Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Chapter 34 Five Paintings (5)
See "Kaibao Zhongding Materia Medica" for longan meat.It is the aril of Euphorialongan (Lour.) Steed., an evergreen tree of Sapindaceae.

[Synonym] Longan, longan meat, round meat, dried longan.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] sweet, warm.GUIXIN, Spleen Channel.

【Efficacy and Application】Replenishing the heart and spleen: used for insomnia, forgetfulness, palpitations, and convulsions caused by overthinking and fatigue.For mild cases, it can be taken as a decoction alone or soaked in wine; for severe cases, it can be used together with ginseng, angelica, jujube seed and other medicines to benefit qi, nourish blood and calm the nerves, such as Guipi Decoction ("Ji Sheng Fang") .Replenishing qi and nourishing blood: used for fatigue and weakness, insufficient qi and blood, can be used with white sugar and eggs, such as Yuling ointment ("Suixiju Diet Spectrum").In addition, it can be used as a tonic for certain bleeding due to deficiency, such as coughing up blood due to tuberculosis, and blood in stool and urine.

Modern commonly used in neurasthenia, insomnia, forgetfulness and so on.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 10~15g (large dose 30~60g); soak in wine and boil for ointment or into pills.

[Cautions for use] Contraindicated in patients with moderate dampness, cessation of drinking, phlegm, and fire.

[Modern Research] Contains glucose, sucrose, tartaric acid, adenine, choline, protein, fat, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin C, etc.The water infusion has inhibitory effect on Microsporum audouin in test tube.

For Solanum nigrum, see "On the Properties of Medicine".It is the seed of Solanum nigrum L., a plant of Solanaceae.

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

【Efficacy and application】clearing away heat and detoxification: for sore throat, use decoction alone to gargle, or use together with fresh lychee grass; treat boils and swollen toxins, fresh products can be smashed and applied externally.Resolving phlegm and relieving cough: For coughing, phlegm and dyspnea, decoct it with water alone, dissolve it with rock sugar and take it.

Modern commonly used in pharyngitis, acute tonsillitis, acute bronchitis and so on.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 6-9g; or soak in wine.External application: appropriate amount, decocted for gargle; or crushed for applying.

Solanum nigrum root see "Ben Cao Tu Jing".It is the root of Solanum nigrum L., a plant of Solanaceae.

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

【Efficacy and application】clearing away heat and detoxification: used for carbuncle sores and swollen toxins and wind-fire toothache.To treat carbuncle, sores and swollen toxins, take the root of Solanum nigrum as the powder, add an appropriate amount of musk, grind it evenly, and apply it on the sore; to treat toothache due to wind-fire, decoct it alone.Clearing heat and promoting dampness, used for damp-heat diarrhea, stranguria syndrome, leukorrhea, decocted with water alone, or used in combination.

In modern times, it is commonly used for bacillary dysentery, urinary tract infection, and leukorrhea in women.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 9-15g (15-30g for fresh products).External application: appropriate amount, crushed for applying; or powdered for applying.

Dragon Boat Wupao see "Hunan Drug Records".It is the whole plant of Rubus siebold Blume., an evergreen shrub of Rosaceae.Distributed in Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Sichuan and other places.

[Synonyms] Wupaotian, August Pao, Guojianglong, Wupao.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] sweet, astringent, cool.Return bladder, large intestine channel.

【Applications】clearing heat and promoting dampness: used for hot stranguria and astringent pain caused by betting on the bladder due to damp heat, often decocted with Haijinsha, Guoshanlong, and fir resin, brewed with wine; for diarrhea and abdominal pain, often mixed with Abacus root, Burnet is decocted together.Promoting blood circulation and relieving pain: For bruises, blood stasis, swelling and pain, only use powdered wine to mix and apply.In addition, the sprouts are smashed and applied to the painful teeth, which can cure dental caries and toothaches.

Modern commonly used in urinary tract infection, bacillary dysentery, bruises and so on.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 15-30g.External application: appropriate amount, powdered for applying.

See "Sichuan Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicine" for breaking the bowl of flowers.Break the roots of the bowlflower Anemone hupehensis Lem. for herbaceous perennials in the Ranunculaceae family.Distributed in Sichuan, Hunan, Shaanxi, Hubei, Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangxi and other places.

[synonym] wild cotton, mountain cotton, big head, autumn peony.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] bitter, pungent, cool.It is slightly poisonous.Return lung, spleen, large intestine, small intestine channel.

