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What is the function of Eucommia ulmoides as medicine? What are the medicinal effects of Eucommia ulmoides Oliv?
Eucommia ulmoides Oliv It is a common Chinese medicine, and its taste is sweet and warm. As a medicine, Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. It mainly has the function of nourishing liver and kidney. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that kidney is the innate foundation of human beings, so kidney deficiency has a great influence on the body. Chinese medicine also believes that nourishing liver and kidney is very important. Eucommia ulmoides Oliv It is commonly used in various health-preserving medicated diets. So, what is the function of Eucommia ulmoides as medicine? What are the medicinal effects of Eucommia ulmoides Oliv?

EucommiaulmoidesOliv。 It's the bark of Eucommia ulmoides. Location: Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Hubei and other places. Harvest in April-June, remove rough skin, accumulate "sweat" until the endothelium is purple-brown, and dry in the sun. Raw or fried in salt water.

This medicine is sweet and warm. Enter the liver and kidney meridians.

Nourishing liver and kidney, strengthening bones and muscles, and preventing miscarriage.

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1. Lumbago due to kidney deficiency and various lumbago. It is especially suitable for nourishing liver and kidney, strengthening bones and muscles, and lumbago due to kidney deficiency. For other low back pain, it has the function of strengthening the body resistance and consolidating the foundation. It is often used with walnut kernel and psoralea corylifolia to treat lumbago caused by kidney deficiency or soreness of feet and knees, such as Qing 'e Pill (Hejiju Formula); It is compatible with Radix Angelicae Pubescentis, Herba Taxilli and Asari for treating rheumatism, lumbago and cold, such as Radix Angelicae Pubescentis and Herba Taxilli Decoction (Qian Jin Fang); Compatible with Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Cortex Cinnamomi and Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae for treating traumatic lumbago, such as Eucommiae Cortex powder (Shenghui Formula); It is equally used with Angelica sinensis, Ligusticum Chuanxiong and Radix Paeoniae Alba to treat women's menstrual low back pain. It is compatible with cornu Cervi Pantotrichum, Cornus officinalis, Semen Cuscutae, etc., and can be used for treating impotence such as kidney deficiency, cold essence and frequent urination, such as Shibu Pill (Bao Fang).

2. Restlessness of fetal movement or habitual abortion. This product is often used to tonify liver and kidney, strengthen chong and prevent miscarriage. It is effective alone, and can also be used together with Herba Taxilli, Radix Dipsaci, Colla Corii Asini and Semen Cuscutae. For example, Eucommia Pill in Shengji Zonglu takes this product as the end and jujube as the pill to treat fetal movement. Treatment of habitual abortion with Radix Dipsaci and Rhizoma Dioscoreae.

In addition, in recent years, single use or compound use has a good effect on hypertension, and it is mostly used with Prunella vulgaris, Taxilli and Chrysanthemum.

Usage and dosage: decocted, 10 ~ 15g.

Pay attention to the destruction of its colloid by frying, which is beneficial to the frying of effective components, so it is better than raw use. This product is a product for warming and tonifying, and should be used with caution for those with yin deficiency and excessive fire.

Ancient book abstracts

1. Shennong's Herbal Classic: "Indicating lumbago and spinal pain, tonifying the middle energizer, benefiting vital energy, strengthening bones and muscles, being ambitious, eliminating itching and dampness under yin, and facilitating urination." Long service, light body and old body. "

2. "Don't record": "Treat foot pain and don't want to practice."

3. "Herbal Zheng Zheng": "Warming the uterus and preventing fetal gas."

Modern research

1. Chemical composition: This product contains Eucommia ulmoides gum, Eucommia ulmoides glycoside, terpineol diglucoside, aucubin, tannin, flavonoids, etc.

2. Pharmacological action: Eucommia ulmoides decoction can significantly reduce the activity times of mice. Eucommia ulmoides decoction can prolong the sleep time of pentobarbital sodium and make experimental animals sleepy slowly. Eucommia ulmoides Oliv can inhibit delayed hypersensitivity induced by DNCB in mice. It can inhibit the immunosuppressive effect of antioxidant cortisone, regulate the cellular immune balance, enhance the increase of liver glycogen content in tumor-bearing mice and raise blood sugar. Eucommia decoction. Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. And Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. It has obvious antihypertensive effect on rabbits and dogs, but Eucommia ulmoides has antihypertensive effect. Is weak. Hypotensive effect of Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. And Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. And Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. All of them can antagonize the effect of pituitrin on isolated uterus and significantly inhibit the spontaneous contraction of isolated uterus in rats.

3. Clinical study: Bushen Antai decoction in treating habitual abortion (Shaanxi Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1995, 16 (2): 70). Eucommia ulmoides leaves and Eucommia ulmoides bark tablets can improve the main symptoms of hypertension to some extent (Shaanxi Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1980, 1 (4): 27).

efficacy

(1) Lowering blood pressure

Eucommia ulmoides Oliv Clinically, it has been used to treat hypertension, which can reduce the blood pressure of patients with hypertension, but the reduction value is limited, which may be related to Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. Dilating blood vessels indirectly increases the total volume of blood vessels, and the blood pressure is relatively reduced, which has therapeutic effect on dizziness caused by hypertension.

(2) diuresis

Eucommia ulmoides Oliv It contains a lot of potassium, and its potassium content is about 0.4%. Eucommia ulmoides dishes or traditional Chinese medicine. It will consume a lot of potassium ions, which can regulate renal function and promote urination.

Experimental results: All kinds of Eucommia ulmoides preparations have diuretic effect on anesthetized dogs, and there is no "rapid tolerance" phenomenon. It also has diuretic effect on normal rats and mice.

(3) Sedation and hypnosis

A large dose of Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. The decoction can make dogs quiet and sleepy, and will not show excitement even under the interference of many external environments, which has a strong sedative and hypnotic effect. At the same time, Eucommia ulmoides can lower blood pressure, so taking Eucommia ulmoides has a good therapeutic effect on insomnia caused by hypertension.

(4) Beauty

The experiment shows that Eucommia ulmoides can enhance the SOD activity of red blood cells and increase the weight of adrenal gland in mice. Eucommia ulmoides Oliv It can restore the low physiological function to normal, which shows that Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. It has certain anti-aging effect.

Eucommia ulmoides Oliv It contains a lot of mineral elements, among which zinc content is very high. Zinc can accelerate the repair of wounds, ulcers, surgical wounds, etc. And it can promote the cell division of lymphocytes, indicating that zinc has the function of delaying aging.

(5) prevention of abortion

Experiments show that Eucommia decoction can also inhibit the central nervous system of mice, inhibit the excitement caused by the posterior pituitary gland of rats and rabbits in vitro, and thus relax the uterus.

Eucommia ulmoides Oliv It also exists in many prescriptions of traditional Chinese medicine for preventing miscarriage. Visible, Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. It can relax the human uterus and has a certain effect on fetal protection.