What are the effects and functions of Panax japonicus?
Panax japonicus, also known as baisanqi, mingqi, qiyiezi and so on, is the dried rhizome of the plant Panax japonicus of the Araliaceae family, genus Panax; used as medicine it has the effects of dissipating blood stasis and stopping bleeding, reducing swelling and relieving pain, eliminating phlegm and stopping cough, and tonifying deficiency and strengthening the body, and it has a therapeutic effect on consumptive cough with blood-streaked sputum, traumatic injuries, cough with excessive phlegm, and weakness after illness; now let us take a look at the effects and functions of Panax japonicus!
The medicinal effects of Panax japonicus
[Nature and flavor] Sweet in taste, slightly bitter, warm in nature.
[Meridian entry] Liver, spleen and lung meridians.
[Effects] Dissipates blood stasis and stops bleeding, reduces swelling and relieves pain, eliminates phlegm and stops cough, tonifies deficiency and strengthens the body; mainly treats consumptive cough with blood-streaked sputum, traumatic injuries, cough with excessive phlegm, and weakness after illness.
Medicinal indications and contraindications of Panax japonicus
1. "Compilation of Commonly Used Folk Herbal Medicines": Pregnant women should not take it.
2. "Records of Chinese Materia Medica": Not suitable for those without deficiency and without abdominal masses.
Related discussions on Panax japonicus
1. "Gangmu Shiyi": Removes blood stasis and damage, stops vomiting of blood and nosebleeds, tonifies without being drastic, is highly effective at resolving consumption, and treats traumatic injuries with stagnant blood that does not move.
2. "Caomu Bianfang": Disperses blood, invigorates blood, breaks blood. Treats carbuncles and swellings, and treats dog bites, metal wounds and falls.
3. "Guizhou Folk Medicines": Strengthens the spleen, tonifies kidney deficiency.
4. "Common Tibetan Chinese Herbal Medicines": Treats bloody dysentery, bloody stools, metrorrhagia and excessive postpartum bleeding.
Pharmacological effects of Panax japonicus
1. Anti-inflammatory effect: A decoction of Panax japonicus at 10 g (crude drug)/kg by gavage has a clear inhibitory effect on arthritis in rats caused by egg white, formaldehyde or dextran.
2. Anti-aging effect: When Panax japonicus total saponins are at 323 micrograms/mL, they inhibit the spontaneous production of lipid peroxide in normal rat lung homogenate, and can inhibit the production of lipid peroxide in lung microsomes induced by Fez+ and cystine. It has a strong effect of scavenging superoxide anion free radicals. At 0.824% Panax japonicus total saponins (content in crude drug is 8%), the hydroxyproline content in mouse skin increases. Panax japonicus polysaccharides can activate the reticuloendothelial system.
3. Blood sugar-lowering effect: The oleanane-type saponins contained in Panax japonicus have a strong blood sugar-lowering effect.
4. Protective effect against chemical liver injury: Panax japonicus has a clear inhibitory effect on the increases in serum GPT and MDA levels caused by CCl4-induced liver injury in large numbers of rats, and the pathological changes in the liver are also clearly reduced.
Medicinal selected prescriptions of Panax japonicus
1. To treat weakness after illness: 15 grams of Panax japonicus, stew with meat and eat or decoct in water and take.
2. To treat weakness of the spleen and stomach and loss of appetite: 9 grams each of Panax japonicus and soil-fried Atractylodes macrocephala, and 9 grams of wine-fried dandelion root. Decoct in water and take in 3 divided doses half an hour before meals.
3. To treat dizziness: 30 grams of baisanqi, 15 grams of lazhiqi, and 30 grams of Gastrodia elata. Grind together into a fine powder. Use 9 grams each time, steam with 1 egg, and eat once each morning.
4. To treat consumptive cough: 15 grams of Panax japonicus. Decoct in water and drink as tea.
5. To treat vomiting of blood: 9 grams of Panax japonicus, 6 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus, and 9 grams of simaogen. Decoct in water and take.
6. To treat nosebleeds: 3 grams of Panax japonicus and 6 grams of fried Gardenia jasminoides. Decoct in water and take.
7. To treat reverse menstruation and functional uterine bleeding: Grind wild Notoginseng into powder, 1.5 to 3 grams each time. Decoct in water and take.
8. To treat traumatic injuries and pain: 15 grams of Panax japonicus. Mash it up. Take with warm wine, and it can also be ground and applied externally with wine.
9. To treat low back pain: 9 grams of Panax japonicus, 6 grams of huangmaogen, and 9 grams of yunshugen. Decoct in water, mix with yellow rice wine and take, 3 times a day.
10. To treat pain of the whole body's tendons and bones: 30 grams of Panax japonicus and 3 grams of Asarum. Decoct in water, add an appropriate amount of wine and take.