Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Chapter 87: Nine Paintings (12)
【Efficacy and Application】Digestion and Accumulation: For indigestion and abdominal distension, it can be decocted with Smelly Grass Root and Cyperus Cyperi 9g each, decocted in water.Repelling ascaris and killing insects: For roundworm abdominal pain, it can be taken with chuangu root, neem bark, and water chopping board (whole herb) in simmering water.Diuresis and dampness removal: for edema and swelling, decocted alone; for damp-heat jaundice, decocted with capillary and plantain.Detoxification and relieving sore throat: For sore throat, use the fresh product alone, mash it to extract the juice, or dry it into powder, and blow the throat with a little borneol.Purging heat and laxative: used for heat-constipation constipation, decocted alone, or swallowed as powder, in addition, cooked with green-shell duck eggs, can cure stomach fire and toothache.

In modern times, it is often used for indigestion, ascariasis, viral jaundice hepatitis, nephritis and edema.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 6-9g, or powdered, or soaked in wine.External application: appropriate amount, fresh products smashed for applying.

For lentils, see "Bencao Tujing".It is the flower of the legume lentil Dolichos lablabL.It is produced in most parts of our country.

[Synonym] South bean curd.

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

【Efficacy and application】Resolving summer heat and dampness: used for heat dampness, dampness and temperature syndrome, often used with honeysuckle, forsythia, lotus leaf, bamboo leaf, watermelon and green clothes, such as Qingluo drink ("Warm Disease Tiaodian").Invigorating the spleen and harmonizing the middle: used for summer heat-damp diarrhea, often used with Huoxiang, Peilan, Magnolia officinalis, etc.

In modern times, it is often used for summer heatstroke, acute gastroenteritis, and summer fever in children.

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

[Modern Research] Contains flavonoids, coumarin, etc., which have the effect of inhibiting Shigella.

See "Materia Medica for Rescuing Famines" for Fei Cai.It is the whole plant or root of Sedumkamtschaticum Fisch., a perennial succulent herbaceous plant of Crassulaceae.Distributed in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Hubei, Anhui and other places.

[Synonym] Heart-nourishing grass, horse notoginseng, white notoginseng, horse chestnut, Huisheng grass, blood grass.

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

【Efficacy and Application】Promoting blood circulation and reducing swelling: used for bruises, blood stasis, swelling and pain, carbuncle sores, decocted with fresh grass, or smashed for external application.Cooling blood to stop bleeding: used for hemoptysis due to blood heat, hematemesis, epistaxis, blood in the stool, decocted or mashed with boiled water and taken as juice; used for traumatic bleeding, water and fire burns, powdered and sprinkled, or mashed for application.Calm the mind and calm the nerves: used for heart palpitations caused by heat disturbance, dizziness, irritability, insomnia, can be shared with pig heart and honey.

In modern times, it is often used for bruises, carbuncle boils, swelling and pain, tuberculosis hemoptysis, gastrointestinal bleeding, dysfunctional uterine bleeding, hemorrhoid bleeding, high blood pressure, hysteria, neurasthenia, etc.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 4.5-9g (30-60g for fresh products).External application: appropriate amount, smashed for applying.

[Cautions for use] Contraindicated for those with weak spleen and stomach and loose stools.

See "Jiangxi Herbal Medicine" for baby rattan.It is the root of Tylophora floribunda Miq., a plant of Asclepiaceae.Distributed in Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang and other places.

[Synonym] Seven-story building, first sight incense, Laojun beard, white dragon beard, 36.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] pungent, warm.It is slightly poisonous.Return liver, lung, stomach warp.

【Efficacy and application】Expelling wind and removing dampness: used for rheumatic arthralgia, decocted and pounded for application.Resolving phlegm and relieving cough: It is used for cough, phlegm and asthma caused by phlegm-damp blocking the lung. It can be decocted in single flavor, or combined with white mustard seed, Tinglizi, pinellia, almond, earthworm, etc.Detoxification and dissipating blood stasis: for sore throat, gingival swelling, oral erosion, epigastric pain, decocted with water alone; for bruises, blood stasis pain, ground into powder, water and wine, or smashed for application; used for venomous snakes For bite wounds, it can be mashed together with lobelia, plow grass, etc. for external application.

