Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Chapter 24 Four Paintings (6)
【Efficacy and application】clearing heat and diuresis: used for dysuria, dripping and astringent pain, edema, leukorrhea, jaundice, can be decocted with water alone.To treat stranguria syndrome, it can also be used in the same way as Akebia, Qumai, and talc.Expelling dampness and antidiarrheal: used for water-dampness diarrhea, used alone, or in combination with Poria cocos, Alisma, etc.Clearing the liver and improving eyesight: For liver heat and conjunctival congestion, you can take its natural juice to adjust the powdered nitric acid and apply it on the eye sockets; it can also be combined with chrysanthemum and gentian grass for decoction.Resolving phlegm and relieving cough: For cough due to lung heat and phlegm, it can be used with bellflower, almond, aster, etc.Cooling blood and detoxification: It is used for epistaxis, hematuria, skin sores, and sore throat caused by heat and toxin.To treat epistaxis and hematuria, it can be decocted and taken alone, or it can be used together with Eclipta chinensis and Digupi; to treat sores, fresh leaves can be soaked in boiling water and applied externally to the affected area; to treat sore throat, twist the juice and apply to the affected area .

Modern commonly used in bronchitis, acute and chronic dysentery, acute and chronic nephritis, acute urinary tract infection, essential hypertension, whooping cough, tonsillitis.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 9-15g; or pounded into juice.External application: appropriate amount.Pound and apply.

[Cautions for use] It is contraindicated for those who are weak and weak.

【Modern Research】Contains aucubin, psyllidin, ursolic acid, and β-sitosterol.It can promote the secretion of respiratory mucosa and dilute sputum, so it has an expectorant effect.Can inhibit the growth of Salmonella typhi, Shigella, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

See "Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine" for car sangzai leaves.It is the leaf of Dodonaea viscosa (L.) Jacq., an evergreen shrub of Sapindaceae.Distributed in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Taiwan and other places.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] sweet, light, flat.poisonous.Return small intestine, urinary bladder channel.

【Efficacy and application】clearing heat and expelling dampness: It is used for damp heat in the bladder, dripping and astringent pain when urinating.Detumescence and detoxification: For boils and swollen toxins, fresh products are often pounded and applied to the affected area alone; for eczema, water and fire burns, often ground into powder and applied to the injured area.

In modern times, it is often used for unknown swelling, urinary tract infection, burns and scalds.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 6~15g (15~30g for fresh products).External application: appropriate amount, powdered for applying; or fresh products pounded for applying.

[Modern Research] Contains β-sitosterol, stigmasterol, isorhamnetin, tannins, alkaloids, etc.The alkaloids contained in it are mixed with coca leaves for local anesthesia.

See "Guizhou Herbal Medicine" for blood flying.It is the root or root bark of Rutaceae shrub or small tree Zanthoxylum dimorphophyllum Hemsl.var.spinifolium Rehd.et Wils.Distributed in Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Shaanxi and other places.

【Synonym】Scattering Blood Fly, Yellow Pepper, Thorn Three Plus.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] pungent, bitter, warm.Return liver, spleen, lung meridian.

【Efficacy and application】Expelling cold: used for wind-cold cough, alone, or in combination with ephedra, asarum, dried ginger, etc.Dispelling blood stasis and relieving pain: used for wind-cold-damp arthralgia, bruises, swelling and pain due to blood stasis, taken with single-flavored wine, or used in the same way as Daxueteng, Dafengteng, and Xiaoxueteng.Removing blood stasis and stopping bleeding: For bleeding from knife wounds, apply pounded cashmere to the affected area alone.In addition, this product is decocted and taken to treat constipation.

Modern commonly used in rheumatoid arthritis, bruises, traumatic bleeding and so on.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 9-30g; or powdered; or soaked in wine.External application: appropriate amount, pounded for applying; or powdered for dusting.

[Modern Research] Contains magnolialine, etc.

For serum, see "Compendium of Commonly Used Herbal Medicines in the Folk".It is the whole plant of Liparis nerwosa (Thunb.) Lindl., a perennial herb of Orchidaceae.Distributed in Zhejiang, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places.

[Synonyms] Lidihao, Mao Cigu, Heilan, Daoyanti, Zouzicao, Roulongjian.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] bitter, cold.Return lung, stomach, large intestine, Liver Channel.

【Efficacy and Application】Cooling blood to stop bleeding: It is used for hemoptysis, hematemesis, intestinal wind bleeding, and metrorrhagia caused by blood heat. It is often taken as a decoction.Heat-clearing and detoxifying: for heat-toxin sores and poisonous snake bites, it can be mashed and applied externally; for convulsions in children, it is often taken orally with a single decoction.

