Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Chapter 73 Eight Paintings (11)
[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 30-60g (fresh products pounded into juice).External application: appropriate amount, pounded for applying fresh products; or decocted for washing.

[Cautions for use] Take it with caution for people with spleen and stomach deficiency.

【Modern Research】Contains organic acids, amino acids, sugars, etc.

Setaria see "Compendium of Materia Medica".It is the whole grass of Setariaviridis (L.) Beauv., an annual herbaceous plant of Poaceae.It is distributed all over the country.

[Synonym] weed grass, bright grass, half branch of dog's tail, big tail grass.

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

【Efficacy and application】clearing the liver and improving eyesight: for liver heat, red eyes, swelling and pain, it can be decocted with coriander, and for blurred vision due to liver deficiency, it can be taken with sheep liver steaming.Clearing away heat and promoting dampness: used for damp-heat jaundice, dysentery, astringent and painful urination, single use, or formula decoction.To treat jaundice, it can be used together with Polygonum cuspidatum, Desmodium, Yinchen, etc.; to treat dysentery, it can be used together with Coptidis Rhizome, Woody Fragrance, and Sophora flavescens.Detoxification and killing insects: used for carbuncle sores, common warts, scabies, boiled for washing, or pounded and applied to the affected area.In addition, it can be used together with Huangdu and Lianqiancao to treat whooping cough.

It is commonly used in modern times for acute conjunctivitis, viral icteric hepatitis, dysentery, carbuncle furuncle, and mange.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 6~12g (fresh product 30~60g).External application: appropriate amount, decocted for washing; or crushed for applying.

See "Henan Chinese Herbal Medicine Handbook" for dog seedlings.It is the root and whole plant of the perennial herbaceous plant Calystegia japonica Choisy of Convolvulaceae.Distributed in Henan, Hebei, Hunan, Jiangsu and other places.

[Synonym] Dawanhua, Fuermiao, Gouwayang, Japanese Tianjian.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] sweet, cold.Return stomach, liver, small intestine channel.

【Efficacy and Application】Nourishing yin and clearing heat: It is used for polydipsia and thirst due to febrile diseases, and can be compatible with trichosanthes, kudzu root, Ophiopogon japonicus, Zhimu, etc.Suppressing liver and subduing yang: for dizziness due to liver yang, the root is decocted and taken alone.Diuretic Tonglin: For dysuria, decoct the root of the whole herb in water.In addition, it also has the effect of invigorating the stomach and eliminating food, and can cure indigestion caused by the failure of the middle burner.

Modern commonly used in high blood pressure, diabetes, indigestion, urinary tract infection and so on.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 15-30g.

[Modern research] Contains kaempferol-3-rhamnosyl glucoside, saponins, flavonol glycosides, etc.Kaempferol has a diuretic effect; it also has a purging effect.

For maltose, see "Compendium of Materia Medica".It is sugar made by fermentation and saccharification of grains such as rice, barley, wheat, millet or corn.Produced all over the country.

[synonym] sticky sugar, jelly syrup, fudge, maltose.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] sweet, slightly warm.Return spleen, stomach, lung meridian.

【Efficacy and application】Reinforcing the spleen and replenishing qi: used for deficiency of the spleen, lack of appetite, poor appetite, limb fatigue, lack of breath, palpitation and restlessness, often used with astragalus, codonopsis, cassia twig, white peony root, roasted licorice, ginger, etc. .Relieving spasm and relieving pain: used for abdominal pain due to deficiency and cold, often combined with cinnamon twigs, white peony root, jujube, ginger, licorice, etc., such as Xiaojianzhong Decoction ("Treatise on Febrile Diseases"), for severe qi deficiency, add astragalus, such as Huangqi Jianzhong Decoction ("Synopsis of the Golden Chamber").Moisturizing lung and relieving cough: used for dry cough due to deficiency of the lung, shortness of breath, wheezing, dry cough without phlegm, and low voice.Excretion and detoxification: It is used for toxic reactions caused by swallowing rice awns, fish bones, or Aconitum aconitum, aconitum, and aconite. Take single flavor frequently.

Modern commonly used in chronic gastritis, gastric and duodenal ulcers, chronic enteritis, intestinal adhesions, chronic bronchitis, etc.

[Usage and Dosage] Oral administration: Yanghua Chongren decoction, 30-60g; boiled ointment or human pills.

[Cautions for use] Contraindicated for those with damp-heat internal congestion, fullness and vomiting.

【Modern Research】Contains maltose and a small amount of protein.

See "Illustrations of Medicinal Plants" for Pulmonaria pulmonata.It is the young tender whole plant of the perennial twining herbaceous plant Crawfurdia fasciculata Wall. of Gentianaceae.Distributed in Central China, South China, and Southwest China.

