Lycium barbarum bark, also called Lycium barbarum bark, is the root bark of Lycium barbarum tree. It is produced all over the country. It is dug in early spring or after autumn, peeled off the root bark, dried in the sun, and cut into sections for medicine.

First, the efficacy application

Cortex Lycii tastes sweet, light and cold. Enter the lung and kidney meridians.

Efficacy can cool blood, reduce steaming and clear lung heat. It is characterized by easy treatment, sweating, steaming, fatigue and heat.

It is often used to treat hot flashes due to yin deficiency, night sweats due to bone steaming, cough due to lung heat, hemoptysis, epistaxis, thirst due to internal heat, etc.

Summary of famous works:

Classic: "Treating five internal evils, relieving summer heat and quenching thirst, and treating arthralgia."

Pearl capsule: "Shugu, steaming muscle heat, quenching thirst, expelling wind and dampness, strengthening bones and muscles, cooling blood."

Herbal soup: "purging kidney fire, reducing lung fire, eliminating cell fire, reducing fever and benefiting qi."

Compendium of Materia Medica: "Lower energizer removes deficiency heat of liver and kidney."

Medicinal Solution of Sorbus fragrans: "Clearing liver and purging heat, cooling bones and removing steaming, stopping hematemesis and bleeding, clearing heat and quenching thirst."

Compendium of Materia Medica: "Sweet and cold. Lowering lung fire, purging deficiency heat of liver and kidney, cooling blood and benefiting qi. Therefore, internal treatment of five evils, vomiting blood and urine, relieving cough and quenching thirst. External treatment of muscle heat sweating, upper wind pain, moderate chest pain, lower large intestine. Cured for a cold, the table is uncertain, and the body is sweating. "

Experience of Western Medicine: "Treating sweating and bone steaming can stop hematemesis and epistaxis, clear kidney heat, dredge two stools, and treat two stools with blood. Moreover, the lower qi can clear the heat of the upper energizer, and those who cough due to lung heat can be cured. "

Second, compatibility and application.

1. Used for yin deficiency and blood heat, bone steaming and hot flashes, night sweats and other syndromes. Cortex Lycii is good at clearing away deficiency and heat, and is an important drug for treating sweating and bone steaming. It is often combined with Rhizoma Anemarrhenae and Carapax Trionycis, namely Digupi Decoction. It can also be combined with Liuwei Dihuang Decoction to nourish yin and clear heat, and increase the curative effect.

Materia Medica Seeking Truth: "Although it is the same as peony bark in treating bone steaming, peony bark is pungent, sweet and can treat bone steaming without sweating."

Li Dongyuan said: "Siwutang added cortex Lycii and cortex moutan to treat women's bone steaming."

2. Used for cough and asthma due to lung heat. Cortex Lycii can clear lung heat, relieve cough and asthma. It is often combined with Cortex Mori, Radix Glycyrrhizae and japonica rice, namely Bulbus Allii Macrostemon Powder. This prescription was originally a prescription for children, and it is suitable for children with lung fullness and shortness of breath and cough.

3. Used for hematemesis and epistaxis caused by blood heat. Cortex Lycii has the function of clearing away heat and stopping bleeding, and it is often used with herbs such as cogongrass rhizome and cacumen Platycladi.

To treat hematuria, fresh cortex Lycii can be washed, mashed into juice or decocted with water.

Cortex Lycii also has the function of clearing away heat and quenching thirst, and can be used for the syndrome of quenching thirst and polyuria. It is often used with herbs such as Rehmannia glutinosa and Trichosanthes root to nourish yin and promote fluid production.

Wang Angyan: "Spit blood and urine, pound fresh juice."

Three. dosage

Cortex Lycii is often used as decoction, and is also suitable for pill powder. The usual dosage of decoction is several grams to more than ten grams; If it is the main medicine in the prescription, it can also be used for more than tens of grams.

Fourth, the application of attention.

The bone skin is cold, which is not suitable for people with exogenous wind, cold, fever and spleen deficiency in loose stool.

Materia Medica: "Deficiency fire is strong, spleen and stomach are weak, those who eat less and have diarrhea should be reduced."

Wang Angyan: "People with slippery bowels avoid medlar, and those with moderate cold avoid bone skin."

Zhang Xichun said: "The lung of cold and cough should not be used, and its performance should be the focus."

-notes on actual combat of TCM: 2 1.5.26 am, second draft # notes on actual combat of TCM #