring for the day, promoting blood circulation and relieving pain, relaxing tendons and activating collaterals, and treating women's dystocia fracture." ⑦ Materia Medica from the New: "Cure madness and stop diarrhea." ⑧ Essential Drug Dispensing: "For patients with red and white dysentery and abdominal pain, adding frankincense is ineffective. "
Sexual taste orientation
Hard, warm. ① Don't record: "Slight temperature." ② "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "pungent, hot and slightly toxic." ③ Gaoli: "The taste is bitter and spicy, it is spicy."
Entering the heart, liver and spleen meridians. ① Zhu Zhenheng: "It begins with Shaoyin Meridian." ② "Herbal Shu Shu": "Entering the meridian of Foot Taiyin, Hand Shaoyin and Foot Jueyin."
dosage
Oral administration: decoction, 1 ~ 3 yuan; I still took the pills and dispersed them. External use: grinding and dressing.
Avoid medication
Pregnant women should not take it. (1) The Classic of Materia Medica: "The carbuncle is ulcerated and should not be taken, and the sores and pus should be used for a long time." 2 Ben Feng Jingyuan: "Do not use it for people with weak stomach and intestines."
Another name
Smoked bittern incense (other bittern), horsetail incense, nipple incense (sea medicine materia medica), collapsed bittern incense (Meng Qian Bi Tan), Xixiang incense (herbal medicine Yi Yan), Tianze incense, Mole incense, Duojialuo incense and bathing incense (outline). This product is derived from frankincense resin, oval, milky white and fragrant, hence the name.
The characters are spherical or teardrop-shaped particles, or irregular small blocks with a length of 0.5 ~ 2 cm; Pale yellow, microstrip blue-green or brownish red, translucent. Hard and crisp, with waxy section. The smell is fragrant and slightly bitter, and it is soft to chew into rubber blocks. This product turns white when it meets water, and is ground into emulsion with water. Partially soluble in ether, ethanol and chloroform.
Remarks: (1) Smoked Luxiang is also called frankincense, and the commodity is also frankincense used as medicine. This is after the resin flows out, the trunk of Pistacia chinensis, viscose frankincense tree, uracil family, is cut off. Location: Greece, Turkey and southern Mediterranean. Western medicine is used for filling teeth, as a raw material for making plaster, and Chinese medicine is used for frankincense.
Excerpted from the National Collection of Chinese Herbal Medicine
A precious perfume, which can be used for offering sacrifices to gods or as a gift for relatives and friends.
Prescription name
Frankincense, bergamot, prepared frankincense, fried frankincense, vinegar-prepared frankincense, baked frankincense, raw frankincense, frankincense and frankincense.
In the prescription, frankincense and Erxiang refer to raw frankincense. Remove impurities from the original medicine and mash it into medicine.
After the frankincense is pounded into powder, it is fried in a pot until it melts, cooled slightly, poured out and cut into small pieces.
Stir-fried frankincense is the original medicine. Stir-fry with low fire until the surface is slightly melted and yellow. Take it out to cool.
Fried frankincense with vinegar is also called baked frankincense. Stir-fry Olibanum with slow fire until the surface melts, spray rice vinegar and stir-fry until the outer layer is bright, and then take it out and let it cool.
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Frankincense: It is a resin oozing from the bark of the plant Castanea mollissima and its genus.
Smoked Lu Xiang: resin flowing from the trunk incision of Pistacia chinensis Bunge. Origin: Greece, Turkey and southern Mediterranean.
Frankincense: Frankincense is yellowish, free of impurities and translucent. The best quality.
Original frankincense: a block of frankincense up to 5 cm long.
Frankincense beads: oval emulsified frankincense drops, 2 cm long.
Worship frankincense: also known as Somali frankincense. For people born in Somalia. It is better to be light yellow and white in color, hard and crisp in quality, rich in aroma, translucent in section and free from impurities.
Medici Frankincense: Also known as Ethiopian Frankincense. For those born in Ethiopia. It is best to be light yellow, translucent, chewy, sticky, full-bodied and free of impurities.
Distribution of animal and plant resources
Distributed in the Red Sea coast to Libya, Sudan, Turkey and other places. Medicinal materials are mainly produced in Somalia and Ethiopia along the Red Sea coast.
Collection and storage of medicinal materials
It can be harvested in spring and summer, and spring is the harvest period. When harvesting, the bark of the trunk is cut from bottom to top in turn, and a narrow ditch is opened, so that the resin seeps from the wound and flows into the ditch, and it can be taken after a few days to solidify into a hard solid. Those who fall to the ground are often attached with sand impurities, and the quality is poor. This product is sticky and should be sealed and dustproof; It will soften and change color when heated, so it should be stored in a cool place.
