Pharmaceutical name:

英文藥名﹕

Radix Ligustici Chuanxiong

Latin botanical name:

拉丁學名﹕

Ligusticum chuanxiong Hort.; L. wallichii Franch.

Pron. in Japanese:

日音﹕

senkyu

Pron. in Korean:

韓音﹕

chonkung

Pron. in Cantonese:粵音﹕

cyun1 gung1

Common Name:

英文名﹕

Szehuan lovage root, cnidium

Distribution:

分佈﹕

Sichuan 四川, Guizhou 貴州, Yunnan 雲南, Shaanxi 陝西

Properties (characteristics)﹕

性味﹕

acrid, warm

味辛，性溫。

Channels (meridians) entered:

歸經﹕

liver, gallbladder, pericardium

肝﹐膽﹐ 心包。

Actions & Indications:

應用﹕

Promotes qi and circulation. Relieves pain: like headaches, abdominal ache, chest pain, muscle pain, boils, difficulty in menses, amenorrhea. Rids of blood stasis.

行血氣﹐去淤血﹐卻風痛﹔如﹕頭痛，腹痛，脅痛，塞痺筋攣，癰疽瘡瘍，婦女經閉，月經不調。

Medical Function:藥理:

Medical Function:

• dilates coronary arteries, improves blood flow to heart muscles, lower oxygen consumption of heart muscles.

•  improves blood flow to the the brain and limbs, lower resistant of the peripheral blood vessels.

• resists radiation.

• antibiotic effect

• anti-coagulation of platelets.

• helps resist effect of lack of vitamin E

• inhibits the activity of tyrosinase, thus helps to eliminate age spots (brown spots) and spreckles.

藥理:

• 有擴張冠狀動脈 ﹐ 增加冠狀動脈血流量及，心肌血流量﹐ 降低心肌耗氧量的作用

• 有增加腦及肢體血流量 ﹐ 降低外周血壓阻力的作用

• 抗輻射

• 抗菌

• 抑制血小板聚集

• 有抗维生素E缺乏的作用。

• 抑制酪氨酸酶活性，而有治療黑斑﹐雀斑﹐與老年斑之效果。

Chemical ingredients:

化學成份﹕

cnidiumlactone, chuanxingol, 4-hyroxy-3-butylidene-phthalide, 4, 5-dihydro-3-butylidene-phthalide, 3-butyl-phthalide, 7-hydroxy-3-butylidenephthalide, 3-butyl-4, 5-dihydrophthalide, (Z)-4, 5-dihydro-6, 7-trans-dihydroxy-3-butylidene-phthalide, (Z) -4, 5-dihydro-6, 7-cis-dihydroxy-3-butylidene-phthalide, senkyunolide K, senkyunolide L, senkyunolide M, (Z) -6, 7-epoxy-ligustilide; 3, 6, 7-trihydroxy-4, 5, 6, 7-tetrahydro-3-butyl-phthalide; neocnidilide; 3-n-butyl-3-hydroxyl-4, 5, 6, 7-tetrahydro-6, 7-dihydroxyphthalide.

2. (Z, Z') -diligustilide;(Z) -6.8', 7.3'-diligustilide; Wallichilide; (Z')-3, 8-dihydro-6. 6', 7. 3' a-diligustilide.

3. chuanxingzine, tetramethyl-pyrazine, L-isoleucine-L-valine anhydride, adenine, L-valine-L-valine anhydride, trimethylamine, choline, perlolyrine.

3. ferulic acid, sedanonic acid, folic acid, vanillic acid, caffeic acid, protocatechuic acid, palmitic acid, linolenic acid, chrysophanol.

4. methyl phenylacetate, sedanoic acid lactone, methyl pentadecanoate, ethyl  p entadecanoate, ethyl palmitate, ethyl heptadecanoate, ethyl isohepta- decanoate, ethyl octadecanoate, ethyl isoctadecanoate, methyl palmitate, methyl linolenate.

5. vanillin; (bis-5, 5'-formylfurperye ether; 5-hydroxymethyl-6-endo-3'-methoxy-4'-hydroxyphenyl-8-0xa-abicyclo (3, 2, 1)-oct-3-en-2-one; spathulenol; β-sitosterol;vitamin A.

Dosage:

用量:

3 ~10 g.

3～10克。

Samples of formulae:

常用處方﹕

shi quan da bu tang  十全大補湯,

ren shen bai du san  人參敗毒散,

du huo ji sheng tang  獨活寄生湯,

si wu tang  四物湯,

yue ju wan  越鞠丸

xue fu zhu yu tang  血府逐淤湯,

wen jing tang  溫經湯,

suan zao ren tang  酸棗仁湯

Modern  Applications:

coronary diseases, angina

現代用於冠心病﹐ 心絞痛﹐及缺血性胸血管病。

Cautions:

禁忌:

do not use in cases of yinxu (yin deficient) with high fire, headache or hypermenorrhea caused by liver yang overactive.
陰虛 火旺﹐ 肝陽上亢所引起的頭痛及月經過多者忌服。