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tu si zi   菟絲子

by: Joe Hing Kwok Chu

 
Pharmaceutical name:

英文药名:

Semen Cuscutae Chinensis
Biological name:

拉丁名:

Cuscuta chinensis Lam.,

C. japonica Choisy

Pron. in Japanese:

日語發音:

toshishi
Pron. in Korean:8

韩語發音:

tosacha
Pron. in Cantonese

粤語發音:

tou3  si1  zi2
Common Name:

英文名:

cuscuta, Chinese dodder seed
Distribution:

分佈:

Jiangsu, Liaoning, Jiling, Hebei, shandong, Henan provinces of China.

江蘇、遼寧、吉林、河北、山東、河南省等地區。

Properties (characteristics)

性味:

acrid, sweet, neutral

辛,甘,平。

Channels (meridians) entered:

歸經

kidney, liver

肝,腎

Actions & Indications:

主治:

tonifies kidneys, liver and spleen, improve yin; for shenyangxu, pixu, neurasthenia, calming fetus, for habitual miscarriage.

口苦躁渴,陽痿,遺精,血尿,小便淋瀝,大便溏薄,神經衰弱,習慣性流產。

Medical Function:To be edited

Anti-aging effect. [1]

Hepatoprotective effects: tu si zi20% water decoction on carbon tetrachloride injury in mice: providing orally 50g crude drug / kg body weight, can lower the blood lactate, pyruvate, and SGPT decline, and can increase glycogen adrenal ascorbic acid significantly, and shows the protective activity of damaged liver. [2]

Yang and enhance sexual vitality role: 20% the tu si zi water decoction of 0.5ml /  day orally, corrected yang deficiency symptoms in mice. Culture medium containing the tu si zi water decoction of three concentration 0.5,1. O and 2.O% can enhance the drosophila (fruit flies) sexual vitality. [2]

Increase the role of non-specific resistance: tu si zi water decoction can extend swimming time of mice, enhanced hypoxic tolerance under normal pressure, improve its non-specific resistance. [2]

Other role: tu si zi: anti-tumor, anti-viral, anti-inflammatory, anti-infertility, lapactic, and suppress the central nervous system. [2]

具有延緩衰老作用。[1]

保肝作用:菟絲子20%的水煎劑給四氯化碳損傷小鼠灌胃,50g生藥/kg體重,能使血液中增加的乳酸、丙酮酸及 SGPT 下降,而使下降的肝糖元和腎上腺抗壞血酸上升,有顯著的保護肝損傷活性。[2]

助陽和增強性活力作用:20%菟絲子水煎劑 0.5ml/隻/天 灌胃,對陽虛小鼠的症狀有一定的恢復作用。用含菟絲子水煎劑的培養基培養,在0.5、1.O和2.O%三個濃度下均能提高果蠅的性活力。
[2]

增加非特異性抵抗力作用:菟絲子水煎劑,能延氏小鼠負重游泳時間,增強小鼠在常壓下的耐缺氧能力,提高其非特異性抵抗力。
[2]

其它作用:菟絲子尚具有抗腫瘤、抗病毒、抗炎、抗不育、致瀉、及抑制中樞神經系統的作用。
[2]

Chemical ingredients:

化学成分:

to be loaded
Dosage:9 to 15 g.
Samples of formulae:
  1. For improving sperm quality: wu zi yan zong wan

  2. For treatment of threatened abortion: Prescription:  tu zi zi , xu duan, e jiao, dang shen, bai zhu. Treated 110 patients. Take herb once a day for 10 days. Effective rate: 96.36%

  3. For treatment of impotence: tu si zi, she chuang zi,  wu wei zi, equal amount, make into powder and mix with cooked honey. Make  into pills like size of soybean. Take 30 pills each time, 3 times a day. [3]

 

  1. 增加精子質量:五子衍宗丸

  2. 治療先兆流產的作用:菟絲子與續 斷阿膠黨 參白 朮等配伍,治療先兆流產110例,病人每日服藥一次,共10天,總有效率為96.36%。[1]

  3. 治陽痿:菟絲子蛇床子五味子各等分。上三味,末之,蜜丸如梧子。飲服三十丸,日三。《方源:千金方

Modern Research:to be loaded
Cautions:not to use in blood deficient  and yinxu with fire.

 血虛及火熱者忌服。

“腎家多火,強陽不痿,大便燥結者忌菟絲子。”《 本草新 》

[1] 首席医学网      2005年10月09日 14:47:05

[2]   Zhong Hua Ben Cao 中華本草

[3] Qian Jin Fang 千金方

中國時報  第39版  2000.3.15(三)

鑑定試驗方法:取本品少量,加準水適量浸泡,浸泡呈黃色,其種子表面可見透明的半粘液,用用捻有粘滑感。煮之易破裂,破裂後露出白色卷旋狀﹐形如吐絲。此才是真品菟絲子。

偽品是用「茛菪子」混充使用。按茛菪子屬茄科植物茛菪的乾燥成熟種子偽充菟絲子。該品性狀如卵圖形或略象腎形﹐稍有扁平,臍點處突出。面灰黃色或棕黃色,種皮粗糙,具細密隆起的紋路。無臭味微辛。

鑑驗方法同上,取種子少量泡在水中不變色,

[1] 殷林茂,等•中西醫結合治療幼小子宮46例•河北中醫1992; 14(4):40
Yan Linmao, ed. Integrating Chinese and western medicine to treat Infantile uterus, Herbal Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine1992;14(4):40.* 

 

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