Adzuki Beans

Adzuki Beans

(Ben Jing)

[synonyms] Yidou (rihuazi materia medica), Hongdou (compendium), hongxiaodou (original materia medica), xiaohongmungbean, loubeidou (Luchuan materia medica), zhuchidou (Handbook of Chinese herbal medicine), jinhongxiaodou and zhuxiaodou (Pharmacology).

[source] seeds of adzuki bean or adzuki bean.

[plant morphology] 1. Chixiaodou, also known as zhuganchi, duchidou, michidou, maochaichi and Michi.

Annual semi climbing herb. The stem is 1.8 meters long and densely covered with inverted hairs. 3 compound leaves, petiole 8-16 cm long; stipules lanceolate or ovate lanceolate; 3 leaflets, lanceolate, oblong lanceolate to ovate lanceolate, 6-10 cm long, 2-6 cm wide, apex acuminate, base broadly triangular or suborbicular, entire or 3-lobed, glabrous on both sides, only veins sparsely hairy, papery, veins 3-branched, petiolate. Raceme axillary, many florets, petioles very short; bracteoles 2, lanceolate linear, ca. 5 mm long, hairy; calyx short campanulate, calyx teeth 5; corolla butterfly shaped, yellow, flag kidney shaped, apical central concave, base heart-shaped, wing oblique ovate, base with narrower claws, keel narrow, angular; stamens 10, two body, anthers small; ovary superior, densely short Style linear. The pods are linear oblate and cylindrical, with 6-10 seeds, dark purple, oblong, round at both ends, straight and concave hilum. The flowering period is from May to August. The fruit period is from August to September.

Cultivated or wild. It is distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi and Shanghai suburbs.

② Adzuki bean, also known as red rice bean.

Annual erect herb, 30-90 cm high. There are bristles on the stem. 3-compound; stipules linear, white villous; leaflets ovate to rhombic ovate, 5-10 cm long, 3.5-7 cm wide, apex acuminate or acuminate, base triangular or suborbicular, entire or very shallowly 3-lobed, both surfaces sparsely hairy. There are 2-6 flowers on the top of the axillary pedicel; the shape of the butterfly flower is the same as that of the previous seed; the pod is oblate and tubular, contracted between the seeds, glabrous; there are 6-10 seeds, dark red, rectangular, truncate or round at both ends, and the hilum is not concave. The flowering period is from June to July. The fruit period is from July to August.

It is widely cultivated all over the country.

The leaves (adzuki bean leaves), flowers (adzuki bean flowers) and germinated seeds (adzuki bean sprouts) of the above two plants are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special provisions for each.

[collection] in summer and autumn, the mature pods were picked in batches, dried in the sun, seeded, and then dried.

[medicinal materials] ① adzuki bean: the dried seeds are slightly cylindrical and slightly flat, 5-7 mm in length and 3 mm in diameter. The seed coat is reddish brown or purple brown, smooth and slightly glossy. The navel is linear and white, about 2 / 3 of the total length. The middle part is concave into a longitudinal groove, leaning to one end, and there is an inconspicuous ridge on the back. Hard, not easy to break, remove the seed coat, visible two milky white in the kernel. It's weak in breath and has a beany smell. It's better to be dry, full grain, red and dark.

Mainly produced in Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi and other places.

② Red bean: also known as rice red bean. The seed coat is reddish brown or slightly light, smooth and glossy. The hilum is located at the upper end of the lateral margin, white, not prominent or concave. Other characters are similar to those of adzuki bean.

It is produced in most parts of the country.

The quality of adzuki bean was the best, but the supply was limited, and Adzuki Bean gradually replaced it.

[chemical composition] it contains 20.7 G protein, 0.5 g fat, 58 g carbohydrates, 4.9 g crude fiber, 3.3 g ash, 67 mg calcium, 305 mg phosphorus, 5.2 mg iron, 0.31 mg thiamine, 0.11 mg riboflavin and 2.7 mg nicotinic acid per 100 g.

[nature and taste] sweet and sour, flat.

① Health preserving Essentials: "bitter taste, warm taste. "

② Bielu: "sweet acid, flat, non-toxic. "

③ Qianjin Shizhi: "sweet, salty, flat, non-toxic. "

④ "Eating Materia Medica": "slightly cold. "

⑤ "Tang Ye Ben Cao": "temperature, sweet and sour taste, non-toxic. "

[Guijing] into the heart and small intestine.

① "The classic of entering the heart". "

② New edition of materia medica: "entering the spleen meridian. "

③ "Depei Materia Medica": "start with Shaoyin and Taiyang scriptures. "

④ New materia medica: "entering the heart and lung meridians. "

[function indications] diuresis and dehumidification, and blood discharge pus, detumescence and detoxification. Treatment of edema, beriberi, jaundice, diarrhea, hematochezia, carbuncle.

