plum scorch virus

white

(compendium)

[synonym] green calyx plum (compendium), green plum (Pharmacology).

[source] it is the flower bud of Prunus mume. The plant morphology is detailed in article.

[collection] from January to February, the budding buds were collected, spread on the mat and dried in the sun. It can be dried by charcoal fire in rainy days.

[medicinal material] the dried flower buds are spherical in shape, 4-8 mm in diameter, often with small stems at the base. Bracts 3-4-layered, brown scaly. There are 5 sepals in the bracts, light yellow brown, slightly green, oval, imbricate arrangement, base and receptacle healing. Petals 5 or many, white or yellow white, tightly clasped. The petals contain many yellow filamentous stamens. There is a pistil in the center, the ovary is oval and has a slender style. Light weight. It is fragrant, light and astringent. It is better for the flower to be neat, complete, not in bud, with green calyx and white flower and fragrant smell.

It is mainly produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places.

Those with red corolla are called red plum, similar to white plum in shape, but slightly larger than white plum, with light red corolla, double petals and reddish brown calyx. It is mainly produced in Sichuan, Hubei and other places. However, Prunus mume is mainly used as medicine, while Prunus mume is seldom used.

[chemical composition] the flower bud contains volatile oil, mainly benzaldehyde, isooleanol and benzoic acid.

[flavor] sour and astringent, flat.

① "Compendium": "slightly acid, astringent, non-toxic. "

② "Hundred grass mirror": "cold nature. "

③ "Food taboo": "sour, astringent, flat. "

④ "Yinpianxinshen": bitter and slightly sweet. "

[Guijing] Bencao Zaixin: "entering the liver and lung meridians. "

Functions and indications: Soothing the liver, harmonizing the stomach and resolving phlegm. It is used to treat Meihe Qi, liver and stomach qi pain, loss of appetite, dizziness and rash.

① "Primordial Materia Medica": "clear leader, benefit lung qi, remove phlegm and stagnate upper heat. "

② "Baicaojing": appetizing and dispersing depression. Cooking porridge helps clear Yang Qi. "

③ In the compendium of compendium, it is said that "calming the mind and calming the soul, relieving acne and poison. "

④ "Yinpianxinshen": "hongmeihua Qinggan Jieyu, treat headache; green calyx plum liver and stomach, zhiwantong, dizziness, into the diet. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.8-1.5 money; or into pills, powder. External use: application.

[selection] 1. Treatment of pharyngeal infarction (but without positive signs): two pieces of green calyx plum and two pieces of orange cake. Take it by frying. (manual of Chinese herbal medicine by Su Yi)

② Treatment of sores on the lips: white plum petal paste, such as cracking bleeding that stop. (xuanzhu in Chishui)

③ Treatment of scrofula: open a hole in the egg, put it into the green calyx, seven plum blossoms will open, seal it, steam it hot on the rice, eat the egg with plum blossom, one every day for seven days. (collection of compendium)

④ Pre sparse pox rash: in the early morning of December every year, pick 100 plum stamens with exposed green calyx, add sugar and pound them into small cakes to make them edible. (Wang Shigui's good prescription for no medicine)

⑤ The treatment of gangrene has not been out, can not afford not hair, hidden in the skin, and treatment of leprosy spots: Plum one or two, cinnabar, each two money, Luffa five money. For the end, each take five points, Shensu soup. (xuanzhu in Chishui)

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