huang bai 黃柏

huang bai 黃柏， huang bo 黄檗
Pharmaceutical name英文藥名：
Cortex Phellodendri
Latin botanical name拉丁學名：
Phellodendron amurense Rupr. or Phellodendron chinense Schneid.
Common Name英文名：
amur cork-tree bark
Distribution分佈：
Liaoning, Jilin, Hebei (P. amurense), Sichuan, Guizhou, Hubei, Yunnan (P. chinense)
Properties (characteristics)性味﹕
bitter, cold
味苦，性寒
Channels (meridians) entered歸經﹕
腎﹐膀胱經
kidney﹐ bladder
Actions & Indications功用﹕
1. Rid of damp-heat , especially in the xia jiao (lower burner), as in vaginal bacterial infection or yeast infection, bacterial infection of the bowel,and infectious jaundice, wet and smelly groin area;
2. For hot leg qi with swollen knees, legs and feet;
3. spermatorrhea;
4. night sweating﹔
5. boils and sores﹔
1. 去 濕熱﹐  特別是下 焦 之感染﹐如﹕陰 道黴菌(帶下)或細 菌感染﹐大 腸之細 菌感染﹐細菌性黃疸﹐陰部潮 濕腥臭等﹔
2. 腳氣﹕腳﹐腿﹐膝部水腫﹔
3. 遺精﹔
4. 盜汗﹔
5. 瘡瘍腫毒﹔
Medical Function藥理﹕
(1) antibiotic: it can inhibit Staphylococcus aureaus, pnumococcus, Shigella dysenteriae
(2) lower blood pressure
(3) anti Trichomoniasis
(4) lower blood sugar
(1)抗菌，能直接抑制金黃色葡萄球菌﹐肺炎球菌﹐痢疾桿菌；
(2)降血壓
(3)抗陰道滴蟲；
(4)降血糖。　
Chemical ingredients化學成份﹕
樹皮含 (bark contains)﹕
1. 小孽鹼 (berberine),
2. 藥根鹼（jatrorrhizine),
3. 木蘭花碱(magnoflorine),
4. 黄柏鹼 (phellodendrine),
5. n-甲基大麦芽碱(candicine),
6. 棕櫚鹼（palmatine）,
7. 蝠葛任鹼（menisperine）,.
8. 黄柏内酯(obaculactone),
9. 黃蘗酮（obacunone）,
10.黃蘗酮 酸 (obacunonic acid).
11.白鲜交酯 (dictamnolide),
12.青螢光酸 (lumicaeruliec acid)﹐
13.7-脱氢豆甾醇(7-dehydrostigmasterol)﹐
14.β-谷甾醇 (β-sitosterol)﹐
15.菜油甾醇 (campesterol),
16.青螢光酸 (lumicaeruleic acid),
17.白鮮交酯(dictamnolide)。
18.木材也含(wood contains:)
19.小孽鹼 (berberine)。
新鮮葉 (leaves contian):
1. 含黄柏甙 (phellamurin)﹐
2. 脱氢黄柏甙 (amurensin)﹐
3. 異黄柏甙 (phellavin)。
乾燥葉含 (dried leaves contain):
1. 金絲桃甙 (hyperosid)，
2. 不含黄柏甙 (do not contain phellamurin)。
Dosage每日用量﹕
3 to 12 g
Samples of formulae:
zhi bai di huang wan,
long dan xie gan tang, zhi xie tang for diarrhea due to acute bacterial infection
Modern Research:
to be loaded.
Cautions:
Do not use in cases of spleen deficient, weak digestion, lack of appetite. Use caution when there is no real heat.
胃弱食少﹐脾 虛泄瀉者忌服。無實熱者 慎用。
(by: Joe Hing Kwok Chu)