① "Ben Jing": "the main water, row carbuncle abscess blood. "

② Bielu: "it can control cold and heat, heat, thirst, stop catharsis, facilitate urination, vomit, stroke, and distension. "

③ "Theory of medicinal properties": "removing heat and toxin, carbuncle and swelling, dispersing evil blood, endless, full of trouble. It can cure edema, skin and muscle fullness, apply thin to carbuncle swelling, treat children's acute yellow and rotten sores, take juice to make them wash, make people delicious, apply heat toxin and carbuncle swelling with chicken powder, ventilate and strengthen spleen and stomach. "

④ "Food therapy Materia Medica" says: "it can be used to treat beriberi and abdominal edema; it can disperse Qi, remove arthrosis and heat, make people open their heart and stop urination; it can also be used for those who are green and red. After profiteering, you can't eat when you are full of gas. Take it after cooking. "

⑤ Shu materia medica: "wine is hot, drink juice. "

⑥ "Eating Materia Medica" and "strengthening muscles and bones, treating water and Qi, relieving heat toxin of wheat". "

⑦ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "red bean powder can cure vexation, relieve heat and toxin, discharge pus and nourish blood. "

⑧ "Compendium": "to prevent epidemic febrile diseases, to treat difficult childbirth, to lower the afterbirth, to pass the milk. "

⑨ New materia medica: "clearing away heat and blood, promoting diuresis and dredging channels, widening intestines and regulating qi. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.3-1 Liang; or powder. External use: Sheng Yan Tiao Fu.

[taboo] 1. Tao Hongjing: "it's boring to eat for a long time. "

② "Eating Materia Medica": "eating thin people for a long time. "

③ According to the diet of suixiju: "snake bites should be avoided within a hundred days. "

[prescription selection] ① treatment of edema, sitting and lying, swelling of head, face and body: burn mulberry branches, drench juice, cook red beans, empty food to make full, eat when you are hungry, do not eat. (Mei Shi Ji Yi Fang)

② Treatment of apoplectic ascites disease: a handful of Imperata root, three liters of adzuki bean, boiled dry, to eat beans, water with urine. (behind the elbow)

③ Treat edema from the feet, into the abdomen then kill: red beans a liter, cook very rotten, take juice four or five liters, temperature stains below the knee; if already into the abdomen, but take beans, do not omnivorous. (duxingfang)

④ Treatment of beriberi: five red beans, a gourd, ginger (and broken), a root of Phytolacca acinosa (cut). Boiled with water, bean rotten soup, suitable for cold and warm, go to Hu, chew beans, eat it on an empty stomach, spin and sip the juice. (Ben Cao Tu Jing)

⑤ For the treatment of beriberi, shortness of breath, astringent defecation, swelling of the whole body, swelling of both feet and turning into water: half a liter of red bean, two liang of mulberry root and white skin (roasted, filed), one grip of Perilla stem and leaf (filed, baked). In addition to beans, mash is the last of the three flavors. Take one bean and boil it with five cups of water. Remove the beans and take two and a half cups of juice. Add four daggers and one portion of ginger at the end of the medicine. Smash it and fry it until one and a half cups are hollow and warm. Then take the beans and eat them at will. (red bean soup in Shengji Zonglu)

⑥ The treatment of typhoid fever, blood stasis and heat in the interior, the body will be yellow: Mahuang two Liang (to section), lianyao two liang, Chixiaodou one liter, almond forty (peeled, pointed), jujube twelve (broken), Shengzi white skin (cut) one liter, ginger two Liang (cut), licorice two Liang (fried). On the eight flavor, with a bucket of water, first boil ephedra and then boil, to the foam, take the medicine, boil three liters, to dross, temperature three service, half a day to take. (Mahuang lianyao Chixiaodou Decoction in Treatise on Febrile Diseases)

⑦ Treat yellow body like gold: red beans one or two, clove one cent, millet one cent, melon half cent, smoked Lu Xiang one money, green cloth five inches (burning ash), musk one money (careful research). Apply the medicine and pound it into powder. Grind it evenly. Regardless of the time of each service, drink porridge to adjust the next money; if you use a little blowing nose, the current yellow water. (shenghuifang Chixiaodou powder)

⑧ Treatment of intestinal hemorrhoids stool often blood: adzuki bean 1 liter, bitter wine 5 liters, boiled beans cooked, out of dry, fu na sake, waiting for wine to stop, at the end. Three times a day. (behind the elbow)

⑨ Treatment of heat poison under the blood, or due to hot food launch: red bean pestle powder, water regulation under inch dagger. (Mei Shi Ji Yi Fang)

⑩ The first treatment of gangrene: vinegar application of bean powder, also disappear. (xiaopinfang)

(11) treatment of large and small intestinal carbuncle, caused by dampness heat qi stagnation and blood stasis: adzuki bean, coix seed, Fangji, licorice, decoction. (red bean Coix Decoction in the shortcut of yangke)

(12) for the treatment of children's Tianhuo pill, there are red like Danse in the meat, big like hands, even all over the body, or pain or itching or swelling: red bean two liters. At the end, the chicken white and such as thin mud application, dry is easy. All Dan use this prescription. (Qian Jin Fang)

Treatment of cheek heat swelling: red bean powder and honey coated, or add lotus leaf powder. (compendium)

(14) treatment of children with heavy tongue: red bean powder, vinegar and apply on the tongue. (Qian Jin Fang)

The treatment of sudden bleeding on the tongue, such as hairpin hole: a liter of beans, pestle broken, three liters of water, and stir juice drink. (behind the elbow)

(16) milk: Boil red beans to drink. (Chan Shu Fang)

Xizhi women's milk blowing: red bean wine research, warm, to apply the dross. (supplement to the good prescription)

(18) treatment of wind pruritus addiction rash: red beans, Schizonepeta tenuifolia, etc. are divided into powder, and chicken seeds are applied in a clear way. (compendium)

(19) treatment of meat poisoning of six animals: burn one liter of adzuki bean, take three inch dagger. (Qian Jin Fang)

[clinical application] ① treatment of mumps

Take 50-70 red beans, grind them into fine powder, mix them with warm water, egg white or honey to form a thin paste, spread them on cloth and apply them on the affected area. Generally, the swelling can be reduced at one time. Treatment 7

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