1, clearing away heat and resolving phlegm
Trichosanthes kirilowii is sweet, cold and moist, which can clear lung heat and moisten lung dryness, but it is hot and dry. It has a good therapeutic effect on cough due to lung heat, turbid and sticky phlegm or lung injury due to dry heat, and dry cough with little phlegm.
2. Loose chest width
Trichosanthes kirilowii can benefit qi and relieve depression, and the turbid soup in the chest will decrease, thus playing the role of widening the chest and dispersing the stagnation. Can be used for treating chest pain, wheezing, cough and other symptoms caused by phlegm-qi stagnation and insufficient chest yang.
3. Eliminating carbuncle and dissipating stagnation
Trichosanthes root can clear away heat, dissipate stagnation and reduce swelling, and is often used with drugs for clearing away heat and toxic materials to treat internal and external carbuncle such as lung carbuncle, breast carbuncle and intestinal carbuncle.
4, moistening the intestines and relaxing the bowels
Trichosanthes kirilowii as medicine comes from the ripe fruit of Trichosanthes kirilowii. Its nuts are moist and fatty, which can moisten and smooth intestines, and can be used to treat diseases such as insufficient body fluid, dry intestines and constipation.
Step 5 eliminate phlegm
The amino acids separated from Trichosanthes kirilowii have good expectorant effect, and the contained aspartic acid can promote cellular immunity, help to alleviate inflammation, reduce secretion, reduce the viscosity of sputum, and make it easy to cough up.
6. Bacterial inhibition
Trichosanthes kirilowii decoction has inhibitory effect on a variety of gram-positive bacteria or gram-negative bacteria, and also has certain inhibitory effect on some skin fungi.
7, inhibit ulcers
The ethanol extract of melon and cattle can obviously reduce the secretion and concentration of gastric acid and promote the formation of gastric ulcer.
8. Protect cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases
Trichosanthes kirilowii can dilate coronary artery and increase coronary flow. When used in large doses, it can inhibit the heart, reduce myocardial contractility and slow down the heart rate. Trichosanthes kirilowii can also prolong the survival time of hypoxic animals and improve the hypoxia tolerance of animal brains. Trichosanthin can also maintain platelet aggregation and improve blood viscosity.
9. Fight cancer
Trichosanthes kirilowii decoction, Trichosanthes kirilowii bark and Trichosanthes kirilowii kernel extracts have killing effects on ascites cancer cells in mice. The anti-cancer effect of Trichosanthes kirilowii bark in vitro is better than that of Trichosanthes kirilowii kernel, and the 60% ethanol extract has the strongest effect.
10, taboo
1, spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, false stool, cold phlegm and wet phlegm are not suitable.
2. It should not be used with Aconitum drugs such as Radix Aconiti, Radix Aconiti Kusnezoffii and Radix Aconiti Lateralis.
1 1, Selection of Fructus Trichosanthis
1. Long-term treatment of children with diaphragmatic fever, cough, phlegm and asthma: Trichosanthes kirilowii. Removing the seeds is the end. Make a cake with flour and bake it yellow. One yuan each time, three times a day, warm water and lactose, the effect stopped. (Xuan Ming Lunfang: Runfei Powder)
2. Treatment of phlegm: one yellow cooked Fructus Trichosanthis. Take out a number of photos, with peeled almonds in them, and put them on the fire to survive, and vinegar paste them into pills, the size of five children. Take 20 tablets at a time. White radish soup will be served when you lie down. ("Ruff Board House")
3. Treatment of asthma: two Fructus Trichosanthis and one piece of alum. If the jujube is big, put it in Fructus Trichosanthis and burn it for the last time. Cook the radish, dip it in the medicine and take it, and the juice will flow out of your mouth. (Puji Fang: Youlou San)
4. Treat chest diseases, which are under the heart and hurt when pressed. Pulse slippery: 50 grams of Rhizoma Coptidis, 250 grams of Rhizoma Pinelliae (washed), Fructus Trichosanthis 1 piece. Take three flavors, six liters of water, first boil Trichosanthes kirilowii, take three liters, take two liters, take three times at different temperatures. (Treatise on Febrile Diseases Xiao Xiong Soup).
