Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Chapter 43 Six Paintings (2)
【Efficacy and application】Reducing dampness and reducing jaundice: used for jaundice, edema, and stranguria syndrome caused by damp-heat accumulation.To treat jaundice, take decocted water alone, or combine Malan, corn grass, and money grass; for stranguria, it is often compatible with money grass, plantain, etc.Hemostasis: used for hemoptysis, hematemesis, epistaxis, metrorrhagia, hematochezia, hemorrhoids and traumatic bleeding. This product can be made into injection for intramuscular or intravenous injection.For those who vomit blood, it can also be decocted with arborvitae leaves, madder root, and imperina root, etc.; for wound bleeding, it can be ground into powder and applied.In addition, it can also treat water and fire burns, lower eczema, etc., and the single flavor is ground into powder, and sesame oil is applied.

Modern commonly used in acute viral jaundice hepatitis, cholecystitis, primary or secondary thrombocytopenic purpura, tuberculosis hemoptysis, gastric and duodenal ulcer bleeding, esophageal variceal bleeding, dysfunctional uterine bleeding, bleeding after surgery and traumatic bleeding.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 15-30g.External application: Appropriate amount, grind into powder and sprinkle or adjust and apply on the affected area.

[Modern Research] It mainly contains two kinds of aldehyde components.In vitro and in whole animals, it can accelerate blood coagulation and hemostasis, delay the dissolution of fibrin, increase the total number of platelets, and increase the number of white blood cells.

Digupi see "Shen Nong's Herbal Classic".It is the root bark of Lyciumchinense Mill., a deciduous vine shrub of Solanaceae.Produced all over the country.

[Synonym] Lycium barbarum root, mountain wolfberry root, red durian root bark, Difu, Tsuen bark.

[Sexual ambiguous meridians] sweet, light, cold.Return lung, kidney channel.

【Application】Cooling blood and reducing steam: It is used for bone steaming, hot flashes, night sweats, and malnutrition fever in children caused by yin deficiency and blood heat. .Clearing away lung-heat: used for cough and asthma due to lung-heat, often combined with Morus alba, licorice, etc., such as Xiebai powder ("Pediatric Medicine Syndrome Zhi Jue").Cooling blood to stop bleeding: used for hematemesis, epistaxis, and hematuria caused by excessive heat in blood, often used in the same way as Rhizoma Imperatae Rhizoma Imperatae and Arborvitae Leaf.In addition, it can also expel pathogenic heat and relieve polydipsia, treat thirst and polyuria, and is often compatible with Shengdi and TCS.

Modern commonly used in tuberculosis, diabetes, high blood pressure, chronic urticaria, drug eruption, allergic purpura, contact dermatitis, generalized eczema, young flat warts, etc.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 6-15g.

[Cautions for use] It is not suitable for people with spleen deficiency and loose stools.

【Modern Research】Contains betaine, β-sitosterol, cinnamon acid, linoleic acid and various phenolic substances and saponins.It has a significant antipyretic effect on experimental fever rabbits.It has antipyretic effect on low fever caused by tuberculosis.Both decoction and extract can lower blood sugar in rabbits.Infusions, tinctures and decoctions have obvious hypotensive effects on anesthetized dogs, cats and rabbits.The decoction has a strong inhibitory effect on Salmonella typhi and Shigella, and also has an inhibitory effect on Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

See "Lingnan Herb Collection" for the root of Dipiscus chinensis.It is the root of Metastoma dodecandrum Lour.

[synonym] ground eggplant root, ground Ren root, hot charcoal bubble.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] bitter, sweet, flat.Return liver, spleen, lung meridian.

【Efficacy and Application】Promoting blood circulation and dredging menstruation: It is used for dysmenorrhea, dystocia, postpartum abdominal pain, bruises, rheumatic arthralgia and other symptoms of blood stasis, decocted with water alone, taken with wine, or used in formula.Removing blood stasis and stopping bleeding: used for vomiting blood, stranguria with blood, metrorrhagia, single use, or in combination with large thistle, small thistle, rhizome Imperatae, Burnet etc.Clearing away dampness and heat: used for stranguria syndrome and edema caused by excessive dampness and heat, often used together with plantain and light bamboo leaves; for jaundice, it can be decocted with rhizome of Imperata Rhizoma Imperatae, and taken with sugar and sweet wine.In addition, if it is stewed with lily, mulberry root bark, and pig's trotters, it will also cure chronic cough.

In modern times, it is often used for bruises, rheumatoid arthritis, abdominal pain during menstruation, urinary tract infection, viral jaundice hepatitis, etc.

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

[Notes] Pregnant women should use with caution.

Dijincao see "Jiahu Supplementary Notes on Shennong's Materia Medica".It is the whole plant of Euphorbia humifusa Willd., an annual herbaceous plant of Euphorbiaceae.Produced all over the country.