[Synonym] Butterfly Grass, Gold Silk Butterfly, Jade Butterfly, Flower Butterfly, Mountain Butterfly, Sweet Licorice.

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

【Efficacy and application】clearing lung and relieving cough: used for lung-heat cough and lung abscess, decocted with water alone, or used together with goldenrod, vitex, bletilla, loquat leaf, and licorice.Cooling blood and hemostasis: For pulmonary tuberculosis hemoptysis, it can be used together with Rhizoma Imperatae, Morus alba, and Digupi; for hemorrhage in gold wounds, it can be smashed for external application alone, or dried and ground into powder for wrapping.Diuretic and detoxification: For dysuria and edema, it can be decocted with rush grass and corn root; for boils, swelling and pain, mastitis, it can be pounded and applied to the affected area alone.

Modern commonly used in chronic bronchitis, tuberculosis hemoptysis, lung abscess, nephritis edema, urinary tract infection, mastitis, furuncle.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 9-15g (30-60g for fresh products).External application: Appropriate amount, pounded fresh products for applying, or powdered for applying.

For swollen joint wind, see "Preparation for Herb Properties".It is the branches and leaves of Sarcandra glabra (Thunb.) Nakai, an evergreen subshrub of Chrysanthaceae.Distributed in East China, Central South and Southwest China.

[Synonym] Jiujie tea, Jiujiecao, Guanyin tea, elderberry pill, elderberry, elderberry, elderberry, bamboo festival tea.

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

【Efficacy and application】Expelling wind and dampness: used for rheumatic arthralgia, numbness of limbs, spasms of muscles and bones, soaked in wine alone, or used in the same way as Clematis, Caulis, Fangji, and Duhuo.Promoting blood circulation and dispelling blood stasis: for bruises and fractures, smashed for external application alone, and can also be used together with safflower and ground soft-shelled turtle; for women's dysmenorrhea, postpartum stasis and abdominal pain, can be used with Chuanxiong, safflower, and motherwort.Heat-clearing and detoxifying: used for sore carbuncle, intestinal carbuncle, dysentery, aphtha of the mouth, etc., used alone or decocted in formula.If the leaves are ground into powder and tea oil is mixed and applied, it can cure water and fire burns.

Modern commonly used in rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, bruises, lumbar muscle strain, pneumonia, acute appendicitis, acute gastroenteritis, bacillary dysentery, etc.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 9-15g, or soaked in wine.External application: appropriate amount, pounded for applying, or powdered for applying, or decocted for fumigation.

[Cautions for use] Contraindicated in patients with yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire and pregnant women.

[Modern Research] Contains L-bisabolin A, isoferdine, fumaric acid, succinic acid, volatile oil, etc.It has antibacterial, antiviral, promoting fracture healing and antitumor effects.

For the rabbit umbrella, see "Materia Medica for Rescuing Famines".It is the root and whole plant of the perennial herb of Compositae, Syneilesisaconitifolia Maxim.It is distributed all over the country.

[Synonym] Qili Ma, Yiyi Umbrella, Nantian Fan, Umbrella Vegetable, Rabbit Umbrella, Snow Umbrella.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] pungent, bitter, slightly warm.poisonous.Return liver, kidney channel.

[Applications] Expelling wind and dampness, relaxing tendons and activating collaterals: for rheumatic numbness and bone pain all over the body, it can be taken with Acanthopanax root, white dragon's beard, Xiaoxueteng, and papaya root in wine; for kidney deficiency and low back pain, single flavor bubble Take with wine; for bruises, decoct with Salvia miltiorrhiza, fried Sophorae japonica, and ground soft-shelled turtle, take a little wine, and smash with fresh grass for application.Detoxification and detumescence: for carbuncle and swollen poison, use the whole herb to mash and apply egg white alone; for scrofula, use 100g of its root alone, decoct it in water, or use it together with snakeberry and fragrant tea, and use it separately Fresh star anise root smashed and applied; for hemorrhoids, just use an appropriate amount, decoct and fumigate the affected area.

In modern times, it is often used for rheumatoid arthritis, lumbar muscle strain, bruises, boils, cervical lymph node tuberculosis, and hemorrhoids.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 10-15g; or soak in wine.External application: appropriate amount, fresh products smashed for applying; or decocted for washing; or taking the juice for applying.

【Caution】Not suitable for pregnant women.

See "Compendium of Materia Medica" for swim bladder.It is the swim bladder of the large yellow croaker Pseudosciaena crocea (Rich.), the small yellow croaker P. polyactis Bleeker or the Chinese sturgeon Acipenser sinensis Gray. of the sturgeon family.Mainly produced in Shanghai, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places.

