The role and efficacy of Atractylodes macrocephala and contraindications

Atractylodes is the dried rhizome of the perennial herb Atractylodes live North Atractylodes, family Asteraceae. The "Compendium of Materia Medica" recorded: "[Zhenheng] said: Cangjiao cure wet, the upper middle and lower are available ...... so Cangjiao for the foot Yangming meridian medicine, smell pungent, strong stomach and spleen, hair valley of Qi." Cang Zhu is warm in nature, pungent and bitter in taste, mainly enters the spleen, stomach and liver meridians, has the effect of drying dampness and strengthening the spleen, dispersing wind and cold, and brightening the eyes.

Strengthening the spleen

Cang Zhu is bitter and warm to dry dampness to dispel dampness and pungent to strengthen the spleen to harmonize the spleen and stomach. It is most suitable for symptoms such as dampness obstructing the middle jiao and loss of spleen health, resulting in distention, vomiting, vomiting and diarrhea, and white and greasy tongue coating; in addition, it can also be used to treat phlegm, diarrhea and edema caused by spleen deficiency and dampness accumulation and internal stagnation of water and dampness.

Drying dampness

Atractylodes is pungent, bitter and dry, and is good at dispelling dampness, so it is especially suitable for treating paralysis and dampness. For damp-heat paralysis, swollen and painful feet, impotence and weakness caused by damp-heat infusion, as well as damp-heat banding, damp sores and eczema, it is usually combined with Atractylodes macrocephala for treatment with obvious effect.

Dispelling wind and dispersing cold

Cang Zhu is pungent, fragrant, and dry, and can open the muscle couples, induce sweating, and dispel wind-cold superficial evils on the muscular surface, and because it is good at overcoming dampness, it is most suitable for treating wind-cold superficial symptoms with dampness.

Brightening the eyes

The vitamin A-like substance contained in Atractylodes can be used to treat symptoms such as night blindness and dizziness of the eyes, and can be used alone or steamed with liver or pig liver.

Pharmacological effects of Atractylodes macrocephala

Atractylodes macrocephala mainly contains volatile oil and a small amount of atractylenone, vitamin A-like substances, vitamin B and inulin. 1, its volatile oil has obvious anti parasympathetic medium acetylcholine-induced intestinal spasm; to sympathetic medium adrenaline-induced relaxation of intestinal muscles, Cang Jie preparation can promote the recovery of the amplitude of adrenal inhibition. 2, Cang Jiao alcohol has the effect of promoting intestinal movement, and also has a certain contraction effect on smooth muscle. 3, Atractylodes volatile oil on the central what system, small dose has a sedative effect. At the same time is spinal reflex hyperactivity; high dose is inhibitory effect . 4, Atractylodes decoction has hypoglycemic, and at the same time has the effect of sodium and potassium drainage. Its vitamin A-like substance can be used to treat night blindness and corneal softening disease.

Contraindications to the use of Atractylodes macrocephala

Atractylodes is pungent, bitter, warm, strong and dry, so it is forbidden to be taken by people with internal heat and bleeding, so as not to excessively consume the body's yin, while those with excessive sweating should be careful.