The efficacy and effects and contraindications and methods of consumption of Xanthopanax

April 5, 2023
Taste: bitter, salty, cool. It is classified into the lung and kidney meridians. It is mainly used for treating fever and yin injury, thirsty tongue, spotting, bone strain and fever, restless sleep at night, spontaneous sweating and night sweating, constipation, epistaxis, sore throat, carbuncle, scrofula, warm poisonous spotting, red eyes, diphtheria, sores and other diseases. Here is a detailed understanding of the efficacy and effects of Xanthium Ginseng and its contraindications and consumption methods.

Clearing heat and detoxifying

Used for cough with lung heat, yellow and sticky sputum, dry nose and throat, often used with rhizome and scutellaria. It is often used with Rhizoma Polygonati, Radix et Rhizoma Polygonati and Dangpi. (③) Stomach heat, dry mouth and tongue, burning pain in the stomach, often used with Dandelion, Huang Lian and Wu Ju Ju.

Nourishing Yin and lowering fire

For depletion of lung yin, dry cough with little phlegm or blood in the phlegm, hoarseness, dry mouth and flushing, often used with Radix et Rhizoma Dioscoreae, Radix et Rhizoma Macrocephalae and Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae; for thirst and thirsty drinking, often used with Nigella sativa and Fritillariae.

Dispersing nodules and eliminating carbuncles

Used for laryngeal paralysis and swelling pain, often used with burdock; used for scrofula and tuberculosis, often used with mother-of-pearl and oyster.

Lowering blood pressure

Fluid infusion for anesthetized rabbits injected intravenously, a small amount can make blood pressure rise slightly first, then fall; a large amount only makes blood pressure fall. Aqueous infusion, ethanol-water infusion and decoction have significant hypotensive effects on anesthetized dogs, cats, rabbits, etc.

Antibacterial

50% decoction with plate dilution method has inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus. The fresh method of Genkoshen leaves by plate punching method has inhibitory effect on Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Infusion with test tube dilution method, 1:160 has inhibitory effect on Trichoderma spp. and Microsporum woolly.

Antipyretic

The p-Methoxy-cinnamic acid raised from the root has an antipyretic effect on rabbits with typhoid vaccine fever. Genkoshen extract has antifungal effect, hemolytic effect, and causes local irritation.

Relief of vasospasm

Genkoshen also increases isolated rabbit ear perfusion and has a relieving effect on aortic vasospasm caused by potassium chloride and epinephrine in rabbits.

How to consume Genkoshen

Chrysanthemum basilicum tea

Ingredients: Chrysanthemum 10 grams, honeysuckle 10 grams, basil ginseng 15 grams, licorice 3 grams. How to use: Steep in boiling water and drink as a substitute for tea. Indications: Sleep deprivation, deficiency fire inflammation. Avoid: Xuan Shen has the effect of clearing heat and cooling blood. Nourishing Yin and lowering fire, weak spleen and stomach. Cold and damp without fire and spleen deficiency and defecation are contraindicated.

Pork Liver Stew with Radix et Rhizoma Ginseng

Ingredients: 15 grams of Radix et Rhizoma Ginseng, 500 grams of pork liver, vegetable oil, green onion, ginger, soy sauce, sugar, yellow wine and water bean powder. Method (1) Wash the pig liver, put it in the aluminum pot with the ginseng, add water and cook for 1 hour, take out the pig liver and cut it into small slices. (2)Add vegetable stain to the pot, add onion and ginger, stir-fry a little, and then add pork liver slices. (3) will be soy sauce, sugar, cooking wine a little, add a little of the original soup, close the juice, hook into the water bean powder (4)Pour the transparent soup into the sliced pork liver, mix well and that's it. Serving method: eat with meals efficacy nourish the liver and brighten the eyes.

Contraindications and dosage of Xanthopanax

Do not take if there is dampness in the spleen and stomach or if the spleen is weak and loose. 1, "Lei Gong gun sizzling theory": "do not make the use of copper, bait choke people's throats, loss of human eyes." 2, should not be used with quinoa, astragalus, dry ginger, jujube, dogwood. This herb Jing Jiezhi: "evil Huang Qi, dry ginger, fire dates, dogwood. Against Li Lu." 3, "Ben Cao Jing Shu": "blood less eyes, stop drinking cold and heat, branch full, blood deficiency abdominal pain, thigh deficiency diarrhea, and should not be taken." 4, "medical forest compilation": "deficiency cold is contraindicated." 5, the dosage of Xuan Shen: decoction, 10 to 15 grams.
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