August letters

August letters

(yinpianxinshen)

[alias] Yan chuzi (Meng Shen), mu chuzi, Na Zi (materia medica gleanings), Luo? Zi (herbivorous materia medica), Fu Zi (rihuazi materia medica), Zi (materia medica Huiyan), August melon (classified herbal medicine), August fried (Nanjing folk herbs), wild egg (Anhui herbs), lengfanbao (Zhejiang traditional Chinese medicine manual), wild banana (Jiangsu Zhi Yao Zhi), yangkaikou Yuzhizi (records of traditional Chinese Medicine), lagua (Hunan).

[source] the fruits of Akebia, Akebia trifoliata and Akebia.

[plant morphology] 1

Deciduous or semi evergreen twining vines, up to 3 m high. Branches gray, striated, lenticel protuberant. Palmate compound leaves, usually 3-5 leaves clustered at the end of branches, or alternate; petiole slender; 5 leaflets, leathery, elliptic, 3-6 cm long, 1.5-2.6 cm wide, apex round and slightly concave, with a thin short tip, base broadly cuneate or circular, entire, slightly pink below. Flowers monoecious, raceme axillary, about 10 cm long; flowers purple; female flowers 1-2 in the lower part of inflorescence, bracts linear lanceolate, perianth 3, wide elliptic, obtuse, staminode 6, pistil 6, cylindric, ovary 1-locular, stigma capitate; male flowers densely in the upper part of inflorescence, smaller, bracteoles, perianth 3, stamen 6, filament flat, anther 2-locular, pistil 3 or 4. Cyanine Podlike berry, long tubular, rounded at both ends, 8 cm long and 3 cm wide, purple when heated, dehiscent along abdominal suture. Seeds black, many, ovate oblong, slightly flat, glossy. The flowering period is from April to June. The fruit is hot in August.

It grows in mountains and forests. It is distributed in Henan, Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Shaanxi and other places.

② Akebia trifoliata

Both liana and deciduous are hairless. Leaflets ovate, broadly ovate or long ovate, apex obtuse, slightly concave or acuminate, base rounded or broadly cuneate, sometimes slightly heart-shaped, margin lobed or undulate, lateral veins usually 5-6 pairs; petiole thin, 6-8 cm long. Inflorescence racemose, axillary, ca. 8 cm long; flowers unisexual; male flowers in upper part, stamens 6; female perianth purplish red, with 6 staminodes, carpels separated, 3-12. The fruit is succulent, long ovate and dehiscent along the abdominal suture after ripening; the seeds are mostly ovate and black.

On hillsides, thickets or furrows. Distributed in Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Hubei and other places.

③ Baimutong

The morphology of this variety is similar to Akebia trifoliata, but the leaflets are complete and the texture is thick. See the "wooden link" bar.

The roots, stems and seeds of the above three plants are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] the fruits are picked and dried when they are ripe from August to September, or soaked in boiling water and dried in the sun.

[medicinal material] the dried fleshy berry is ovoid cylindrical, slightly curved, 3-8 cm long, 2.5-3.5 cm in diameter, blunt at the top, with fruit stalk mark at the base. The surface is light yellowish brown to earthy brown, wrinkled, and the wrinkles are thick and sparse in mature ones, and small and dense in immature ones. Pericarp thick, leathery or slightly horny. Most of the seeds are covered in flocculent pulp, irregular in shape, round, oblong or oval, slightly flat, reddish brown or brownish black in appearance, glossy, fine wrinkles. The flesh is slightly fragrant, astringent and light. It is better to be fat and wrinkled.

Produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Shaanxi and other places.

In Tibet, it is the fruit of wufengteng, a plant of the same family; in Sichuan, it is also the fruit of the narrow leaf August melon.

[processing] wash, soak, moisten, slice and dry, or wash and dry, mash when using.

Sweet and cold.

① Meng Shen: "Ping. "

② "Edible Materia Medica": "cold, non-toxic. "

③ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it is warm and mild in nature, bitter, astringent and pungent in taste, and non-toxic. "

Functions and indications: Soothing the liver and regulating qi, promoting blood circulation and relieving pain, eliminating trouble and diuresis. Treatment of liver and stomach pain, stomach heat, food stupidity, thirst, dysentery, lumbago, hypochondriac pain, hernia, cave menstruation, uterine drop.

① Cui Yuxi's "the book of food" said: "when you eat it, you can remove the water and stop the red and white. "

② Meng Shen: "thick stomach, people can eat, under the triple energizer, in addition to evil, and son of food is better. "It connects the twelve meridians. "

③ In the collection of materia medica: "it can promote defecation and defecation, relieve heat, relieve thirst and lower Qi. "

④ "Eating Materia Medica": "the main appetite heat closed, regurgitation do not eat, in addition to three coke guest heat. "

⑤ "Materia medica Huiyan": "it can be boiled with honey to prevent mouth dysentery. "

⑥ Nanjing folk herbal medicine: "treating lumbago. "

⑦ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "soothe the liver, absorb the kidney qi. For bladder hernia and hematemesis. "

⑧ "Materia Medica": benefit Qi, promote blood circulation, kill insects, detoxify and relieve pain. For liver and stomach qi pain, hypochondriac pain, menstrual pain and other diseases. "

⑨ Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "soothing the liver and kidney, strengthening the spleen and stomach. Treatment of dyspepsia, abdominal pain, diarrhea, hernia, uterine drop. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0. 5-1 Liang; or soaked in wine.

[selection] 1. Treatment of lymphatic tuberculosis: 4 liang in August, 4 liang in August and 8 Liang in Haijin. The decoction is taken in three days. (manual of Chinese herbal medicine by Su Yi)

② Treatment of gastrointestinal distension: Akebia root or fruit one or two, decoction. (Zhejiang folk herbs)

[clinical application] treatment of ureteral calculi

Take 2 liang wax gourd and 2 liang Shizhu, add 6 bowls of water, fry them into 2 bowls, remove the dregs, add sugar, take them twice. In 30 cases, 19 cases were cured (stone discharge, symptoms disappeared, stone shadow disappeared on X-ray film), 2 cases were improved (stone position decreased significantly), 9 cases were invalid (stone position unchanged). The total effective rate was 70%, and the stone removal rate was 63.3%. In order to accelerate the excretion of ureteral calculi, new needles (Sanyinjiao, yinlingquan, Shenshu) can be used regularly, oral administration of 654-2 (anisodamine), dihydroketonuria plug, drinking a large amount of water and strengthening activities can be taken to promote the excretion of ureteral calculi. 20 cases were treated, 10 cases were cured, 5 cases were improved and 5 cases were invalid. The effective rate was 75% and the stone removal rate was 50%. If ureteral calculi complicated with urinary tract infection, ureteral mucosal edema, in addition to the above comprehensive measures, can be added in the wax gourd, urine bead formula, each 5 money. 15 cases were treated, 12 cases were cured, 3 cases were invalid, and the stone removal rate was 80%.

When the colic of ureteral calculi occurs, it indicates that the position of the calculi has moved. At this time, comprehensive measures can accelerate the removal of the calculi; sometimes these comprehensive measures must be repeatedly used in order to play a role. For patients complicated with hypertension, they can take anti hypertensive drugs at the same time of taking wax gourd and niaoli decoction. After the blood pressure returns to normal, they can take comprehensive measures regularly. Generally, the stone diameter is less than 1 cm, the possibility of stone removal is greater.

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