What are the medicinal values ​​of wood butterfly?

Oroxylum butterfly is a common Chinese herbal medicine, but many people are unfamiliar with it. It has the effects of clearing the lungs and reducing phlegm, relieving cough and reducing phlegm. People who don’t know it will think that this is a butterfly, but it is a kind of plant. Because it looks like a butterfly, it is called Oroxylum butterfly. The basic medicinal use of this Chinese patent medicine is the mature seeds. So what are the medicinal values ​​of Oroxylum butterfly?

Wooden Butterfly

Physiological characteristics

The wood butterfly is a butterfly-shaped thin piece, with three sides extending into wide and thin wings except for the base. The surface is light yellow-white, the wings are translucent, have a silky luster, have radial textures, and are mostly cracked at the edges. It is light in weight. After peeling off the seed coat, you can see a thin film of endosperm tightly wrapped around the cotyledons. It has a faint smell and a slightly bitter taste. It often grows on hillsides, stream banks, valleys or bushes below 1000 meters above sea level.

Wood butterfly is a butterfly-shaped thin piece, except for the base, the three sides are extended into wide and thin wings.

Medicinal

Oroxylum butterfly, the name of a traditional Chinese medicine. It is the dried mature seeds of the Oroxylum bungeana of the Bignoniaceae family. It often grows on hillsides, stream banks, valleys or bushes below 1000 meters above sea level, and is distributed in Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places. Bitter, sweet, and cool. It has the effects of clearing the lungs and relieving throat, soothing the liver and harmonizing the stomach. It is commonly used for lung heat cough, throat congestion, hoarseness, and liver and stomach pain.

Nature and flavor and meridians

Bitter, cold.

effect

Clears the lungs and opens the voice, soothes the liver and regulates Qi.

1. "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": "It can calm asthma, eliminate phlegm, break up the accumulation of poisonous insects, and remove the poison of blood poison and qi poison. It can also replenish deficiency, relieve stomachache, and promote appetite."

2 "Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can treat heart qi pain, liver qi pain, and damp heat in the lower body. Xiang Qiuzi also said that if the carbuncle does not heal, this can be applied."

3 "Modern Practical Chinese Medicine": "It can relieve cough, treat whooping cough and dry tracheitis."

Clinical Application

1. Used for hoarse cough

This product has the effect of clearing the lungs and opening the voice, and can treat the symptoms of cough and hoarseness. It is often used in combination with drugs such as lung-clearing, cough-relieving, and phlegm-resolving drugs in clinical practice.

This product has the effect of clearing the lungs and opening up the voice, and can treat the symptoms of cough and hoarseness.

2. Used for liver and stomach pain

This product can also soothe the liver and regulate qi, and can treat liver and stomach qi. It is often used together with other drugs such as Cyperus rotundus and Fructus Croton.

In addition, the wood butterfly can also be used to apply to carbuncles and ulcers, which has the effect of astringing the wounds.

Prescription name

Wood butterfly, jade butterfly, thousand pieces of paper (for drying)

General dosage and usage

Take 3 to 1 qian of the medicine, decoct and drink. For external use, apply in appropriate amount.

Selection

①For the treatment of acute bronchitis, whooping cough, etc.: 1 qian of Oroxylum butterfly, 3 qian of Annanzi, 1.5 qian of Platycodon grandiflorum, 1 qian of Licorice, 3 qian of Morus alba bark, and 3 qian of Coltsfoot Flos. Decoction in water, add 3 liang of rock sugar, dissolve it in the liquid, make it into syrup, take it frequently several times a day. (Cough Syrup from Modern Practical Chinese Medicine)

② Treat liver-qi pain: roast 20 to 30 pieces of Oryocus macrolide, grind them into powder in a copper pot, mix with good wine and drink. (Supplement to Gangmu)

What are the medicinal values ​​of the wood butterfly? First of all, this is an anti-inflammatory and analgesic medicine. It is very effective in warming the stomach and treating gastrointestinal diseases. Regular consumption can promote physical health. It has very good effects on relieving liver and qi, chronic bronchitis, and whooping cough. With this understanding, don't worry about not understanding the medicine.