500g, Chao Canɡ Shu, RHIZOMA ATRACTYLODIS, Tcm Herbal

"Chinese Pharmacopoeia": Atractylodes

Name of medicine: Atractylodes

Pinyin: Cānɡ Shù

English name: RHIZOMA ATRACTYLODIS

Alias: red surgery, gun head dishes

Source of this product is Compositae Atractylodes lancea (Thunb.) DC. Or Atractylodes Atractylodes chinensis (DC.) Koidz. Spring and autumn harvesting, remove the sediment, dried, hit to the fibrous roots.

Traits Mao herb: irregular beads or nodular cylindrical, slightly curved, occasional branches, long 3 ~ 10cm, diameter 1 ~ 2cm. Surface grayish brown, with wrinkles, transverse lines and residual fibrous roots, the top with stem marks or residual stem base. Quality solid, yellow or white cross section, scattered with most orange or brown red oil room, exposed for a long time, can be precipitated white fine needle crystal. Gas-specific, taste slightly Gan, Xin, bitter.

North atractylodes: pimple block or nodular cylindrical, long 4 ~ 9cm, diameter 1 ~ 4cm. Surface dark brown, remove the skin yellow brown. Quality loose, cross-section scattered yellow brown oil room. Aroma lighter, spicy, bitter

Identification:

(1) This product is brown powder. Calcium oxalate crystal fine, long 5 ~ 30μm, irregularly filled in parenchyma cells. Most of the fiber bundle, long spindle, diameter of about 40μm, wall is very thick, wood. Stone cells, sometimes with cork cells, polygonal, round or rectangular, diameter 20 ~ 80μm, wall thick. Inulin more common, the surface was radial texture.

(2) take this product powder 0.5g, plus n-hexane 2ml, ultrasonic treatment for 15 minutes, filtration, the filtrate as the test solution. Another take herbaceous control medicine 0.5g, the same method into the control drug solution. According to the thin layer chromatography (Appendix Ⅵ B) test, learn the two newly prepared two solutions of 2 ~ 6μl, respectively, points on the same silica gel G plate, petroleum ether (60 ~ 90 ℃) - ethyl acetate ( 20: 1) as the agent, start, remove, dry, spray with 5% p-dimethylaminobenzaldehyde 10% sulfuric acid ethanol solution, heated to the spot color clear. For the test product chromatography, in the corresponding position with the control drug chromatography, the same color spots; and should have a similar stained green main spots (hormone).

Concocted herb: remove impurities, wash, run through, cut thick slices, dry.

Bran fried herb: take the herb, according to bran fry (Appendix Ⅱ D) fry the surface dark yellow. This product was round or strip thick pieces, ash can not be over 3% (Appendix Ⅸ B).

Sexual spicy, bitter, warm

Meridian: to the spleen, stomach, liver by.

Indications: dampness spleen, expelling wind and cold, eyesight. For abdominal distention, diarrhea, edema, athlete's foot atrophy, rheumatism bitten, cold cold, night blindness.

Dosage: 3 ~ 9g.

Store in a cool and dry place.

Note:

(1) governance wet resistance to the spleen and stomach and see abdominal distention, loss of appetite, fatigue, fatigue, thick greasy tongue greasy embolism, often with Magnolia, dried tangerine peel and other compatibility applications; use cold dampness vaginal discharge can be used with Angelica. This product is warm and dry goods, but dampness and strong, and each with the heat of the goods to rule the hot and humid for the card, such as hot and humid leucorrhea, but also with the mother, Sophora, Tomb back; hot bets, feet Knee swelling and pain, atrophy soft and weak, can be equipped with cork, Achyranthes, yi Ren equivalent; wet temperature syndrome can be equipped with gypsum, anemarrhenes equivalent use. On the cold and dampness of the bitter pain is particularly appropriate, can be used with Notopterygium, living alone equivalent use. Used to feel the wind cold dampness evil headache, body pain, no sweat embolism, often with Notopterygium, Asarum, wind equivalent use. Have eyesight of the power, for the treatment of night blind medicine, with liver or liver, stone Cassia and other compatibility with the use. In addition, the smell of this product fragrance, but also provision of dirty, folk in the summer section of the Dragon Boat Festival and Angelica in the room with the burning, for the epidemic. Near the human experiment, this method can really play the role of disinfection and sterilization.

Excerpt: "Chinese Pharmacopoeia"