Dosage of Magnolia officinalis

Magnolia officinalis is mainly produced in Sichuan, Hunan and other places in my country. It prefers a cool, moist and humid environment. Magnolia officinalis can not only be used to make furniture and ornamental green plants, but also has very high medicinal value. It has the effects of relieving adverse symptoms and asthma, promoting qi and removing dampness, and also has a certain analgesic effect. Although its medicinal value is so high, only the appropriate dosage can achieve better healing effects.

The efficacy and function of Magnolia officinalis

Promotes qi circulation and eliminates stagnation; dries out dampness and relieves fullness; reduces adverse reactions and relieves asthma. Stagnant qi due to food accumulation; abdominal distension and constipation; dampness blocking the middle burner, abdominal distension, vomiting and diarrhea; phlegm congestion and qi reversal; chest fullness, wheezing and coughing. It is used for dampness stagnation damaging the middle part of the body, abdominal distension, vomiting and diarrhea, food stagnation and qi stagnation, abdominal distension and constipation, and cough with phlegm and fluid.

① "Ben Jing": It is used to treat stroke, cold and fever, headache, chills and fever, palpitations, blood stasis, dead muscles, and remove three kinds of worms.

② "Bielu": warms the middle and replenishes qi, eliminates phlegm and relieves gas. It can treat cholera and abdominal pain and distension, coldness in the stomach and vomiting in the chest, diarrhea and stranguria, eliminate fright, remove retained heat and upset stomach, and strengthen the intestines and stomach.

③ "Material Theory": It is mainly used to treat long-term cold, thunder in the abdomen, roaring, indigestion, removing phlegm and fluid, removing water accumulation, breaking up old blood, digesting water and food, and relieving pain. It greatly warms the stomach qi and causes vomiting of acid water. It is used to treat fullness in the heart and abdomen, and patients with weakness and white urine.

④ "Bencao Gangmu" (Bencao Gangmu): Strengthens the spleen. It is used to treat nausea, cholera, convulsions, cold and hot air, bladder diarrhea, and all kinds of qi in the five internal organs, as well as abdominal discomfort in women before and after childbirth. Regulates joints, kills abdominal parasites, and improves eyesight and ears.

⑤Wang Haogu: It is used to treat lung distension, bloating, wheezing and coughing.

⑥ "Bencao Zheng": Warming and descending, dispersing stagnation, eliminating cold and dampness diarrhea.

Dosage and Usage of Magnolia officinalis

For internal use: decoct in water, 3-10g; or make into pills or powder.

Note:

Use with caution in pregnant women.

① "Compendium of Materia Medica" (Collected Annotations): Dried ginger is the messenger. Dislike Alisma, Hanshuishi, Xiaoshi.

② "Materia Medica": Avoid eating beans, as they will cause gas in the stomach.

③ "Pin Hui Jing Yao": Do not take during pregnancy.

④ "Bencao Jingshu": All vomiting is not due to cold phlegm and cold accumulation, but due to stomach deficiency and fire inflammation; abdominal pain is due to blood deficiency and spleen yin deficiency, not stagnation; diarrhea is due to the sudden influx of fire and heat, not accumulation of cold and cold injury; abdominal distension is due to insufficient middle qi and qi not returning to the origin, not qi stagnation; stroke is due to yin deficiency and fire inflammation, sudden stiffness, not the true cold evil in the northwest; typhoid fever has fever and headache, but no symptoms of fullness and distension; children vomit and diarrhea from milk and food, and will become slow shock; adults have qi deficiency and blood dryness, and see the diaphragm syndrome; the elderly have spleen deficiency and cannot transport and transform, and occasionally there is stagnation; pregnant women have nausea and vomiting, and cannot take food and water; pregnant women have dizziness due to fetal ascent; pregnant women have food injury and cold stagnation; pregnant women have abdominal pain and diarrhea; pregnant women have typhoid fever and cold; abdominal pain due to blood deficiency after childbirth; fullness and wheezing after childbirth; postpartum diarrhea and nausea, the above symptoms are all taboos.

Magnolia officinalis supplementary prescription

① Treat abdominal distension, pain and constipation: 8 liang of Magnolia officinalis, 4 liang of Rhubarb, 5 pieces of Citrus aurantium. Take the above three ingredients, add 1 dou 2 liters of water, boil the first two ingredients and take out 5 liters, then boil the rhubarb and take out 3 liters. Take one liter of the medicine warm, until it works. (Houpu Sanwu Decoction from Synopsis of the Golden Chamber)

② Treats long-term bloating, heart tightness, inability to eat, and improper diet. The collision of cold and heat causes distension in the heart and abdomen: Roast Magnolia officinalis over fire until dry, then dip it in ginger juice and roast it until it is charred, then pound and sieve it into flour. Take two spoonfuls of the medicine with old rice drink, three times a day. It also treats nausea and stops diarrhea. (Dou Men Fang)

③ Treat spleen and stomach disharmony and loss of appetite: Magnolia officinalis (remove the rough skin, apply ginger juice, and roast until fragrant and clean) 2.5 liang, Licorice root (roast) 1.5 liang, Atractylodes (soak in rice water for two days, scrape off the skin) 4 liang, Tangerine peel (remove the white part) 2.5 liang. Grind the above four ingredients into powder. Take one coin of it each time, add one cup of water, add ginger and dates and boil for seven minutes, remove the residue and drink it while warm on an empty stomach. Or grind it into fine powder, add honey and make into pills as big as sycamore seeds. Take ten pills each time, chew them with salt water, and drink on an empty stomach. (Pingwei Powder from Boji Fang)

④ Treats the qi caused by joy, anger, sadness, worry, fear, and shock, which causes phlegm stagnation, shaped like broken cotton wool, or like plum pits, in the throat, which cannot be coughed out or swallowed, or fullness in the middle abdomen, uncomfortable qi, or excessive phlegm, shortness of breath, or vomiting and nausea due to phlegm and fluid accumulation in the middle: 2 liang of Perilla Leaf, 3 liang of Magnolia Bark, 4 liang of Poria, and 5 liang of Pinellia. Chop finely. Take four coins each time, add half a cup of water, seven slices of ginger, and one date. Boil until six parts are left. Remove the residue and drink it while it is hot at any time. (The Siqi Decoction in Yijian Fang is the Banxia Houpu Decoction in Jinkui Yaolue)

⑤ Treating worm accumulation: 2 qian each of Magnolia officinalis and Areca catechu, and 2 black plums. Decoction in water. (The Complete Book of Baochi)

⑥ Treat diarrhea caused by cold: take equal parts of dried ginger and Magnolia officinalis. Grind the above ingredients into powder and make into pills the size of walnuts with honey. Take 30 pills at any time. (Bao's Prescriptions for Children)

⑦ Treat long-term dysentery caused by water retention: 3 liang of Magnolia officinalis and 3 liang of Coptis chinensis. Grind it, add three liters of water and boil it until one liter remains. Take it with a hollow heart. ("Meishi Ji Yan Fang")