【Efficacy and application】clearing damp-heat: used for damp-heat diarrhea and jaundice, can be decocted alone.To treat diarrhea, it can also be used equally with purslane and iron amaranth.Detoxification and killing insects: used for carbuncle sores, scrofula, bald sores and abdominal pain due to insect accumulation.To treat sores, carbuncles, and scrofula, it can be mashed with the root of the purple jade hairpin and applied externally; to treat alopecia, it can be mashed with the peel of green walnut for external application; to treat abdominal pain caused by insects, it can be used together with the bark of neem root.Dispersing blood stasis and reducing swelling: used for bruises, taken with soaked wine alone.

In modern times, it is often used for bacillary dysentery, viral jaundice hepatitis, ascariasis, sores, carbuncles, bruises, etc.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 3-9g; or powdered; or soaked in wine.External application: appropriate amount, decocted for washing; or crushed for applying.

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

【Modern Research】Contains pulsatilla.Fresh juice has inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus aureus, Shigella, Salmonella typhi, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli and some pathogenic fungi in vitro.

See "Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China" for Beidougen.It is the rhizome of Menispermum dauricum DC., a perennial twisting herbaceous plant in the family Fangheceae, distributed in Northeast China, North China, East China and Gansu.

[Synonym] Bat kudzu root, Beishan bean root, wild bean root, bitter bean root.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] bitter, cold.It is slightly poisonous.Return lung, stomach, large intestine channel.

【Efficacy and application】clearing away heat and detoxification: used for sore throat, single and double Rue, often compatible with Shegan, honeysuckle, burdock seed, scrophulariaceae, platycodon grandiflorum, etc.Clearing away lung-heat: used for cough due to lung-heat, often used together with Scutellaria baicalensis, Gualou, Fritillaria, Peucedanum, Loquat leaves, Platycodon grandiflorum, etc.Clearing damp-heat: used for damp-heat diarrhea and jaundice.To treat damp-heat diarrhea, it is often compatible with Dijin, Purslane, Scutellaria baicalensis, etc.; to treat jaundice, it is often used with Yinchen, Gardenia, Desmodium, and Polygonum cuspidatum.

Modern commonly used in acute pharyngitis, tonsillitis, acute and chronic bronchitis, bacillary dysentery, enteritis and so on.In addition, it can also treat esophageal cancer. Take 15g of Beishan bean root, decoct it for 3 times, and at the same time use equal parts of natrium and borneol, grind it into powder, 1.5g each time, swallow it, 4 times a day.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 3-9g, (swallow slowly for sore throat).External application: appropriate amount, ground into powder and applied; or decocted in water for washing.

[Modern Research] Contains sorghine, sinomenine, etc.It has antiarrhythmic, hypotensive, antiplatelet aggregation, antithrombotic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antitussive, expectorant, muscle relaxant, anesthetic and antibacterial effects.

See Beisha Huiyan in Materia Medica.It is the root of Glehnialittoralis F.Schmidt ex Miq., a perennial herb of Umbelliferae.Distributed in Liaoning, Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Taiwan, Fujian and other places.

[Synonym] North Ginseng, Adenophora, Laiyang Arrhythmia, Sea Ginseng, Liao Adenophora, and Strip Arrhea.

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

【Efficacy and Application】Moisturizing the lung and relieving cough: used for dry cough due to lung heat, chronic cough due to asthenia, used alone, or combined with Radix Ophiopogon japonicus, Polygonatum Polygonatum, Pollen, etc. .Nourishes the stomach and promotes body fluid: It is used for fluid injury due to febrile disease, thirst, dry throat, and loss of appetite. It is often used with Radix Ophiopogon japonicus, Polygonatum Polygonatum, and Rehmannia, such as Yiwei Decoction ("Wenbing Tiaodian").In addition, it can also be used with Ophiopogon japonicus and Yuzhu for dry and itchy skin in autumn and winter.

Modern commonly used in chronic bronchitis, tuberculosis, febrile infectious disease recovery period and so on.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 10-15g; decoction or into pills.

[Cautions for use] Contraindicated in patients with wind-cold cough, lung and stomach deficiency.Anti Veratrum.

[Modern Research] Contains alkaloids, starch, and volatile oil.The alcohol extract can lower the body temperature of normal rabbits; it also has a cooling effect on rabbits with fever caused by typhoid vaccine.This product can still increase the secretion of bronchial mucosa and has an expectorant effect.

Yexiazhu see "Plant Name and Reality Map Research".It is the whole plant of Phyllanthus urinaria L, an annual herbaceous plant of Euphorbiaceae.There are many distributions in the provinces and regions in the south of the Yangtze River.

