What is Schizandra?

Schisandra, Chinese medicine name. It is the dried mature fruit of Schisandra chinensis (Turcz.) Baill. Called "North Schisandra". Distributed in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shanxi, Ningxia, Gansu, Shandong and other places. With astringent and astringent, Yiqi Shengjin, Bushen Ningxin effect. Commonly used for chronic cough, asthma, dreams, slippery sperm, frequent enuresis, persistent diarrhea, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, thirst for wounds, internal heat and thirst, and palpitations and insomnia.

Chinese scientific name: Schisandra
boundary: Plant kingdom
door: Angiosperm
Tsuna: Dicotyledoneae

Head: Ranunculus
Branch: Magnoliaceae
Genus: Schisandra
Species: Schisandra

Schisandra medicinal site

Dry ripe fruits.

Schisandra odor

Sour, sweet, warm.

Schisandra guijing

Return to the lung, heart, and kidney meridians.

Schisandra effect

Astringent and astringent, Yi Qi Sheng Jin, Bushen Ningxin.

Indications of Schisandra

It is used for chronic cough, asthma, dreams, slippery sperm, frequent enuresis, persistent diarrhea, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, thirst from wounds, internal heat and thirst, and heart palpitations and insomnia.

Schisandra related compatibility

1. Treating Lung Deficiency: Schisandra chinensis, Fang Hongshu, when harvested, steamed, grind the filter juice, remove seeds, boil into a thin paste. Measure the amount of sour and sweet into the honey, and then heat until the honey is cooked, chill, store in the device, make soup, and take it from time to time. ("Ben Cao Yan Yi")

2. Treatment of white turbidity and kidney deficiency, pain in both waist and back: one or two Schisandra seeds, fried red as the end, vinegar paste for pills, and vinegar soup for thirty pills. Laxative swallow with wormwood soup. ("Experience recipe" Schisandra pill)

3. Governance of dreams: one pound of North Schisandra, washed, soaked in water overnight, denucleated by hand, and washed with warm water to remove the aftertaste, filtered with a general cloth, placed in a casserole, put two pounds of winter honey, slow Boil it, in addition to casserole two pounds, boil to two pounds and fourty percent of the paste as the degree. After a few days, ignore the fire, one or two spoons per serving, hollow white rolling soup. (Introduction to Medicine: Schisandra Ointment)

4, cure heat and vitality, limb burnout, shortness of breath, dry mouth, thirst, sweating; or hot and humid, gold fire, the source of biochemical water, causing soft limbs, black eyes and eyes: ginseng five Money, Schisandra chinensis and Maimendong each have three dollars. Decoction. ("Qian Jin Fang" Sheng Mai San)

5. For those with sore ulcers and fleshy skin: The five flavors are fried, burnt, and applied, and can be preserved as before. (New Compendium of Materia Medica)

Schisandra usage and dosage

2-6g.

Schisandra processed

Schisandra collection and processing

Autumn fruits are picked when ripe, dried or steamed to remove stems and impurities. Smash when used.

Schisandra preparation method

1. Vinegar schisandra: Take the net schisandra and steam it to black according to the vinegar steaming method. Smash when used. This product is shaped like Schisandra, with a black surface, oily, and slightly shiny. Has a vinegar aroma.

2. Schisandra chinensis: take net schisandra, add rice wine and mix thoroughly, moisten it, put it in a suitable container, steam or stew it to the heart, the surface is dark purple or dark brown, take it out, and dry. 100 kg per schisandra and 20 kg of rice wine.

