Coptidis is a perennial herb. Rhizome yellow, often branched. The leaves are all basal, the leaves are firm and papery, 3-lobed, the central lobe has a thin stalk, ovate-rhombic, pinnately parted, the margin is sharply serrated, and the lateral lobes are unequally 2-parted. Scapes 1-2; inflorescences terminal, flowers 3-8, involucral bracts usually 3, lanceolate, pinnately parted, bracteoles round, slightly smaller; sepals 5, yellow-green, narrowly ovate; petals Linear, lanceolate, with a honeycomb in the center; stamens numerous, outer stamens slightly shorter or nearly equal in length than petals; carpels 8-12, free, with short stalks. Fruits 6-12, with thin stalks. The flowering period is from February to April, and the fruiting period is from March to June.
【Origin distribution】It grows in cool and damp shaded places in mountains, and grows wild in shaded forests in valleys at an altitude of 1000-1900 meters. Cultivation is also at high altitudes in cool mountainous areas. Cultivated in Sichuan.
[Harvesting and processing] Excavated in autumn, removed fibrous roots and sediment, dried, and removed residual fibrous roots.
【Properties of Medicinal Materials】Multiple clusters, often curved, shaped like chicken feet, single rhizomes are 3-6 cm long and 0.3-0.8 cm in diameter. The surface is grayish yellow or yellowish brown, rough, with irregular nodular uplifts, fibrous roots and fibrous root residues, and the left side of some internodes is as smooth as a stalk, commonly known as “crossing bridges”. There are many brown scale leaves on the upper part, and there are often residual stems or petioles on the top. Hard, irregular section, orange-red or dark brown skin, bright yellow or orange-yellow xylem, arranged radially, and hollow pith. Slight gas, extremely bitter taste.
[Meridian distribution of nature and flavor] Cold in nature, bitter in taste. Heart meridian, spleen meridian, stomach meridian, liver meridian, gallbladder meridian, large intestine meridian.
【Efficacy and function】Clearing away heat and dampness, purging fire and detoxifying. It belongs to the heat-clearing and damp-drying medicine under the classification of heat-clearing medicine.
[Clinical application] The dosage is 2-5 grams, decocted or taken. Use it to control damp-heat and fullness, vomiting and acid regurgitation, dysentery, jaundice, high fever and coma, hyperactivity of heart-fire, blood heat and vomiting of nosebleeds, red eyes, toothache, thirst, carbuncle and furuncle. Appropriate amount for external use can cure eczema, eczema and ear canal discharge.
Efficacy and function
Clearing away heat and dampness, purging fire, antibacterial
Coptis chinensis is bitter and cold in nature, has the effect of clearing away heat and dampness, and can alleviate the dysfunction of the spleen and stomach caused by the accumulation of dampness and heat. In addition, because bitterness enters the heart meridian, taking Coptis chinensis can also improve upset, insomnia, palpitations and restlessness caused by hyperactivity of heart fire, and has the effect of purging fire. Modern pharmacological research has found that Coptidis contains berberine, which has a wide range of antibacterial effects, can strongly inhibit hemolytic streptococcus, pneumococcus, staphylococcus aureus and other pathogenic bacteria, and reduce the chance of human infection.
Efficacy and function
Clearing away heat and dampness, purging fire, antibacterial
Coptis chinensis is bitter and cold in nature, has the effect of clearing away heat and dampness, and can alleviate the dysfunction of the spleen and stomach caused by the accumulation of dampness and heat. In addition, because bitterness enters the heart meridian, taking Coptis chinensis can also improve upset, insomnia, palpitations and restlessness caused by hyperactivity of heart fire, and has the effect of purging fire. Modern pharmacological research has found that Coptidis contains berberine, which has a wide range of antibacterial effects, can strongly inhibit hemolytic streptococcus, pneumococcus, staphylococcus aureus and other pathogenic bacteria, and reduce the chance of human infection.
Efficacy and function
Clearing away heat and dampness, purging fire, antibacterial
Coptis chinensis is bitter and cold in nature, has the effect of clearing away heat and dampness, and can alleviate the dysfunction of the spleen and stomach caused by the accumulation of dampness and heat. In addition, because bitterness enters the heart meridian, taking Coptis chinensis can also improve upset, insomnia, palpitations and restlessness caused by hyperactivity of heart fire, and has the effect of purging fire. Modern pharmacological research has found that Coptidis contains berberine, which has a wide range of antibacterial effects, can strongly inhibit hemolytic streptococcus, pneumococcus, staphylococcus aureus and other pathogenic bacteria, and reduce the chance of human infection.
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