| WU WEI ZI 五味子 by: Joe Hing Kwok Chu | Pharmaceutical name: | Frutus Schisandrae Chinesnsis | | Latin botanical name: | Schisandra chinensis (Turcx.) Baill. (northern wu wei zi) Schisandra sphenanthera Rehd. (southern wu wei zi) | | Pron. in Japanese: | gomishi | | Pron. in Korean: | omicha | | Pron. in Cantonese: | ng mei tsi | | Common Name: | schisandra fruit | | Distribution: | Jilin, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Hebei | | Properties (characteristics) | warm, sweet, bitter, sour, acrid, salty but prominently sour. 性溫，五味(甘苦酸辛鹹)皆具備，但酸鹹較多
| | Channels (meridians) entered: | lung, kidney 入 肺 、 賢 經。 | | Actions & Indications: 應用﹕ | stops asthmatic cough, tonic shen (kidney), treats spermatorrhea, stops instant sweating, promotes saliva, quenches thirst, calms emotion, palpitation, helps to prevent insomnia, lower ALT and AST, treats chronic hepatitis. 止 咳 喘 ， 滋 腎 固 精 ，治遺 精 收 斂 止 瀉 ， 固 表 止 汗，治自 汗 ， 生 津 止 渴 ， 養 心 安 神 治心 悸 失 眠 。 降 轉 氨 脢 ， 治 療 慢 性 肝 炎 。 | | Medical Function: 藥理: | 1. helps prevent liver damage; helps to metabolize drugs for liver; lowering ALT and AST 2. anti oxidant 3. affect metabolism 4. helps regulate CNS; improves efficiency of brain activities and improves efficiency of work process 5. anti hypertension but during exhaustion of circulatory function, it can help to bring up blood pressure. 6. effect on respiratory system: Lowers oxygen requirement, correct respiratory exhaustion; works better than Coramine or nikethamide. It helps to expectorate phlegm and sooths coughing. 7. anti ulcer effect 8. helps the body function to adept stress 9. antibiotic effect 10. anti kidney illness 1。 抗肝臟損傷作用 誘導肝臟藥物代謝脢作用﹐降血清轉氨脢。 2。抗氧化作用 3。 影響代謝 4。對腦中樞作用﹕(1)能改善大腦調節功能，增強興奮與抑制過程的靈活性；(2)能提高
智力活動及工作效率； 5。對心血管系統作用: 有降壓作用﹐但對循環哀竭有生壓作用。 6。對呼吸系統作用﹕降低耗氧量﹐增加潮氣量﹐ 改善呼吸哀竭極為有利﹐優于可拉明(Coramine, nikethamide). 鎮咳祛痰 7。 抗潰瘍作用 8。 對機體適應能力作用 9。抗菌作用 10。 抗腎病變作用 | | Chemical ingredients: | to be loaded | | Dosage: | Usual dosage : 1.5 to 9 g. For chronic cough: 1.5 g ~ 3 g. For tonic: 6 to 9 g. Boiled with water: 1.5 to 9 g. Used in powder form: 1 to 3 g. 1.5 ~ 9 克 。水煎 1.5 ~ 9 克 。久咳嗽 1.5 ~ 3 克 。研 末 服 每 次 1- 3 克 。 | | Samples of formulae: | ALT AST lowering formula | | Modern Applications: | to be loaded | | Cautions:禁 忌： | Not to be used by patients with ulcers, or epilepsy, or by those over exercise, or with high pressure in the cranium, cold or flu no yet clear, early stage of cough with internal heat, and those with early stage of measles. 潰瘍或癲癇發作﹐運動過度﹐顱內高壓之病人禁用。表 邪 未 解 、內 有 實 熱 咳 嗽 初 起 、 麻 疹 初 發 者 忌 服 。 |
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