[Synonym] Xuejianshou, Padijin, Caoxuejie, Milky Grass, Dungfoot Grass, Padihong, Lying Egg Grass.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] bitter, pungent, flat.Return liver, gallbladder, stomach, large intestine channel.

【Efficacy and application】clearing dampness and heat: used for heat-toxin diarrhea, pus and blood in the stool, used alone, or decocted with Pulsatilla oleracea, purslane, and coptis; used for damp-heat jaundice, dysuria, compatible with capillary, gardenia Seedlings, etc.; used for stranguria syndrome, astringent and painful urination, used alone, or used with Imperata rhizome and Plantain.Heat-clearing and detoxifying: for sores and swollen toxins, snake bites, it can be taken orally or smashed for external application.Removing blood stasis and stopping bleeding: used for a variety of internal and external bleeding syndromes.For vomiting and bleeding, it can be combined with Rehmannia root and Cortex paeonol; for blood in the stool, bloody dysentery, and hemorrhoid bleeding, it can be combined with Burnet and Sophora japonica; for metrorrhagia and bleeding, it can be combined with Puhuang and Rubia; for traumatic bleeding, it can be pounded and applied, or Powdered with dry product for external application.

Modern commonly used in bacillary dysentery, enteritis, urinary tract infection, jaundice, upper gastrointestinal bleeding, bleeding hemorrhoids and so on.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 10-15g (double for fresh products); or powder.External application: appropriate amount of fresh product, crushed for applying; or powdered for dry product and sprinkled.

[Cautions for use] Use with caution in patients with blood deficiency without stasis and weak spleen and stomach.

【Modern Research】Contains flavonoid glycosides, coumarin, palmitic acid, etc.It has antibacterial, antiparasitic and hemostatic effects.

Pu Ni see "Shen Nong's Materia Medica".It is a crude crystal obtained by processing natural sodium sulfate minerals.It is mainly produced in the alkaline soil areas of Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Jiangsu, Anhui and other provinces.

[Synonym] Pu Xiao, Pi Nitrate, Salt Salt, Mao Nitrate, Park Saltpeter.

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

【Efficacy and Application】Purge and Soften Hardness: Used for stagnation of excess heat, abdominal distension and constipation, dissolved in boiling water, or combined with rhubarb, woody, peony, angelica, etc., such as Pu Nitrate Decoction ("Shengji Zonglu").Heat-clearing and detoxification: used for sores and swelling caused by accumulation of heat and toxins, mastitis, swelling and pain, red eyes and swelling, and sore throat.To treat sores and carbuncles, mastitis, it can be mixed with rhubarb, angelica, borneol, etc., powdered and applied; to treat red eyes and swelling, it can be steamed on tofu with simple salt, and the juice can be instilled in the eyes, or soaked in the milk of Coptis chinensis, and applied to the eyes; To treat sore throat, use it alone to contain the throat, or grind it together with licorice, dry it and mix it in the mouth, such as Chuihousan ("Yang's Family Tibetan Prescription").

It is commonly used in modern times for mastitis, oral ulcers, acute pharyngitis, hemorrhoids, acute surgical infection, and constipation.

[Usage and Dosage] External application: Appropriate amount, grind into powder and blow throat; or turn into water for applying, instill on eyes, mix and apply; fumigate and wash.Generally, it is not for oral administration, and the refined product Glauber's salt or Xuanming powder is used for oral administration.

[Cautions for use] This product is bitter and cold, and can easily injure yang qi, so people with spleen and stomach deficiency should not take it.Pregnant women should not take it.Fear of three edges.Generally, it is mostly used for external use, while mirabilite and xuanming powder are used for internal use.

[Modern research] See "glauber's salt" for ingredients and pharmacology.

See "Materia Medica Yanyi" for taro.It is the tuber of Colocasia esculenta (L.) Sehott, a perennial herbaceous plant of Araceae.It is cultivated in southern and northern China provinces.

[Synonyms] Maoyu, taro milk, taro root, and Toshiba.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] sweet, pungent, flat.It is slightly poisonous.Return spleen, stomach warp.

【Efficacy and application】Invigorate the spleen and nourish the middle: It is used for weak spleen and stomach, anorexia and fatigue, and can be eaten with millet and rice.Detoxification and dissipating stagnation: used for sores and swollen toxins, mastitis, poisonous snake bites, water and fire burns, stubborn ringworm of the skin, fresh products can be smashed and applied to the affected parts.To treat burns, it can also be applied with sesame oil.In addition, taking powdered porridge and taking it can cure scrofula and sputum core; decocting water with brown sugar or white sugar can cure dysentery with red and white pus and blood in the stool.

In modern times, it is often used for anorexia, fatigue, boils, swelling and pain, mastitis, cervical lymphatic tuberculosis, burns and scalds, and dysentery.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 60-120g; or into pills or powder.External application: appropriate amount, pounded for application; or rubbed with vinegar for application.

