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li zhi he 荔枝核

by: Joe Hing kwok Chu    朱興國編 譯     (in English and Chinese 中英文)

Pharmaceutical name:

英文藥名﹕

Semen Litchi

Botanical name:

拉丁生物學名﹕

Litchi chinensis Sonn.

Pron. in Japanese:

日語發音﹕

reishikaku

Pron. in Korean:

韓語發音﹕

yojihack

Pron. in Cantonese::

粵音﹕

lai6 zi1 wat6

Other Names:

別名﹕

 

Common Name:

英文名﹕

litchi seed

Distribution:

產地﹕

Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Sichuan, Taiwan.

廣東,廣西,福建,四川,台湾。

Properties

characteristics﹕

性味﹕

sweet, astringent, slightly bitter, warm.

甘,澀,微苦,温。

Channels meridians entered:

 

歸經﹕

liver, stomach.

肝,胃。

Medical functions:

藥理﹕

 

  1. Lowering blood sugar effect: using the chemical ingredient, a-methylenecycyclopropyl glycine, for hypodermic injection on mice, showed it possessed lowering blood sugar effect.
  2. Lowering blood lipid effect: the water or alcohol extract of li zhi he possesses the effect of regulating blood lipids and the effect of anti-oxidation and can lower the total cholesterol and triglycerides of animals.
  3. Anti oxidation effect: it can help resist  free radicals caused by alloxan [1] and improve the activity of antioxidant enzyme SOD.
  4. It can inhibit the mutagenic effects of Salmonella typhimurium.
  5. Anti viral effect: the extract can inhibit hepatitis B virus surface antigen.[2]

 

  1. 本品所含α-亞甲環丙基甘氨酸給小鼠皮下注射,有降血糖作用;
  2. 荔枝核水或醇提取物, 荔枝核油具有調血脂和抗氧化作用,能降低動物血清總膽固醇,及甘油三酯;
  3. 能對抗 四氧嘧啶所致的自由基損傷,提高抗氧化酶SOD活性;
  4. 有對抗 鼠傷寒沙門氏菌的誘變作用;
  5. 水提取物對乙型肝炎病毒表面抗原有抑制作用。[2]

Actions & Indications:

主治﹕

hernia and abdomen pain, swollen testes, stomach pain, diabetes, chronic diarrhea.

寒疝腹痛,睪丸腫痛,胃脘痛,糖尿病,血氣刺痛,慢性腹瀉等病

Chemical ingredients:

化學成份﹕

Saponins皂甙(1.12%)
tannins鞣質(3.43%)
a-methylenecycyclopropyl glycineα-亞 甲基環丙基甘氨酸
Among them are:其中含
3-acetoin3-羥基丁酮
2,3-butanediol2,3-丁二醇
copaene可巴烯
cis-caryophyllene順-丁香烯
allo-aromadendrene別香橙烯
Also being separated:並分離出
small amount of evaporating oil:微量的揮 發油:
humulene葎草烯
δ-cadineneδ-畢澄茄烯
a-curcumenea-姜黃烯
calamenene菖蒲烯
ledol喇叭茶醇
guaiazulene愈創木薁
xanthorrhizol黃根醇
palmitic acid棕櫚酸

Daly Dosage:

每日用量﹕

For decoction: 6 - 10 g,

in powder or pill form 1.5 - 3 g ,

煎湯 6-10g;研末,1.5 -3g;或入丸,散。

Samples of formulae:

處方舉例﹕

 

Modern Research:

現代研究﹕

 

Toxicity & Cautions:

毒素與禁忌﹕

do not use when there is no syndrome of damp cold or qizi (qi stagnation)

無寒濕 氣滯 不可用。

[1] alloxan: an oxidation product of uric acid that is found in the human intestine in diarrhea. Alloxan has been used to produce diabetes in experimental animals by destroying the insulin-secreting islet cells of the pancreas. (Mosby's Medical Dictionary, 8th edition. ©) 2009, Elsevier.

[2] SSN 1009-3079 CN 14-1260/R 世界华人消化杂志 2005915;13(17):2082-2085

 

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