[synonym] isinglass, white swim bladder, fish gall, fish maw.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] sweet, salty, warm.Return liver, kidney channel.

【Efficacy and Application】Tonifying the kidney and benefiting the essence: It is used for seminal emission due to kidney deficiency and diarrhea.Dispelling wind and relieving convulsions: used for postpartum convulsions due to convulsions due to convulsions due to wind and tetanus.For the treatment of tetanus, you can also grind a little musk into powder and take it with wine; if you mix it with saponin 30g and cinnabar 10g, it will be the end, and each serving 10g can cure epilepsy.Nourish blood and stop bleeding: For blood deficiency syndrome, it can be decocted with angelica and red dates; for hematemesis, hemoptysis, hematuria, metrorrhagia, it can be taken with roasted yellow powder alone.Dispersing blood stasis and reducing swelling: for carbuncle sores, deep-fried with sesame oil, ground into powder, and taken with rice wine;

In modern times, it is often used for kidney deficiency, seminal emission, tetanus, aplastic anemia, carbuncle furuncle, mastitis, esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, etc.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 10-30g, or powdered, 3-6g.External application: Appropriate amount, dissolve and apply.

See "Nihuazi Zhujia Materia Medica" for Yunaoshi.It is the otolith in the skull of the large yellow croaker Pseudosciaena crocea (Rich.) or the small yellow croaker P. polyactis Bleeker.

[synonym] stone head fish head stone, head fish head pillow, stone head bone, fish head stone.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] salty, flat.Return kidney, urinary bladder, stomach warp.

【Efficacy and application】Fossil Tonglin: used for hot shower, sand shower, stone shower, alone, or with 14 fish brain stones, and the same amount of angelica as a loose dose.Detoxification and pus discharge: For pus in the ear, grind it into powder and sprinkle it on the ear, or grind it together with borneol and blow it into the ear; for nasal sinusitis headache, grind it alone, mix it with wine every night before going to bed.

It is commonly used in modern times for urinary stones, otitis media, sinusitis, etc.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 5-15g; or powdered, 1.5-3g.External application: Appropriate amount, grind into powder and blow nose, or mix thoroughly with sesame oil and drop in ears.

Houttuynia cordata see "Bielu of Famous Doctors".It is the rooted whole plant of the perennial herbaceous plant Houttuynia cordata Thunb.It is mainly produced in various places south of the Yangtze River Basin.

[Synonyms] Houttuynia, Stinkywort, Nipplegrass.

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

【Efficacy and application】clearing away heat and detoxification, eliminating carbuncle and abscessing pus, used for lung-heat cough and lung carbuncle.To treat cough due to lung heat, it is often used together with Scutellaria baicalensis, Morus alba, Platycodon grandiflora, Fritillaria, etc.; to treat lung abscess, it is often combined with reed root, bellflower root, winter melon kernel, trichosanthin, etc.If it is compatible with honeysuckle, viola, forsythia, etc., it can be taken internally or externally, and it can also treat heat-toxin sores.Diuretic to treat stranguria: for hot stranguria with astringent pain, used alone, or used with Akebia, talc, and psyllium.In addition, it can be used together with hawthorn charcoal to treat dysentery; decoction and fumigation can cure women's genital itching.

Modern commonly used in lung abscess, pneumonia, acute and chronic bronchitis, urinary stones, urinary tract infection, local suppurative inflammation, otitis media, enteritis, cervicitis, etc.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 10-15g (30-60g for fresh ones) or pounded into juice.External application: Appropriate amount, decocted for fumigation or smashed for applying.

[Cautions for use] Contraindicated in deficiency-cold syndrome and negative external ulcers.

【Modern Research】Contains houttuyonin, volatile oil, auricine, etc.It has the functions of antibacterial, antiviral, improving the immune function of the body, anti-inflammatory, diuretic, antitussive, analgesic, hemostatic, and promoting tissue regeneration and wound healing.

See "Compendium of Materia Medica Supplements" for fish and turtle Venus.It is the whole plant of Lepidogrammitis drymoglossoides (Bak.) Ching, a perennial herbaceous plant of the family Water Dragon.Distributed in the Yangtze River Basin and South China.

[Synonym] Melon seed gold, melon seed lotus, stone melon seeds, Venus grass, mirror grass, boulder lotus.

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

【Efficacy and application】clearing away heat and detoxification: used for carbuncle and swollen boils, wind-fire toothache, scrofula, decocted with water alone, or pounded for external application.Dispersing blood stasis and stopping bleeding: used for a variety of internal and external bleeding syndromes, used singly or in combination.Relieving cough and resolving phlegm: used for coughing and spitting, or bloody sputum, used alone or with loquat leaves and Lianqiancao.