In modern times, it is often used for snake bites, boils, tuberculosis hemoptysis, gastric and duodenal ulcer bleeding, hemorrhoid bleeding, etc.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 6-12g (50-100g for fresh products).External application: appropriate amount, smashed for applying; or decocted for gargle.

【Modern research】Containing veins of lanine.In vitro test, water decoction can coagulate red blood cells of anticoagulant blood and shorten whole blood coagulation time.

See "Famous Doctors" for beef.Meat of Bos taurus domesticus Gmelin or buffalo Bubalus bubalis L.There are breeding all over the country, and the buffaloes are mostly in the south.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] sweet, flat.Return spleen, stomach warp.

【Efficacy and Application】Replenishing the spleen and stomach, nourishing qi and blood, strengthening muscles and bones: used for all kinds of deficiency and damage, emaciation and weakness, often used with astragalus, lotus meat, yam, Poria cocos, etc. Pepper, longicorn, amomum, tangerine peel, galangal and ginger juice, green onion, and salt are eaten together with dried beef, such as dried beef ("Drinking Meals").

In modern times, it is often used for chronic illness, physical weakness, malnutrition, etc.

[Usage and Dosage] Oral administration: Appropriate amount, boiled; decocted; or made into pills.

[Modern Research] Contains protein, fat, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, calcium, phosphorus, iron and cholesterol.

Milk see "Compendium of Materia Medica".It is the milk of bovine cattle Bos taurus domesticusGmelin or buffalo Bubalus bubalis L.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] sweet, slightly cold.GUIXIN, lung, stomach warp.

【Efficacy and application】Replenishing deficiency and prolonging life: used for weakness and strain, cooking alone, or cooking together with yam powder, rice wine, and boy's urine, such as immortal immortality pill ("Lu Fu Ban Fang"); it can also be used in white rice Take milk in porridge.For choking and nausea, it can be taken with leek juice, ginger juice and even temperature.Tonifying blood and moistening dryness: used for blood deficiency, body fluid deficiency, constipation, porridge.

In modern times, it is often used for physical weakness after illness, prolonging life, and habitual constipation of the elderly.

[Usage and Dosage] Oral administration: Appropriate amount, boiled to drink.

[Modern Research] Contains protein, fat, sugar (carbohydrate), multivitamins, etc.It has the effects of lowering blood sugar, lowering blood cholesterol, improving immunity and anti-infection.

See "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" for ox gallbladder.Gallbladder and bile of Bos taurus domesticusGmelin or buffalo Bubalus bubalis L. for bovids.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] bitter, cold.Return liver, gallbladder, lung meridian.

【Efficacy and Application】Cleansing the liver and improving eyesight: For wind-heat, red eyes, swelling and pain caused by inflammation of the liver, take the juice and put it on the eyes, or soak black beans for consumption; also soak Shouwu, Poria, Huaijiao, Shengdi, Angelica, etc. , dried and ground into powder, warm wine to adjust service.Lidan Tongchang: For liver and gallbladder damp-heat complexion, yellowing of the whole body, constipation, can be made into pellets with dry powder of ox bile; or put in capsules and take with boiled water.Detoxification and detumescence: for heat-toxin sores, you can take the juice to apply; for hemorrhoids, constipation, often used with Sophora japonica or Hedgehog bile, such as Danhuai Dan ("Yibian"), Niudan Pill ("Jifeng Puji Fang").In addition, use 1 part of beef bile powder and 2 parts of flour, mix them together and heat them up, take them with boiling water, 0.9g per serving, it has the effect of clearing away heat and resolving phlegm, and can cure cough with hot phlegm.

Modern commonly used in acute conjunctivitis, acute viral jaundice hepatitis, hemorrhoids, acute and chronic bronchitis, whooping cough, indigestion, etc.To treat indigestion, you can use ox gall powder alone and take it with boiled water.

[Usage and Dosage] Oral administration: dry powder 0.3-0.9g; or into pills.External application: Appropriate amount, take juice and apply; or apply to eyes.

[Cautions for use] It is contraindicated for those with spleen and stomach deficiency, and not for those with eye diseases other than wind-heat.

[Modern Research] Contains cholic acid, deoxycholic acid, chenodeoxycholic acid, glycocholic acid, etc.It has sedative, choleretic, antitussive, expectorant, antiasthmatic, anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic, anti-cancer effects.

Bezoar see "Shen Nong's Materia Medica".Calculus in the gallbladder of Bos taurus domesticusGmelin or buffalo Bubalus bubalis L.It is removed from the gallbladder at the time of slaughter.

