Psoralea corylifolia - Bu Gu Zhi

Psoralea corylifolia - bu gu zhi,babchi seeds,babchi herb,bu gu zhi benefits,bu gu zhi herb,bu gu zhi tcm,psoralea seed,Psoralea corylifolia [Family and medicinal part] This product is the mature fruit of the leguminous plant Psoralea corylifolia. [Nature and flavor and meridians ...Psoralea corylifolia - bu gu zhi,babchi seeds,babchi herb,bu gu zhi benefits,bu gu zhi herb,bu gu zhi tcm,psoralea seed,Psoralea corylifolia [Family and medicinal part] This product is the mature fruit of the leguminous plant Psoralea corylifolia. [Nature and flavor and meridians] Pungent, bitter, very warm. Enters the spleen and kidney meridians. [Effects] Tonify the kidney and assist yang. [Clinical application] 1. Used for lower deficiency and cold, impotence, spermatorrhea, premature ejaculation, waist pain, frequent urination, enuresis and other symptoms. Psoralea corylifolia has the function of warming and tonifying kidney yang. It is used for kidney yang deficiency, impotence, spermatorrhea, frequent urination, enuresis and other symptoms. It is often used in combination with Xianlingpi, Cuscuta chinensis, etc.; for waist pain, it is often used in combination with Chuanduan, Gouji, etc. 2. Used for cold diarrhea. Psoralea corylifolia can replenish the fire of the gate of life and warm the spleen yang, treat cold diarrhea, and is often used with nutmeg, etc. 3. Used for asthma. Insufficient kidney qi and poor absorption often cause shortness of breath. This product warms the kidney and absorbs qi and relieves asthma. It is often used with walnut meat to treat asthma due to deficiency and cold. [Prescription name] Psoralea corylifolia, Psoralea corylifolia (fry with salt water until slightly charred before use.) [General dosage and usage] 2 to 4 qian, decocted and taken orally. [Comment] Psoralea corylifolia is a commonly used yang-enhancing drug in clinical practice. It can nourish the kidney, consolidate essence and reduce urine, warm and move spleen yang to stop diarrhea, and can nourish the kidney, absorb qi and relieve asthma. It is not suitable for those with yin deficiency, excessive fire and constipation. [Example of prescription] Pishen Pills (formerly known as Ershen Pills) "Benshi Fang": Psoralea corylifolia, nutmeg. Treat spleen and kidney yang deficiency and diarrhea at dawn. 【Literature Excerpt】《Compendium of Materia Medica》: "It can treat back pain, cold knees, dampness in the bladder, expel cold numbness, stop urination, and relieve coldness in the abdomen." 《Compendium of Materia Medica》: "It can treat kidney diarrhea and open the gate of life." 《Compendium of Materia Medica》: "It can strengthen the yang energy, reduce urination, treat cold knee pain, and relieve diarrhea caused by kidney deficiency." This product is the dried mature fruit of the leguminous plant Psoralea corylifoliaL. When the fruit is ripe in autumn, the fruit sequence is harvested, dried, rubbed out, and impurities are removed. 【Properties】 This product is kidney-shaped, slightly flat, 3-5mm long, 2-4mm wide, and about 1.5mm thick. The surface is black, dark brown or gray-brown with fine reticular wrinkles. The top is rounded and blunt, with a small protrusion, and there is a fruit stalk mark on the concave side. It is hard. The pericarp is thin and difficult to separate from the seed; there is 1 seed and 2 cotyledons, which are yellow-white and oily. It has a fragrant smell and tastes spicy and slightly bitter. 【Identification】 (1) This product is grayish yellow in powder form. The palisade cells of the seed coat have longitudinal grooves when viewed from the side, and one brilliant band is located near the upper edge. The top surface is polygonal, the cell cavity is extremely small, the pore groove is fine, and the bottom surface is round and fish-shaped. The cell cavity contains reddish-brown substances. The supporting cells are dumbbell-shaped when viewed from the side and circular when viewed from the surface. The endometrial glands (endophytic glands) are mostly broken, and the intact ones are circular, consisting of dozens to dozens of cells that are longitudinally extended and radially arranged. The calcium oxalate columnar crystals are small and exist in the mesocarp cells in sheets. (2) Take 0.5g of the powder of this product, add 20ml of ethyl acetate, ultrasonically treat for 15 minutes, filter, evaporate the filtrate, and add 1ml of ethyl acetate to dissolve the residue as the test solution. Take the psoralen reference substance and isopsoralen reference substance separately, add ethyl acetate to make a mixed solution containing 2mg of each per 1ml, and use it as the reference solution. According to the thin layer chromatography method (General Rule 0502), 2.44 l of each of the above two solutions were taken and spotted on the same silica gel G thin layer plate, and developed with n-hexane-ethyl acetate (4:1) as the developing agent, taken out, dried, sprayed with 10% potassium hydroxide methanol solution, and inspected under ultraviolet light (365nm). In the chromatogram of the test sample, the same two light spots appeared at the corresponding positions of the chromatogram of the reference sample. [Inspection] Impurities shall not exceed 5% (General Rule 2301). Water