Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Chapter 17 Three Paintings (12)
【Efficacy and application】Detoxification and detumescence: used for mumps with accumulation of poisonous heat, furuncle carbuncle, breast abscess, erysipelas, snake bite, appropriate amount of fresh grass, add a little vinegar, mash and apply to the affected area; used for sore throat , decoction with water alone.Clearing away heat and promoting dampness: For damp-heat jaundice and hypochondriac pain, take 30g each of fresh Malan, fresh sorrel, fresh Selaginella, and fresh Yanzhou Selaginella, and decoct it in water; for diarrhea and dysentery, it is often combined with purslane, carnation The former grass is equally used; it is used for edema and stranguria, and it can be decocted with black beans and wheat with wine.Cooling blood and hemostasis: used for hemoptysis, hematemesis, epistaxis, and metrorrhagia caused by heat-injured blood collaterals. It can be compatible with imperina root, agrimony, madder, etc.; for traumatic bleeding, it can be ground with eclipta, etc., and sprinkled on the wound.

In modern times, it is often used for mumps, tonsillitis, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic bronchitis, acute viral icteric hepatitis, urinary tract infection, mastitis, hemorrhoid swelling and pain, acute conjunctivitis, etc.For the treatment of chronic bronchitis, 120g of fresh grass or 60g of dried herb can be used to make 45mL of syrup, 3 times a day, 15mL each time, 6 days as a course of treatment.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 9-18g (30-60g for fresh products).External application: appropriate amount, crushed for applying; powdered and mixed; or decocted for washing.

[Cautions for use] Pregnant women should take it with caution.

[Modern Research] Contains volatile oil, the oil contains bornyl acetate, bornyl formate, sesquiterpenes, sesquiterpene alcohols, dipentene and octanoic acid.

See "New Ginseng in Decoction Pieces" for Ma Bao.Stones in the gastrointestinal tract of the equine equine Equus caballus (L.).It is mainly produced in pastoral areas such as Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Gansu, Yunnan, Guizhou, Tibet and Northeast China.After the horse is slaughtered, the stones are taken out, washed and dried.

[synonym] horse stone.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] sweet, salty, cool.GUIXIN, liver meridian.

【Efficacy and application】Suppressing convulsions and resolving phlegm: It is used for high fever and coma caused by internal wind, tetany, convulsions, and convulsions. It can be swallowed as a single powder, or it can be combined with bezoar.Heat-clearing and detoxifying: used for malignant sores and swollen toxins caused by toxin-heat congestion, and critical acne. It can be used with honeysuckle, aescin, licorice, etc.

Modern commonly used in Japanese encephalitis, nervous insomnia, hysteria, epilepsy, tuberculosis and so on.For the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis, 6g of Mabao, 6g of Baibu, 12g of Baibu, and 1.5g of Baibu can be used, which are fine powder, 3-3g per day, [-] times a day.

[Usage and Dosage] Oral administration: Grind into powder, 0.6-1.5g.

[Cautions for use] Contraindicated in patients with spleen and stomach deficiency and phlegm dampness.

[Modern Research] Contains magnesium phosphate, magnesium carbonate, calcium carbonate, etc.

Ma Bo see "Bielu of Famous Doctors".It is the fruiting body of Lasiosphaera fanzlii Reich., Calvatia gigantea (Batsch ex Pers.) Lloyd or Calvatia lilacina (Mont. & Berk.) Lloyd.Mainly produced in Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Shaanxi, Jiangsu, Hubei and other places.

[Synonym] flattery, gray mushroom, cow dung mushroom, cinderella, net puffball, puffball velvet.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] pungent, cool.Return lung meridian.

