Function of Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. Mainly to nourish liver and kidney, strengthen bones and muscles, and prevent miscarriage. It can be used for treating backache, soreness of feet and knees, dysuria, damp itching, abortion, fetal movement disorder and hypertension.
"Corn Medicine Solution": "Benefiting liver and kidney, nourishing bones and muscles, and benefiting joint dampness. Treat waist and knee pain and contracture of legs and feet. "
People's Republic of China (PRC) Pharmacopoeia (20 10 Edition): tonify liver and kidney, strengthen bones and muscles, and prevent miscarriage. Can be used for treating liver and kidney deficiency, soreness of waist and knees, weakness of muscles and bones, dizziness, blood leakage during pregnancy, and fetal movement disorder. ? Eucommia ulmoides Oliv It is a precious nourishing medicinal material, and its effective components contain a large number of medicinal components with known activities and various nutritional components, which is an important material basis of Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. Medical care.
1, anti-tumor effect
Modern pharmacological experiments have proved that Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. It has anti-cancer and anticancer effects, and its effective components are related to lignans, phenylpropanoids and iridoids. It is reported that Eucommia ulmoides contains methyl geniposide. It has anti-tumor effect. Eucommia Oligosaccharides have good activity in lymphoblastic leukemia P388 (Ps) system, and the concentration of 12.5 mg/kg can control the T/C value. 126。 Diflavone, which was isolated from chloroform extract of Eucommia ulmoides leaves by Okada et al., is an immunosuppressive substance that interferes with the function of T lymphocytes, and has growth inhibitory activity on both human nasopharyngeal carcinoma (KB) and mouse lymphoblastic leukemia (P388). Japanese scholars have studied the antimutagenic effect of Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. Tea, and found that this effect is related to chlorogenic acid and other antimutagenic components, revealing the important significance of Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. In terms of tumor prevention. Xu et al. found that Eucommia decoction can significantly reduce eosinophils and lymphocytes in the blood of experimental animals, increase blood sugar and plasma cortisol content, promote glycogen accumulation in the liver, and lead to thymus atrophy. Experiments show that Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. It can stimulate pituitary-adrenal cortex system and enhance adrenal cortex function, indicating Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. As a medicine for strengthening yang and tonifying kidney, it has scientific basis. ? Kidney? It is also related to the immune function of the body. Many studies believe that the efficacy of Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. On enhancing immunity can also reflect its effect of tonifying kidney. They also found the decoction of Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. It has a two-way regulatory effect on cellular immunity: it can activate the phagocytic activity of mononuclear phagocyte system and peritoneal macrophage system, enhance the nonspecific immune function of the body, and inhibit delayed hypersensitivity. Comparison of immune enhancement effects of Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. Compared with different processed products, the efficacy of Eucommia ulmoides processed products was found. Better than Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. It is found that the ethanol extract of Eucommia ulmoides leaves can also enhance cellular immunity and nonspecific immunity. The intraperitoneal injection of 20% and 50% ethanol extracts from Eucommia ulmoides leaves in mice can obviously enhance the transformation function of spleen lymphocytes and the phagocytosis function of peritoneal macrophages in mice, but has no obvious effect on the antibody-forming cells in normal mice. The decoction of Eucommia ulmoides leaves and bark has the same immunopharmacological effect. The ethanol extract of Eucommia ulmoides leaves can enhance cellular immune function and nonspecific immune function, but has no obvious effect on humoral immune function. It is speculated that the ethanol extract of Eucommia ulmoides leaves may have certain curative effect on diseases caused by decreased cellular immune function.
2. About kidney deficiency and lumbago
Eucommia ulmoides Oliv Heqing 'e Pill is a common prescription for treating kidney deficiency, backache and backache. Many chronic lumbar diseases, including lumbar soft tissue, lumbar vertebrae, retroperitoneal organs, pelvic cavity and other chronic diseases, such as lumbar muscle strain, lumbar hyperosteogeny, chronic kidney disease, chronic urinary tract infection, chronic pelvic inflammatory disease, chronic ankylosing spondylitis, chronic lumbar disc herniation, etc., all have symptoms of chronic backache. Patients with backache like knocking on the warm, and TCM syndrome differentiation is kidney deficiency or kidney governor loss. Eucommia ulmoides Oliv , Dipsacus, Psoralea corylifolia and Cuscuta Cuscuta can improve symptoms. This kind of backache is not relieved by anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs. Eucommia ulmoides Oliv It is a good medicine for preventing miscarriage and can treat low back pain during pregnancy.
3. About lowering blood pressure
The efficacy of Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. The discovery of lowering blood pressure was applied only after modern research, which is the development of Chinese medicine application. It is effective for both essential hypertension and renal hypertension. At present, there are many antihypertensive drugs in clinic, and Eucommia ulmoides preparation is rarely used to treat hypertension. However, Eucommia ulmoides. It has a good effect on improving symptoms such as dizziness, headache and heavy body.
