Euphorbia

Euphorbia

(Ben Jing)

Xiama Fairy (compendium).

[source] it is the root of Euphorbiaceae or Rubiaceae.

[plant morphology] Euphorbia officinalis, also known as Qiaoer ya, qiongju, Longhu grass, jiutoushicao, Jingda Euphorbia, jiangjuncao, Zhangcao, Tianping yizhixiang, lishuilong, big Maoeryan, Huanghua Euphorbia, Huangya Euphorbia, qiancengta, soushanhu, chuanshanhu and Yiqi.

It is a perennial herb, 30-80cm high, with white milk in the whole plant. The roots are slender and conical. Stem erect, upper part branched, surface covered with white pubescence. Leaves simple, alternate; few sessile; oblong or lanceolate, 3-6 cm long, 6-12 mm wide, entire, slightly powdery below. A cup-shaped cyme, usually 5-branched, arranged in a compound umbel, with 5 leaflike bracts at the base; each branch is further branched for 2 to several times, with 4 or 2 nearly round bracts at the branches, opposite; both female and male flowers have no perianth, and the bracts at the base of the inflorescence are nearly kidney shaped; there are many male flowers in the calyx shaped involucre, with only 1 stamen per flower, and the filaments are thin columnar; there is 1 female flower in the center of the inflorescence, only 1 pistil, and the ovary is round, Style 3, apically divided, extending out of involucre and often drooping. Capsule triangular spherical, surface verrucous protuberance. Seeds ovoid, surface smooth, grayish brown. The flowering period is from April to May. The fruit period is from June to July.

It grows on roadside, hillside, wasteland and under shady forest. It is distributed in Northeast and East China, Hebei, Henan, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guangdong, Guangxi, etc.

② Euphorbia erythrophylla

Herbaceous perennial, 0.3-1 m high. The root tubers are usually 2-3, fusiform, reddish brown, brownish brown, 0.5-2 cm in diameter. The stem is erect, with few or no branches, branchlets with 2 rows of microvilli; stipules usually 4, connate with petiole, bristly. Leaves opposite; shortly stipitate or almost sessile; leaf blade oblong, linear lanceolate, 2-10 cm long, 0.5-3 cm wide, apex narrow or short acuminate, base cuneate, entire, sparsely pilose above, pubescent below, especially on veins. Flowers bisexual, purplish red or sometimes white, sessile; calyx 4-toothed; corolla tubular funnel-shaped, 2-3 mm long, throat densely hairy, apex 4-lobed; stamens 4, filaments linear, ca. 1 mm long, anthers oblong, yellow; ovary inferior, 2-locular, style slender, stigma 2-lobed. The fruit is ovate or elliptic with 4-8 edges. There are 2 seeds with plump petioles. The flowering period is from August to September and the fruiting period is from October to November.

It grows in the semi sunny land in the grass of low hillside. Distributed in Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet and other places.

[collection] before germination in spring, or when the stems and leaves wither in autumn, they are dug to remove the residual stems and fibrous roots, washed and dried.

(1) Euphorbia pekinensis

It is the dry root of Euphorbia officinalis. It is cylindrical or conical in shape, 16-20 cm long and 4 cm in diameter. Its surface is grayish brown to dark brown, rough and has lateral roots. Its top is usually expanded, with many round aboveground stem marks, tapering downward, with longitudinal straight furrows, transverse lenticels and branch root marks. It is hard and not easy to break. The fracture surface is fibrous, white to grayish brown. No gas, bitter taste. It is better that the root is even, tender and soft.

It is mainly produced in Jiangsu Province. In addition, it is also produced in Sichuan, Jiangxi and Guangxi.

