"Houpu" is a traditional Chinese medicine, which is named after its "simple essence and thick skin" according to traditional Chinese medicine books. Thick, it is pure and thick; Park is a simple simplicity. Honesty and simplicity are virtues that Chinese people have always admired. For thousands of years, Houpu has taken root deep in the mountains, absorbing the spiritual energy of the earth, accumulating rich medicinal fragrance, and serving human health. As one of the three important woody medicinal herbs in China, Houpu is recorded in the Shennong Materia Medica Classic and integrated into China's long-standing traditional medical culture, playing an important role in the reproduction and development of the Chinese nation.
For thousands of years, Houpu has taken root deep in the mountains, absorbing the spiritual energy of the earth, accumulating rich medicinal fragrance, and serving human health.
Houpu is one of the major Chinese medicinal herbs, mainly distributed in 12 provinces (regions, cities) including Zhejiang, Fujian, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Guangxi, Chongqing, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou. In plant taxonomy, Magnolia officinalis has always been classified under the Magnoliaceae Magnolia genus, including Magnolia officinalis (original subspecies) and Magnolia officinalis (subspecies). Recently, scholars have merged two subspecies of Magnolia into a single species of Magnolia genus.
Houpu has a medicinal history of over 2000 years. It uses bark, root bark, and flower buds as medicine, and has the effects of promoting dampness, warming and relieving pain, lowering adverse reactions and relieving asthma. It is mainly used to treat gastrointestinal diseases.
In the spring of 2003, during the outbreak of SARS, Dayuan Drink played an important role in prevention and control. In the fierce novel coronavirus pneumonia epidemic since 2019, "Dayuan Drink" has become popular again. "Da Yuan Yin" comes from Wu Youke's "Wen Yi Lun" in the Ming Dynasty. It is suitable for the early and middle stages of epidemics and has the effect of "dispelling depression and dampness, clearing heat and nourishing yin". Houpu is an important component of the "Dayuan Yin" formula, and is also an important traditional Chinese medicine formula in formulas such as "Sanxiao Yin" and "Chengqi Yangrong Tang" in this treatise.
Common selection methods
1. For those who suffer from abdominal pain and constipation: 8 taels of Magnolia officinalis (24 grams), 4 taels of Rhubarb (12 grams), and 5 pieces of Fructus Aurantii (9 grams). On top of the three flavors, take one bucket of water and two liters. First, boil the two flavors, take five liters, and cook the internal rhubarb, take three liters. Warm clothing costs one liter, with profit as the measure. "Houpu San Wu Tang" in the "Synopsis of the Golden Chamber".
2. To treat chronic bloating and tightness of the heart due to improper diet and a clash of cold and heat, resulting in bloating of the abdomen: stir fry Houpu over fire until dry, then dip in ginger juice and let it burn until dark, sift and sift like flour. Mix 10 grams of aged rice drink and take it three times a day. It also treats nausea and stops diarrhea. (Doumen Fang).
3. To treat disharmony between the spleen and stomach, do not consider diet: 125g of Houpu (peeled, ginger juice applied, roasted to make fragrant and clean), 75g of Licorice (roasted), 200g of Atractylodes macrocephala (soaked in rice and swill for two days, peeled off), 125g of Chenpi (peeled off), with four flavors added, as the end. Take 5 grams per serving, one cup of water, add ginger and jujube and fry for seven parts. Remove the dregs and take it warm, then take it hollow. Or pestle fine powder, honey for pills, as big as plane trees. Take ten pills each, chew the salt soup, and take it hollow. (Boji Fang Pingwei San).
4. Treatment for symptoms such as joy, anger, sadness, worry, and shock, phlegm and saliva stagnation, resembling broken catkins or plum blossom nuclei, in the throat, unable to come out, unable to swallow, or fullness in the epigastric cavity, discomfort in qi, or excessive phlegm and saliva, upper asthma, or nausea and vomiting due to phlegm and drink accumulation: 100g of perilla leaves, 150g of magnolia officinalis, 200g of Poria cocos, and 250g of Pinellia ternata. Upper fine cutting. Take 20 grams per serving, half a cup of water, 7 slices of ginger, and one jujube. Fry until six parts are removed, remove impurities, take hot, and do not hesitate to use the "Four Seven Tang" in the "Yi Jian Fang" (also known as the "Jin Kui Yao Lue" Banxia Houpu Tang).
5. Insect control: 10 grams each of Magnolia officinalis and betel nut, and two black plums. Boiled in water. (The Complete Book of Bao Chi).
6. Treatment of cold cave discharge in the middle: divided into dried ginger, magnolia officinalis, etc. Above is the end, and the honey pill is big. Take thirty pills. (Bao's Prescription for Children).
7. Long lasting treatment for dysentery in water and valleys: 15 grams of Houpu and 15 grams of Huanglian. File, water three liters, fry one liter. Hollow fine clothing. ("Mei Shi Ji Yan Fang").
8. For those who treat cough and have a floating pulse: 5 liang (15 grams) of Magnolia officinalis, 4 liang (12 grams) of Ephedra, 12 grams of gypsum, such as chicken seeds, half a liter (9 grams) of almonds, half a liter (9 grams) of Pinellia ternata, and 2 liang (6 grams) of dried ginger. 6 grams of Asarum, one liter (20 grams) of raw wheat, and half a liter (5 grams) of Schisandra chinensis. First, boil the wheat in one bucket and two liters of water. Take three liters of warm medicine and one liter daily. "Houpu Mahuang Tang" in the "Synopsis of the Golden Chamber".