Schisandra physiological characteristics

Deciduous woody vines, except for the back of young leaves, pilose and bud scales with marginal hairs; hairless; young branches red-brown, old branches gray-brown, often wrinkled, flake-like. Leaf membranous, broadly oval, ovate, obovate, broadly obovate, or nearly round, long (3) 5-10 (14) cm, wide (2) 3-5 (9) cm, apex acute, base Wedge-shaped, sparsely serrated on the upper edge, near the entire base; 3-7 on each side of the side veins, the slender veins are not obvious; the petiole is 1-4 cm long, and the sides are extremely narrow because of the base of the leaf. wing. Male flowers: pedicel 5-25 mm long, narrowly ovate below the middle, 4-8 mm long bracts, perianth pink or pink, 6-9, oblong or oval-shaped, long 6-11 mm, 2-5.5 mm wide, narrower outside; stamens are about 2 mm long, anthers are about 1.5 mm long, filaments or outer 3 stamens have extremely short filaments, drug compartment concave or slightly blunt Head; only 5 (6) stamens, next to each other, arranged upright on the top of a columnar torus about 0.5 mm long, forming a group of nearly oblong stamens; female flower: pedicel 17-38 mm long, perianth piece and male flower Similar; pistil group nearly ovoid, 2-4 mm long, carpel 17-40, ovary ovoid or ovate ellipsoid, stigma chicken crown-shaped, lower end extended into 1-3 mm appendages. Aggregate fruit 1.5-8.5 cm in length, 1.5-6.5 centimeters in aggregate; small berries red, nearly spherical or obovate, 6-8 mm in diameter, with indistinct glands on the skin; 1-2 seeds, kidney-shaped , 4-5 mm in length, 2.5-3 mm in width, light brown, smooth seed coat, and the seed umbilicus is recessed into a U-shape. Flowering from May to July, fruit from July to October.

Schisandra growth environment

Produced in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shanxi, Ningxia, Gansu, Shandong. Born in gullies, creeks, and mountain slopes at an altitude of 1,200-1,700 meters. Also distributed in North Korea and Japan.

Schisandra identification

Identification of Schisandra chinensis

Medicinal material properties: This product is irregular spherical or oblate, with a diameter of 5-8mm. The surface is red, fuchsia or dark red, shrunk and oily; some surfaces are black-red or appear "white frost". The flesh is soft, the seeds are 1-2, kidney-shaped, the surface is brownish yellow, shiny, and the seed coat is thin and brittle. The flesh has a slight aroma and sour taste; after the seeds are broken, there is an aroma, and the taste is bitter and slightly bitter.

Identification of Schisandra chinensis

1. Vinegar schisandra: It has enhanced astringent effect, and is mostly used for pure deficiency such as ejaculation and chronic diarrhea of liver and kidney loss.

2, Schisandra chinensis: there are scattered in the convergence, righteous but not easy to love evil, mostly used for kidney deficiency and nocturnal emission.

Schisandra related discussion

1. "Ben Cao Jing Shu": Schisandra chinensis is beneficial to Qi, the lungs are to control Qi, acid can be collected, is entering the lungs to nourish the lungs, so Qi is also beneficial. Those whose main cough is reversing qi, qi deficiency will be scrofulated but not returning to the Yuan, acid will be collected, and breath will return to Yuan, then coughing qi will be self-removed. Work injury wins and loses weight, inadequate tonic, strong yin, benefit men.

2. "Compendium of Materia Medica" raises the five internal organs, removes heat, and produces yin and middle muscles. Schisandra specializes in invigorating the kidneys, supplements the five internal organs, and the kidney hides essence, while the strong is yin and strong. Mizutani, steamed dregs and refine the subtle, then spontaneous spontaneous, sperm is long and yin, so the Lord is like the above diseases.

3, "Ben Cao Yan Yi": Schisandra, "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" is warm, the amount of food this day is caused by heat, children benefit. "Medicinal Theory" refers to removing heat, and "Rihuazi Materia Medica" is also called warm water and dirty. After learning so much confusion. Today, not only is it used to treat the deficiency of the lungs, but it does not take away the annoyance. Supplement medicine is also used. Into the drug students can not be exposed.

4. "Annotation on Typhoid Fever": "The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic" said that the lungs wanted to be harvested, and the acid was quickly eaten to collect it. The acid of paeonia schisandrae and Schisandra chinensis are used to recuperate Qi and calm the lungs.

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