[Modern Research] Contains starch, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, protein, ash, lipid, calcium, phosphorus, iron, etc.

Glauber's salt see "Bielu of Famous Doctors".It is a refined crystal obtained by refining natural sodium sulfate minerals.It is mainly produced in the alkaline soil areas of Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Jiangsu, Anhui and other provinces.

[Synonym] Pen Xiao, Ma Ya Xiao, saltpeter.

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

【Efficacy and Application】Tackling Accumulation and Softening Hardness: Used for excess heat stagnation, dry stool, single use, or equivalent use with rhubarb, such as Dachengqi Decoction, Tiaowei Chengqi Decoction ("Treatise on Febrile Diseases").Purging fire and detoxification: used for sores and swollen toxins, sore throat, aphtha of the mouth and tongue, red eyes and swelling.Treat sore throat and mouth sores, it is often combined with borax, cinnabar, borneol, etc., blow throat or sprinkle the affected area, such as Bingboran powder ("Surgery Authentic"), and can also be made into watermelon frost (sweeping of mirabilite in watermelon for 2 to 3 days) crystals on the melon shell) blow throat; treat red eyes, swelling and pain, and can be used to hydrate the eyes.In addition, wrap Glauber's salt with gauze, distribute it on the breasts, and fix it with a chest strap, which can treat mastitis or be used for milk return.Fumigation and washing with decocted water alone can cure hemorrhoids swelling and pain.

It is commonly used in modern times for constipation, mastitis, acute pharyngitis, Kashin-Beck disease, acute cholecystitis, hemorrhoids, appendicitis, etc.

[Usage and Dosage] Dissolving clothes: 3-10g; or into pills or powder.External application: Appropriate amount, grind into powder and inhale in throat or apply in eyes with water.

[Caution for use] This product is easy to injure Zhongyang, so people with spleen and stomach deficiency should not take it.Pregnant women should not take it.

[Modern research] Mainly contains sodium sulfate, mixed with sodium chloride, magnesium sulfate, calcium sulfate, etc.Oral sodium sulfate is not easily absorbed in the intestines, forming a hypertonic saline solution, which increases the water in the intestines, thereby thinning the intestinal contents, increasing the volume, stimulating the intestinal mucosal receptors, reflexively causing hyperactive intestinal peristalsis and diarrhea .

Auspicious grass see "Compendium of Materia Medica".It is the rooted whole plant of Reinecke carnea Kunth., an evergreen perennial herb of Liliaceae.Mainly produced in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Fujian, Sichuan, Shaanxi and other places.

[Synonym] Jieyun grass, Yudai grass, Zhuyeqing, Xiaoqingdan, Xiaoye evergreen, Buddha top bead, bamboo root seven, nine-section lotus, small nine-dragon plate.

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

【Efficacy and Application】Moisturizing the lung and relieving cough: It is used for dry cough with little phlegm or bloody sputum, hot flashes, and dry throat caused by deficiency of lung yin. This product can be stewed with pig lung (or pig heart, pork); or compatible with Ophiopogon japonicus, Chuanbei, Lily, etc.Cooling blood to stop bleeding: used for hemoptysis, epistaxis, hematemesis, and blood in stool caused by blood-heat rash, taken alone with simmering water; or compatible with Imperata rhizome and Arborvitae leaves.Detoxification and swelling: used for sores, carbuncles, swollen toxins, bruises, fractures, smashed and applied to the affected parts.Also, soak the roots in wine.Adding tiger bone glue can treat muscle flaccidity and weakness.

Modern commonly used in tuberculosis cough, hemoptysis, chronic pyelonephritis, sprains, fractures, skin suppurative infections, etc.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 10-15g (30-60g for fresh products).External application: appropriate amount, smashed for applying.

【Modern Research】Contains steroidal saponins, etc.

See "Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbal Medicine in Northeast China" for the old man's grass.It is the whole plant of Leontopodium leontopodioides (Wits.) Beau., a perennial herb of Compositae.Distributed in Northwest, Southwest, Northeast, East China and other places.

[synonym] old man AI, edelweiss.

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

【Efficacy and Application】Relieve exterior and reduce fever: It is used for cold, fever, sore throat, and can be used with Artemisia annua and Burdock.Heat-clearing and diuretic: used for dysuria, edema, hematuria, can be decocted with plantain, Morus alba, and Artemisia argyi.

It is commonly used in modern times for colds, acute nephritis, tonsillitis, pharyngitis, etc.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 9-15g.

See "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica" for geranium.It is the aerial part of Erodium stephanianum Willa. or Geranium wilfordii Maxim. and several plants of the same genus.Mainly produced in Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong and Henan, Shaanxi, Xinjiang, Northeast and other places.