【Efficacy and application】Threat relief and detumescence: used for sore throat caused by lung heat, dry nose and throat, single-flavored powder for blowing throat, or mixed with honey water, or swallowed as a pill; it is also often used with Radix Radix and Burdock Seedlings, Forsythia, Sheqian, Scutellaria, Scrophulariaceae, Schizonepeta, and Mint are equivalent to decoction.Clearing the lung and relieving cough: used for cough due to lung heat and sore throat, hoarse voice, can be ground into powder, refined into honey and swallowed as pills; it can also be used in combination with peucedanum, almond, nepeta, mint, cicada slough, burdock, brocade lantern, platycodon grandiflorum , Niuzi, and licorice are equivalent to decoction.Cooling blood to stop bleeding: used for hematemesis, epistaxis, and traumatic bleeding caused by blood heat.To treat hematemesis and epistaxis, the ground powder can be used alone, mixed with rice soup, or used together with orientalis orientalis, rhizoma rhizome, Scutellaria baicalensis charcoal, fried gardenia, etc.; to treat traumatic bleeding, the powder can be ground and applied to the affected area.

It is commonly used in modern times for acute pharyngitis, acute tonsillitis, mumps, acute bronchitis, bronchiectasis, traumatic bleeding, epistaxis, surgical bleeding, boils, etc.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 1.5-6g (including decoction); or into pills or powder.External application: appropriate amount, ground into powder and sprinkled; or adjusted for application; or blown throat.

[Cautions for use] Contraindicated in patients with wind-cold cough and aphonia.For external use to stop bleeding, it must be sterilized by high-temperature steam.

[Modern Research] The fruiting bodies of puffball puffballs contain puffing elements, urea, ergosterol, leucine, tyrosine, lipids and a large amount of sodium phosphate.Puffball powder has obvious hemostatic effect on oral bleeding, epistaxis, and surgical bleeding, which is no less than starch sponge or gelatin sponge.The decoction has a certain inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Mycobacterium mutans and Streptococcus pneumoniae in vitro, and has inhibitory effect on common pathogenic skin fungi. Puffball has anticancer effect.There are anti-arteriosclerosis effect.

See "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" for Ma Xianhao.Review the stems, leaves or roots of Pedicula ris resupinata L. for the perennial herb of Scrophulariaceae.Distributed in Northeast China, North China, Gansu, Shaanxi, Anhui, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places.

[Synonyms] Artemisia horse dung, Artemisia equina, Horse urine bubble, Sesame seven.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] bitter, flat.Return spleen, liver, kidney, urinary bladder channel.

【Efficacy and application】Expelling wind and dampness: used for rheumatic arthralgia, decocted with water alone, or compatible with Duhuo, Clematis, Gentiana chinensis, etc.Promoting water and expelling dampness: used for stranguria syndrome, dysuria, leucorrhea, powdered, boiled water or decocted.In addition, washing the affected area with boiling water can cure scabies.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 6-9g; or grind into powder and take after mixing with water.External application: appropriate amount, decocted for washing.

See "Compendium of Materia Medica Supplements" for horsetail.It is the rhizome and root of perennial herbaceous plants of Ranunculaceae Thalictrum foliolosum DC., Thalictrum baicalenseTurca., etc.Distributed in Sichuan, Yunnan, Tibet, Gansu and other places.

[Synonym] Horsetail Coptidis, Golden Silk Coptis, Grass Coptidis.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] bitter, cold.GUIXIN, liver, gallbladder, stomach, large intestine channel.

【Application】clearing heat and dampness: used for gastrointestinal damp-heat diarrhea, dysentery, can be taken together with woody powder as fine powder; used for damp-heat jaundice, coercion to help distending pain, dysuria, can be compatible with capillary, gardenia, Che Qianren et al.Purging fire and detoxifying: for cold and fever, it can be used together with chrysanthemum, mint, and honeysuckle; for fever and polydipsia, it can be decocted with gardenia 1g each; it can be used for mouth sores and sore throat when attacking heat and poison Pain, conjunctival congestion, swelling and pain, can be used with Scutellaria baicalensis, gardenia, Phellodendron phellodendri, Burdock fruit, forsythia, licorice, etc.; for carbuncles, sores, can be ground into powder for application, and can be decocted together with dandelion and licorice; For water and fire burns, it can be used with comfrey, burnet, rhubarb, borneol, and skullcap.