Modern commonly used in rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, bruises, chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, tonsillitis, chronic gastritis, etc.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 3-9g; Grind into powder or pound into juice.External application: appropriate amount, smashed for applying.

[Cautions for use] Take it with caution for the weak and pregnant women.

For baby boxing, see "Compilation of Commonly Used Herbal Medicines in the Folk".It is the root, stem and leaf of Grewiabiloba G.Don.Distributed in various places south of the Yangtze River Basin.

[Synonym] Splint, Gejingma, Moon Skin, Hemp Candy.

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

【Application】Strengthening the spleen and replenishing qi: It is used for insufficiency of the spleen and less food, and malnutrition in children. Use 30-60g of its fruit alone to decoct in water, or decoct in water with glutinous rice vine, chicken vine, and orange peel.Expelling wind and removing dampness: used for rheumatic arthralgia, soaked in wine alone, or decocted together with Herba Herba.Consolidating essence and stopping leukorrhea: used for nocturnal emission, leukorrhea, decoction alone.To treat leukorrhea, it can also be taken with Mirabilis root, white cockscomb, and thorny radish stew.

In modern times, it is often used for chronic illness, indigestion, rheumatoid arthritis, nocturnal emission, leukorrhea, etc.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 9-15g; or soak in wine.External application: appropriate amount, fresh products smashed for applying.

For fleas, see "Shen Nong's Materia Medica".It is the rhizome of Paris polyphylla Smith., a perennial herb of Liliaceae.Produced in Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Shaanxi and other places.

[Synonym] Chonglou, Chonglou Jinxian, Striga, Trifoliate Grass, Caoheche, Iron Lamp, Seven Seed Lotus, Screw Seven, Baiheche, Aesculus Aesculus, Golden Thread Chonglou.

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

【Efficacy and application】clearing heat and detoxifying: used for sore throat caused by accumulation of heat and toxin, single and double milk moth, alone, or compatible with Scrophulariaceae, Rehmannia glutinosa, Scutellaria baicalensis, red peony root, mountain bean root, forsythia, mint, etc.; For venomous snake bites, used alone, or mixed with lobelia fresh product into powder or decocted, and smashed for external application; used for carbuncle, furuncle, swelling and pain, scrofula, sputum nucleus, used alone, or combined with silver Flowers, Forsythia, Coptidis, Radix Paeoniae Rubra, Angelica, Safflower, Sunburn, Dandelion, etc.Extinguish wind and calm convulsions: used for febrile disease, high fever, coma, convulsions, epilepsy and convulsions caused by blazing toxic heat, often compatible with rhino horn, Uncaria, Scutellaria baicalensis, etc.

It is commonly used in modern times for tonsillitis, mumps, mastitis, lymph node tuberculosis, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, epidemic encephalitis B, poisonous snake bites, chronic bronchitis, infantile pneumonia, malaria, uterine erosion, rectal prolapse, neurodermatitis , cellulitis, lung cancer, etc.For the treatment of chronic bronchitis, it can be used alone, peeled, ground into tablets, 3g each time, 2 times a day, 10 days as a course of treatment, a total of 1 courses of treatment, 3 days of drug withdrawal between each course of treatment.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 4.5-9g; grind juice, pound juice or powder.External application: appropriate amount, pounded for applying; or powdered for application.

[Cautions for use] Contraindicated for those with physical deficiency, no excess heat, heat and poison, external ulcers with yin syndrome and pregnant women.

[Modern Research] Contains steroidal saponins, pleurosides, pleurosides, alkaloids, amino acids, etc.It has strong inhibitory effect on Asian influenza A virus and pyogenic coccus; it has inhibitory effect on Shigella, Salmonella typhi, Escherichia coli and so on.The extract has inhibitory effect on sarcoma 180, sarcoma 37 and solid liver cancer.It has sedative, analgesic, and obvious antiasthmatic and cough-relieving effects on experimental mice; it has direct contraction effect on isolated rabbit intestinal vessels; it has excitatory effect on isolated guinea pig ileum.

For baby tea, see "Drinking Meals".It is a dry extract concentrated from the branch of leguminous plant Acacia catechu (L.) Willd. or the branch and leaf decoction of Rubiaceae plant catechu Uncaria gambier Roxb.The leguminous plant catechu is mainly produced in Yunnan and Hainan; the Rubiaceae plant catechu is mainly produced in Indonesia, Malaysia and other places.