[Different names] Rikai Yehe, Yin Yang Grass, Pearl Grass, Old Crow Pearl, Ye He Pearl, Landing Oil Orange, Night He Grass, Leaf Pearl, Oil Orange Grass.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] sweet, slightly bitter, cool.Return liver, lung meridian.

【Efficacy and application】clearing away heat and detoxification: used for carbuncle sores, poisonous snake bites, fresh products smashed for external application.Clearing damp-heat: used for damp-heat diarrhea.It can be mixed with 30g of iron amaranth, decocted with sugar, or mixed with geranium; for damp-heat jaundice, it can be used with verbena and half-cut grass; for stranguria, edema, it can be used with poria cocos, plantain, Saving is equivalent to using.Clearing the liver and improving eyesight: For liver heat and red eyes, it can be combined with Prunella vulgaris, chrysanthemum, cassia, etc.; for night blindness, it can be stewed with pig liver, wolfberry, chrysanthemum, etc.In addition, stewing with gourd tea, white horse bone root and lean pork can cure malnutrition in children.

In modern times, it is often used for conjunctivitis, night blindness, nephritis, edema, urinary tract infection, jaundice, enteritis, bacillary dysentery, unknown swelling poison, snake bites, etc.

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

[Modern Research] Contains gallic acid, succinic acid, ferulic acid, etc.It has the functions of protecting the liver and inhibiting Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, etc.

For snails, see "On the Properties of Medicine".It is Cipangopaludinachinensis (Gray) or all the animals of the same genus.It is distributed in all sub-regions of the country.

[synonym] yellow snail, Tanaka snail.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] sweet, salty, cold.Return bladder, intestine, stomach warp.

【Efficacy and application】clearing heat and promoting diuresis: used for heat stagnation, dysuria, edema, beriberi, fresh snail meat can be smashed with salt, applied on the navel, or decocted in water; to treat jaundice.It can be decocted with capillary wormwood, sage, etc.Detoxifcation and surging pain: used for carbuncle and swollen furuncle, hemorrhoid, scrofula ulceration.To treat sores, it is advisable to pound snail meat and borneol together for application; to treat hemorrhoids, it can be made into juice with borneol and then applied to the affected area;In addition, applying the navel can also cure dysentery.

In modern times, it is mostly used for nephritis edema, carbuncle furuncle abscess, jaundice, diabetes, etc.To treat diabetes, you can soak the snails in water and stay overnight, then take the water infusion to cook porridge.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 60~120g.External application: appropriate amount, pounded for applying; transformed into juice for applying; or calcined for applying.

See "Plant Names and Facts of Plants" for Sifang Ma.It is a perennial of Scrophulariaceae, the whole herb of Veronicastrum cauloptera (Hance) Yamazaki.Distributed in Hunan, Guangxi and other places.

[Synonym] Shan Lianzhi, Sijiaocao, Sifangcao, Sifangqing.

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

【Efficacy and application】clearing away heat and detoxification: It is used for furunculosis, scrofula, gills, water and fire burns, and snake bites. Fresh herbs can be used alone to pound and apply to the affected area.To treat burns, it can also be ground into powder and mixed with sesame oil or tung oil.Clearing damp-heat: used for damp-heat diarrhea, dysentery, jaundice, can be decocted with water alone.

In modern times, it is commonly used for carbuncle furuncle, burns, bacillary dysentery, enteritis, mumps, and lymph node tuberculosis.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 10-15g.External application: appropriate amount, powdered for applying; or fresh products pounded for applying.

[Modern Research] It has the functions of inhibiting Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Bacillus anthracis, beta-hemolytic streptococcus, Corynebacterium diphtheriae, Salmonella typhi, Shigella, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, etc.

For four tiles, see "Grass and Wood Recipe".It is the whole herb of the perennial herbaceous plant Chloranthus henryi Hemal. or the perennial herb Lysimachia paridiformis Franch. of the family Primulaceae.Distributed in Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Zhejiang and other places.

[Synonym] The Four Heavenly Kings, Sipiwa, Sierfeng, and Four Leafs.

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

【Efficacy and application】Expelling wind and dampness: used for rheumatic arthralgia, can be decocted with heather vine, ground wind, epimedium, and Dipsacus; it can also be used with Xu Changqing and Polygonum cuspidatum.Activating blood and promoting qi: for bruises, blood stasis, swelling and pain, soaked in wine alone; for cold pain in the epigastric cavity, often decocted with galangal and Cyperus cyperi.Xuanfei cough: for wind-cold cough, it can be decocted with perilla, lung meridian, orange peel, and licorice; Basil, decocted in water, add brown sugar to serve.

