Rhubarb has the reputation of "Zhang Fei in Medicine" since ancient times. It represents the violent effect of the medicine. "Shen Nong's Materia Medica": "Blood stasis, blood congestion, cold and heat, and accumulation of broken syndromes, stay for food and drink, cleanse the stomach, Introduce the old to the new Tongli Water Valley, adjust Sinochem Food, and the five internal organs." "Famous Doctors": "To calm the stomach, lower the qi, remove phlegm, heat in the intestines, fullness of the abdomen, cold blood in women, abdominal pain, blood retention in the old people". "Medicinal Nature Theory": "Maintains cold and heat, eliminates food, refines the five internal organs, helps women's meridians, promotes edema, breaks phlegm, accumulates cold and heat, boarding, helps small intestines, sticks to heat and swelling, mainly treats children with cold and heat disease, irritability and heat , Eating pus, breaking blood."
China's latest pharmacopoeia: used for intestinal stagnation, constipation, rhubarb has a better diarrhea effect on bitter cold sedimentation. It is an important medicine for the treatment of stagnant constipation because of its bitter cold and diarrhea heat, so it is particularly suitable for constipation with heat. Those who have constipation due to illness and heat, and those with high fever that do not retreat and delirium can use this product to relieve diarrhea and heat often in combination with Glauber's salt, Magnolia officinalis, Citrus aurantium, etc. to enhance the efficacy, such as Dachengqi Decoction. If there is heat in the inside and blood deficiency, it can be compatible with Codonopsis, Angelica and other qi and nourishing medicines, such as Huanglong Decoction. For those who cause yin damage due to heat, it can be compatible with medicines such as Scrophulariaceae and Ophiopogon, such as Zengye Chengqi Decoction. If the spleen yang is insufficient and cold-induced constipation, use Codonopsis Aconite, dried ginger and other Qi-tonifying and warming-yang medicines. Spleen soup. In addition, at the beginning of heat dysentery, the stagnation of damp and heat in the intestinal tract can not be resolved, and rhubarb can also be used to laxative to remove the stagnation of damp and heat.
is used for the vomiting of blood and heat, red eyes, sore throat and gum swelling and pain caused by inflammation of fire evil. Rhubarb's bitter cold subsidence is used to cause the inflammation of the fire to evaporate. Clinically, Coptis and Scutellaria and other venting gunpowder can be used clinically, such as Xiexin Decoction.
is used for heat toxins, sores and burns. It is used to clear away heat and detoxify, and through its laxative effect, it can release heat toxins, and treat the early onset of back gangrene. Rhubarb and Angelica dahurica are taken orally. Rhubarb Mudanpi Decoction is used to treat carbuncle. Rhubarb is combined with Glauber's salt, paeonol, and peach kernel. Of course, it can also be used externally, such as external application. Rhubarb is contained in Ruyi Jinhuang San for treating sore and swelling. For burns, rhubarb and sesame oil can also be used alone.
is used for blood stasis syndrome, such as women with congestion and amenorrhea, postpartum lochia, and bruises, etc. Rhubarb can promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis as a medicine for treatment of congestion. Both new and old congestion can be used alone or in combination with other blood The same medicine is used for blood stasis. The following blood stasis decoction is used for the treatment of abdominal pain and blood stasis in the parturients. Rhubarb is used with peach kernels. "Tai Ping Hui Min He Ji Fang Fang": "Use rhubarb and angelica to treat bruises and congestion, grind them into fine portions, and mix them with wine."
is used to treat jaundice and is often compatible with Yin Chen Gardenia. For example, Yinchenhao Decoction uses the effect of rhubarb to relieve the dampness and heat and treat gonorrhea. It can be compatible with Mutong, Plantago, Gardenia, etc., such as Bazheng San. The general dosage of
is 3 to 12 grams, but more for external use. The raw rhubarb has a strong diarrhea effect, the wine rhubarb has a strong ability to activate blood, and the rhubarb after frying carbon has a good hemostatic effect.
According to content analysis, rhubarb contains free anthraquinone derivatives such as rhein, emodin, chrysophanol, aloe-emodin, emodin methyl ether, etc. It has the functions of clearing heat and detoxifying, purging fire and cooling blood, sennoside A , B, C, D, E, F and other combined anthraquinone derivatives, all have laxative effects.
Modern pharmacological studies have proved that the active ingredient of rhubarb for its purgative effect is sennosides, and the purgative effect of free anthraquinones is weak. Rhubarb has antibacterial effects. Among them, aloe-emodin, emodin and rhein have strong effects, and they have inhibitory effects on most gram-positive bacteria. In addition, it also has anti-tumor, hepatoprotective, choleretic and hemostatic effects. The so-called gram-positive bacteria of
refers to the Gram-staining method to identify bacteria. After staining, the bacterial cells still retain the blue-purple color of the original crystal violet, which is Gram-positive bacteria. Most pyogenic cocci are gram-positive bacteria, which can produce exotoxins to cause disease; and after staining, the bacterial cells first lose the color of the original crystal violet. Most of the intestinal bacteria are mostly gram Negative bacteria, they produce endotoxins, which make people sick.
Common Gram-positive bacteria are: Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Pneumococcus, Bacillus anthracis, Diphtheria, Tetanus, etc.; Common Gram-negative bacteria are Shigella, Typhoid, Proteus, and Cholera Vibrio etc. Most gram-positive bacteria are sensitive to penicillin, and the opposite is true for gram-negative bacteria.
Emodin, chrysophanol and aloe-emodin are all against the above-mentioned Gram-positive bacteriaThe group has obvious inhibitory effect, and it has good effects when used for internal and external use. Rhubarb, together with ginseng, rehmannia glutinosa, and aconite, are called the four great diamonds of the yakuen. The strength of the medicine is evident, and the antibacterial effect of penicillin is almost comparable to that of penicillin in sufficient amounts.