② Red Euphorbia

It is the dry root of Euphorbia officinalis. Also known as: red hair Euphorbia, red bud Euphorbia, South Euphorbia. They are long conical to spindle shaped, mostly not divergent, occasionally divergent, 6-8-14 cm in length and 0.6-1 cm in diameter. The surface is grayish brown to reddish brown; there are many twisted wrinkles, sometimes transverse lenticels and branch root residues or branch root marks; there are stem marks on the top. It is hard and brittle, easy to break, with uneven cross section, reddish brown to brownish yellow. The taste is pungent and pungent. It is better to be big, plump, purple, solid and without fibrous roots.

Mainly produced in Guangxi, Guangdong, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places.

In addition, the root of Euphorbiaceae, Euphorbiaceae, is also used as Euphorbia in Xinjiang.

There are more than one species of Euphorbia recorded in Materia Medica, but most of them belong to Euphorbiaceae. Such as the Euphorbia officinalis described in Shu Ben Cao, Chuzhou Euphorbia officinalis and Bingzhou Euphorbia officinalis in Ben Cao Tu Jing, and the Euphorbia officinalis described in the textual research of plant names and facts are similar to Euphorbia officinalis. In addition, "Euphorbia officinalis" in "the book of Materia Medica" seems to be a leguminous plant; "Euphorbia officinalis" in "compendium" seems to be today's Euphorbia officinalis (see "Langdu" article); as for Euphorbia officinalis of Rubiaceae, it is not recorded in "Materia Medica", but it is the most widely used medicinal material of Euphorbia officinalis.

[processing] Euphorbia: remove impurities, wash with water, moisten thoroughly, cut into sections or slices, and dry in the sun. Vinegar Euphorbia: take section or slice of Euphorbia, add vinegar to soak and mix, put it in the pot, simmer until the vinegar is exhausted, then stir fry until slightly dry, take it out and dry in the sun. (100 Jin Euphorbia, 30-60 Jin vinegar)

① Lei Gong Paozhi Lun: "gather Euphorbia officinalis and file it on Huai anvil, steam it with taro leaves, remove taro leaves and dry it in the sun. "

② "Compendium": "all collected Euphorbia can be boiled soft with slurry water and dried in the sun. Taro leaves are poisonous and may not be used. "

③ Bencao tongxuan: "the Euphorbia is boiled soft with jujube, boneless and dried in the sun. "

[sexual taste]. Bitter, pungent, cold, poisonous.

① Ben Jing: "it tastes bitter and cold. "

② Bielu: "sweet, cold, little poison. "

③ "On medicinal properties": "it tastes bitter and pungent, and has great poison. "

[channel tropism] entering lung, spleen and kidney channels.

① "Into the kidney, liver. "

② "Into the liver, bladder. "

③ "To match the materia medica": "enter the three yin, foot Taiyang Jing. "

[function and indications] it can relieve water and Shen, and promote defecation. Treatment of edema, dropsy, phlegm, rash, carbuncle swelling poison.

① "Ben Jing": "the main twelve water, abdominal full of acute pain, accumulation, stroke, skin pain, vomiting. "

② "Bielu": "it is mainly used to treat carbuncle and swelling in neck and armpit, headache, sweating and benefiting the small intestine. "

③ According to the theory of medicinal properties, it is said that "the lower evil blood is addicted to block, the intra-abdominal thunder, the moon water, the good treatment of blood stasis, can abortion pregnancy. "

④ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "antidote, catharsis, yellow disease, warm malaria, break 100 Huang. "

⑤ "Ben Cao Tu Jing": "treating latent rash wind and wind toxin foot swelling. "

⑥ "Qi Yuan of medicine": "Xie Fei. "

⑦ "Ben Cao Zheng" says: "it's strong and sharp in nature. It's good at expelling pathogenic phlegm and saliva, purging dampness and distending heat. "

⑧ "Yaozheng": it is mainly used to promote diuresis, treat pain and cough. "

⑨ Modern practical Chinese medicine: "used for ascites of strong constitution, systemic edema. Pleural effusion. "

⑩ Zhejiang folk commonly used herbs: "insecticidal. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 coin; or into pills, powder. For external use; fumigation with boiling water.

