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【Records in medical books】
《Ben Jing》: Treats cough, reverse attack, hurts the middle part, replenishes deficiency, removes evil spirits, benefits the nine orifices, improves wisdom, makes the ears and eyes sharp, prevents forgetfulness, strengthens will and doubles strength.
《Bencao Jing Jizhu》: Kills the poison of Tianxiong and Fuzi.
《Bie Lu》: Calms the heart, stops palpitations, benefits essence, removes diaphragmatic qi under the heart, heat in the skin, and yellow face.
《Yao Xing Lun》: Treats the mind and spirit, strengthens the yang channel. Treats nightmares.
《Rihuazi Bencao》: Treats diaphragmatic qi, nightmares, grows muscles, helps tendons and bones, women’s blood aphonia, children’s guest disobedience.
Wang Haogu: Treats kidney accumulation and running pig.
《Gangmu》: Treats all carbuncle.
《Yunnan Bencao》: Nourishes the heart and blood, calms the nerves, calms the mind, and disperses phlegm. Treat epilepsy, opisthotonos, convulsions, spitting saliva, shaking hands and feet, unconsciousness, reduce urination, treat red and white turbidity, stranguria, and incontinence.
“New Materia Medica”: It promotes qi and dissipates depression, and is good at removing phlegm.
[Predecessors’ explanation of medicine]
“Compendium of Materia Medica”: Polygala, enters the foot Shaoyin kidney meridian, not the heart meridian medicine. Its function is to strengthen will and improve essence, and treat forgetfulness. Essence and will are both stored in the kidney meridian. If the kidney meridian is insufficient, the will and will are weak, and cannot be communicated to the heart, so it is confused and forgetful. “Lingshu Jing” says that the kidney stores essence, and essence is combined with will. If the kidney is angry and does not stop, it will hurt the will. If the will is hurt, it will forget what it said before, and the waist and spine cannot be bent and stretched, and the hair is withered and the color is pale. It is also said that people who are forgetful have insufficient upper qi and excess lower qi, and the intestines and stomach are full and the heart and lungs are empty. If they are empty, the Yingwei will stay in the lower part. After a long time, it will not go up in time, so they are forgetful. Chen Yan’s “Sanyin Fang” says that Polygala wine can treat carbuncle, saying that it has miraculous effects, probably because it can nourish the kidney.
“Ben Cao Hui Yan”: Shen Zeshi said: Polygala can nourish the heart with ginseng, Poria, and Atractylodes; it can nourish the spleen with Astragalus, Licorice, and Atractylodes; it can nourish the kidney with Rehmannia, Lycium, and Chinese Yam; it can nourish the liver with white peony, Angelica, and Chuanxiong; it can nourish the lung with ginseng, Ophiopogon, and Adenophora; it can calm the nerves with cinnabar, gold foil, amber, and rhinoceros horn; it can eliminate phlegm with Pinellia, Star of the Gallbladder, Fritillaria, and white mustard; it can cure acute fright with Sophora flavescens, Uncaria, and Rhizoma Cibotii; it can stop night sweats due to yin deficiency with Angelica Six Yellow Decoction; it can stop spontaneous sweating due to yang deficiency with Astragalus Four Gentlemen Decoction. Du Yiwei decoction can cure diaphragmatic qi under the heart and uncomfortable heart qi. Du Yiwei wine can cure carbuncle swelling and poison, long-term sores, and those who get it from the seven emotions and anger, and gradually recover after taking it.
“Compendium of Materia Medica”: Polygala, with its function of focusing on the heart and kidney, can calm the heart and stop fright, ward off evil spirits and soothe dreams, strengthen yang and benefit essence, strengthen will and help. Because of its ascending qi, it can lift and retain essence and connect water and fire together with ginseng, licorice and jujube seeds.
“Pharmaceutical Meaning”: Polygala, with its pungent taste and strong power, can enter the heart and open the orifices, and is a medicine for dispersing. Whenever phlegm and saliva accumulate in the heart, block the orifices of the heart, and cause heat in the heart, it causes coma, slurred speech, restless sleep, trance and fear, forgetfulness, nightmares, and children’s guest disobedience. It can be temporarily used to clear phlegm and open the orifices, so that the heart qi is opened, and the spirit and soul are calm. It is also used in Guipi Decoction because it can wake up the spleen and treat spleen deficiency and fire, and depression of thoughts. And when the spirit is short, there is even a virtual phlegm, which is evil, and it must be used in moderation. If the heart blood is insufficient, resulting in weak spirit and timidity, and no phlegm can be removed, even if Chuanxiong and Gui are pungent, it is still advisable to avoid using them, let alone this very pungent one. The “Compendium of Materia Medica” says that pungent can moisten the kidney, and use it to improve the essence and strengthen the will. However, it is not known that pungent is heavy and violent, and it can sting the throat and tongue, similar to Nanxing and Pinellia. The “Classic” says: The kidney hates dryness, so it can enter the kidney.