[synonym] rhinoceros yellow, west yellow.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] bitter, sweet, cool.GUIXIN, Liver Channel.

【Efficacy and application】Resuscitating phlegm: It is used for febrile agitation, coma and delirium, convulsions in children, closed orifice of stroke, and excessive phlegm-heat. Pox rash World Medical Heart Method), Angong Niuhuang Pills ("Febrile Diseases Discrimination").Extinguishing wind to calm convulsions: used for convulsions and convulsions of limbs caused by extreme heat, often combined with cinnabar, musk, scorpion tail, etc., such as Niuhuang powder ("Children's Health General Micro-lun").Clearing away heat and detoxification: used for milk carbuncle, scrofula, lung abscess, intestinal abscess, often used together with frankincense and myrrh, such as Xihuang pill ("Surgery Quansheng Collection"); used for sore throat, tongue For sores and diphtheria, it is often used together with musk, borneol, and cinnabar; for all carbuncles and ulcers, it is often used together with Yinhua, licorice, and caoheche, such as Niuhuangjiedu pills ("Baoying Summary").

Modern commonly used in Japanese encephalitis, herpes zoster, acute tonsillitis, acute pharyngitis, gingivitis, oral ulcers, cholecystitis, etc.

[Usage and Dosage] Oral administration: into pills and powders, 0.15-0.3g.External application: powdered and sprinkled; or adjusted for applying.

[Cautions for use] Pregnant women should take it with caution, and children with spleen and stomach deficiency should not use it.Evil keel, rehmannia glutinosa, gentian, cockroach, Changshan, achyranthes bidentata, dry lacquer.

[Modern Research] Contains cholesterol, ergosterol, cholesteric acid, lecithin, palmitic acid, bilirubin, calcium salt, etc.It can alleviate the convulsions of mice caused by sodium benzoate caffeine, and can strengthen the sedative effect of barbital sodium and chloral hydrate on mice.It can contract smooth muscle, including gallbladder smooth muscle and biliary orifice sphincter, and can prevent poison from damage to the liver.Can increase red blood cells and hemoglobin, and can promote the recovery of hemoglobin in rabbits with anemia due to diarrhea.It can enhance heart movement, constrict blood vessels, and increase blood pressure.Can inhibit the growth of bacteria, slightly antibacterial effect.

Niu Xixijian (Jiangxi "Chinese Herbal Medicine").It is the root of the perennial herbaceous plant Rumex patientia L. of Polygonaceae.Distributed in Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai and other places.

[synonym] earth rhubarb, cow's ear rhubarb, and gold are not exchanged.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] bitter, sour, cold.It is slightly poisonous.Return large intestine, Liver Channel.

【Efficacy and application】clearing away heat and detoxification: it can be used for decocting and taking for dysentery with stagnant heat and toxin, and tenesmus; it can be used for carbuncle pustules and scald burns, take fresh root and pound juice for external application or mash it for external application, and can also be studied. Final adjustment and application.Cooling blood to stop bleeding: used for hematochezia, metrorrhagia and epistaxis caused by blood heat, usually decocted with water.Insecticidal and laxative: used for scabies, hot stools.To treat scabies, mash the fresh root, or grind the juice with vinegar, and apply to the affected area; to treat constipation, decoct it alone.

Modern commonly used in enteritis, bacillary dysentery, scabies, thrombocytopenia, gastric ulcer bleeding and so on.

【Usage and Dosage】Decoction: 9~15g.External application: smashed for applying; rubbed with vinegar for applying; or powdered for applying.

[Modern Research] Contains chrysophanol, emodin, emodin methyl ether, aloe-emodin, etc.Oral or subcutaneous injection of chrysophanol can shorten the hemagglutination time of mice.Oral decoction in patients with thrombocytopenia can increase the platelet count.Larger doses have a laxative effect.It has expectorant, antitussive and antiasthmatic effects on animals.

For beef tongue, see "Compilation of Commonly Used Herbal Medicines in the Folk".It is the whole plant of Sonchus arvensis L., a perennial herb of Compositae.Distributed in Northeast, North and Northwest China.

[synonym] lettuce, pod, wild bitter, mountain bitter, beef tongue slices.

