The efficacy and function of lilac

Lilac is mainly produced in Northeast, Northwest, North China and other places, and is distributed in North Korea, Japan, and Ukraine. Contains volatile oils, tannins and steroid compounds, syringin, artemisia coumarin, methyl hyaluronate and other ingredients. The whole body of the lilac tree is a treasure, and its roots, trunk and branches all have medicinal value. It is used to treat anti-inflammatory, diuretic, phlegm and cough, cough with excessive sputum, as well as bronchitis, bronchial asthma and cardiac edema. 1. Antitussive and expectorant Martin, belongs to the lung meridian, is a heat-clearing and phlegm-clearing drug classified under antitussive and expectorant, antitussive and antiasthmatic drugs, and has antitussive, expectorant and antiasthmatic effects. The health tea made from lilac flowers and the Qinbaohong cough tablets and Qinbaohong cough capsules made from syringin, an extract of the tree root, are available on the market and have very good effects on the treatment of chronic bronchitis and asthma. 2. Diuretic and anti-edema. The roots, trunks and stems of the lilac tree are used as medicine, which has anti-inflammatory, antitussive and diuretic effects. Chopping the lilac seeds and decocting them in water can treat cardiac edema. It can also treat bronchial cancer, sarcoma, sepsis, hypertension, heart disease, edema, arteriosclerosis and other diseases.

Nutritional Information

The roots of the lilac tree contain volatile oils, tannins and steroid compounds, as well as artemisia coumarin, namely 6,7-dimethoxycoumarin, 3,4-dihydroxy-β-hydroxyethylbenzene, methyl thiazolin and other ingredients.

1. Expectorant effect: Oral administration or abdominal injection of the whole skin decoction to mice or rabbits has a significant expectorant effect (phenol red method), so it may be due to direct stimulation of the respiratory system to produce the effect. On the contrary, it has an inhibitory effect on the activity of bronchial microvilli epithelial cells. The components of fatan are acid phenols and flavonoids.

2. Antiasthmatic effect: The decoction of the whole skin taken orally by guinea pigs has a very significant antiasthmatic effect (histamine spray-induced asthma method). The antiasthmatic ingredients are terpenes. Gavage of a decoction of the whole skin at a dose close to the toxic level to mice still had no effect in relieving cough and reducing phlegm (sodium hydroxide spray method). The neutralized part of the alcohol extract of the root has a cough-relieving effect.

3. Antibacterial effect: The decoction of the whole skin and epidermis has a mild to moderate antibacterial effect on Pneumococcus and Streptococcus influenzae, while the decoction of the whole branch has only a slight inhibitory effect on this. Mr. Mu Xin's water decoction has no effect. The whole skin decoction had no effect on the reticular epidermal system's swallowing function and capillary permeability.