[synonym] catechu, black catechu, iron catechu, wutai mud, uding mud, Xixie, Fang catechu.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] bitter, astringent, cool.GUIXIN, lung meridian.

【Efficacy and application】Reducing dampness and sores: used for eczema, sores with pus, or long-term ulcers that do not close up, often used with keel, light powder, dried blood, borneol, frankincense, etc., powdered and sprinkled; used for sore throat For pain, it can be blown on the affected area with borax, persimmon cream, borneol, etc.; for aphthous ulcers and gum ulcers, it is often used with cork, borax, indigo naturalis, mint, etc. powder for external application.Activating blood to heal wounds: used for bruises, broken tendons and fractures, often used together with frankincense, myrrh, and dried blood, such as Qilisan ("Tongshoulu").Removing blood stasis and stopping bleeding: used for vomiting blood, epistaxis, hematuria, hematochezia, bloody dysentery, metrorrhagia, compatible with arborvitae leaves, imperata root, madder, etc.; for traumatic bleeding, can be used alone, or with calcined keel, elephant skin, Jiangxiang, Xuejie, Baiji, etc. are ground into powder and sprinkled on the sores.Clearing heat and resolving phlegm: For cough due to phlegm heat, it can be taken as a pill with Asarum and pig bile, or it can be combined with Scutellaria baicalensis, Fritillaria, and Baibu.

Modern commonly used for bruises, traumatic bleeding, gastrointestinal bleeding, dysfunctional uterine bleeding, eczema.

【Usage and Dosage】Decoction: 0.9-3g; or as pills or powder.External application: grind into powder and sprinkle or apply.

【Modern research】The heartwood of catechin contains catechin tannin, catechin, mucilage, etc.Uncaria catechu contains catechin rhynchophylline, rhynchophylline, isorynchophylline and so on.The water decoction has a certain antibacterial effect on Staphylococcus aureus and Salmonella typhi in vitro; it has a harmful effect on ascites cancer cells; catechin tannins can enhance capillary resistance; it can inhibit bladder stones in rats The role of formation.

See "Supplements to Materia Medica" for the vine.It is a leafy stem vine of Trachelospermum jasminoides (Lindl.) Lem., an evergreen climbing shrub in the family Apocynaceae.It is mainly produced in the southern provinces of my country and Henan, Shandong and other places.

[Synonym] Shilongteng, Lishicao, Guixiyao, Shishenli, Baihuateng, creeper, staghorn grass, Rufengsheng, along the wall rattan, stone plate rattan, soft tendon rattan, sucking wall rattan.

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

【Efficacy and Application】Expelling wind and dredging collaterals: for rheumatic arthralgia, spasms of tendons, unfavorable flexion and stretching and partial heat, often soaked in wine alone, or combined with honeysuckle, Qingfengteng, Shenjincao, angelica, salvia, frankincense, Myrrh, mulberry, etc.Relieve sore throat and eliminate carbuncle: for carbuncle sores, can be used in combination with frankincense, myrrh, saponins, etc., such as Zhitong Lingbao San ("Surgery Essentials"); for sore throat, decocted with water alone, slowly swallow.Cooling blood and reducing swelling: used for bruises, stasis, swelling and pain, can be used in the same way as peach kernel, safflower, Shenjincao, and Togucao.

Modern commonly used in rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatic fever, carbuncle furuncle, tonsillitis, pharyngitis, etc.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 6-9g; soak in wine or powder.External application: appropriate amount, ground into powder for applying; or smashed into juice for washing.

[Cautions for use] Contraindicated in patients with spleen and stomach deficiency and loose stools.

[Modern Research] Contains arctiin, stelloside, etc.The decoction has inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus, Shigella and Salmonella typhi in vitro.Arctiin can cause blood vessels to dilate and blood pressure to drop.

See "Handbook of Chinese Herbal Medicine in Xinjiang" for camel pomegranate.It is the whole plant of Peganum harmala L., a perennial herbaceous plant of Tribulus terrestae.Distributed in arid grasslands and saline-alkali wastelands in North China and Northwest China.

【Synonym】Bitter bitter vegetable, stinky grass, stinky peony, saponin peas.

[meridian distribution of property and flavor] pungent, bitter, flat.poisonous.Return lung, spleen channel.

