Overview of TCM
Morning glory (also known as "white ugly") is a mature seed of morning glory, a climbing herb of convolvulaceae. Bitter, pungent and cold; Toxic. Enter lung, kidney and large intestine meridian.
1. Diarrhea and drainage: used for stopping drinking, swelling, bad stool, damp-heat stagnation, constipation, etc. This product can be taken as powder and ginger juice together. Such as (Puji Fang Petunia powder), (Shenshi Zunsheng Petunia powder Petunia, rhubarb, betel nut, realgar).
2. Abdominal pain due to insect accumulation: used for expelling ascaris and tapeworms, such as Niulang Pill.
Pharmacological identification
This product is pungent and sinks downward, and laxatives and diuretics are rarely used. For those with severe diarrhea, it is used to expel water and dredge triple energizer. Black ugliness begets water.
pharmacological action
1. has obvious purgative effect, and its purgative effective component is morning glory glycoside;
2. The medicinal component can enhance kidney function and has diuretic effect through urine excretion.
chemical composition
Contains morning glory glycoside, fatty oil, protein, various sugars and pigments. Petunia glycoside is decomposed into Petunia when it meets bile and intestinal juice in the intestine, which can stimulate mucosal congestion, increase secretion, accelerate intestinal peristalsis and cause watery diarrhea.
Dose usage
2- 10g, and crushed into decoction or pill powder.
Pay attention to use
Pregnant women and the weak are not allowed in. This product is afraid of croton (croton is the strongest and not suitable for Petunia).
be filled/suffused/brimming with
Its color is light and the fruit is white, which is called white ugliness. Modern experiments have preliminarily proved that there is no difference between black ugly diarrhea and white ugly diarrhea, so most of them are mixed.
compatibility of medicines
With rhubarb, both of them are bitter and cold, and both of them are the crystallization of severe diarrhea. Petunia is partial to qi, rhubarb is partial to blood, and the two medicines are combined together. One is to treat qi stagnation and water stagnation, and the other is to treat evil stagnation and blood stagnation, which is very powerful, and has the functions of inducing dampness and promoting diuresis, purging heat and detoxifying, and breaking accumulation and resolving stagnation.
When used together with prickly heat, it can enter the lung meridian, and has pungent and bitter effects, which can purge lung qi, ascend the upper orifices and dredge the lower orifices. It should be used in combination to enhance the effects of clearing lung-heat, promoting diuresis, relieving asthma and reducing swelling. Clinically, it is often used for phlegm and blood stasis, cough and asthma.
Radix Aucklandiae is added, and Radix Aucklandiae is a drug pair consisting of diuretics and qi-promoting drugs. If you cover the water and drink it, you will be stagnant. If the qi stagnation is not good, the water will be wet. Therefore, water diversion will lead to air intake. Radix Aucklandiae can promote qi circulation and prevent bitter cold from hurting the stomach. They can be used together and complement each other, and can be used for symptoms such as water retention, hydrops in chest and abdomen, abdominal distension and dysuria.
When used together with Areca catechu, Areca catechu has the functions of killing insects and eliminating food stagnation. The two drugs must be used together in pairs to play a synergistic role, so as to strengthen the efficacy of insecticidal drugs, and use these two drugs to replenish qi, eliminate food stagnation and repel insects. "Puji Fang" says: "Areca catechu and morning glory are two kinds of drugs, which are special pesticides."
Fennel: It is bitter in taste, cold in nature, toxic, strong in nature, and has the function of catharsis, diuresis and diarrhea, and also has the function of dredging the large intestine. Fennel is pungent and warm, which has the functions of warming kidney, dispelling cold, regulating qi and relieving pain. It can warm the stomach and relieve the cold air in the small intestine, which is an important drug for treating hernia. The two drugs are used together, and they are specially injected into the lower energizer to relieve swelling and pain and treat hernia.