What are the effects and functions of Song Fritillaria?
In China there are more than ten varieties of Fritillaria, the most famous being Chuan Fritillaria, Qing Fritillaria and Zhe Fritillaria, among which Song Fritillaria is considered the finest. Song Fritillaria is mainly produced in the Songpan grasslands, that is, the vast grasslands of Songpan, Hongyuan and Zoige in Aba Prefecture. It got its name because in the past the Fritillaria of Sichuan, Gansu and Qinghai was all brought to the city of Songzhou for trade. Now let us take a look at the effects and functions of Song Fritillaria!
The medicinal effects of Song Fritillaria
[Nature and flavor] Bitter and sweet in flavor, slightly cold in nature.
[Meridians entered] Lung and Heart meridians.
[Effects] Clears heat and moistens the lungs, transforms phlegm and stops cough, dissipates nodules and reduces abscesses. It mainly treats cough due to lung heat and dryness, dry cough with little phlegm, consumptive cough due to yin deficiency, blood-streaked phlegm, scrofula, breast abscess and lung abscess.
Related discussions on Song Fritillaria
1. "Bencao Huibian": Treats consumptive cough, vomiting blood and hemoptysis, pulmonary atrophy and lung abscess, women's breast abscess, abscesses and sores, and all conditions of depression.
2. "Bencao Jingshu": Fritillaria is indicated when there is heat in the lungs that generates phlegm, or when attacked by heat pathogen with panting, cough, restlessness and oppression; it must govern these. As for its governing typhoid fever with vexing heat, this is because it is pungent and cold with bitterness, and can relieve vexing heat.
3. "Bencao Huiyan": Fritillaria is a medicine that opens depression, directs qi downward and transforms phlegm. For moistening the lungs and dispersing phlegm, stopping cough and calming panting, in patterns of consumptive fire binding, Fritillaria is the first prescription specifically used.
4. "Changsha Yaojie": The bitter and cold nature of Fritillaria drains heat and cools the metal, descends turbidity and disperses phlegm; its power is not small, yet it clears the metal without damaging stomach qi, which is highly commendable.
The pharmacological actions of Song Fritillaria
1. Antitussive effect: The total alkaloids and non-alkaloid fractions of Fritillaria, given orally at 0.25-0.5 mg per mouse, both have obvious antitussive effects.
2. Expectorant effect: Experimental studies show that cultivated, wild and tissue-cultured Chuan Fritillaria all have obvious expectorant effects.
3. Blood pressure-lowering effect: Intravenous injection of chuanbein in cats at 4.2 mg/kg can produce a lasting drop in blood pressure, accompanied by brief respiratory depression; xibeinine also has a blood pressure-lowering effect in anesthetized dogs.
4. Antibacterial effect: At a concentration of 2 mg/L, Fritillaria can inhibit the growth and reproduction of Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus; the alkaline water infusion (1:25) has an inhibitory effect on Nocardia asteroides in test tubes.
5. Antispasmodic effect: Xibeinine has an obvious relaxing effect on isolated guinea pig intestinal tract, rabbit duodenum and in vivo dog small intestine, and its antispasmodic effect resembles that of papaverine.
Medicinal selected prescriptions of Song Fritillaria
1. To treat lung abscess and pulmonary atrophy: Chuan Fritillaria 1 liang, Tianzhuhuang and borax 1 qian each, Wenge 5 fen (fried in vinegar). Grind into powder, brush clean loquat leaves and honey-fry them, boil into a paste and make pills the size of Euryale ferox seeds, chew and swallow them.
2. To treat cough due to lung heat with much phlegm and dryness in the throat: Fritillaria (remove the heart) and almond (soaked in water, peeled, tipped and fried) 1 liang 5 qian each. Grind the above two ingredients into powder, refine with honey into pills the size of bullets, and hold in the mouth to dissolve and swallow the saliva.
3. To treat whooping cough: white-flowered snake 5 g, Fritillaria 10 g, raw licorice 10 g. Crush the above three ingredients, sift and mix evenly. Take 1.5-3 g orally each time, 3 times a day.
4. To treat vomiting blood, epistaxis, whether occurring or stopping, all caused by accumulated heat in the Heart meridian: Fritillaria (processed until yellow) 1 liang. Pound finely and sift into powder, and at any time take 2 qian mixed with warm thin gruel.
5. To treat lung abscess with discharge of pus, burning sensation of the five centers, congestion and oppression, and cough: Fritillaria (remove the heart), Aster and Platycodon (fried) 1 liang each, licorice (honey-fried and chopped) half a liang. Pound and sift the above, take 3 qian per dose, decoct in 1 zhan of water for five to seven boils, remove the dregs, and take slightly cool at any time.
6. To treat scrofula and venereal toxin: Fritillaria and Gleditsia seeds half a jin each. Make into fine powder; cut half a jin of Gleditsia into pieces, rub and knead in thick water, filter to make a paste, mix with the medicinal powder, and make pills the size of parasol tree seeds. Take 50 to 70 pills per dose, taken with wine in the morning.
7. To treat infantile thrush with white rotting throughout the mouth: remove the heart from Fritillaria and make into powder, half a qian, water 5 fen, a little honey, decoct for three boils, clean the mouth and apply, four to five times a day.