(Notes on Materia Medica)

Different names are Vitex negundo (Classic), Vitex negundo (Notes on Materia Medica), Wan (Handbook of Zhejiang Traditional Chinese Medicine) and Zi (Handbook of Chinese Herbal Medicine).

The source is Vitex simplicifolia or Vitex simplicifolia of Verbenaceae.

Plant morphology ① Vitex simplicifolia

Deciduous shrubs or small trees, about 3 meters high, have fragrance. Young branches are square, densely villous, other branches gradually become round, and hair gradually falls off. Simple leaf, petiole 5 ~ 18 mm long; Leaf blade is ovoid or obovate, 2.5 ~ 5cm long and 65438 0.5 ~ 3cm wide, with short tip, wedge-shaped to round base, whole margin, green top, sparse pubescence and glandular spots, white bottom, dense pubescence and glandular spots, and about 8 pairs of lateral veins. Panicle terminal, 2 ~ 12 cm long; Calyx bell-shaped, apex with 5 short spines, densely white pubescent outside, calyx tube about 4 mm long; Corolla is lavender, 5-lobed, with the largest lobe in the middle 1 and hairs on the lower part: 4 stamens protruding out of the corolla tube, and the anthers bifurcate zigzag; Ovary spherical, densely glandular, style glabrous, stigma 2-lobed. Berries are spherical, 5 ~ 7 mm in diameter, and most of them are surrounded by enlarged persistent calyx. Flowers bloom in July. The fruiting period is September.

A growing coast, beach, lake, etc. Distributed in Liaoning, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan Province, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Yunnan, Guangdong and other places.

② Vitex negundo (classic), also known as Auricularia auricula (recorded in Lingnan), olive vine, eggplant vine and eggplant vine.

It is similar to Vitex simplicifolia in morphology, except that the leaves are usually compound leaves with 3 leaflets, and sometimes they are single leaves in the upper or lower part of the same branch; Leaflets sessile; The leaflets are obovate or oblanceolate, the middle leaflet is usually about 1/3 longer than the lateral leaflet, the petiole is 1 ~ 3 cm long, and it is densely covered with fine villi. There are many cymes, which are relatively arranged in terminal panicles. Flowers bloom in July. The fruiting period is 1 1 month.

It grows on plain grasslands, floodplains and wasteland. Distributed in China's coastal provinces and Yunnan, Guangxi and other places.

The leaves or branches of the above two plants (Vitex negundo leaves) can also be used as medicine. See the special article for details.

Collect autumn fruits and harvest them when they are ripe. Dry in the sun, remove impurities and store in a dry place to prevent damp and mildew.

The dried fruit of medicinal materials is spherical, with a diameter of 4 ~ 6 mm, and the surface is grayish black or dark brown, covered with grayish white powder cream, with 4 longitudinal grooves; Observing with a magnifying glass, it is densely covered with pale yellow dots. There are thin-film persistent calyx and small fruit stalk at the bottom. Persistent calyx covers the fruit 1/3 ~ 2/3, with 5 teeth on the edge, often deeply divided into two petals, gray and densely villous. It is light, tough and not easy to break. Cross-section peel is grayish yellow with brown oil spots. It is divided into four chambers, and each chamber has 1 seed, which is white and oily. The gas is unique and fragrant, and the taste is light and slightly pungent. It is better to have large, full, fragrant and impurity-free grains.

Location: Shandong, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Fujian. In addition, it is also produced in Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan.

Chemical composition Vitex simplicifolia fruit and leaves contain volatile oil, mainly camphene and pinene, and contain trace alkaloids and vitamin A; The fruit also contains vitexin, namely vitexin.

Vitex negundo fruit contains a small amount of vitexin (0.0 1%).

Stir-fry Vitex negundo: Sieve off the ash, remove the remaining sepals, stir-fry in a pot with high fire until brown, spray water slightly, and let cool.

