The role and efficacy of Atractylodes

Medicine is a common choice for treating diseases. When different people are suffering from diseases, they also choose appropriate medicines for treatment, which will help improve the disease. One medicine can treat a variety of diseases, but according to the different types of human diseases, the choice of medicine is also different. Atractylodes is a good choice for treating diseases. What are the functions and effects of Atractylodes?

There are many aspects to the effects and functions of Atractylodes lancea, so when choosing it, you need to understand all aspects of it, so that when treating diseases, you know what diseases it can treat and whether it is harmful to human health.

The role and efficacy of Atractylodes lancea :

The efficacy of Chinese herbal medicine Atractylodes

Drying dampness, strengthening the spleen, eliminating rheumatism, and relieving exterior symptoms.

It has a distinct aromatic smell and is first and foremost an aromatic dehumidifying medicine. Eliminate dampness. It is a medicine with a distinct bitter taste and is quite dry, so it is also a bitter, warm and dehumidifying medicine. Its bitter, warm and dehumidifying effect is stronger than that of aromatic dehumidifying medicine. Drying dampness, strengthening the spleen. It is mainly used to treat dampness and turbidity blocking the middle part of the body (commonly used and main medicine). Why is it important? Because it has a strong effect of removing dampness and drying dampness, and can eliminate the dampness and turbidity in the middle burner. At the same time, it has a certain effect of strengthening the spleen, and the healthy functioning of the spleen and stomach is also beneficial to the transformation and elimination of dampness and turbidity. If dampness blocks the middle burner, regardless of whether it is cold, hot, deficiency or excess, Pingwei San can be used with modifications and adaptations (Atractylodes lancea is the main medicine). If the cold evil is more prevalent, add some warming medicine; if the dampness and heat are more prevalent, add medicine that clears heat and clears dampness and heat (Coptis chinensis, Scutellaria baicalensis, etc.); if the spleen is deficient, use spleen-strengthening and dampness-removing medicines such as Atractylodes macrocephala, ginseng or Poria cocos. It can also be used for phlegm, edema, etc. caused by dampness blocking the middle burner. Because dampness blocking the middle burner often causes obstruction of Qi, Atractylodes lancea itself cannot promote Qi movement, so it is necessary to add Qi-moving drugs (Magnolia bark, Tangerine peel, which are dampness-drying drugs, can enhance efficacy and promote Qi movement). Strengthen the spleen. Used for spleen deficiency syndrome and spleen dysfunction. But nowadays, not many people use Atractylodes lancea for simple spleen deficiency, because it has no advantage compared with Atractylodes macrocephala. Why choose Atractylodes macrocephala for spleen deficiency? For example, Atractylodes lancea is chosen for excessive dampness and turbidity. Relieve rheumatism. It is warm in nature and is an anti-rheumatic and cold-relieving medicine, suitable for rheumatism and cold arthritis. It has an important characteristic, which is that it is good at removing dampness (drying dampness and removing rheumatism), which is the most important and best indication for wind-cold arthritis. For dampness-induced arthralgia (Zhebi) with predominance of dampness and turbidity, which turns into damp-heat arthralgia due to heat, Atractylodes lancea also has obvious therapeutic effects and is often used (in combination with the heat-clearing medicine Phellodendron chinense). It can also be used in combination with heat-clearing medicines such as gypsum, anemarrhena, and coix seed to treat damp-heat arthralgia. The herbs learned earlier, such as Clematis chinensis, Gentiana macrophylla and Stephania tetrandra, can be used together to treat arthralgia caused by damp-heat, and red, swollen and painful joints. Dispel wind and cold. It is used for wind-cold exterior syndrome, and is better if there is dampness and turbidity blocking the middle part, treating both the exterior and the interior. Improve eyesight and treat night blindness (caused by insufficient vitamin A in food, and in severe cases, corneal softening may occur. It has no practical value in clinical practice now because this disease is almost extinct).

