At the same time, the geographical environment of "rainy spring and summer, hot weather and wet land"
Cultivate Chinese herbal medicines with unique local characteristics.
And gradually applied to medicinal diet, health preservation, health care and disease prevention.
Play an important role and be favored by doctors.
The orthopedics and traumatology department of Lingnan traditional Chinese medicine is based on accurate trauma management technology.
It is famous for its unique fixation method and effective traumatology.
The medicinal materials used are exquisite and unique.
Look at the wonderful use of five-finger peach.
Lingnan famous medicine "Wuzhitao".
radix fici simplicissimae
The dried root of Ficus crassifolia, a Moraceae plant, is called "Wuzhonglong" in Cantonese slang, also known as Wulong Root, Nanqi and Dragon Leaf. Because its leaves are pentagonal, hairy and fragrant, it is called finger peach. Because its efficacy is similar to that of Acanthopanax and Astragalus, it is also called Acanthopanax and Astragalus. Its medicinal use was first seen in He Kejian's Herbal Preparation in Qing Dynasty.
Medicinal value
Five-finger peach is a common medicinal plant in southern China. Known as "Guangdong Ginseng", it has high medicinal value. It is one of the top ten famous medicines in Lingnan, and it is a good product with the same origin of medicine and food. It is "pungent and sweet in taste, slightly warm in nature, and has the effects of invigorating qi and tonifying deficiency, promoting qi and relieving depression, strengthening tendons and activating collaterals, invigorating spleen and eliminating dampness, relieving cough and resolving phlegm". Clinically, it is often used to treat spleen and lung weakness, postpartum agalactia, rheumatalgia, traumatic injury, tuberculosis, cough, ascites due to liver cirrhosis and other diseases.
Main components and pharmacological effects: roots are the main medicinal parts, and the main medicinal components are phenylpropanoids, flavonoids, terpenoids, sterols and volatile oils, among which coumarins (one of phenylpropanoids) are the main active components. Psoralen and bergamot separated from it have become the most valuable quality evaluation indexes in the index grouping of five-finger peach.
Modern pharmacological research shows that the pharmacological activities of Gynostemma pentaphyllum mainly show antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, improving respiratory function (relieving cough and asthma), improving immune function, protecting gastrointestinal tract and liver, resisting oxidation, radiation and aging.
Clinical application of bone injury diseases
The taste and function of Finger Peach are very suitable for Lingnan people's physical characteristics of "deficiency without tonic". Five-finger peach is used to treat bone injury diseases. On the one hand, strengthening the spleen and moistening the lungs, strengthening the body resistance and benefiting qi, but there is no danger of lifting it, but it is not strict. On the other hand, it can eliminate phlegm and dampness, relax muscles and collaterals, eliminate pathogenic factors without hurting righteousness, and tonify without stagnation. Therefore, it is often used to treat traumatic injury, muscle strain, knee osteoarthritis, lumbar disc herniation, osteoporosis and other diseases with remarkable curative effect.
Among them, for the treatment of knee osteoarthritis with qi deficiency and blood stasis, five-finger peach is used to replenish qi and promote blood circulation, Achyranthes bidentata and Eucommia ulmoides are used to tonify liver and kidney and strengthen bones and muscles, and Spatholobus Spatholobus is used to replenish blood and dredge collaterals; To treat lumbar disc herniation with phlegm and blood stasis, five-finger peach is often used to eliminate dampness, vinegar turtle shell and Taxilli are used to nourish liver and kidney, invigorate qi and promote blood circulation, and Atractylodes lancea and Radix Aucklandiae are used to eliminate dampness, promote qi circulation and dredge collaterals. To treat scapulohumeral periarthritis due to qi deficiency and blood stasis, Shen Ling Baizhu Powder is often used to invigorate spleen and lung, invigorate qi and eliminate dampness, and it is combined with Wuzhitao to increase the efficacy of regulating qi and eliminating dampness, dredging collaterals and relieving pain.
Application in medical care
In Lingnan area, people with qi deficiency, yang deficiency and damp-heat are more common. Five-finger peach is sweet in taste and flat in nature, and has the effects of invigorating spleen and lung, strengthening body resistance and benefiting qi, eliminating dampness and dredging collaterals.
Wuzhimaotao chicken soup
Ingredients: 30-50g of Finger Peach, 300g of Sanhuang Chicken, 50g of pork, corn cob 1 root, 2 slices of ginger, 8 jujubes and 20g of Euryale ferox.
Practice: Wash the five-finger peach, Euryale ferox and other medicinal materials, and wash the pork and chicken with hot water. Put the ingredients into a casserole or casserole, first boil them with strong fire, then simmer them for 2 hours, and add a little salt to taste before eating.
Efficacy: Chicken can tonify qi and blood, add five-finger peach, Euryale ferox and other medicinal materials, tonify spleen and stomach, tonify qi and blood, eliminate dampness and dredge collaterals, and at the same time, tonify without stagnation, and eliminate evil without hurting righteousness. The soup is suitable for the elderly, parturient, children, the infirm, rheumatism patients, etc.