1. Alias
Pig tooth soap, tooth soap, black rhinoceros, small soap, eyebrow soap, small soapberry.
2. Plant morphology
Deciduous trees, reaching up to 30 meters in height. The trunk is thorny and straight, often branching. Feathered compound leaves, with 3 to 9 pairs of leaflets, short petioles, covered in short hairs. The leaflets are ovate lanceolate or oblong, 2-8 cm long and 1-4 cm wide, with a short pointed tip and a rounded wedge-shaped base that is slightly skewed. The edges have fine serrations, covered in short hairs on the top and slightly hairy on the midrib below. The network veins protrude on both sides. The inflorescence is terminal or axillary, with mixed flowers. The male flower has 4 sepals, triangular lanceolate in shape, covered with soft hairs on both sides. The petals are 4, yellow in color, oblong in shape, covered with soft hairs. The stamens are 8 (6), and the pistil is short. The peduncle of both sexes is 2.5 millimeters long, and the sepals and petals are longer than those of the male flower. The stamens are 8, and the ovary is hairy on the sutures and at the base. The stigma is 2-lobed. The pods are banded, reddish brown or dark brown, straight or slightly curved. Seeds are oblong or elliptical in shape. The flowering period is from March to May. The fruiting period is from May to October.
3. Origin distribution
Born in mountain forests and valleys at an altitude of 200-2500 meters. Mainly produced in North China, East China, Central South, Southwest China, as well as Shaanxi and Gansu provinces.
4. Harvesting and processing
Harvest in autumn, remove impurities, and dry.
5. Characteristics of medicinal herbs
It is cylindrical, slightly flattened and curved, measuring 5-11 centimeters in length and 0.7-1.5 centimeters in width. The surface is purple brown or purple brown, coated with gray white wax powder frost. After wiping off, it has a glossy appearance and small wart like protrusions and linear or mesh like cracks. There are bird beak shaped flower style residues at the top, and fruit stem residues at the base. Hard and brittle in texture, easily breakable, with a brownish yellow cross-section and a loose middle. There are light green or light brownish yellow filaments, and occasionally underdeveloped seeds. Mild in aroma, stimulating, with a sweet taste followed by a spicy one.
6. Sexual Taste Returning to the Classics
Warm in nature, spicy and salty in taste. There is a small poison. Return to the lung meridian and colon meridian.
7. Effect and Function
Open the orifice, dispel phlegm, disperse nodules and reduce swelling. Belonging to the subcategory of phlegm resolving, cough relieving, and asthma relieving drugs, it is a warming and cooling phlegm medicine.
8. Clinical application
Dosage: 1-1.5 grams, add more pills and powder, apply an appropriate amount externally, grind the powder and blow it to the nose or apply it to the affected area. Used to treat stroke with mouth silencing, coma, epilepsy with excessive phlegm, blocked orifices, throat obstruction and phlegm obstruction, persistent phlegm wheezing and coughing, uncomfortable expectoration, dry stool, and external treatment of abscess and swelling.
9. Pharmacological research
Expectorant, antibacterial, can kill silk worm larvae and cause hemolysis.
10. Chemical composition
Capsules contain triterpenoid soap formula: soapberry glycoside, glycoside element is soapberry glycoside element, soapberry saponin. It still contains waxy acid, nonacosane, n-dodecane, stigmasterol, sitosterol, sitosterol, tannins, etc.
11. Usage taboos
Weak individuals, pregnant women, and patients with hemoptysis or vomiting blood are prohibited from using it.
12. Compatibility prescription
① To treat the symptoms of sudden and slow wind and coma: 3g of pig tooth soap, 3g of raw Pinellia ternata, and 0.9g of North Xixin, finely ground together. Dip the lampshade into the nostril with medicine, and if it's not, it's difficult to treat. Mix a little ginger soup and take it, it also works. (Clearance dispersion of "Infant and Child Collection")
② To treat rheumatism, hand, foot, waist, and leg pain, use 1 pound of pig tooth soap (for non decayed cases). Grind it into fine powder, use years of rice vinegar, and boil it into a paste. The paper holder has a great effect on pasting. (Pope Francis)
③ To treat migraines, divide pig tooth soap (to remove skin tendons), fragrant white atractylodes, and white aconite into equal parts. Above is the end. Take 3 grams each time, adjust the wax tea, lie on your right side when you feel right pain, lie on your left side when you feel left pain, and lie on your back when you feel both pain. Take after eating. (Guidelines for Diagnosis and Treatment)
④ Treating vitiligo: 120g of pig tooth soap, 15g of Aconitum carmichaelii, 30g of sulfur and 30g of Angelica dahurica. Above is the end. First, wipe the affected area with ginger and wash it like flour medicine. (Pope Francis)
⑤ Treating breast abscess: equal parts of soapberry pods (burnt and finely ground) and clam powder. Research evenly. Mix 1.5 grams of warm wine, take some medicine without dispersing, and continue to knead it by hand. (Health Treasure Obstetrics and Gynecology Preparation)
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