What are the effects and uses of Euodia rutaecarpa?
Euodia rutaecarpa is the dried nearly mature fruit of Euodia rutaecarpa, Evodia rutaecarpa var. officinalis, or Evodia rutaecarpa var. bodinieri, plants of the Rutaceae family. From August to November, when the fruit has not yet split open, cut off the fruit-bearing branches, then sun-dry or dry at low temperature, remove impurities such as branches, leaves and fruit stalks, and use it raw or prepared with licorice decoction.
Effects and uses of Euodia rutaecarpa
Warming the middle, relieving pain, regulating qi, drying dampness, Jueyin headache, vomiting and diarrhea due to visceral cold, distending pain in the epigastrium and abdomen, menstrual abdominal pain, diarrhea before dawn, hypertension, beriberi, hernia, mouth ulcers, toothache, eczema, impetigo.
① "Shennong Bencao Jing": Mainly warms the middle and directs qi downward, relieves pain, treats cough with counterflow and alternating cold and heat, removes dampness and blood bi, expels wind pathogens, and opens the interstices.
② "Bielu": Mainly treats phlegm-cold, twisting abdominal pain, all cold and excess that does not disperse, sudden turmoil disorder, heart and abdominal pain, counterflow qi, and benefits the five viscera.
③ "Yaoxing Lun": Mainly treats heart and abdominal diseases, accumulated cold, qi binding below the heart, and heart pain with a fixed location; treats cholera with muscle cramps, cold qi in the stomach, and unbearable vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain; treats generalized stubborn bi, cold food that does not digest, and promotes movement of stagnant qi in the large intestine.
④ "Bencao Shiyi": Kills malignant worm toxins and tooth worms.
⑤ "Rihuazi Bencao": Strengthens the spleen and frees the joints.
Treats abdominal pain, kidney qi, beriberi, edema, and residual blood after childbirth.
⑥ Wang Haogu: Treats fullness and stuffiness blocking the chest, obstruction of the throat and diaphragm, moistens the liver and dries the spleen.
⑦ "Gangmu": Opens depression and transforms stagnation.
Treats acid regurgitation, Jueyin phlegm-fluid headache, yin-toxin abdominal pain, hernia, blood dysentery, and throat, tongue and mouth sores.
How to consume Euodia rutaecarpa:
Euodia rutaecarpa porridge
Ingredients: 2 g Euodia rutaecarpa, 50 g japonica rice, 2 slices ginger, 2 scallion whites
Preparation: Grind Euodia rutaecarpa into a fine powder; first cook porridge with japonica rice, and when the rice is cooked, add the Euodia rutaecarpa powder, ginger and scallion whites, and cook together into porridge.
Usage: Take every morning and evening. 3-5 days is one course of treatment.
Effects: Tonifies the spleen and warms the stomach, warms the middle and disperses cold, relieves pain and stops vomiting. Suitable for dysmenorrhea of deficiency-cold type as well as cold pain in the epigastrium and abdomen and vomiting with acid regurgitation.
Source: "Shijian Bencao"
Euodia rutaecarpa wine
Formula: 15 g each of Euodia rutaecarpa and alum, and an appropriate amount of white liquor.
Preparation: Grind the first 2 ingredients together into a fine powder, add white liquor and mix into a paste, make 2 medicinal wine cakes, and set aside.
Usage: For external use. Take the medicinal wine cakes and apply them to the soles or palms of the child, then wrap and secure with gauze.
Effects: Disperses cold, reduces inflammation, and reduces fever.
Indications: Edit for various types of colds in children.
Quoted from: "Yaogiu Huibian". Clinically verified as effective in all cases.
Zhuyu decoction
Composition: 2 liang Euodia rutaecarpa, 1 liang prepared licorice, 1 liang ginseng, 1 liang cinnamon heart, 5 liang ginger, 1 sheng pinellia, 1 sheng wheat, 2 liang angelica.
Dosage: With 1 dou 5 sheng of water, boil down to 3 sheng. Take 1 sheng warm each time, 3 times a day.
Method: Cut the above.
Indications: Cold abdominal pain. Postpartum deficiency-cold.
Source: "Waitai" volume 7 quoting "Xiaopin Fang".
Euodia rutaecarpa, Codonopsis and ginger decoction
Composition: 9 g Euodia rutaecarpa, 5 g Codonopsis pilosula, 20 g ginger, 6 jujubes, 3 g clove (added later).
Preparation: Add an appropriate amount of water to the above medicines and decoct, decoct twice in succession, and take 300 mL of medicinal juice.
Usage: 1 dose per day, taken warm in the morning and evening.
Effects: Warms the middle and tonifies deficiency, descends turbidity and stops vomiting. Suitable for chronic atrophic gastritis caused by liver-stomach deficiency-cold.
That concludes today's introduction to the effects and uses of Euodia rutaecarpa. I hope it is helpful to you.