5. Treatment of chest pain, wheezing, expectoration, chest pain, shortness of breath, delayed pulse, closed decimal: one Fructus Trichosanthis (mashed), half a catty of water onion, and seven liters of white wine. Take three herbs, boil two liters at the same time, and take them separately. (synopsis of the golden chamber: Trichosanthes kirilowii liquor soup)
6. Those who can't lie down due to chest pain and heartache: Fructus Trichosanthis 1 tablet (mashed), Bulbus Allii Macrostemonae 150g, Rhizoma Pinelliae 250g, and a barrel of white wine. Take the four flavors together, boil four liters together, and warm up for three times a day. ("Synopsis of the Golden Chamber": Stewed Pinellia Decoction in Trichosanthes) 7. There is no limit to treating lung flaccidity and hemoptysis: 50 Fructus Trichosanthis (roasted), 50 Fructus Mume (roasted) and 2/kloc-0 almond (peeled and fried). Every twist, cut a piece of pig lung into thin slices, mix with the powder, heat it, chew it cold and swallow it twice a day. ("Sheng Ji Zong Lu")
8. Treatment of hematemesis: Trichosanthes kirilowii is in the right position, wrapped in paper and mud, left in the top, tempered and preserved, and the mud is broken overnight. Every time I take San Qian Bi, I drink glutinous rice. (Records of Sheng Jizong: Black God III)
9. Cure thirst, fever or mental anxiety: a yellow fat Trichosanthes kirilowii, wash it with a glass of wine, take the pulp, peel it, fry it into a paste, add one or two alum, and the pill is as big as a buttonwood. Take ten capsules of porridge, regardless of time. (Sheng Huifang)
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1 1. Treat jaundice in children, yellow eyes due to spleen heat, and yellow wine: bake green Trichosanthes kirilowii. Take a money, a lamp and water at a time, fry for seven cents, take it away from me, lie on the bed, and let it stand with yellow things. (Puji Fang: Huang Zhu San)
12. secret recipe for treating lung dryness and heat thirst and large intestine: take the pulp of Trichosanthes kirilowii, which is cooked in September and October, mix it with dried Ge Fen, bake it, and stir-fry it with slow fire. After dinner, lie down at night and order San Qian's clothes with boiling soup. (materia medica)
13. Treatment of breast pain: Boil one Fructus Trichosanthis (Huang Laoda), one barrel of white wine, boil four liters, and warm one liter, three times a day. (The Secret Record of Mother and Child)
14. At the initial stage of the treatment of breast abscess and all carbuncle, the swelling and pain disappeared, the pus formed and collapsed, and the pus was discharged and cured: Trichosanthes kirilowii (ground) 1 piece, 25 grams of raw grass, 25 grams of angelica sinensis (washed with wine), 5 grams of frankincense, and 5 grams of final medicine. Serve with wine and take it for a long time. (Secret recipe for women: Shen Xiao Fructus Trichosanthis powder)
15. Treatment of alcoholism, persistent expectoration, swelling and pain on both sides, upward asthma, unable to stop eating: 50 grams of Fructus Trichosanthis pulp, 25 grams of Massa Medicata Fermentata powder (slightly fried). Apply the medicine and pound it into powder. Add10g white onion wine to each serving. (Sheng Huifang)
16. Treatment of intestinal wind bleeding: Fructus Trichosanthis (burnt to ashes) and half a red bean. On the second taste, pestle is the end. Hollow wine is transferred to one yuan. ("Sheng Ji Zong Lu")
17. Treatment of redness and swelling caused by heat: the two behind Trichosanthes kirilowii are two big ones, and they are treated with vinegar. (Milk Production Prescription)
18. First stool poisoning: Trichosanthes kirilowii 1 piece, 25g of coptis chinensis. Decoct in water, and take continuously. (Lei Yong Zhong Fang)