Efficacy, Function and Edible Method of Notopterygium Rhizoma

It is the dried rhizome and root of Notopterygium incisum or Notopterygium incisum in Umbelliferae. Notopterygium is mainly produced in Sichuan, Yunnan, Qinghai, Gansu and other provinces. Notopterygium latifolium is mainly produced in Sichuan, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Henan and other provinces. Excavate in spring and autumn, remove fibrous roots and sediment, and dry in the sun. Sliced, raw. Let's take a look at the efficacy and function of Notopterygium and how to eat it.

Notopterygium incisum is usually harvested in September 9165438+1October, when the content of volatile oil is the highest. After that, with the extension of storage period, its oil content gradually decreased. In addition, Notopterygium Notopterygium is produced in humid areas, and farmers often bake it with open fire after harvesting, which leads to the decrease of volatile oil content and easy burning, which affects the quality of medicinal materials. Experiments show that Notopterygium incisum is best dried in the sun or at low temperature.

Efficacy and taboo

Efficacy: Dispelling exterior cold, expelling wind and removing dampness, and benefiting joints. Treat common cold, headache, anhidrosis, arthralgia due to wind-cold-dampness, stiff neck, joint pain, geomantic edema and carbuncle.

Taboo: People with blood deficiency and pain should not take it.

Functions of Notopterygium incisum

1. Used for exogenous wind-cold, aversion to cold and fever, headache and body pain. This product has a strong effect of dispelling cold and relieving pain. It is often used with Radix Saposhnikoviae, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae and Asari, such as Jiuwei Notopterygii Decoction.

2. Used for limb pain and shoulder pain caused by the invasion of pathogenic wind, cold and dampness, especially for upper body pain. This product can dispel wind and warm, dispel cold and relieve pain. It is often combined with Fangfeng, such as Juanbi Decoction.

3. Used for impotence, nocturnal emission, frequent micturition, cold pain in the waist and knees, asthma due to kidney deficiency, and diarrhea in the fifth watch; Topical treatment for vitiligo and alopecia areata. Relieve exterior syndrome, dispel cold, dispel wind and overcome dampness, and relieve pain.

4. relieve the exterior and dispel the cold. Indications: cold, aversion to cold, no sweating, headache and body pain. Anti-allergic effect

5. It can inhibit the delayed hypersensitivity induced by 2,4-dinitrochlorobenzene (DNCB) in mice.

6. Anti-arrhythmia effect. The water-soluble part can obviously shorten the duration of arrhythmia in rabbits and delay the occurrence of arrhythmia induced by aconitine in mice. This effect increased with the increase of dose, but it weakened when the dose increased to 12g/kg.

7. Anti-myocardial ischemia. Its volatile oil can antagonize acute myocardial ischemia caused by pituitrin. In addition, the volatile oil of Notopterygium Rhizoma can significantly increase the nutritional blood flow of myocardium, thus improving myocardial ischemia.

8. Anti-shock effect. It is effective to take small doses for many times, but large doses can not improve the anti-shock ability of animals.

9. Anti-thrombosis and anti-oxidation. Taking notopterygium root can prevent thrombosis. Has anti-lipid peroxidation effect.

10. Other functions. Notopterygium root also has antiepileptic effect; It also has certain inhibitory effect on cervical cells.

Edible method

Suitable for people: people with yin deficiency and blood deficiency, people with qi deficiency and sweating should use it with caution.

Dietotherapy: Notopterygium is pungent, bitter and warm, and belongs to bladder, liver and kidney meridians. Qixiongsheng Powder has the effects of dispelling cold, relieving exterior syndrome, expelling wind and removing dampness, removing arthralgia and relieving pain.

Indications are exogenous wind-cold, rheumatism, aversion to cold, fever and anhidrosis, splitting headache, dark eyes and stuffy nose, limb pain, wind-cold-dampness arthralgia, edema beriberi, swelling and pain, and tetanus.

Practice shows that it can be used with Fangfeng, Schizonepeta and Radix Angelicae Pubescentis for those with exogenous wind-cold, aversion to cold, fever and headache. This product is compatible with Ramulus Cinnamomi, Herba Ephedrae and Gleditsia sinensis.