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

【Efficacy and application】clearing heat and detoxifying: used for sore throat, sore carbuncle, mastitis, intestinal fistula, hemorrhoids, etc. caused by excess heat and toxin.For sore throat, 30g of fresh grass and 3g of rush grass can be used, decocted in water; for sore carbuncle and mastitis, fresh products can be smashed for external application alone, or 25g each with Viola chinensis, decocted in water; for intestinal abscess, it can be combined with Coix Compatible with Ren, Radix Paeoniae Rubra, and Aconite, or decocted with Yinhua, Forsythia, Radix Paeoniae Rubra, and Dan Pi.In addition, it can cure pulmonary carbuncle when combined with fresh reed rhizome.Clearing damp-heat: used for damp-heat diarrhea, can be decocted with purslane, honeysuckle and licorice.Cooling blood and hemostasis: It is used for hematemesis due to blood heat, epistaxis, hemoptysis, hematuria, metrorrhagia, etc., and it can be taken with mashed and wrung juice of fresh grass alone, or decocted with Shengdi and Daji.

It is commonly used in modern times for acute pharyngitis, tonsillitis, mastitis, appendicitis, lung abscess, enteritis, dysentery, boils, hematemesis, hematuria, etc.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 9-15g (30-60g for fresh products); or twisted juice for fresh products.External application: appropriate amount, decocted for fumigation and washing; or fresh products pounded for applying.

See "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" for horn gills.It is the bone keratin marrow in the horn of Bos taurus domesticus Gmelin or buffalo Bubalus bubalis L. of bovine animals.Collected by cattle slaughterhouses.

[synonym] ox horn fetus, ox horn bamboo shoots, ox horn heart.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] bitter, warm.GUIXIN, Liver Channel.

【Efficacy and Application】Removing blood stasis and hemostasis: used for blood in the stool, epistaxis, and metrorrhagia. It can be taken alone by frying, or in powder form with alum, acorn, equisetum, and Chuanxiong, such as Niujiao San ("Taiping Shenghui Fang").Stopping dysentery and stopping belt: for dysentery Chibai, mixed with ox horn gills (burnt ashes) and barley (fried) in a ratio of 1:2, ground into powder, mixed with porridge, 6g per serving; used for leukorrhea, can be Equal parts with aconite, grind into powder and take.

Modern commonly used in aplastic anemia, dysfunctional uterine bleeding, leukorrhea and so on.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 3-9g; or powder.

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

See "Compendium of Materia Medica Supplements" for goose tendon grass.It is the whole grass of Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn., an annual herbaceous plant of Poaceae.Distributed all over the country.

[Synonym] Qianjin grass, Qianqianta, Muzi grass, Newton grass, Jizi grass, cricket grass, roadside grass.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] sweet, light, cold.Return lung, liver, stomach warp.

【Efficacy and application】clearing away heat and detoxifying: used for high fever and coma, convulsions and convulsions, used alone, or decocted with Folium Folium Folium, fresh reed rhizome in water.Clearing away heat and dampness: for damp-heat jaundice, it can be used together with Sesame; for drenching syndrome, it can be decocted with golden silk grass and foxtail 15g each; for damp-heat dysentery, it can be decocted with three-leaf ghost needle grass .Cooling blood and detoxifying: for mastitis, it can be decocted with Qingpi; for testicular swelling and pain, it can be used with lychee core or bitter.

Modern commonly used in Japanese encephalitis, viral jaundice hepatitis, bacillary dysentery, urethritis, orchitis, mastitis, etc.To prevent and treat Japanese encephalitis, 30g of fresh grass can be decocted for 3 consecutive days, with an interval of 10 days for another 3 days.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 9-15g (30-60g for fresh).External application: appropriate amount, smashed for applying.

[Modern Research] Contains protein, starch, fat, nitrate, nitrite.

For burdock seeds, see "The Classic of Ben Cao Tu Jing".It is the fruit of Arctiumlappa L., a 2-year-old herb of Compositae.It is distributed all over the country.

[Synonyms] Eishi, Mouse Nianzi, Dalizi, Maoranranzi, Maozhuizi, Niancuizi, Shujianzi, Da Niuzi, Niuzi, Fried Niuzi.

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

【Efficacy and application】Evacuation of wind-heat: It is used for itchy throat and cough due to wind-heat and cold, and unpleasant spitting.Relieves sore throat and dissipates stagnation: It is used for sore throat caused by wind-fire or heat-toxin. It is often used in the same way as Forsythia, Shegan and Scutellaria.If it is the same amount as licorice, it is Qiguan San ("Puji Fang").Xuanfei Touzhen: used for measles onset, poor hair penetration, rubella pruritus, can be used with Nepeta, Duckweed, Fangfeng, Tamarix, Yinhua, etc.Detoxification and detumescence: for carbuncle sores with wind-heat or constipation, it can be used with dandelion, wild chrysanthemum, and ditin.

Modern commonly used in respiratory tract infection, acute tonsillitis, pharyngitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, mumps, measles, urticaria, etc.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 5-10g; or powder.External application; appropriate amount, decocted in water for gargle.

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