What are the medicinal values ​​of Atractylodes lancea?

As people are under increasing economic pressure in today's society, food, clothing, housing and transportation all cost people a lot of money, so more and more friends work overtime in order to get more pay. Long-term irregular eating habits have caused damage to their stomachs and intestines, and some symptoms of enteritis and gastritis have appeared. It is said that Atractylodes lancea can regulate the stomach and intestines very well. So what are the medicinal values ​​of Atractylodes lancea? Let’s take a look together.

Those with yin deficiency, internal heat, qi deficiency and excessive sweating should not take it.

① "Bencao Jing Jizhu" says: Saposhnikovia divaricata and Sanyu are the messengers.

② "Medicine Treatise": Avoid eating peaches, plums, sparrow meat, cabbage and black carp.

③ "Introduction to Medicine": Use with caution in patients with blood deficiency, timidity, and depression caused by seven emotions. Inappropriate intake will deplete Qi and blood, dry up body fluids, stir up internal heat and make the distension and stuffiness worse.

④ "Bencao Jingshu": All diseases caused by yin deficiency, blood deficiency, insufficient essence, internal heat and bone steaming, dry mouth and lips, coughing, spitting, vomiting blood, epistaxis, pharyngeal congestion, constipation and stagnation should be avoided. Do not take if you have liver or kidney problems.

⑤ "Bencao Zheng" says: Those with internal heat, yin deficiency, and superficial sweating should not take it.

【Effects and functions of Atractylodes lancea】:

Drying dampness and strengthening the spleen; removing rheumatism; improving eyesight. It is used to treat dampness in the spleen and stomach; fatigue and lying down; abdominal distension; loss of appetite; vomiting and diarrhea; phlegm and fluid; dampness and swelling; dampness in the exterior syndrome; heaviness and pain in the head and body; arthralgia of warm nature; soreness and heaviness in the limbs; paralysis and folds; night blindness

①Tao Hongjing: Get rid of bad air.

②Liu Wansu: Improves eyesight and warms the water organs.

③ "Pearl Capsule": It can strengthen the stomach and calm the spleen. All kinds of swelling caused by dampness can only be eliminated by this.

④Li Gao: It can remove dampness and induce sweating, strengthen the stomach and calm the spleen, and is an important medicine for treating impotence.

⑤ Zhu Zhenheng: Disperses wind and replenishes Qi, and relieves all kinds of depression.

⑥ "Compendium of Materia Medica": Treats dampness, phlegm, and retained fluid, or blood stasis forming nests and cysts, as well as spleen dampness flowing downward, turbid vaginal discharge, and slippery diarrhea and intestinal wind.

⑦ "Yuzhu Yaojie": Drying the earth and promoting diuresis, expelling fluid and eliminating phlegm, removing blood stasis, relieving depression, removing leakage, resolving tinea, eliminating symptoms, regulating acid reflux and removing rot, preventing malaria in mountains and rivers, restoring the weakness of tendons and bones, and clearing turbid urine.

⑧ "Bencao Qiuyuan": Stops watery diarrhea, diarrhea caused by indigestion, summer heat diarrhea, and blood in the spleen due to dampness.

【Additional prescription】：

① Treat spleen and stomach disharmony, loss of appetite, fullness and stabbing pain in the heart, abdomen and ribs, bitter taste in the mouth, vomiting and nausea, and frequent diarrhea: 5 catties of Atractylodes (peeled off and soaked in rice water for 2 days), 3 catties and 2 liang of Magnolia officinalis (peeled off, processed with ginger juice and fried until fragrant), 3 catties and 2 liang of dried tangerine peel (peeled off the white part), and 30 liang of liquorice (fried). Grind the above into fine powder. Take two cents each time, add one cup of water, two slices of ginger, and two dried dates, boil them together until seven parts are left, remove the ginger and dates, and drink it while hot on an empty stomach before meals; add a pinch of salt and can also be taken with boiling water. (Pingwei Powder from the Bureau of Prescriptions)

The above paragraphs have given us a good introduction to the medicinal value of Atractylodes lancea. I believe that friends who read the above content carefully will have a deeper understanding of Atractylodes lancea. And we also have a correct understanding of the effectiveness of Atractylodes lancea in curing some of our diseases. But we must also know some foods that are incompatible with them so that we can better avoid their simultaneous appearance in our daily diet.