Elsholtzia rugosa is the dry aerial part of Elsholtzia rugosa. And Elsholtzia. Resume. Jiang xiangru. Labiatae. The former is called Elsholtzia, and the latter is called Elsholtzia. Perilla orientalis is mainly produced in Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei and other places. It is wild, and most of it is produced and sold by itself. Elsholtzia is mainly produced in Yifen County, Jiangxi Province. It is a kind of cultivated product with large output and good quality, which is sold all over the country. In summer and autumn, the stems and leaves are flourishing. When the fruit is ripe, it is harvested, impurities are removed, dried in the sun, cut into sections and eaten raw.
This medicine is pungent and slightly warm. Enter lung, spleen and stomach meridians.
Efficacy: sweating, relieving exterior syndrome, eliminating dampness, harmonizing middle energizer, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling.
App application
1. Cold and cold. This product is pungent and warm, enters the lung meridian, and can perspire, relieve exterior syndrome and dispel cold; It is fragrant, enters the spleen and stomach, and can dispel dampness, middle energizer and summer heat. It is mostly used for wind-cold colds with damp-heat in spleen and stomach, with symptoms of aversion to cold and fever, severe headache, no sweat, fullness, anorexia, greasy fur, nausea and vomiting, and diarrhea, which can relieve endogenous dampness and turbidity caused by wind-cold. This syndrome is more common in people who are greedy for cold and drink cold in summer, so it is called "Elsholtzia is a drug for relieving exterior symptoms in Xia Yue". It is often combined with Magnolia officinalis and Lentils, such as Elsholtzia San (and Heji Prescription).
2. Edema beriberi. The taste is pungent, clearing away heat and dredging channels, promoting sweating and eliminating dampness on muscle surface, dispersing lung qi, activating qi, dredging channels and activating collaterals, promoting diuresis and relieving swelling. Commonly used for edema with exterior syndrome. For edema, dysuria and beriberi edema, Atractylodes macrocephala, such as Shenshi Zhuyu Pill (the secret recipe of external Taiwan), can be used alone or in combination.
Usage and dosage: decocted, 3-9g. For publication, the quantity should not be too large, and it should not be fried for a long time; Used for diuresis and swelling reduction, the amount is slightly larger and must be finely fried.
Precautions for use: this product is pungent and warm, and has strong sweating ability. Not suitable for exterior deficiency, hyperhidrosis and summer heat syndrome.
Ancient book abstracts
1. Records of Famous Doctors: "Cholera is mainly abdominal pain, vomiting and edema."
2. Herbal Medicine in Southern Yunnan: "relieve exterior symptoms and eliminate pathogenic factors, and treat heatstroke, headache, diarrhea, abdominal pain, hot cough, sweating, warming stomach and harmonizing the middle."
3. Compendium of Materia Medica: "In the world, Elsholtzia is the first medicine to cure summer diseases. However, people who enjoy the cool and drink the cold in summer cause Yang Qi to be restrained by yin evil, so they have headache, fever, aversion to cold, irritability and thirst, vomiting and diarrhea, or cholera. It is advisable to use this medicine to disperse Yang Qi, promote diuresis and cover the spleen ... Elsholtzia is a good medicine for relieving exterior syndrome in Xia Yue, such as ephedra in winter and month. People with qi deficiency can't bring more clothes. Nowadays, people don't know that the heat hurts their vitality. Whether they are sick or not, they just use tea instead, saying that they can cool off the heat. It' s really an idiotic dream. "
Modern research
1. chemical composition: this product contains volatile oil, mainly including carvacrol and thymol; It also contains sterols, flavonoid glycosides, etc.
2. Pharmacological effect: The volatile oil has antipyretic effect, which can stimulate digestive gland secretion and gastrointestinal peristalsis. The volatile oil has a strong inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella typhi and Meningococcus. Elsholtzia Haizhou decoction has antiviral effect. In addition, Elsholtzia tincture can stimulate renal blood vessels, make glomerulus hyperemia, increase filterability and have diuretic effect.
3. Clinical study: It is reported that Elsholtzia 6 ~ 10g, Mint 6 ~ 10g, Magnolia officinalis 3 ~ 8g, Lentils 1 0 ~/2g, Jisu Powder 0.5 ~ 1 pack, decocted and taken. 222 cases of acute bacillary dysentery were treated with oregano granules (made of thymol and carvacrol, the volatile oil contained in Perilla orientalis), once 1 bag and once a day, and good results were obtained (journal of traditional chinese medicine, Hubei, 1 990, (3): 15).
medicated diet
1, medicinal method
Take Elsholtzia as medicine, decoct and take, 3-9g each dose. For sweating and relieving exterior syndrome, the dosage should not be too large and the decocting time should not be too long. When it is used to induce diuresis to reduce swelling and treat edema, the dosage should be slightly larger, and it should be concentrated.
2. Elsholtzia porridge
Materials: Elsholtzia 10g, rice 10g, and proper amount of sugar.
Practice: Choose clean Elsholtzia, put it in a pot, add appropriate amount of water, decoct with water to get juice, add more rice to cook porridge, and add appropriate amount of sugar according to personal taste before use.
Efficacy: This porridge can dispel dampness, harmonize stomach and relieve summer heat, especially suitable for taking in summer.
3, mellow drinks
Materials: Elsholtzia 10g, white lentil and magnolia officinalis 5g each.
Practice: Drink after decocting in water.
Efficacy: relieving exterior syndrome, dispelling cold, eliminating dampness and harmonizing middle energizer. It is suitable for people with cold and spleen and stomach discomfort in summer. It can be used as herbal tea to relieve summer heat. This is what Lin Daiyu drinks in A Dream of Red Mansions.
4, lentil Elsholtzia soup
Ingredients: 30g of white lentils, 0/5g of Elsholtzia/kloc.
Practice: Wash white lentils and Elsholtzia with clear water, wash away the dust outside, then add 2 bowls of water and fry for 25 minutes to drink soup.
Efficacy: White lentils can awake spleen and remove dampness. This soup can clear away heat, relieve exterior syndrome, and eliminate dampness and middle energizer, and is mainly used for symptoms such as summer injury, summer dampness, vomiting and diarrhea, body heat without sweating, abdominal distension and pain.
5. Lotus leaf Elsholtzia soup
Materials: Elsholtzia 10g, Lotus Leaf 10g (fresh lotus leaf 30g), Pericarpium Citri Reticulatae 10g, and Mint 5g.
Methods: First, the Elsholtzia, the lotus leaf and the dried tangerine peel were boiled for about 30 minutes, then the mint was added and boiled for 5 minutes, and then the white sugar was added to the juice, which could be used as tea.
Efficacy: summer heat, qi, dampness and exterior syndrome.