中药覆盆子功效演变及原因探讨

Evolution of the Efficacy of Fu - pen - zi and the Reason

《本草衍义》之前，不论是本草文献记载，还是方剂配伍应用，覆盆子一直被作为补益药来使用。《本草衍义》首次提出覆盆子有“缩小便”的功效，并以此来解释“覆盆”之名。此后，医家沿用了《本草衍义》的认识，将覆盆子作为补益药和固涩药使用。到了现代，各版《中药学》教材更是将覆盆子归属于固涩药。究其原因，当与覆盆子药用来源的变化，以及果实成熟度和药用部位的变化有关。

Fu - pen - zi had been used as a reinforcing drug in medical literature and compatibility formulas before the book Bencao Yanyi was finished. Bencao Yanyi first mentioned that Fu - pen - zi was effective for incontinence, and this function was used to explain the meaning of its name. Doctors in later ages accepted this theory and began to use Fu - pen - zi as an astringent drug. In modern times, Fu - pen - zi is classified to astringent drugs in various editions of the Chinese materia mediea textbook. The change of its classification may be relevant to the changes of its sources, maturity of the fruit and the part to be used.