Huangbai
Huangbai, also known as Huangbai tree bark, is a traditional Chinese medicinal material with a long history and wide applications. It has a sweet and cold taste, and has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, nourishing yin and reducing fire. Huangbai mainly grows in warm and humid environments, and the bark is its medicinal part. After processing, Huangbai can be used to treat various diseases. The medicinal effects of Huangbai are significant, especially in terms of clearing heat and detoxifying.
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Huangbai, also known as Huangbai tree bark, is a traditional Chinese medicine with a long history and wide applications. It has a sweet and cold taste, and has the effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, nourishing yin and reducing fire. Huangbai mainly grows in warm and humid environments, and the bark is its medicinal part. After processing, Huangbai can be used to treat various diseases. The medicinal effect of Huangbai is significant, especially in clearing heat and detoxifying.
Huangbai has a bitter and cold nature. It belongs to the kidney and bladder meridians.
Huangbai clears and drains cold, is dry and sinks, entering the kidney and bladder meridians. It clears and drains excess heat (fire) and detoxifies, dries dampness, eliminates damp toxins, and resolves damp heat, while also clearing kidney fire (ministerial fire) and reducing deficiency heat. It is a key medicine for treating damp heat fire toxins and is widely used for symptoms of damp heat fire toxins. Compared to Huanglian, its ability to clear heat and dry dampness is relatively weaker, and its effects are more focused on the kidney and lower jiao bladder, best at clearing ministerial fire, reducing deficiency heat, and eliminating damp heat in the lower jiao. It integrates the functions of clearing excess heat, damp heat, and reducing deficiency heat, making it suitable for all conditions of excess heat fire toxins, damp heat, and deficiency heat.
This product mainly contains various alkaloids such as berberine, magnolia alkaloid, huangbai alkaloid, root alkaloid, and palmatine. In addition, it also contains bitter components such as huangbai lactone, huangbai ketone, huangbai ketone acid, and steroid components such as 7-deamino-stigmasterol, beta-sitosterol, and campesterol. It has the effects of clearing heat, drying dampness, draining fire, detoxifying, and healing wounds.
Where is the medicinal part of Huangbai?
The medicinal part of Huangbai:
This product is the dried bark of the Rutaceae plant Huangpi tree (Phellodendron chinense Schneid.). Commonly referred to as "Chuan Huangbai."
After Liu removes the bark, he removes the rough skin and dries it.
Characteristics of the medicinal part of Huangbai:
This product is in the form of sheets or shallow grooves, with varying lengths and a thickness of 1-6mm. The outer surface is yellow-brown or yellow-brown, flat or with longitudinal grooves, and some may show traces of skin pores and remnants of gray-brown rough skin; the inner surface is dark yellow or light brown, with fine longitudinal striations.
It is light in weight, hard in texture, with a fibrous cross-section, layered in a flaky manner, and deep yellow. It has a slight odor, an extremely bitter taste, and is sticky when chewed.
Key words:
Yilin agriculture, Chinese herbal medicine planting, ecological breeding
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