What are the effects and functions of South Carpesium Fruit?

South Carpesium Fruit, also known as louse grass, wild carrot seed and so on, is the dried mature fruit of the wild carrot, a plant in the genus Daucus of the family Apiaceae. It can be used as medicine and for extracting essential oil, and has the effects of killing parasites and dispersing accumulations. It has a therapeutic effect on ascariasis, enterobiasis, taeniasis, abdominal pain from parasitic accumulations, infantile malnutrition and other conditions. Let us take a look at the effects and functions of South Carpesium Fruit below!

The medicinal effects of South Carpesium Fruit

[Nature and flavor] Bitter and pungent in flavor, neutral in nature.

[Meridian tropism] Spleen and stomach meridians.

[Effects] Kills parasites and disperses accumulations; mainly treats ascariasis, enterobiasis, taeniasis, abdominal pain from parasitic accumulations, and infantile malnutrition.

The pharmacological actions of South Carpesium Fruit

1. Effects on the cardiovascular system: The alcohol extract of South Carpesium Fruit has a dilating effect on the coronary arteries of isolated cat hearts. The glycosidic components in the seeds have a brief hypotensive effect on anesthetized dogs.

2. Effects on smooth muscle: The alcohol extract of South Carpesium Fruit shows a relaxing effect on the smooth muscle of isolated guinea pig and rat small intestine, rat uterus, and cat bronchus. The glycosidic components in the seeds can relax the small intestine and non-pregnant uterus of rats and rabbits, while the leaf extract has a contracting effect on the uterus of pregnant or non-pregnant cats and guinea pigs.

3. Other effects: The glycosidic components of South Carpesium Fruit have an inhibitory effect on respiration in anesthetized dogs and a mild protective effect against strychnine- and pentylenetetrazol-induced convulsions in frogs.

The compatible applications of South Carpesium Fruit

1. "Qianjin Fang": Use 10 liang of this product alone, pound and sift into honey pills the size of parasol tree seeds, swallow 40 pills on an empty stomach with honey water, increasing to 50 pills per day, to treat abdominal pain from ascariasis.

2. "Xiao'er Yao Zheng Zhi Jue" Anchong San: To treat worm pain that occurs at regular intervals with clear fluid vomiting, it can be used together with Melia fruit, white alum, areca seed and so on.

3. "Heji Jufang" Huachong Wan: To treat emaciation of the limbs, blue-yellow complexion, and failure to gain flesh despite eating caused by parasitic accumulations, it can be used together with areca seed, bitter melia bark and so on.

The medicinal contraindications of South Carpesium Fruit

1. Use with caution in pregnant women.

2. In clinical application, South Carpesium Fruit generally has no serious toxic reactions. A small number of patients after oral administration of Carpesium Fruit decoction may have mild dizziness, nausea, tinnitus, abdominal pain and other reactions several hours later or the next day, which can disappear on their own.

3. The symptoms of South Carpesium Fruit poisoning manifest as nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, dizziness, headache, weakness of the limbs, inability to walk, difficulty speaking, and in severe cases paroxysmal spasms, convulsions and so on.

The treatment of South Carpesium Fruit poisoning

1. Early induction of vomiting and gastric lavage, take 20-30 grams of activated charcoal powder.

2. Intramuscular injection of nikethamide 0.25-0.5 grams, or strychnine nitrate 1 mg to counteract the toxin.

3. Supplement fluids as appropriate, intravenous drip of 2000-3000 milliliters of normal saline to dilute the toxin so that it is excreted from the body as quickly as possible.

4. Licorice 30 grams, mung bean 30 grams, decoct in water and drink as tea. Or gastrodia elata and arisaema each 9 grams, licorice 6 grams, decoct in water.

The medicinal selected prescriptions of South Carpesium Fruit

1. To treat children's diseases with various lingering ailments, abdominal pain, episodes of swelling and gathering, moving up and down, unceasing pain that also attacks the heart, vomiting of saliva and froth, or vomiting of clear fluid, emaciation of the limbs, blue-yellow complexion, failure to gain flesh despite eating, alternating cold and heat, and dullness and silence: lead powder (fried), Carpesium Fruit (soil removed), areca seed, bitter melia root (outer bark removed) each 50 liang, white alum (calcined) 12.5 liang. Grind the above into powder, make into pills with flour paste, the size of hemp seeds. A one-year-old child takes 5 pills, mixed evenly with warm rice water and one or two drops of raw sesame oil, and taking them with warm rice drink is also acceptable. Regardless of timing.

2. To treat heart pain from ascariasis: Carpesium Fruit 0.6 grams. Grind into powder, mix with one cup of warm water and take. In the formula, Carpesium Fruit kills parasites and is the sovereign drug.

3. To treat children who vomit many ascariasis worms: Carpesium Fruit and rhubarb each 0.3 grams, glauber's salt 15 grams. Decoct in water, 1 dose per day, taken in 2 divided doses. In the formula, Carpesium Fruit kills parasites and is the sovereign drug.

4. To treat hemorrhoids and fistula with unceasing pus and blood that has not healed for years: Carpesium Fruit, omphalia, white alum ash each 30 grams, honeylocust thorn and sulfur each 15 grams. Grind the above into powder, cook a flour paste in vinegar and make into pills the size of parasol tree seeds, coated with realgar, take 20 pills each time, taken with warm wine and musk, before meals. In the formula, Carpesium Fruit stops bleeding, astringes sores, and kills parasites, and is the sovereign drug.

5. To treat large intestine worms emerging continuously, regenerating after being cut, making walking and sitting impossible: Carpesium Fruit powder, mix with water and take half a liang.

6. To treat toothache: one Carpesium Fruit, pick it and place it in the tooth.

7. To treat pain from ascariasis bites: Carpesium Fruit 10 liang, pound and sift, mix with honey and make into pills the size of parasol tree seeds. Swallow 40 pills on an empty stomach with honey water, increasing to 50 pills per day. Avoid wine and meat.