【Usage and Dosage】Decoction: 15~30g.External application: appropriate amount, decocted for washing; or crushed for applying.

【Modern Research】Contains Chongloupaigluside and so on.

See "Supplements to Materia Medica" for Sijiqing.It is the leaf of Ilex chinensisSims. Ilex chinensisSims.Distributed in various places south of the Yangtze River Basin.

[Synonym] Sijiqingye, Xiaoye Holly.

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

【Efficacy and application】clearing away heat and detoxification: used for water and fire burns, heat-toxin sores, ulceration but not constriction, boiled water for washing, or made into ointment, emulsion for external application, or smashed for external application; used for cough due to lung heat, sore throat Pain, diarrhea and dysentery, decoction orally.Convergence and hemostasis: used for wound bleeding, fresh product smashed for external application.In addition, gangrene can be treated.

In modern times, it is mostly used for burns and scalds, acute and chronic bronchitis, pneumonia, acute pharyngitis, tonsillitis, enteritis, bacillary dysentery, urinary tract infection, thromboangiitis obliterans, and lower extremity ulcers.For the treatment of lower extremity ulcers, concentrated decoction plus cod liver oil and other emulsions can be used for external use.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 15-60g.External application: appropriate amount, smashed for application; or made into emulsion; water; ointment for external application.

[Modern Research] Contains protocatechuic acid, protocatechuic aldehyde, ursolic acid, volatile oil, tannin, flavonoids, triterpenoids, etc.In vitro tests have different degrees of antibacterial effects on Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Salmonella typhi, Shigella, Escherichia coli, Alcaligenes, Bacillus subtilis and Staphylococcus aureus, and have astringent and promoting The role of granulation growth.Protocatechuic acid can inhibit the respiration of common urinary tract infection pathogens (Escherichia coli, Proteus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa) in human urine.After the rabbits were given Sijiqing decoction or injected intramuscularly with Sijiqing injection, the excreted urine also had obvious antibacterial effect.In skim milk, ethyl protocatechuate has the effect of inhibiting fungi.Protocatechuic acid has a slight inhibitory effect on experimental HF sarcoma and hook tumor 180 in mice, and can reduce myocardial oxygen consumption, improve the electrocardiogram of myocardial blood supply deficiency, and can expand coronary arteries to prevent platelet aggregation.Rat limbs were experimentally scalded with water, and the 1:1 decoction was applied twice a day. After 74 hours, the swelling percentage of the affected limbs was significantly reduced compared with the control group, and the body fluid exudation was significantly reduced, and no wound suppuration or necrosis was seen.Protocatechuic acid has a significant inhibitory effect on formaldehyde-induced foot swelling in mice.When guinea pig feed contains 0.2% protocatechuic acid, it can significantly inhibit the occurrence of dental caries.It may be related to its inhibition of oral microorganisms.

Ginger see "Book of Materia Medica".It is the fresh rhizome of Zingiber officinale Rose., a perennial herb of Zingiberaceae.It is grown in most parts of the country.

[synonym] fresh ginger, fresh ginger.

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

【Efficacy and application】Sweating to relieve the surface: used for exogenous wind-cold, aversion to cold and fever, headache, and nasal congestion.For mild cases, it can be decocted with brown sugar in the same amount, or used together with perilla; for severe cases, it can be used as an auxiliary product of other pungent and warm medicines to relieve the exterior surface, such as Guizhi Decoction ("Treatise on Febrile Diseases") .Warming the middle and relieving vomiting: for stomach cold and vomiting, used alone, or in combination with Pinellia, such as Xiaobanxia Decoction ("Golden Chamber Synopses"); for stomach heat and vomiting, it can be used in combination with Coptidis, Zhuru, etc.Warming lung decoction: used for cough due to wind-cold, clear and thin phlegm, often combined with perilla, aster, almond, etc.In addition, this product can be taken orally or gargle to detoxify Pinellia, Nanxing, Aconitum, Naoyanghua, fish and crab; decocted alone to treat epigastric pain and dysentery; smashed and warmed to apply on the head, can cure baldness sore.

In modern times, it is commonly used in first aid for colds, peptic ulcer, gastroenteritis and poisoning of fish and crab, aconite, pinellia, and southern star.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 3-10g; pounded into juice for blunt or gargle.External application: appropriate amount, pounded for application; or applied to affected area.

[Cautions for use] Contraindicated for symptoms of yin deficiency and internal heat and excessive heat.

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