LI Heng-yang,DING Xiao-ying,ZHANG Dan,et al.Herbal Textual Research on Ephedrae Herba in Famous Classical Formulas[J].Chinese Journal of Experimental Traditional Medical Formulae,2022,28(10):102-110.
LI Heng-yang,DING Xiao-ying,ZHANG Dan,et al.Herbal Textual Research on Ephedrae Herba in Famous Classical Formulas[J].Chinese Journal of Experimental Traditional Medical Formulae,2022,28(10):102-110. DOI: 10.13422/j.cnki.syfjx.20212048.
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Ephedrae Herba is a commonly used medicine for dispersing wind and cold, which has a long medicinal history. By referring to the herbal literature, medical books and prescription books, this paper intends to carry out herbal textual research on the name, origin, medicinal part, producing area, harvesting and processing methods of Ephedrae Herba in famous classical formulas, in order to provide the basis for the development of relevant famous classical formulas. According to textual research, the main base of ancient Ephedrae Herba was
Ephedra sinica
. The medicinal part is the herbaceous stems of Ephedrae Herba. Before the Northern and Southern dynasties, the origin of the records was Jindi and Hedong, which is now Shanxi province. In the Northern and Southern dynasties and later generations, the producing area expanded, and now it is mainly distributed in Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Liaoning and other places, among which Inner Mongolia is the main producing area. The harvesting and processing methods in the past dynasties are to harvest the stems in autumn, dry them in the shade or air to 70%-80% dry, and then dry them in the sun. The processing methods in the past dynasties mainly include removing the knots, wine-fried, honey-fried, processing with vinegar and so on, at present, only honey-fried is still in use. Based on the research results, it is suggested that Ephedrae Herba in famous classical formulas should be selected the dry herbaceous stems of
E. sinica
. If the processing requirements are not indicated, it is suggested to use raw products of Ephedrae Herba.
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经典名方麻黄本草考证药用部位采收加工炮制方法基原
Keywords
famous classical formulasEphedrae Herbahebral textual researchmedicinal partharvesting and processingprocessing methodsorigin
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