The efficacy and function of Chinese medicine Stemona

Stemona bulb is a familiar Chinese medicine. There are wild Stemona bupleuri in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and several provinces along the Yellow River in my country. As the amount of Stemona bupleuri used as medicine increases, it is being artificially cultivated in many places. Stemona bulb is also known as Baibencao, medicine for lice, etc. Stemona bulbus is a perennial herb that can be found on fields, roadsides, and hillside jungles. The plant is 60 to 90 centimeters tall and its tubers are used as medicine.

The tuber of Stemona radix is ​​spindle-shaped and poisonous. The use of Stemona bulbs as medicine has been recorded in ancient books. After dozens of generations of use, doctors and ordinary people have accumulated rich experience in the use of Stemona bulbs. How much do you know about the efficacy and functions of the traditional Chinese medicine Stemona bulbs?

Nature and flavor: sweet, bitter, slightly warm. It enters the lung meridian.

Functions and indications: Nourishes the lungs, relieves gas, relieves cough, and kills insects. Used for new and chronic cough, tuberculosis cough, whooping cough; used externally for head lice, body lice, pinworm disease, and genital itching. Honey and Stemona bulb can moisten the lungs and relieve cough. Used for Yin deficiency and fatigue cough.

application

(1) For treating lung-cold cough with slight phlegm: 150 g of Fritillaria thunbergii (fried), ephedra sinica, and 40 apricot kernels. Grind the above ingredients into powder, make into pills with refined honey as big as water chestnuts, dissolve in hot water, add 50 pine nuts, make into pills with sugar, and swallow them to feel great. (Bai Bu Wan from Xiao Er Yao Zheng Zhi Jue) [2]

(2) Treating pathogenic cold that invades the skin and hair and even the lungs, causing cough: 2.5 g of Platycodon grandiflorum, 2.5 g of roasted liquorice, 7.5 g of Radix Phellodendri, 5 g of dried orange peel, 7.5 g of Stemona, and 7.5 g of Aster. Decoction in water. (Cough-stopping powder from "Medical Insights")

(3) For treating sudden cough: ginger juice and Stemona japonica juice. Mix together and decoct, take 2 doses. (《Filling the gap behind the elbow,

(4) For treating sudden cough: Crush the root of Stemona vine to extract its natural juice, mix it with equal parts of honey, boil it in boiling water to make a paste and swallow it.

Dosage and administration: decoction, 3 to 9 grams. For external use, appropriate amount, decocted in water or soaked in wine.

Baibu cough syrup, a Chinese patent medicine made from Baibu, is often drunk when people have a cough due to lung heat. Baibu cough syrup is an over-the-counter medicine and does not require a doctor's prescription. People can buy it at the pharmacy themselves. Baibu cough syrup is cold in nature and should only be taken when you have a cough caused by lung heat. If it is caused by lung cold, the cough will become more severe the more you drink it.