Uncaria

Uncaria is also known as catching rattan and hooking dinosaurs. It is a plant of the genus Rubiaceae, Uncaria, and the twigs of various plants belonging to the same genus. Its metamorphose branches are hooked, paired or solitary in leafhoppers, and bent downwardly. For "uncocked." Harvested hooks are harvested every spring and autumn, and hook-free canes are cut off and sun dried for medicine. Its cool, sweet, liver, heart second classic. Its hook stems and leaves contain rhynchophylline alkaloids, isoflavone, kenucine due to alkali, ketocinine, hard wool capillary alkaloids and other alkaloids, with heat-clearing liver, breathe set shock effect It is often used to treat children with convulsions, adult hypertension, dizziness, dizziness, and women with eclampsia. "Compendium of Materia Medica" contains: "Uncaria, hand, foot and tinea yin medicine also. Foot yin yin (liver) main wind, hand yin yin (pericardial meridians) main fire ... Uncaria heart pericardium in the liver, the wind, The syndrome will be eliminated." "Materia Medica Justice" also contains: "Uncaria, Wuhu said that the treatment of adults head spin, flat liver wind, in addition to heat, all consistent."

Modern pharmacological studies have confirmed that Uncaria has a good sedative effect. Uncaria decoction can reduce the excitability of the cerebral cortex, play a sedative and anticonvulsant effect, can prevent the occurrence of epilepsy; can inhibit the contraction of uterine smooth muscle, significantly inhibited Platelet aggregation and antithrombotic. The study also showed that there is a better antihypertensive effect of Uncaria rhaponticum, mainly because the total alkaloids contained in Rhynchophylla can reduce blood pressure by lowering peripheral resistance (early) and reducing cardiac output (later). The single hooks, double hooks, and finer stems adjacent to them have a better antihypertensive effect, and the use of old branches is less effective. At the same time, the use of Uncaria depressor is closely related to decocting time, decoction time is too long or not enough to affect the antihypertensive effect, to decoct within 15 minutes is appropriate, "Ben Caoyan Yan" in the words of Uncaria, "but long fried Will not be able to force his medicine to cook more than ten boiling, put it into effect, quite force also." So in the decoction, after the uncaria.

Commonly used prescriptions: treatment of hypertension, dizziness, neurological headache: Uncaria 15 grams, Shuijianbi; governance facial nerve paralysis: uncaria 60 grams, 120 grams of fresh Radix, Shuijianbi; rule in children with epilepsy: hook 15 grams of vines, 30 grams of dragon teeth, 0.9 grams of gypsum, 0.3 grams of gardenia kernel, 0.15 grams of medlar, 15 grams of rhubarb rhizome (mashed, slightly fried), and 0.9 grams of malgate. On the drug for the rough end, each serving 3 grams, decoction to five minutes, to beggars do not time warm clothes; rule epilepsy: Uncaria, Poria 15 grams each, Coptis, licorice, rhubarb (micro guns), Scorpio yellow 30 grams each . On the end of the last month, each serving 3 grams, add ginger, peppermint, a little, decoction to four points, to simmer, warm clothes; treatment of pregnant women, fetal movement, blood deficiency, wind and heat, made of eclampsia: Uncaria, ginseng , Angelica, wolfberry, and 3 grams of Mulberry, 4.5 grams of Campanulaceae, Shuijianbi.