[Synonym] Old stork mouth, old crow mouth, old raven beak, quail beak, old raven tendon, five-leaf clover, broken copper coin.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] bitter, slightly pungent, flat.Return liver, kidney, large intestine channel.

【Efficacy and application】Expelling wind and dampness: used for arthralgia due to wind-cold and dampness, numbness of the skin, sore muscles and bones, decocted in water alone, or boiled in ointment; it can also be taken in combination with cinnamon sticks, angelica, safflower, peony, etc. in wine.Dampness and antidiarrheal: for diarrhea, dysentery, decocted in water alone, or combined with amaranth, dijincao, etc.Activating blood circulation and regulating menstruation: for women suffering from menstrual cold and irregular menstruation, used alone or added to menstruation regulating compound; for bruises, often combined with angelica and safflower.In addition, it can be made into ointment and applied to treat sores, carbuncles, furuncles, eczema and small areas of water and fire burns.

Modern commonly used in rheumatic or rheumatoid arthritis, sciatica, acute and chronic gastroenteritis, bacillary dysentery, amoebic dysentery, herpetic keratitis, etc.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 9-15g; or soak in wine; or boil ointment.External application: Appropriate amount, smashed with wine and heated for external application; or made into ointment for external application.

【Modern Research】Contains volatile oil, mainly geraniol.It also contains quercetin and tannins.The decoction or extract can inhibit intestinal peristalsis in rabbits at a certain dose, and has an antidiarrheal effect, but if the dosage is too large, it will have a purging effect.The decoction has obvious inhibitory effect on various bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pneumoniae, beta-hemolytic streptococcus, Branham catarrhalis, Shigella and influenza virus in test tube.

See "Daily Materia Medica" for watermelon.It is the pulp of watermelon Citrullusvulgaris Schrod., a 1-year-old vine herbaceous plant of Cucurbitaceae.It is cultivated all over the country.

[Synonym] Tiansheng Baihu Soup, Cold Melon.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] sweet, light, cold.GUIXIN, stomach, bladder channel.

【Efficacy and Application】Clearing summer heat, quenching thirst and diuresis: used for thirsty upset caused by summer heat, or excessive body fluid injury caused by Yangming heat, short red urine, sores on the mouth and tongue, can be eaten raw or drunk with twisted juice.

It is commonly used in modern times for heatstroke, diabetes, and mouth ulcers.

[Usage and Dosage] Take the pulp and juice, and take in moderation.

[Modern Research] Watermelon juice contains citrulline, arginine and other amino acids, as well as malic acid, fructose, glucose, sucrose, vitamin C, carotene, tomato hydrocarbons, etc.Diuretic effect.

See "Compendium of Materia Medica" for watermelon rind.It is the peel of Citrullus vulgaris Schrod., a 1-year-old vine herbaceous plant of Cucurbitaceae.

[Synonym] Watermelon Cuiyi, Watermelon Green, Watermelon Green.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] sweet, light, cool.GUIXIN, stomach, bladder channel.

【Efficacy and application】clearing heat and relieving troubles: used for hot thirst, short red urine, sores on the mouth and tongue, often compatible with raw land, dendrobium, American ginseng, etc., such as Qingshu Yiqi Decoction ("Warm Jingwei"); sores on the mouth and tongue, For toothache, it can be burned into powder and applied to the affected area.Promoting water and reducing swelling: used for edema caused by excessive dampness and heat, and difficulty in urination.

Modern commonly used in nephritis, diabetes, heat stroke and so on.To treat diabetes, it can be decocted with wax gourd peel and trichosanthemi 15g each.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 15-30g (60-120g for fresh products).External application: powdered and sprinkled.

[Modern Research] Contains wax, sugar and ash.Diuretic antihypertensive effect.

For watermelon frost, see "Encyclopedia of Ulcer Medicine".It is a white crystal made by mixing watermelon rind and rind.

[synonym] watermelon salt.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] salty, cold.Return lung, spleen channel.

【Efficacy and application】Detoxification and swelling: used for sore throat, diphtheria, aphtha, dental malnutrition, red eyes, swelling and pain caused by excessive heat and toxin, often compatible with borneol, cinnabar, borax, etc., powdered and blown on the affected area, like a jade key ("" "Summary of Treating Throat Sha"); for those with conjunctival congestion and swelling, apply water to the eyes.

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

【Usage and Dosage】External application: Appropriate amount, grind into powder and blow on the affected area or apply water to the eyes.

Western see "Materia Medica Congxin".It is the root of Panaxquinquefolium L., a perennial herbaceous plant of Araliaceae.It is mainly produced in the United States, Canada and France, and it is also cultivated in my country.

[synonym] American ginseng, American ginseng, western ginseng, American ginseng.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] sweet, bitter, cold.Guixin, lung, stomach, kidney channel.

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