1. Drying dampness and strengthening the spleen, used for syndrome of dampness blocking the middle burner. This product is good at drying up spleen dampness, and is most suitable for symptoms such as abdominal distension, loss of appetite, vomiting, diarrhea, fatigue, and greasy white tongue coating caused by dampness blocking the middle burner and spleen dysfunction. It is often used in combination with Magnolia officinalis, Tangerine peel, etc., such as Pingwei San. If the syndrome is damp-heat or damp-heat, use heat-clearing drugs together to eliminate dampness and clear heat. It can also be used for symptoms such as phlegm, fluid, dampness and edema.

2. Relieve rheumatism. It is used for wind-cold-dampness arthralgia, swelling and pain in the feet and knees, weakness and impotence, etc. This product is pungent, dispersing, warming and drying, can eliminate rheumatism, and is suitable for treating arthralgia with a predominance of cold and dampness. Because it can also induce sweating, it is also suitable for external symptoms, excessive wind, cold and dampness, and severe limb soreness and pain. It can be used in combination with Qianghuo, Fangfeng, and Xixin. If damp heat invades the lower body, causing swelling and pain in the feet and knees, and weakness and limpness, it should be used in combination with Phellodendron chinense, using both cold and warm effects, namely Er Miao San.

3. Improve eyesight, used for night blindness and blurred vision. It can be used alone or steamed with pork or lamb liver.

Effects of Chinese herbal medicine Atractylodes lancea (pharmacology)

Atractylodes contains volatile oil, the main component of which is a mixed crystal of atractylodes alcohol and atractylodes alcohol; it also contains a small amount of atractylodes ketone and vitamin A. It has the effects of fumigation disinfection, lowering blood sugar, sedation, liver protection and bile secretion, and anti-ulcer. Vitamin A can prevent night blindness and keratomelia caused by vitamin A deficiency. Atractylodesin and cypermethrin are active antiviral ingredients.

1. Atractylodes contains volatile oil, the main component of which is atractylodes alcohol (a mixed crystal of β-cineole and atractylodes alcohol); it also contains atractylodes ketone, vitamin A-like substances, vitamin B and inulin. The volatile oil of Atractylodes lancea has stomachic, sedative, blood sugar lowering, potassium excretion, sodium excretion and antibacterial effects on experimental animals. Its volatile oil has obvious anti-intestinal spasm caused by the parasympathetic nerve mediator acetylcholine; Atractylodes preparations can promote the recovery of the amplitude of rabbit intestinal muscle relaxation caused by the sympathetic nerve mediator adrenaline; at the same time, it can counteract the acute gastritis in rats caused by hydrochloric acid and the gastric ulcer in rats caused by pyloric ligation by counteracting the effect of bile alkaloids. The volatile oil of Atractylodes lancea has a sedative effect on the central nervous system in small doses, while causing hyperreflexia of the spinal cord; large doses have an inhibitory effect. Atractylodes alcohol can promote gastrointestinal motility and has a weak contractile effect on gastrointestinal smooth muscle. The decoction of Atractylodes lancea has a hypoglycemic effect on experimental alloxan diabetic animals, and also has sodium and potassium excretion effects, but no urination effect is observed; its active ingredient, vitamin A-like substance, can treat night blindness and keratomelia caused by vitamin A deficiency; fumigation disinfection of Atractylodes lancea has a significant killing effect on Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, but its water decoction has no antibacterial effect.

2. "Ben Jing" only mentions "Shu" without distinguishing between pale and white. Tao Hongjing pointed out that there are two types of Atractylodes: White Atractylodes and Red Atractylodes, and Red Atractylodes is Atractylodes. The name of Atractylodes lancea first appeared in "Zhenglei Bencao". Ancient prescriptions that use "Atractylodes" should use Atractylodes or White Atractylodes depending on the specific symptoms of the disease.

3. Mao Cangzhu and Northern Atractylodes are both authentic medicinal materials of Atractylodes, among which Mao Cangzhu is the top grade, and the one produced in Maoshan area of ​​Jiangsu is of the best quality, hence the name Mao Cangzhu.

Through the above introduction, we have some understanding of the role and efficacy of Atractylodes lancea. At the same time, Atractylodes lancea can treat many types of diseases, and such medicine also has some history. When choosing it, it is also necessary to follow the doctor's advice. When using it, it is also necessary to use it according to the doctor's instructions so that it can treat your own diseases well.