【Efficacy and application】Cough and asthma relief: used for cough and asthma, decocted with water alone.Expelling wind and removing dampness: used for rheumatic arthralgia, appropriate amount of fresh grass, smashed for external application.Detoxification and killing insects: For nameless swelling and itching of the skin, simply wash the affected area with decoction.

Modern commonly used in acute and chronic bronchitis, rheumatoid arthritis and so on.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 3-6g.External application: appropriate amount, decocted for washing; or smashed for external application.

[Caution for use] This product is poisonous and should not be taken orally in excess. Excessive dose can cause dizziness, vertigo, nausea and vomiting. In severe cases, shortness of breath, rapid heartbeat, tremor of the whole body, and death from suffocation.

[Modern Research] Contains alkaloids, flavonoids, etc.Has anticancer effect.

See "Xinjiang Chinese Herbal Medicine" for camel poncho.It is the seed of Peganum harmala L., a plant of Tribulus terrestris.

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

【Efficacy and Application】Relieve cough and relieve asthma: For cough and asthma, use alone as powder, add some sugar or honey, and take it with boiled water.Expelling wind and dampness: For rheumatic arthralgia, use mashed oil to apply to the affected area.Relieve depression and soothe the nerves: for mental depression, palpitation and irritability, decocted or taken alone.

Modern commonly used in tracheitis, rheumatoid arthritis, hysteria.In addition, the ground powder is taken orally, and it can also treat esophageal cancer and gastric cancer.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 1.5~3g; grind into powder, 0.6~1.2g; or press oil.External application: Appropriate amount, pressed oil for painting.

[Caution for use] This product is poisonous and should not be taken orally in excess.

[Modern Research] Contains a variety of alkaloids, anthraquinones, flavonoids, etc.It has hypolipidemic, anti-arteriosclerosis, antibacterial and anti-cancer effects.

For Gynostemma pentaphyllum, see "Materia Medica for Rescuing Famines".It is the rhizome or whole plant of the perennial climbing herbaceous plant Gynostemma Pentaphllum (Thunb) Makin.Distributed in various provinces in southern my country.

[Synonym] Aescin gall, small bitter medicine, gong Luoguo bottom, rooting everywhere.

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

【Efficacy and application】Reinforcing the spleen and replenishing qi: used for deficiency of spleen and stomach qi, fatigue and weakness, and poor appetite. It can be used together with Atractylodes macrocephala and Poria cocos.Resolving phlegm and relieving cough: It is used for coughing, asthma and chest tightness caused by turbid phlegm in the lungs. It is often used with pinellia, orange red, poria cocos, melon, Tinglizi, and ginkgo.Supplementing Qi and activating blood circulation: used for qi deficiency and blood stasis, pleural stagnation caused by chest pain and heartache, often compatible with Danshen, Angelica, Chuanxiong, Chishao, Sappan, Calamus, etc.Producing body fluid and quenching thirst: used for thirst, thinness, and fatigue caused by deficiency of both qi and yin.Detoxification and dampness: used for hypochondrium pain caused by liver depression and dampness, often compatible with isatid root, capillary, gardenia, turmeric, poria, Cyperus cyperi, angelica, schisandra, etc.

Modern commonly used in chronic bronchitis, bronchiectasis, coronary heart disease, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, diabetes, chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer, acute and chronic cholecystitis, cholelithiasis, chronic hepatitis, vascular headache, etc.

[Usage and Dosage] Decoction: 15-30g; or powdered, 3-6g.

[Caution for use] A small number of patients have mild reactions such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal distension, diarrhea or constipation, dizziness, vertigo, tinnitus after taking it, but it does not affect the medication.

[Modern Research] Contains a variety of amino acids and trace elements, and contains dozens of saponins, of which 10 gypenosides are similar in structure to ginsenosides.Pharmacological research proves that this product has anti-tumor effect; it can lower blood fat, suppress obesity, anti-aging, has strong effect and anti-stress effect, can enhance immune function, and prevent side effects of glucocorticoids.Protects the liver, has ginsenoside-like effects on blood pressure and heart function, protects against myocardial infarction, and inhibits platelet aggregation.It has a certain preventive effect on fasting blood sugar in aged rats, can obviously improve the hypoglycemic tolerance of aged rats, and has sedative, analgesic and anti-ulcer effects.

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