The efficacy and contraindications of Terminalia chebula

The effects and functions and taboos of Terminalia chebula: Terminalia chebula is a traditional Chinese medicine that can astringe the lungs, astringe the intestines, relieve sore throat, and warm the yang. It can also be called Terminalia chebula, Terminalia chebula, and Terminalia chebula. The following is a detailed introduction to the effects and functions of Terminalia chebula in terms of cough, sputum, difficulty speaking, hoarseness, and chronic diarrhea in the elderly... What are the taboos of Terminalia chebula's effects and functions? The following is the traditional Chinese medicine knowledge for everyone: the effects and functions of Terminalia chebula. Let’s find out together.

Characteristics identification: The fruit is long ring or oval, about 1.5~3 cm long and 1.5~2 cm in diameter. The surface is light green to yellow-brown, slightly glossy, with irregular wrinkles and grooves, 5 to 6 raised longitudinal ridges, and a scar at the tip where the fruit stalk fell off. The flesh has a firm texture. A peach pit, yellow-white, rough, and very hard. It contains one seed, which is slender and spindle-shaped, with a thin seed coat that tightly wraps around the kernel, which is milky white. Slight odor, sour taste.

It is preferred to have yellow-brown, firm, thick and shiny texture.

Effects and functions:

1. Antibacterial. It has a very strong inhibitory effect on Shigella dysenteriae, and its basic principle may be that tannins cause bacterial proteins to coagulate.

2. Antiviral treatment. Using the chicken embryo test model, direct in vitro testing and in vivo protective efficacy were selected, and it was found that Terminalia chebula had anti-influenza virus efficacy.

3. Convergence. It has a protective effect on mucosal ulcers caused by bacillary dysentery or enteritis.

4. Antispasmodic. Terminalia chebula has a smooth muscle antispasmodic effect similar to that of papaverine.

Poria cocos effects: sour, bitter, and neutral. Meridians: Enter the lung and small intestine meridians. Function: Astringes the lungs, astringes the intestines, warms the yang. Indications: long-term diarrhea and dysentery, rectal prolapse and bloody stool, cough with sputum and loss of voice, and cough with sputum and wheezing.

Function, efficacy and usage: It is a common medicine for treating chronic diarrhea, cough and excessive sputum.

1. Used to treat chronic diarrhea, chronic dysentery, chronic dysentery and chronic colitis, because of its astringent and antibacterial effects. The effect of stewed Terminalia chebula is good, but it is rarely used alone. It is often used with other astringent drugs. For example, it is used to treat chronic dysentery and blood congestion with gallnut, dried plum, and white bark of elm root; it is used to treat chronic diarrhea with scutellaria and poria. If the diarrhea caused by yin deficiency and internal heat is severe, poppy shell, roasted ginger, orange peel, etc. can be used. Prescription such as Terminalia chebula powder.

2. Used for cough with excessive sputum. For the treatment of dry cough and blood in sputum caused by tuberculosis, use raw Terminalia chebula with pumice and melon peel; for the treatment of cough, sputum and aphonia caused by chronic pharyngitis, use Platycodon grandiflorum, licorice, etc., such as Terminalia chebula Qingsheng Decoction; holding raw Terminalia chebula in the mouth can help to a certain extent, but it tastes very bitter, so it is better to make it into pills with pure honey for oral dissolution. It has been recently reported that chronic bronchitis can be treated with 3g of Terminalia chebula and 9g of Schisandra chinensis, boiled with a pig lung and taken in the recipe of Bufei Decoction.

taboo:

1. It is not suitable to use Terminalia chebula in the early stage of exogenous wind-cold cough, acute enteritis, and dysentery to prevent the retention of pathogens;

2. The raw Terminalia chebula is good for relieving cough, reducing phlegm, warming yang and improving voice. The simmered Terminalia chebula is good for astringing the intestines and treating diarrhea, and it also relieves gastric irritation.

3. Ancient people once said that Terminalia chebula "is bitter and can relieve gas, so people with weak vital energy should use less of it." Modern clinical medical observation shows that Terminalia chebula does have the side effect of reducing digestion ability, so people with weak spleen and symptoms of indigestion should use less of it.

Dosage: 1.5~4.5g. Large doses can be up to 6~9g.

The above is an introduction to the functions and effects of the traditional Chinese medicine Terminalia chebula. I believe that everyone has a certain understanding of it. I hope it will be of some help to everyone.