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Pharmaceutical name:

Frutus Schisandrae Chinensis

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.

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:

化學成分：

1. alpha-pinene, camphene, beta-pinene, myrcene, alpha-terpinene, limonene, gamma-terpinene, p-cymene, thymold methylether, bornyl acetate, citronellyl acetate, linalool, terpinene-4-ol, alpha-terpinol, geraniol, borneol, citronellol, benzoic acid, o-cadinene, beta-elemene, alpha-ylangene, cuparene, sesquicarene, beta-chamigrene, alpha-chamigrene, chamigrenol, beta-bisabolene, ethyl benzyl ether, [2, 2-dimethyl-3-methylenebicyclo (2, 2, 1) heptane], (1-methyl-4-methylethenenylcyelohexene), (phenyl-2-propanone), [2-methyl-3-methylene-2-(4-methyl-3-pentenyl)-bicyclo (2, 2, 1) heptane], longifolene, [4-(1, 5-dimethyl-1, 4-hexadienyl)-1-methylcylohexene], isolongifolene, alpha-santalene, clovene, beta-caryophyllene, trans-caryophyllene, beta-selinene, thujopsene, santalol, alpha-santalol, nonylophenol, [2-(p-cyclohexylphenoxy) ethanol], [2-(2-phenyl cyclohexyloxy) ethanol], (p-nonylphenol, 4, 4a, 5, 6, 7, 8-hexahydro-4, 4a-dimethyl-6-(1-methyl ethenyl)-2 (3H)-naphthalene, 1, 1a, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7a, 7b-octahydro-1, 1, 7, 7a-tetramethyl-2H-cyclopropa (alpha) -naphthalene-2-one, 1, 1a, 2, 4, 6, 7, 7a-7b-octahydro-1, 1, 7, 7a-tetramethyl-5H-cyclopropa(alpha) -naphthalen-5-one, cyclopropa (alpha) -naphthalen -2-one, 2-(5-ethenyl-5-methyl-2-tetrahydrofuranyl)-6-methyl-5-hepten-3-one, 1, 2, 3, 3a, 8, 8a-hexahydro-2, 2, 8-trimethyl-5, 6-azulenedimethanol, 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7-hexahydro-1, 1, 5, 5-tetramethyl-tricyclo (5, 4, 0)undec-9-ene, 1, 2, 4a, 5, 6, 8a-hexahydro-4, 7-dimethyl-1- (1-methylethyl)-naphthalene, 2, 3, 7, 7, 8, 8a hexahydro-3, 6, 8, 8-tetramethyl-1H-3a, 7-methanoazulene, 1, 8-dimethyl-4-(1-methylenyl)-spiro (4, 5) dec-7-ene, 4-phenobicyclo (2, 2, 2) pctan-1-ol.

2. schizandrin, deoxyschisandrin, gamma-schisandrin, schisandrol, pseudo-gamma-schisandrin, wuweizisu C, (schisandrol A, B), schizandrate B, gomisin A, B, C, F, G, angeloylgomisin H, tigloylgomisin H, benzoylgomisin H, epigomisin O, angeloylgomisini O, pregomisin, angeloyisogomisin O, benzoylisogomisin O, isoschisandrin, rubschisantherin, rubschisandrin, schisanhenol acetate, schisanhenol B, schisanhenol, pregomisin, schisantherin, neoschizanrin, meso-dihydroguaiaretic acid.

4. citral.

Dosage:

用量：

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:

處方舉例：

Click to see ALT AST lowering formula

按此看降低 ALT 與 AST 之藥方。

To improve sperm count and sperm activity: wu zi yan zong wan

增加精子數量與活動力： 五子衍宗丸

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.

Use wu wei zi together with sulfonamides may cause bleeding in the urinary tract.

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 。

五味子與磺胺類藥 (sulfonamides) 同時使用可能會引起血尿。