The story of treating broken bones and muscles with Rhizoma Drynariae
According to legend, when Tang went out hunting, a leopard suddenly appeared with a broken bone and a mouthful of blood. I asked the physician to take internal medicine, but all kinds of external application methods didn't work, and the pain didn't relieve. So he ordered Zhang Huangbang to gather talents from all over the world to treat back pain caused by waist injury for Tang Xuanzong.
At this time, a folk doctor came and presented him with a monkey ginger herb. On the one hand, it is decocted and taken, and at the same time it is mashed and applied externally. He soon cured Tang Xuanzong of his illness. The emperor was overjoyed and asked, What's the name of this medicine? The doctor replied that it was called Monkey Ginger, and the emperor said that the name was not very nice and elegant. I will give it a name. It's called "bone fracture repair"
Among the materia medica of past dynasties, Rhizoma Drynariae is the only medicine that can be named by the emperor himself. This may also be the key to the treatment of traumatic injury, where the name of "bone dryer" has gradually become famous.
Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, said, "Take medicine in winter, drink in winter, and stop in spring. If this method remains unchanged for a lifetime, you will be ill. "
Experience of treating chronic diarrhea with Rhizoma Drynariae
In Compendium of Materia Medica, Li Shizhen described his case of treating chronic diarrhea with Rhizoma Drynariae.
Wei Cishi's son suffered from chronic diarrhea, and many doctors were invited to treat him, but it didn't work. On his deathbed, he finally had to ask Li Shizhen for treatment. Li Shizhen grinds Rhizoma Drynariae into pig kidney, simmers it for him, and immediately stops diarrhea after eating.
Li Shizhen's analysis shows that the kidney governs defecation, and prolonged diarrhea will inevitably lead to kidney deficiency, which cannot be treated exclusively from spleen and stomach diseases. Because many doctors failed to use drugs, Li Shizhen gave up the method of treating spleen and stomach. Considering that chronic diarrhea should be caused by kidney deficiency, he started with tonifying kidney and achieved good results.
Facts have proved that Li Shizhen's analysis and judgment are very correct, and treatment based on syndrome differentiation is based on treatment.
Nowadays, the clinical application of Rhizoma Drynariae is mainly used in two aspects:
1, Fracture fragmentation: Rhizoma Drynariae can promote fracture healing and treat osteoporosis. The medicine can promote bone to absorb calcium, improve blood calcium and blood phosphorus levels, and is beneficial to bone calcification and bone salt formation. It is also the main reason for its name "broken bone". Since ancient times, it has been used as an important drug to treat tendon injuries and fractures, especially for comminuted fractures.
2. Kidney-yang deficiency syndrome: It can be used to treat various diseases caused by kidney-yang deficiency, such as low back pain, tinnitus, chronic diarrhea and dysentery, and weakness of muscles and bones.
The taste is bitter and warm. Liver and kidney meridians. The rhizome of Rhizoma Drynariae is used as medicine, which is rich in flavonoids, alkaloids, phenols and other effective components, and has the effects of removing blood stasis, relieving pain, connecting bones and tendons, and treating toothache, lumbago and chronic diarrhea. External use can treat alopecia areata and vitiligo.