Through the investigation of ancient books and the sorting of the modern research achievements of traditional Chinese medicine,combined with the understanding and application experience of well-known experts and scholars in desciplinary fields such as traditional Chinese medicine clinical medicine and science of Chinese materia medica,it is concluded that ash bark mainly has the effects of clearing heat and removing dampness,astriction and relieving dysentery,arresting leucorrhea,and improving eyesight.The symptom targets are diarrhea,gout,red eye,and swelling and pain of eye.The biochemical indicator target is hyperuricemia.Modern pharmacological studies have found that ash bark and its active ingredients have the effects of antisepsis,anti-inflammatory,anti-oxidation,anti-tumor,and decreasing serum uric acid levels.This medicine is non-toxic,but the patients with deficient cold of spleen and stomach should take it with caution.The clinical dosage is 6-30g.When taken orally,it should be used dialectically according to different diseases or different stages of the same disease,and the construction of dose-effect relationship between the dosage of ash bark and the symptom target and biochemical indicator target should be explored actively.
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