"On Lei Gong Roast": "Whoever uses Vitex negundo, remove the pedicle and put down the white film, then soak it in wine for a while and steam it, and dry it from end to end."

Bitter and bitter, cold.

① Classic: "Bitter taste, slightly cold."

② Pearl Capsule: "Bitter, bitter."

Meridian enters the liver, stomach and bladder.

(1) Herbal soup: "Taiyang Jing Yao."

② Description of the nature of drugs processed by Lei Gong: "Entering the liver meridian."

③ "Herbal Shu Shu": "Entering the Foot Sun, Jueyin and Foot Yangming Meridian."

The function is mainly used to evacuate wind and heat and clear the head. Treat wind-heat cold, migraine, toothache, red eyes, eye pain, dark tears and dampness. "

(1) Classic: "Treat cold and heat between bones and muscles, damp arthralgia, improve eyesight, strengthen teeth, benefit nine orifices and eliminate white worms."

② Notes on Materia Medica: "The main hair is bald."

3 "Don't record": "Go to the worm, the main wind has a headache, the brain is ringing, and the eyes are crying; Benefiting qi makes people shiny and smooth. "

④ Theory of medicinal properties: "Curing thieves can make the wind grow longer."

⑤ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Conducive to joints, cure blindness and epilepsy."

⑥ "Pearl Capsule": "Cool menstrual blood, stop headache and treat eye pain."

⑦ Wang: "Search for liver wind."

⑧ "Medical Forest Compendium": "It can dissipate heat, dispel wind and dry dampness."

Pet-name ruby Guangxi traditional Chinese medicine annals: "Treating stomachache."

Indications: Manual of Common Chinese Herbal Medicines in Guangjun: "Dispelling wind and dissipating heat, calming the liver and relieving pain. Treat colds, fever, eye pain, dizziness, rheumatism, myalgia, indigestion, enteritis, diarrhea, swelling and falling pain. "

Oral administration and dosage: decocted, 2 ~ 3 yuan; Soak in wine or take pills or powder. External use: tamping.

Avoid blood deficiency with fire, headache, dizziness and stomach deficiency.

① Notes on Materia Medica: "Aconitum, Gypsum."

② Medical origin: "People with stomach deficiency should not take it for fear of phlegm."

(3) The Classic of Materia Medica: "The pain of the leader is not caused by a cold, but by blood deficiency and fire."

(4) "Materia Medica": "Paralysis is not caused by the evil of rheumatism, and it is not suitable for those who are weak due to yang deficiency and blood dryness; Cold hernia beriberi is not caused by exogenous pathogenic dampness, and it is not suitable for those with deficiency of both liver and spleen. "

Scheme 1: Curing head wind: two liters of Vitex negundo (the end) and a barrel of wine. Soak in silk bags for seven nights, warm clothes three times and three days. (Qian Jinfang)

② Treatment of wind-cold invading eyes, swelling and pain, tears, astringent swelling and shame: Vitex negundo San Qian, Schizonepeta tenuifolia, Tribulus terrestris, Bupleurum chinense, Saposhnikovia divaricata and Glycyrrhiza uralensis. Decoct with water. ("Materia Medica")

③ Treating manual labor, improper diet, cataract and eye diseases: Radix Astragali, Radix Ginseng, Radix Glycyrrhizae Preparata, Fructus Viticis, Cortex Phellodendri, San Qian (fried with wine for four times), Radix Paeoniae Alba, and San Qian. Chew on your mouth, 35 yuan each time, and decoct in water. ("Shi Lan's Secret Collection" Jingjing Decoction)

Famous experts discuss ① "Outline": "The vine is solid, the gas is light and pungent, the body is light and floating, and it goes up and scattered, so the wind on the head and face is weak."

