What is the medical function of willow branches?
Branches are a medicine. Expelling pathogenic wind, promoting diuresis, relieving pain and reducing swelling. Treat rheumatic arthralgia, gonorrhea, turbid urine, dysuria, infectious hepatitis, wind swelling, furuncle, erysipelas, dental caries, and gingival swelling and pain. (1) Materia Medica: Treating children's cold and fever, boiling willow branches and bathing for five days a day. 2 "Japanese Herbal Medicine": digestible. ③ "Illustration of Materia Medica in Southern Yunnan": Indications are coagulation and qi stagnation, and wind-cold external bundle; For children with acne, aconite is trapped in it, so the pulp can't rise, and it can't be decocted or bathed. 4 "Outline": decoction, treating jaundice and white turbidity; Boiling and scalding with wine can reduce swelling, dispel wind, relieve pain and reduce swelling. ⑤ "Depei Herbal Medicine": expelling wind and heat, removing dampness and arthralgia. Oral administration: decoction, 1 ~ 2. External use: gargle with water or smoke. ① Treatment of turbid urine: holding willow branches and licorice San Qian. Make soup to drink. ("After the Elbow") 2 Treatment of infantile fetal fire without urine: willow branches, holding dry, soup service. ("Ji") 3 Treatment of urinary stalk: There are many withered willows (branches). Break the decoction, pour it into a bucket, enclose it and smoke it. Take it orally again. ("Outline") 4 Treatment of jaundice: Three liters of willow branches. Take a bucket of water and boil the thick juice, and take half a liter at a time. (Waitai) ⑤ Treatment of acute and chronic hepatitis: add 22 pieces of tender willow branches within one inch, add water 1000 ml, and fry to 200 ml, once a day and take twice. (Single-sided selection of Chinese herbal medicines in Xinjiang) ⑥ Treating furuncle and anti-ulcer: frying willow branches and leaves as ointment. ("The Lone Ranger") ⑦ Treatment of sores and swelling: willow sticks, burning cans of cigarettes and smoking water. ("Cai") 8 Treatment of swelling and pain of yin pawn: willow branches are three feet long and 20 pieces. Fine file, boiled in water is extremely hot, so the swollen place is wrapped in silk, or washed with hot soup. ("Wan Zang Tan Ji Fang") 9 Treat the erysipelas of jujube, starting from the back: adjust it with willow ash water. ("Outside Taiwan") Attending to treat dental caries: one liter of willow branches (files) and one liter of soybeans. Stir-fried, bean cannon, filled in porcelain, that is, stained with three liters of wine. After three days, I vomited frequently in Taiwan Province. ("Ancient and Modern Records") ⑾ Treatment of tooth swelling and occasional brain swelling and pain: holding weeping willow branches, white bark of Sophora japonica and white bark of poplar respectively. Apply the medicine in fine grades, use half water each time, fry until it is seven minutes cooked, take me out, add one yuan of salt, stir well, and vomit hot and cold. ("Shenghui Fang" Liuzhi Decoction) ① Treating coronary heart disease, willow branches are made into syrup, each 100 ml contains 6 Liang of fresh crude drugs; If there is gastrointestinal reaction after taking it, appropriate amount of malt (per 100 ml 1 2) can be added. 50 ml each time, 3 times a day, 2 months as a course of treatment. A total of 40 cases were observed, including 365438 0 cases with angina pectoris. After taking the medicine, 14 cases disappeared, 13 cases were relieved, and 4 cases remained unchanged. Most of the symptoms such as palpitation, chest tightness, shortness of breath, headache and numbness of limbs have been alleviated or disappeared to varying degrees. Symptoms improved for 2 days in a short time and 8 weeks in the elderly. In some cases, urine volume increased, edema subsided and sleep improved. Most of the 24 patients with hypertension have decreased to varying degrees. The results of ECG reexamination in 35 cases showed that 15 cases improved, which seemed to have a good effect on patients with chronic coronary insufficiency. According to the analysis of 38 cases, the rise and fall of cholesterol has no obvious effect. Side effects: Some patients have increased defecation frequency after taking loose stool, and it disappears automatically within 1 ~ 2 weeks. A few people have urticaria, itchy skin, and some people have blue skin. Anti-allergic drugs can be added and disappear within 1 ~ 2 weeks. ② The treatment of chronic bronchitis has a short-term effect on cough, phlegm and asthma, but it is better for simple type. According to the observation of 82 cases, 34 cases were recently controlled, 26 cases were markedly effective, 2 1 case was improved, and 1 case was ineffective. After taking the medicine, it generally reflects an increase in appetite and an improvement in sleep. Only a few patients have diarrhea and abdominal pain due to overdose, but the time is short and can disappear without treatment. Usage: 4 pieces of willow branches, chopped and washed, decocted in water, daily 1 dose, 10 day as a course of treatment. (3) To treat infectious hepatitis, take 22 pieces of willow branches with leaves (dry product 1 2) and add water 1 kg, and decoct them into 300ml, and take them twice. 253 cases of acute hepatitis (mainly jaundice) were treated, the effective rate was 96.3%, and the average medication time was 28.5 days. The main symptoms were loss of appetite for 3.7 days, nausea and vomiting for 2.7 days, and abdominal distension disappeared for 7 days. After taking most drugs, the feeling of flatulence and appetite in the upper abdomen improved rapidly, and other digestive tract symptoms also eased, and urine color faded and urine volume increased. Fresh willow branches and Pterocarya stenoptera branches each weigh 65438±00kg, and are made into injections of 65438±0200ml, and intramuscular injection of 4 ml per day (half for children); In addition, 65,438+0.5 kg of willow leaves and 0.5 kg of Pterocarya stenoptera leaves were distilled to make 65,438+0.500 ~ 65,438+0.800 ml of injection twice a day, with 3 ml each time (half for children). The former is used for acute icteric hepatitis, and its main function is to relieve jaundice and improve poisoning symptoms; The latter is used for acute infectious hepatitis, and its main function is to reduce enzyme and flocculant. You can also take 3 taels of willow branches, 3 taels of Pterocarya stenoptera branches, 65438 taels of willow leaves and 0.5 taels of Pterocarya stenoptera leaves every day, and make decoction to be taken twice. 2 18 cases were treated by injection, and 208 cases (95.4%) were cured clinically. There were 10 cases (4.6%) with poor curative effect (the course of treatment was more than 5 1 day and other Chinese medicines were added). Practice has proved that the shorter the onset time (within 1 month), the higher the cure rate. After taking the medicine, the effect was quick: 74.8% of the patients had jaundice subsided within 3 ~ 12 days; 83. 1% of musk deer turbidity test and 83. 1% of musk deer floc test recovered within 30 days, respectively. Symptoms such as fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting basically disappeared within 3 ~ 7 days. It has no effect on jaundice and abnormal liver function caused by liver cirrhosis. Decoct fresh willow branches with leaves or Yang Liuzhi (fresh) with water.