Bujie

Bujie

(new selection of practical Chinese herbal medicine in Guangxi)

[alias] tiger ear and sharp tail taro (new selection of practical Chinese herbal medicine in Guangxi), one legged lotus, guanyinlian and yam (commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Sichuan), tiger taro, small insect taro and Stellera chamaejasme (list of medicinal plants in Guangxi), sharp tail taro and sharp tail wind (main poisonous plants in South China).

[source] it is the rhizome of Araceae.

[plant morphology] pseudoalocasia esculenta

Perennial evergreen herbs. The rhizome is stout and fleshy. The stem height can reach more than 1 meter. Leaves alternate, broadly ovate, 15-40 cm long and 10-18 cm wide, apex acuminate, base slightly concave, entire, veins convex on both sides, dark green above and bright green below; petiole fleshy, dark green, 30-90 cm long, both sides of the lower part of the petiole extended into sheath. The inflorescence is solitary; the flower is small, yellow white, unisexual; the spathe is fleshy, 15-30 cm long, 5-10 cm long, the upper part is narrow navicular, the side is circumflex, the spathe is shorter than the spathe; the male flower is in the upper part, and the stamens are connected to form a hexagonal monomer; the neutral flower is in the middle part; the female flower is in the lower part, and the ovary is 1-locular. The berries are light red. The flowering period is from June to July. The fruiting period is August.

Next to the village and the ditch. It is distributed in the South and southeast of China and cultivated in Sichuan.

[collection] it can be harvested all year round.

[chemical composition] it contains calcium oxalate and saponin.

[processing] scrape off the outer hair and black skin and cut them into strips. Add 1.2 ~ 1.6 liang of salt to each kilogram, stir fry until it is gray and blue, water and air dry, and there is no white heart in the middle of the broken section, then remove the salt crumbs.

[nature and taste] new selection of Guangxi practical Chinese herbal medicine: "slightly bitter, cold, toxic. "

[function indications] detoxification, antipyretic, detumescence and Sanjie. Treatment of leptospirosis, snakebite, scrofula, all swollen poison at the beginning.

① New selection of Guangxi practical Chinese herbal medicine: "detoxification, antipyretic, detumescence and analgesia. Treatment of high fever, snakebite, tuberculosis, influenza, enteric typhoid, cellulitis, nameless swelling poison, bee sting. "

② "Sichuan commonly used Chinese herbal medicine": "detoxification, Sanjie. For the treatment of scrofula, furuncle and all poisonous sores. "

③ "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "rhizome: treatment of chronic osteomyelitis, leptospirosis, Tang HUOSHANG; leaf: treatment of toxic sores. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-3 yuan (1-2 Liang fresh, to be processed, should be fried for more than 2 hours to avoid poisoning). External use: tamping.

[clinical application] ① treatment of leptospirosis

Use half a catty of fresh potherb mustard root, peel and slice, add a little salt, fry dry, add 1000 ml water, fry into 250 ml, for 1 day, 2 times. Each tablet is equivalent to 11 grams of crude medicine. Adults take 9-12 tablets every day, three times. Children should take less until they recover. 103 cases were treated, the cure rate was 93.20%. Except for pulmonary hemorrhage, other types of body temperature returned to normal in 2.2 days. In the course of treatment, only a small number of patients have side effects such as nausea, vomiting, itchy throat, etc.

② Treatment of snakebite

Peel off the root tuber, slice it, add a little salt, stir fry it, dry it, grind it into powder, put it into capsule (3 points per capsule), or make it into sugar coated tablet (0.3 g per tablet). For adults, three to four tablets or one capsule three times a day. Critically ill patients can take it once every half an hour, and take it once every hour after 8 times. Later, depending on the condition of the disease, the administration time was gradually extended, once every 2-4 hours, until the symptoms disappeared. The dosage should be reduced in children. 100 cases were treated, including 21 cases of hemolytic type, 4 cases of neurotoxic type and 75 cases of mixed type. Except for one case who was bitten by Bungarus multicinctus for 9 hours, 99 cases were cured. The shortest time of taking medicine was 3 days, the total amount was 10.8 g; the longest time was 34 days, the total amount was 145.8 G. Among them, 4 cases had severe hemolytic symptoms and were treated with integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine. Bujie has certain curative effect on snake bite of blood circulation toxin type, mixed toxin type and neurotoxin type, especially on patients bitten by Agkistrodon acutus, Naja naja atra and green bamboo leaf snake. On the basis of the above clinical application, the dosage was increased to 8 tablets for adults and 4 tablets for children.

③ Prevention of paddy field dermatitis

Beat 20 catties of Pu mustard, mix with 5 catties of lime, add water to soak the medicine surface, filter and remove the residue after 3 days, and wipe the soaked parts of limbs with the medicine solution before going to the field.

Chinese PinYin : Bo Jie