9. The treatment for stomach deficiency and diarrhea in the elderly is particularly effective in treating visceral discharge: 1.5 grams of Aconitum (processed) Houpu (processed with ginger), 0.5 grams of licorice (processed), and 0.5 grams of dried ginger (processed) each. Take 5 grams of water, three in one, and two slices of ginger. Fry until the two are hot, and take them twice to stop. (Su Shen Liang Fang Jian Bi San).
10. Those who are too worried about governance, causing fecal turbidity and spermatorrhea: Magnolia officinalis (remove the coarse ginger to make the powder), 100g sheep shin charcoal (calcined red and scented), 50g; those who have been studied as powder deficiency and cold as cold, put 25g boiled vermilion paste pills, such as wutong Zida, into each pill and drink from 100 to 200 pills of hollow rice. (The "Compromise of Baoqing Materia Medica" cites the "Secret True Pill" from Liu Xin's Father's Formula).
11. Food accumulation and qi stagnation, abdominal distension and constipation. This product can lower the air width, eliminate accumulation and guide stagnation. Often used together with rhubarb and Fructus Aurantii, such as Houpu San Wu Tang (Jin Kui Yao Lue). If the patient is suffering from constipation due to heat accumulation, they should be paired with rhubarb, mirabilite, and Fructus Aurantii to achieve the effect of reducing heat accumulation and promoting stagnation, which is called Da Cheng Qi Tang (Treatise on Cold Damage).
12. Phlegm and wheezing cough. This product can dry dampness, reduce phlegm, and relieve asthma. If phlegm obstructs the lungs, the lung qi does not decrease, and there is coughing, wheezing, and chest tightness, it can be used equivalently with Su Zi, Chen Pi, and Banxia, such as Su Zi Jiangqi Tang ("He Ji Ju Fang"). If cold drinks turn heat, chest tightness and asthma, throat phlegm sounds are dripping, and restlessness is present, it should be used equally with ephedra, gypsum, and almonds, such as Houpu Mahuang Tang (Jin Kui Yao Lue). If suffering from asthma due to external cold, it can be used equally with cinnamon twigs and almonds, such as cinnamon twigs and Houpu Xingzi Tang (Treatise on Cold Damage).
13. If there is obstruction in the throat due to the stagnation of seven emotions and mutual obstruction of phlegm and qi, and if there is obstruction in the throat, the plum blossom core qi syndrome cannot be swallowed or exhaled, this product can also be used to dry dampness and reduce phlegm, with the effect of reducing qi and widening the middle. It can be combined with medicines such as Pinellia ternata, Poria cocos, Su Ye, ginger, etc., such as Pinellia ternata Houpu Tang (Synopsis of the Golden Chamber).
14. Dampness obstructs the middle burner, causing bloating in the epigastric region. This product is bitter, dry, and spicy, which can dry dampness and relieve bloating. It is a necessary medicine to eliminate bloating. It is often used equivalently with Atractylodes macrocephala and Chenpi, such as Pingwei San (Heji Jufang).
Taboos for medication: Pregnant women should use with caution.
① Annotations to the Compendium of Materia Medica: Dried ginger is used. Evil Zexie, Cold Water Stone, and Eliminating Stone.
② "The Treatise on Medicinal Properties": Avoid beans, and those who eat them will become angry.
③ "Pinhui Jingyao": Pregnancy cannot be taken.
④ The Classic of Materia Medica states that vomiting is not caused by the accumulation of cold phlegm, but by the deficiency of the stomach and the rising of fire and qi; Abdominal pain is caused by insufficient spleen yin due to blood deficiency, rather than stagnation; Diarrhea is caused by a burst of fire and heat, rather than accumulation of cold and injury to the cold; Abdominal fullness is caused by insufficient middle qi and the inability of qi to return to its original state, rather than stagnation of qi solid; Stroke is caused by yin deficiency, fire inflammation, and sudden stiffness, rather than northwest true cold evil; Fever and headache caused by typhoid fever, with no signs of distension or fullness; Children who vomit and eat milk will become slow startled; Adults with Qi deficiency and blood necrosis may experience diaphragmatic syndrome; Elderly people with spleen deficiency cannot move and accumulate occasionally; Pregnant women have obstruction, and their water and valleys do not enter; Pregnant women experience dizziness due to fetal elevation; Pregnant women suffering from food and cold cessation; Pregnant women suffer from abdominal pain and diarrhea; Pregnant women with typhoid fever and typhus; Postpartum blood deficiency and abdominal pain; Postpartum full wheezing; Postpartum diarrhea and nausea are all symptoms that should be avoided by the law.
【 Food compatibility 】: Houpu should not be consumed together with beans because it contains tannins and legumes are rich in protein. When the two meet, a chemical reaction occurs, forming tannic proteins that are difficult to digest and absorb. In addition, the organic components contained in both are relatively complex, and eating them together may also cause other adverse reactions, making it difficult for beans to digest, forming gas that fills the intestines and leading to bloating.