What are the benefits and effects of Prinsepia utilis? A detailed guide
Prinsepia utilis, also known as ruhei, ruizi, yuren and so on, is the dried ripe fruit stone of Prinsepia uniflora or the tooth-leaved Prinsepia (Prinsepia sinensis) of the Rosaceae plum genus. As a medicine it has the effects of dispelling wind, clearing heat, nourishing the liver and improving eyesight, and it treats red swollen painful eyes, dim vision with photophobia, ulcerated canthi with excessive tears, epistaxis, pathogenic heat in the heart and abdomen, and accumulations of qi and phlegm. Let us now take a look at the benefits and effects of Prinsepia utilis!
The medicinal effects of Prinsepia utilis
[Nature and flavor] Sweet in flavor, cold in nature.
[Meridians entered] Heart, liver and spleen meridians.
[Effects] Dispels wind, clears heat, nourishes the liver and improves eyesight. It mainly treats red swollen painful eyes, dim vision with photophobia, ulcerated canthi with excessive tears and epistaxis, and also treats pathogenic heat in the heart and abdomen and accumulations of qi and phlegm. People today use it only to treat eye disorders.
Related discussions on Prinsepia utilis
1. "Yi Lin Zuan Yao": White Prinsepia utilis has effects roughly similar to those of wild jujube seed. When raw it is more salty, serving to disperse the spirit and brightness; when cooked it is more sweet, serving to stabilize the master of the spirit. People know it can treat eye diseases, but do not know that it can also tonify the heart, and this has been so for a long time.
2. "Wu Pu Ben Cao": Tonifies the center, strengthens the will, and brightens the ears and eyes.
3. "Ben Cao Meng Quan": It is used specifically for eye diseases, dispersing wind swelling and ulcerated margins of the upper and lower eyelids, removing heat opacities and pterygium at the inner and outer canthi, reducing fire and stopping tears, and benefiting water to produce luster.
Compatibility and applications of Prinsepia utilis
1. With cicada slough: Cicada slough is sweet and cold, and has the effect of improving eyesight and removing opacities. Prinsepia utilis disperses wind and clears heat, and can also clear the liver and improve eyesight. Used together, the two medicines can strengthen the effects of dispersing wind and clearing heat, improving eyesight and removing opacities. They can treat diseases such as red swollen painful eyes, excessive tears, photophobia and aversion to light, and opacities covering the eyes caused by wind-heat in the liver meridian.
2. With pipewort: Pipewort is sweet and neutral, moves through the upper energizer and reaches directly to the top of the head. It is good at dispersing wind-heat of the head without the drawback of cold-cooling suppression, and its effect of improving eyesight and removing opacities surpasses that of chrysanthemum. It is good at treating excess patterns of unclear vision caused by wind-heat ascending, where wind is greater than heat. Prinsepia utilis is sweet to tonify blood and cold to clear heat, nourishing blood and improving eyesight, focusing on treating the root. Used together, the two medicines treat both root and branch, dispersing wind and clearing heat, improving eyesight and removing opacities.
3. With white tribulus: White tribulus is pungent to disperse and bitter to drain, and enters the liver meridian specifically. Besides calming and lowering rising liver yang, it can also dispel wind and improve eyesight. Prinsepia utilis has the effect of dispersing wind, clearing heat and improving eyesight. Used together, the two medicines can jointly achieve the effect of dispelling wind-heat and improving eyesight.
Medicinal selected formulas of Prinsepia utilis
1. To treat insufficiency of the liver meridian with internal wind-heat attacking the eyes, causing dim vision, itching and pain, hidden roughness and difficulty opening, dizziness, red swelling, fear of sunlight and photophobia, inability to see far, tears in the wind, and frequent seeing of black spots: borneol (ground) 2.5 qian, Prinsepia utilis (peeled and shelled, pressed to remove oil) 2 liang. Use raw honey 6 qian, mix the borneol and Prinsepia utilis together thoroughly, and apply a little each time.
2. To treat eye disease with opacities covering the pupil, unclear vision, and a cloudy appearance: Prinsepia utilis (peeled, tips removed) 3 fen, angelica body and licorice 6 fen each, saposhnikovia 8 fen, coptis (selected and prepared) 2 qian (cut as large as hemp beans, boiled in one large bowl of water until reduced by half, then add the medicines). Cut the above items as large as hemp beans, grind Prinsepia utilis separately into a paste, boil together, and when a drop in water does not disperse, add a little skimmed honey, and boil again briefly as the measure. Have the patient apply it calmly, until there is slight pain in the eyes. Use five to seven times a day, and applying before sleep is especially quick and effective; one may wish to apply more so that the medicinal power continues.
3. To remove opacities: Prinsepia utilis (oil removed) 5 fen, blue salt 1 fen, pig pancreas 5 qian. Pound together 2,000 times into a paste, store in a jar, and apply. Or Prinsepia utilis 1 liang (oil removed), add white borax 1 qian and musk 2 fen, grind evenly, store and apply.
4. To treat red ulcerated eyes: Prinsepia utilis (peeled) 49 pieces, lead powder (calcined to a golden color) the size of one chicken egg, grind evenly, add butter about the size of one apricot kernel and borneol about the size of three beans, grind evenly, wrap and store in oiled paper. Each time take about the size of a hemp seed and smear it on the inner and outer canthi, using frequently for effect. Or Prinsepia utilis and apricot kernel 1 liang each, peeled and ground evenly, add a little greasy powder and make into pills, and each time dissolve and wash with hot water.