[taboo] pregnant women with deficiency cold and Yin water should not take it. Use with caution if you are weak.

① "Anti Glycyrrhiza" in the book of Materia Medica. "

② On medicinal properties: "anti genkwa, seaweed. Poison, with Acorus calamus solution. "

③ Tang materia medica: "fear of Acorus calamus, reed grass, rat excrement. "

④ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Xiaodou is the envoy. Dioscorea zingiberensis. "

⑤ "The compendium of Chinese medicine" says: "if you get jujube, it will not damage the spleen. "

⑥ "This Jing meets the original": "spleen and stomach, liver and kidney deficiency cold, Yin water flooding, committed by the immediate death, not without trial. "

[prescription selection] 1. To treat edema: take a bucket of jujube, put water into the pot, with four fingers on it, cover it with Euphorbia and root seedlings, combine it in a pot, cook it to a certain degree, remove Euphorbia, do not use it, spin it and eat it all the time. (living method tips)

② Cure whole body swollen full wheezing, urine astringent: Euphorbia (peeled, finely cut, delicate) two liang, ginger (gun) half Liang. The upper two ingredients are daoluo powder. Take three daggers each time, and adjust them with ginger soup. For a long time, you can drink glutinous rice to make it convenient. (Daji powder in Shengji Zonglu)

③ Treatment of water swelling: Euphorbia one or two, guangmuxiang half two. At the end of the day, Wu Geng wine served for one and a half yuan, took down the clear water, and then filled it with porridge. Avoid salty things. (compendium)

④ The treatment of the sun stroke, under the Li Ou inverse, the solution is not and. People? Sweating, sometimes attacks, headache, heart distension, full of Jing, cause hypochondriac pain, retching, shortness of breath, sweating, not averse to cold: genkwa (boil), kansui, Euphorbia. The first three ingredients are divided into three equal parts, each of which is pounded into powder. Take one liter and a half of water, first boil ten pieces of jujube fat, take eight ingredients, remove the dross, take the medicine powder, take one money dagger for the strong, take half money for the weak, take it for the warm, and take Pingdan. If you can't get rid of a few diseases, you'll have to take it tomorrow. If you add half a dollar, you'll have to make a quick profit and then eat porridge to support yourself. (Shizao Decoction in Treatise on Febrile Diseases)

⑤ Treat ascites to swell full, two then impassable: big halberd 3 minutes, morning glory son one money 5 minutes, red jujube 5. Take it in water. (Xinjiang Chinese herbal medicine manual)

⑥ The treatment of sudden chest back, hands and feet, neck, waist and crotch pain can not bear, even muscle traction fishing pain, restless, easy to walk from time to time: kansui (heartless), purple Euphorbia (peeled), white mustard (real) each equal. On the end, boil paste pills such as Wuzi big. After eating lie, ginger soup or cooked underwater five, seven pills to ten pills, such as phlegm fierce gas solid, add the number of pills may as well. (San Yin Fang's saliva controlling pill)

⑦ Treatment of jaundice small water impassable: Euphorbia one or two, Artemisia two or two. Water immersion empty heart suit. (Ben Cao Hui Yan)

⑧ Treatment of warm malaria, cold and hot abdominal distension: five pieces of Euphorbia, three pieces of pinellia, one piece of guangpi and three pieces of ginger. Two large bowls of water, fried seven minutes. (Fang Mai Zheng Zong)

⑨ Treatment of advanced schistosomiasis: the fresh roots of Euphorbia pekinensis are washed, dried and powdered. Take it three minutes a day. Swallow it with boiling water one hour after breakfast. The total dose is about four to five grams. At the same time, warm moxibustion for 30 minutes and oral administration of Salvia miltiorrhiza mixture (Salvia miltiorrhiza Wuqian, Verbena Wuqian) were used to reduce the size of liver and spleen. Salt must be taboo during treatment. (Zhejiang

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