Latin name
The original plant of frankincense, frankincense.
job operation
Frankincense: Remove sand impurities. Making frankincense: take the cleaned frankincense, stir-fry it in a pot with slow fire until the surface is slightly melted and yellow, take it out and let it cool; Or stir-fry until the surface melts, spray rice vinegar, continue to stir-fry until the outer layer is bright and transparent, and take it out to cool. (65,438+000 kg of frankincense and 6 kg of rice vinegar) ① "Product for essence": "Everything (frankincense) is put on a shelf, baked with ash fire, cooled and ground for later use." 2 "Outline": "Olibanum is put into pills, less wine is ground into mud, and water flies to dry; If you study with a wick, it is easy to be fine, or if you study with a few pieces of glutinous rice, or if you study with two or three people's nails, or if you sit in hot water with a mortar, it is easy to be fine. "
Examination certificate
From "Records of Famous Doctors"; (1) "Southern Vegetation": "Smoked Lu Xiang, out of Daqin, near the sea. There are leafy trees like Gu Song, which are born in the sand. In midsummer, gum flows out of the sand and is picked. "
Identification of raw medicinal materials
Dry gum resin, mostly in the form of small papillary, teardrop-shaped particles or irregular small pieces, is 0.5 ~ 3 cm long, and sometimes adheres to form lumps. Pale yellow, usually slightly green, blue or brownish red. Translucent. There is a layer of white dust on the surface. After removing the dust, the surface is still dull. It is hard and brittle, and its section is waxy and dull, and a few are glassy. The smell is slightly fragrant and the taste is slightly bitter. Chew it, break it into small pieces at first, immediately soften it into rubber pieces and stick it on your teeth, making your saliva milky and slightly spicy. After heating, it will become soft and slightly fragrant (but there should be no fragrance), emitting black smoke and leaving black residue. Grinding with a small amount of water can form a white emulsion. It is best to be light yellow, granular, translucent, without sand and bark impurities, sticky powder and fragrant air. In addition, there are several species of Boswellia-Dajiana Birdw, Boswellia bhaw and Boswellia M Moore, belonging to the same genus. The shape of frankincense produced is similar to that of previous species. Materia Medica of Haiyao: "Guang Zhi Cloud (nipple fragrance) is produced in the South China Sea, and it is the resin of Persian pine. Purple is also like cherry, and the transparent one is the best." "Meng Qian Bi Tan": "Smoked land, that is, frankincense. The real name is Xundi, and the one that drips like a nipple with it is called nipple fragrance; What melts and collapses on the ground is called collapsed incense. If there are drops of milk and white milk in wax tea, how can each be the same thing? " "Outline": "Olibanum, nowadays, is mostly mixed with Liquidambar formosana, but it is flammable. There are 13 kinds of frankincense in southern countries. According to Ye Tinggui's "Xiangpu" cloud: Frankincense is smoked and fragrant, and it is a big food country in the south. Its trees are loose, a pound of trees, overflowing with fat, fragrant, and gathered into pieces. Top grade is fragrant, round and transparent as nipple, commonly known as milk, also known as bright milk; The second one is perfume bottle, which is a bottle collection; Followed by breast collapse, mixed with sand; The second is black collapse, and the color is black; The second is the wet collapse of water, and the color of water stains deteriorates; The second time is cut, chop suey is unbearable; The second is tangled, sowing dust. Look at this. Some milk comes from themselves, and some eucalyptus overflows. All the stories are about this tree, but what Kou said is about pears. I am afraid it is also a rumor. Let's say it first. "
Chemical constituents of traditional Chinese medicine
It contains 60-70% resin, 27-35% gum and 3-8% volatile oil. The main components of the resin are 33% of free A, B- boswellic acid, 1.5% of bound boswellic acid and 33% of boswellene. Gum is 20% calcium and magnesium arabic acid and 6% bassolin; In addition, it also contains 0.5% bitter substances. The volatile oil is light yellow and fragrant, containing pinene, dipentene and a, b- phellandrene, and the main aromatic components are unknown. Its derivatives and m-cresol (o-cresol), and its neutral part contains derivatives of α-and β-coumarone, such as α-coumarone, green difluorophenol, insensole and oxidized frankincense terpene. Gum mainly contains polysaccharides. Polysaccharide I was separated and hydrolyzed into arabinose, galactose and uronic acid. Polysaccharide Ⅱ (polysaccharide Ⅱ) is hydrolyzed to produce glycolaldehyde and galactose. Octyl acetate accounts for 92.46%, bornyl acetate accounts for about 65438 0.4%, elemene accounts for 0.22%, and the volatile oil contains β-phellandrene.
Chemical identification of traditional Chinese medicine
This product turns white when it meets water, and is ground into emulsion with water. Partially soluble in ether, ethanol and chloroform.
Clinical application:
1. myrrh powder for treating aphtha (standard of syndrome differentiation and treatment): 3g of frankincense, 3g of myrrh, 3g of realgar, 5g of calomel1.5g, and a little croton paste. The upper part is the end. Rub the affected area. Frankincense in the prescription is the minister drug for detumescence and granulation.