“Medical Records of Zhongzhong Canxi”: Polygala, its sourness can also expand and contract, and its pungentness can also expand and contract, so its nature is good at regulating the lungs, and can make the expansion and contraction of the lung lobes purely natural, and the breathing in the lungs can be regulated, and the phlegm can be transformed, that is, the cough can be stopped. If it is supplemented with licorice, it is indeed an important medicine for nourishing the lungs. As for its sour and astringent power, it can restrain liver fire when it enters the liver, consolidate and astringe when it enters the kidney, and help produce sour juice when it enters the stomach, so that people can eat more. It is a peaceful and pure product, and it is suitable for everything. If you boil it with water to get the concentrated juice, remove the residue and boil it again, so that the juice is as thick as a thin paste, it is very effective to apply it to swelling, sore, ulcer and breast abscess. If you are afraid that it will ferment for a long time, you can add two cents of Pengsha to each liang to dissolve it. The first time I chewed Polygala tenuifolia carefully, I felt that it tasted sour and actually had alum taste. Later, I used this medicine and vomited if I took two cents of powder. I knew that it did contain alum taste. Therefore, when I used this medicine in decoction, I never tried more than two cents, fearing that taking too much would also cause vomiting.
“Compendium of Materia Medica”: Polygala tenuifolia, bitter taste enters the heart, warms the qi and promotes blood circulation, and has a clear fragrance and can also clear the qi. It is specialized in the heart meridian. The heart is the collection of blood. It is pungent and warm to clear it. It is suitable for it to invigorate the heart yang and benefit people’s wisdom. The main treatments in ancient and modern times are all to supplement the heart yang, but Li Binhu said that it is specialized in the kidney family, which is unavoidable to be absurd. Zhang Shiwan agreed with it, which is not a solid theory. The Ben Jing treats cough and reverse reaction, and bitter herbs are used to dispel heat, promote circulation, and disperse pungent herbs. Cough and reverse reaction caused by cold and dampness are naturally relieved. Polygala can eliminate phlegm and stop cough. The Bie Lu records that Polygala can remove the qi under the heart, which is also the meaning. The Wai Tai records that the prescription for chest pain and heart pain in Gujin Lu Yan contains Polygala, which is quite in line with this purpose. The San Yin Fang treats all carbuncle, which is the most suitable for warming and promoting blood circulation. However, the current ulcer department does not know this, which is a pity. Yi Heng is used for cold stagnation and qi stagnation, phlegm and dampness entering the collaterals, and carbuncle swelling. It is the most effective. However, the poison of blood heat and damp heat should not be used randomly without distinction. Polygala can promote the circulation of blood, and as a tonic for the heart, it vibrates and flows, so that the heart yang is spread without stagnation. This is the true purpose of tonic for the heart. However, warming products must not be suitable for real heat. If they are mistakenly used for the symptoms of hot phlegm covering the pericardium, it will only exacerbate the flame. The so-called calming the soul and calming the palpitations also means supplementing the heart yang, so that the heart qi is full and the soul and dreams are calm, and the palpitations are calm. It is not comparable to nourishing fluids to calm the mind and calm the house. If the fright is caused by heat and the yang fire is disturbed, it will also cause temperature rise, and its disadvantages are equal to phlegm heat. There is also a saying that Polygala can communicate with the heart and kidney. If the heart yang is not strong, the clear qi sinks, and the kidney qi is weak and cold and cannot rise, the temperature rise of Polygala can lift the sinking and arouse the kidney yang, which is the correct treatment. However, people do not pay attention. Whenever they encounter symptoms such as kidney yang not being stored, lewd dreams and loss of semen, they also say that this is due to the non-communication of Kan and Li, and they must use Polygala to lead it, so that the water and fire will connect, then the yang fire will float more, and the kidney will be more unable to control it. Those who benefit the nine orifices will just lubricate the orifices of essence, and those who benefit the essence will lose essence.
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