In modern times, it is mostly used for carbuncle furuncle and bleeding syndrome.

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

【Modern Research】It can inhibit Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli and so on.

See "Ben Jing Feng Yuan" for night handing in vines.It is the cane or leafy cane of Polygonum multiflorum Thunb.

[Synonym] Shouwu vine.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] sweet, slightly bitter, flat.GUIXIN, liver, spleen channel.

【Efficacy and application】Healing and calming: used for insomnia, palpitations, and convulsions, often used together with Baiziren, Albizia Albiziae, Suanzaoren, etc.Dispelling wind and dredging collaterals: used for arthralgia due to rheumatism and body aches, often combined with Clematis, Duhuo, Gentiana chinensis, etc.In addition, decocting soup for bathing can also treat scabies and itching.

Modern commonly used in neurasthenia, rheumatoid arthritis, high blood pressure, scabies and so on.

【Usage and Dosage】Decoction: 6~12g.External application: decoction for bathing; or crushed for applying.

[Modern Research] Contains emodin, emodin methyl ether, etc.It has the effects of sedation, hypnosis, lipid-lowering, anti-arteriosclerosis and prevention of fatty liver.

Close the door at night, see "Classification of Herbal Medicine".It is the whole plant of Lespedeza cuneata (Dum.Cours.) G.Don, an upright small shrub of the leguminous family.Distributed in the vast areas of Northeast China, North China, Central South, East China, and Southwest China.

[Synonym] Clover, Snake Grass, Dark Grass, Iron Horsewhip, Nocturnal Grass, Iron Broom, Close Grass, String Fish Grass.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] bitter, astringent, cool.Return liver, kidney channel.

【Application】Replenishing liver and kidney: for kidney deficiency nocturnal emission, stewed meat alone; for kidney deficiency enuresis, stewed pig belly with bamboo shoots, black beans, glutinous rice, pepper; for liver and kidney deficiency, vision loss, It is often compatible with plantain, fennel, geranium, medlar, dodder, privet, and angelica; for women with leucorrhea, the whole plant or root 30g can be used alone, decocted in water.Invigorating the spleen and promoting dampness: used for diarrhea, dysentery, leukorrhagia, edema, and difficulty in urinating when dampness overcomes spleen deficiency.To treat dysentery, it can be decocted with water alone; to treat leukorrhea, it is often decocted with ginkgo, golden cherry, and japonica root; to treat edema and dysuria, it can be compatible with ebony, centella asiatica, and white horse bone.Eliminate phlegm and relieve cough: For cough and asthma, decoct with water and add rock sugar.Heat-clearing and detoxifying: for carbuncle sores and snake bites, it can be used in equal parts with snakeberry, smashed and applied to the affected area; for acute mastitis, it can be pounded with dandelion for external application, or decocted in water; used for red eyes, For night blindness, it can be used equally with white chrysanthemum, Gu Jingcao, and wolfberry.

In modern times, it is often used for spermatorrhea, enuresis, gastritis, enteritis, dysentery, chronic bronchitis, mastitis, carbuncle, etc.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 15-30g (30-60g for fresh products).External application: decocted for fumigation and washing; or smashed for applying.

[Modern Research] Contains pinitol, flavonoids, phenolic components, tannins, etc.Animal tests have antitussive effect.In vitro tests have shown that its decoction has inhibitory effects on Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and A-hemolytic streptococcus.

See "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" for Ye Mingsha.Dried feces of the Batidae bat Vespertilio superans Thomas.It is produced in most mountainous areas of the country.

[Synonym] Sky mouse feces, black sand star.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] pungent, cold.Return liver, spleen channel.

【Efficacy and application】clearing the liver, improving eyesight and removing nebula: It is used for conjunctival congestion, swelling and pain, green blind bird eyes, internal and external nebula.Treat conjunctival congestion or white eye bleeding, can be used with chrysanthemum, Prunella vulgaris, Gujingcao, habitat, paeonol, etc. Equivalently used, such as Fuming Wan ("Examination of Yaohan"); for the treatment of bird eyes, it can be boiled with Shicai in the liver of human pigs at the end of the Ming Dynasty, such as Cassia Yelingsan ("Syndrome and Treatment Guidelines"); for internal and external nebula, Can be used with rehmannia glutinosa, wolfberry, dendrobium, etc.Eliminate malnutrition: It is used for infantile malnutrition, and it can be cooked with refined pork.

In modern times, it is mostly used for conjunctivitis, cataract, and malnutrition in children.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 3-10g (including decoction), or powder, 1-3g each time.External application: Appropriate amount, powdered for coating.

[Modern Research] Contains urea, uric acid, cholesterol and vitamin A.

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