2. Frankincense Pill (Puji Skill Prescription) is used to treat children's abdominal pain, crying, black cyst of lips, wind fishing and upturned horn arch: 30g of frankincense, 30g of myrrh and 30g of Aquilaria Resinatum, 4g of scorpion tail and 45g of betel nut (no betel nut on one side). The top is the end, the honey is refined into pills, 3 pills are taken each time, and the calamus vine is fried and sent. Frankincense in the prescription promotes blood circulation and relieves pain, which is the monarch medicine.
3. Frankincense ointment ("surgical essence") for treating malignant sores, beatings and pains: frankincense (ground turpentine), Fraxinus chinensis 15g, white gum incense 60g, almond oil 1 kg. First, put turpentine on charcoal fire to melt, add white gum and white wax to melt, then add oil to stir evenly, filter to remove residue, soak it in water until it is as white as silver, then extract it with frankincense and apply it to the affected area. Frankincense in the prescription promotes blood circulation to relieve pain, reduces swelling and promotes granulation, which is the monarch drug. Olibanum oil edited this paragraph.
The aroma is lingering, with the smell of wood and spices, and even a little lemon.
Waiguan
This tree is native to the Middle East, including China, Ethiopian, Iranian and Lebanese. When people cut a knife on its trunk, yellow resin like tears will flow out and its essential oil will be distilled from the resin.
chemical composition
Sesquiterpene-juniper terpene
Terpene cigarettes-camphene, absinthe, terpineol and fennel
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Apply history and related myths
The prefix frankincense means "real incense burning" in French. Sometimes frankincense is also called frankincense, which may mean "oil from Lebanon". In Egypt, frankincense was used to burn incense and offer it to God on the altar. It can also be used to help meditation, a tradition that has been maintained in some religions. It was once used to smoke patients to ward off evil spirits.
Egyptians often use frankincense and cinnamon together to relieve pain in limbs. Hebrews and Egyptians even spared no expense to import frankincense from Phoenicians. Its value in ancient times was almost as valuable as gold, so that the Magi specially chose it as a gift for the newborn Jesus. Egyptians also use it to make rejuvenation mask in beauty; People in China found it very effective in treating tuberculosis of lymph nodes and leprosy.
work efficiency
Has antibacterial, astringent, flatulence relieving, wound scarring promoting, cell activity enhancing, digestion promoting, diuresis promoting, body building strengthening, uterus benefiting, and wound treating effects.
Psychotherapy effect
Let the shortness of breath stop, make people feel stable, and make them feel better and more peaceful. It can relieve but has some refreshing effect, which can help anxiety and the troubles of the past mental state.
Physical efficacy
It has an excellent effect on mucosa, especially clearing lung, especially on breathing, relieving shortness of breath and benefiting asthma patients. It is a good medicine for mucosal inflammation (runny nose or phlegm in throat), generally speaking, it can also regulate the secretion of mucus, relieve the head from catching cold, and is also a soothing agent for cough, bronchitis and laryngitis.
Is beneficial to urogenital tract, and can relieve cystitis, nephropathy and general vaginal infection. Its astringent properties can relieve the symptoms of uterine bleeding and menorrhagia, and it is generally regarded as a tonic for uterus. Its soothing effect is very useful in childbirth, it can also relieve postpartum depression, and it can also deal with chest inflammation. At the same time, it can also soothe the stomach, help digestion, and improve indigestion and burping.
Skin curative effect
It gives new life to aged skin and has outstanding effect of smoothing wrinkles. It is a real holy product for skin care. Its astringent properties can also balance oily skin. It is effective for wounds, sores, ulcers, paralysis and inflammation.
Essential oil suitable for mixing with it
Basil, black pepper, white rosin, geranium, grapefruit, lavender, orange, vanilla, patchouli, pine and sandalwood.
Matters needing attention
Whether it is available during pregnancy is controversial.
Traditional Chinese medicine formula
1. frankincense mixed with lavender can promote cell activation.
2. Adding 4 drops of olibanum oil and 4 drops of sweet orange essential oil to 20ml of basic massage oil can help you relax.
3. Cold air freshener: Add 1 drop of frankincense and 1 drop of sandalwood to 100ml of water.
4. Add 4 drops of frankincense to 5CC of evening primrose oil and massage the lower abdomen, which can solve the problem of excessive menstrual blood and long dripping.
Massage the face with 5.4 drops of frankincense and 5 drops of sandalwood mixed base oil, which can smooth the fine lines and rough and dry skin on the face.
6. Drop 10 drop of frankincense into the perfume expansion bottle. Inhalation of diffused odor can soothe the nerves, and can be used for patients with autonomic nervous disorder or people who can't relieve stress.
7. Pregnant women and newborns
A. From the fourth month of pregnancy, mix 3 drops of olibanum oil in 3 ml of foundation, and stroke the abdomen clockwise to prevent postpartum belly lines.
B. Massage the abdomen with the above formula every day after delivery, which can restore the elasticity of uterus and prevent postpartum inflammation.
C. When bathing the baby, add 2-3 drops of olibanum oil to the water, which can calm the baby, fight against germs and make the baby healthier.