4. Treatment of kidney diseases
For chronic kidney disease and lupus nephritis, we often use Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. Clinical use of Dipsacus, Sambucus williamsii and Lagerstroemia can improve low back pain in a short time and reduce proteinuria in a long time. Its mechanism may be related to Eucommia ulmoides can promote adrenal cortex function, improve hormone level in vivo and improve glomerular blood flow. It also helps to reduce renal hypertension.
5. About medical resources
Eucommia ulmoides Oliv It's bark, which is cultivated in all provinces of China. Growth 15 ~ 20 years, the bark part is taken. Eucommia ulmoides Oliv At present, the thin skin and silk distributed by pharmacies are few, indicating that the tree has not grown tall and grown into a mature tree. Premature skin removal not only affects the curative effect, but also is not conducive to the protection of medicinal resources. Only by planting in large quantities can we not only green the environment, but also ensure the full supply of medicinal materials. The bark and leaves of Eucommia ulmoides are also connected with white silk. Whether it can be used as medicine can be studied and tried. Teabag made of Eucommia ulmoides leaves and tea leaves can strengthen the body and improve symptoms such as backache and dizziness after long-term use.
As early as more than 2,000 years ago, it was recorded in China ancient books that Eucommia ulmoides decoction could strengthen muscles. In the long history of the development of traditional Chinese medicine, people have always attached great importance to the functions of Eucommia ulmoides, such as strengthening tendons and bones, nourishing liver and kidney, and resisting aging. Studies have proved that Eucommia ulmoides leaves have the effect of anti-aging of human musculoskeletal in microgravity environment and can be used as aerospace health care products. Animal experiments show that Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. contains a special component that can promote the synthesis and decomposition of protein collagen in human skin, bones and muscles, and has the functions of promoting metabolism and preventing decline, which can be used to prevent the decline of bones and muscles caused by astronauts in weightlessness in space.
Eucommia ulmoides formula Compatibility with 1 and Achyranthes bidentata can tonify liver and kidney and strengthen bones and muscles. It is often used to treat lumbago and leg pain and foot weakness caused by liver and kidney deficiency.
2. Combined with Radix Dipsaci, it can tonify liver and kidney, waist and knees, and strengthen chong Ren, and is often used for various diseases caused by deficiency of liver and kidney.
3. Psoralea corylifolia can warm and tonify kidney-yang, and also tonify spleen and liver, which not only converges lower energizer, but also consolidates chong. It is often used for impotence, cold pain in waist and knees, nocturnal emission and enuresis caused by insufficient kidney yang, and can also be used for symptoms such as soreness of waist and knees caused by insufficient liver and kidney, restless fetal movement and diarrhea caused by deficiency of spleen and kidney yang.
4, with acanthopanax bark, it not only strengthens bones and muscles, but also relieves wind and dampness. It is a pair of medicines that can tonify and diarrhea. It is suitable for the treatment of lumbago and leg pain, weakness of feet and knees, unfavorable joints and weakness of both lower limbs caused by liver and kidney deficiency and rheumatism.
The dried bark of Eucommia ulmoides Oliv. It is flat or rolled, with different sizes and thicknesses, generally about 3 ~ 10 mm thick and 40 ~ 100 cm long. The outer surface is grayish brown and rough, with irregular longitudinal cracks and oblique square transverse cracks, and sometimes light gray lichen spots can be seen. But most of the goods have been shaved off, so the outer surface is light brown and smooth. The inner surface is smooth and dark purple. Fragile and easy to break, the cross section is connected by silver-white silk thread, and the texture is delicate and slightly elastic. Slight gas, slightly bitter taste, chewing with colloidal residue. It is best to have a thick skin, clean and rough, yellowish brown outside, dark brown and shiny inside, and white silk when broken. Thin skin, less cross-section silk or thick skin are inferior. Microscopic identification: cross section of old bark: thick deciduous layer. There are about 5-6 layers of intermittent stone cells in phloem, each layer is about 3 rows thick, and the stone cell wall is extremely thick; 2-3 rows of cells with ray width; Irregular rubbery lumps are scattered, especially near the stone cell layer. In longitudinal section, there are rubber-like cysts in rubber cells.
Powder: dark gray brown.
① The stone cells are rectangular, square, round, polygonal or irregular with a diameter of 32-80? M, grow to 180? M, wall thickness 6-28? M, most of them are uneven in thickness, with obvious holes and grooves, and some cells contain rubber-like lumps.
(2) The glue line is long and thin, slightly bent or twisted into a ball, and the surface is granular.