What are the effects and functions of Sichuan costusroot?

Sichuan costusroot is a medicinal material with many main sources of efficacy. It is generally well-known in the Chinese medicine industry. Chinese medicine practitioners will also place this medicinal material in different positions. Sichuan costusroot is mainly used to help the stomach, large intestine, small intestine, spleen and stomach, etc. It can mainly promote qi and relieve pain. It has a good effect on patients with frequent abdominal pain and diarrhea, as well as liver and gallbladder pain.

Cross-section of this product: the cork layer is composed of several rows of brown cells, the phloem rays are relatively wide; the sieve tube groups and fiber bundles as well as the vascular groups and fiber bundles of the xylem are arranged radially in an alternating manner, presenting a neat radial shape. The cambium is wavy and the fiber bundles are yellow, lignified, and accompanied by stone cells. Myelination or rupture. The oil chambers are scattered in the rays and medullary parenchyma. Inulin can be seen in the thin-walled cells.

Take 2 g of the powder of this product, add 20 ml of ether, ultrasonically treat for 20 minutes, filter, evaporate the filtrate, add 1 ml of methanol to the residue to dissolve it, and use it as the test solution. Take another reference medicinal material of Sichuan costusroot and prepare a reference medicinal material solution in the same way. According to the thin layer chromatography method (Appendix Ⅵ B), 5 μl of each of the above two solutions were taken and spotted on the same silica gel G thin layer plate, and toluene-ethyl acetate (19:1) was used as the developing solvent. The plate was developed, taken out, dried, sprayed with 5% vanillin sulfuric acid solution, and heated until the spots were clearly colored. In the chromatogram of the test sample, spots of the same color appear at the corresponding positions in the chromatogram of the control medicinal material.

Nature and flavor

Pungent, bitter, warm. It enters the spleen, stomach, large intestine and gallbladder meridians.

Function and indications

Promotes qi circulation and relieves pain. It is used for abdominal distension and pain, intestinal rumbling and diarrhea, tenesmus, discomfort in the flanks, and pain in the liver and gallbladder.