It is commonly used in modern times for acute gastroenteritis, bacillary dysentery, viral hepatitis, tonsillitis, conjunctivitis, burns, etc.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 3-15g; or powdered; or made into granules.External application: Appropriate amount, fresh products smashed for application; or decocted for washing; or ground into powder and sprinkled; or made into ointment for application.

[Modern Research] Contains berberine, berbamine, proto-opioid, coptisine, etc.It has inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Shigella, etc.There are also anti-cancer, blood vessel expansion, and blood pressure lowering effects.

For purslane, see "Book of Materia Medica".It is the whole herb of Portulaca olcracca L., a 1-year-old succulent herb of the family Portulacae.Produced all over the country.

[synonym] purslane, purslane, longevity vegetable, anle vegetable, snake grass, lion grass, ant vegetable.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] sour, cold.Return stomach, large intestine channel.

【Efficacy and application】clearing damp-heat: used for damp-heat diarrhea, pus and blood in the stool, used alone, or used in the same way as Coptis chinensis, Scutellaria baicalensis, Pulsatilla chinensis, and Semen psyllium.If you cook porridge with japonica rice, it is horse tooth porridge ("Sheng Hui Fang"); you can also add garlic after cooking for a while.Detoxification and detumescence: for heat-toxin sores, decoct in large doses alone, and wash outside; or mash fresh products for external application; or use in combination with dandelion, reed, etc.Cooling blood to stop bleeding: used for hematuria, hematochezia, bleeding from hemorrhoids, metrorrhagia caused by blood-heat, and it can be taken alone in pounded juice, or used in combination with Burnet elm, Huaijiao, and Pteris chinensis.

It is commonly used in modern times for acute gastroenteritis, bacillary dysentery, viral hepatitis, lung abscess, urinary tract infection, chronic nephritis, hookworm disease, mastitis, acute appendicitis, skin suppurative infection, jaundice, ecchymosis, tinea pedis Infection, erosive and exudative skin lesions, postpartum hemorrhage, dysfunctional uterine bleeding, lymphatic tuberculosis ulceration, infantile diarrhea and pertussis, etc.For the treatment of acute appendicitis, it can be decocted with 60g of dandelion each; for pertussis in children, 50mL of 100% purslane syrup can be taken, 4 times a day, divided into 3 days.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 9-15g (60-120g for fresh products); or pounded juice for drinking.External application: pounded for applying, burnt ashes into powder for applying, or decocted for washing.

[Cautions for use] Contraindicated for patients with spleen and stomach deficiency, cold intestines and diarrhea.Do not use decoction with turtle shell.

[Modern Research] Contains norepinephrine, dopamine, potassium chloride, potassium nitrate, potassium sulfate, potassium hydrogen oxalate and other potassium salts, and is also rich in malic acid, citric acid, amino acids, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin C, carotene and so on.In vitro, it has inhibitory effects on Escherichia coli, Shigella, Salmonella typhi, and Staphylococcus aureus; it has different degrees of inhibitory effects on certain pathogenic fungi such as Audouin microsporum.

See "Compendium of Materia Medica" for Nymph.It is the dried seeds of Strychnos nuxvomica L., an arbor plant of Strychnosaceae.Mainly produced in India, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar and other places.The mature seeds of Strychnos pierriana AW Hill, an evergreen arbor plant produced in Yunnan, my country, can also be used instead of Strychnos pierriana.

[Synonym] Panmu turtle, Maqian.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] bitter, cold.It is very poisonous.Return liver, spleen channel.

【Efficacy and application】Expelling wind and dredging collaterals: for rheumatic arthralgia, spasm and numbness, hemiplegia, fried into pills or powder, taken twice a day, 2-0.1g each time; used for facial paralysis, can be cut into pieces after moistening Thin slices are lined up on the adhesive plaster and pasted on the affected area.Dispersing blood stasis and relieving pain: for bruises, fractures, swelling and pain, can be made into pills with ephedra, frankincense, and myrrh in equal parts, such as Jiufen ("First Aid Proven Prescription"); for sore throat, can be used with green wood, Shan Dougen is the end blowing throat, such as Panmubie powder ("Summary of Medical Prescriptions").

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