(2) The Herbal Classic of Mercury: "Vitex negundo" tastes bitter, slightly cold and nontoxic; "Don't record" Jia Xin Pingwen. Examining its function, it should be bitter, warm and pungent, while cold is rare. The air is clear and tastes thin, floating and rising, and yang is also present. It governs the cold and heat between bones and muscles, and the symptoms such as headache, brain ringing and tears caused by wind are covered by the evil of six evils. The wind hurts tendons and bones, which is cold and heat, and even dampness or contracture; It is also full of the pulse of the sun, and the spine is connected with the brain along the neck. This purpose is to enlighten Jueyin. If the pathogen injures the two meridians, it will cause headache, brain ringing and tears. This medicine has pungent air temperature, which can dispel pathogenic wind and cold, and all the symptoms are eliminated. When evil goes away, the nine orifices pass by, while the blue three are caused by oily grease. Although the tooth is kidney, the bed belongs to Yangming, and Yangming attacks the tooth, which is swelling and pain, dispersing Yangming wind and heat, and the tooth is self-hardening. "In addition to white worms and long worms, pretend to be bitter."

(3) Materia Medica: "Vitex negundo, the main medicine for various wind diseases. In ancient times, it was mainly used to dredge nine orifices, activate joints, improve eyesight and strengthen teeth, and dispel the evil of wind, cold and heat. It is pungent and warm, floating on the top, so it is the main syndrome of wind deficiency in the head and face. " As far as the nine orifices are concerned, it is good for joints. Therefore, it is repeatedly used in soup powder for treating damp arthralgia, cold hernia and beriberi, and is not limited to the upper part of the head and face. "

④ "Drug Meaning": "Vitex negundo can dispel wind, cool blood and enlighten the mind. Any headache, head wind, brain sound, tearful eyes and drowsiness caused by the sun are all due to blood heat and wind heat. Cool it, take its thin gas to control the rise, and add miraculous Huangqi decoction to remove obstacles and restore sight, which is a medicine for the liver meridian. "

⑤ New edition of Materia Medica: "Vitex negundo, supplemented by Chinese medicine, is the most effective treatment for headache. Because it is light and weak, it is easy to rise. If you rely on it blindly, you won't win in the future. "

⑥ Zhang Shouyi: "The sons of vegetation are all strong and weak. Although the vine is not very heavy, its nature is bound to decline. Classically, it is mainly used to treat cold and heat between bones and muscles, damp arthralgia and contracture, improve eyesight, strengthen teeth and benefit nine orifices, all of which have the function of clearing fire. Although bitter words are used in other records, they are mainly used to treat wind, headache, brain ringing and watery eyes. They are still diseases of rising internal wind, and they are definitely not used to evacuate external wind. " "Daily chemicals" refers to treating pinkeye; Zhang Jiegu said that he can cure his dull head and stop the pain in his eyes; Wang Haizang refers to seeking liver wind; It's all about calming down the wind and reducing the fire. The meaning is clear. Care for power is to treat thieves; Elderberry is also known as treating sun headache and dispersing cold; Being mistaken for an evacuation drug is by no means the real purpose of Benjing and Bielu. Covering the internal wind and external wind, treating turbidity has long been a common problem since the Han and Wei Dynasties. Zhenquan and others said that this was a mistake. But it is said that it is the "outline" of the lake, that is, its air is clear and fragrant, its body is light and floating, and it is scattered upwards, but it is confirmed by the mistakes and persistence of Zhen Quan and others. For nearly 300 years, no one can know the real function of Vitex negundo. But being near the lake also means that the owner's head and face suffer from wind deficiency. Then, how can the wind belong to the virtual, and what reason is there to participate with floating? "Qian Jin Fang" takes Vitex negundo as the end, and soaking in wine to treat head wind and headache is also the method of internal wind, not the method of dispelling external wind. Its drinker draws on it by the power of wine, so that the power of medicine can reach the heart. Spend a penny lightly, and you can reuse it to three or four dollars. "

Remind you: Vitex negundo is an online Chinese herbal medicine. Please follow the doctor's advice before use.