garlic

Garlic bulbus Allii

(notes to the classic of Materia Medica)

Another name: Hu Suan (Cui Bao's ancient and modern notes), Hu (BIE Lu), Du Suan (Puji Fang), Du tou Suan (back of the elbow).

[source] the bulb of garlic, a Liliaceae plant.

[plant morphology] garlic

Perennial herb with strong garlic odor. The bulb is large, with 6-10 petals, covered with grayish white or light brown tunica. Leaves basal, solid, flat, linear lanceolate, about 2.5 cm wide, base sheath. The flower stem is erect, about 60 cm high; the spathe has a long beak, 7-10 cm long; the umbel is small and dense, with 1-3 bracts, 8-10 cm long, membranous, light green; the flower is small, with light red bulbils, 4 mm long, or no bulbils at all; the petiole is thin, longer than the flower; the perianth is 6, pink, elliptic lanceolate; the stamen is 6, white, the anther is prominent; the pistil is 6, white, the anther is prominent 1. Style prominent, white, ovary superior, long elliptic ovate, apex concave, 3-locular. Capsule, 1-locular, dehiscent. The seeds are black. It blooms in summer.

It is cultivated all over the country

The leaves (Allium sativum L.) and flower stems (Allium sativum L.) of this plant are also used for medicine.

[collection] in June, when the leaves are dry, they should be dug to remove the sediment, ventilated and dried or baked until the skin is dry.

[herbal medicine] the bulb is oblate or short conical, with grayish white or light brown membranous scales on the outside; there are 6-10 garlic petals in the peeled leaves, which are around the flower stem; the base of the stem is discoid, with many fibrous roots. Each garlic petal is covered with a thin film, and the white, thick and juicy scales can be seen after peeling off the film. It has a strong garlic smell and a pungent taste.

All over the country.

[flavor] pungent, warm.

① Bielu: "it tastes pungent, warm and poisonous. "

② Yilin zuanyao: "Xingan, hot. "

③ "Suixiju diet spectrum": "health Xin, hot; ripe Gan, warm. "

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

① In the Compendium: "entering Taiyin and Yangming. "

② "Into the Foot Yangming, Taiyin, Jueyin meridians. "

Functions and indications: promoting qi stagnation, warming spleen and stomach, eliminating accumulation, detoxifying and killing insects. It is used to treat food stagnation, abdominal cold pain, edema, diarrhea, dysentery, malaria, pertussis, carbuncle, swelling and poison, alopecia, tinea vulgaris, snakebite.

It can eliminate accumulation of Qi, kill insects and detoxify. For cold, bacillary dysentery, amoebic dysentery, enteritis, food stagnation, carbuncle and sore.

① Bielu: "dispersing carbuncle, swelling chest sore, eliminating wind evil, killing poison gas. "

② "Tang Materia Medica": "the lower Qi dissipates the valley, and the wind breaks the cold. "

③ "Dietotherapy Materia Medica": "eliminate wind, kill insects. "

④ In the collection of materia medica: "to eliminate the evil miasma of water, to eliminate the rheumatism, to break the cold air, to suppress the evil, to promote the circulation, to warm and to replenish, to treat the sores and tinea. "

⑤ "Rihuazi materia medica:" invigorate the spleen, treat kidney qi, stop cholera, abdominal pain, remove pathogenic factors, remove temperature, treat malaria, cold wind, tinea, warm epidemic Qi, apply wind to damage cold pain, snake and insect injury, and tamp it. "

⑥ "Daily use Materia Medica": "dry spleen and stomach, meat. "

⑦ "Diannan Materia Medica": "dispelling cold phlegm, invigorating yang, discharging essence, relieving water poison. "

⑧ "Compendium of Medical Sciences" includes "daozhiyin for hematemesis and heartache; zhuzhiyin for catarrh; tongjiyu pill for diaphragmatic Qi; tonggefen pill for edema; tonghuangdan pill for dysentery, malaria, pregnancy dysentery; tongruxiang pill for abdominal pain; daogao for umbilicus can reach lower Jiao, eliminate water and facilitate defecation; sticking to the heart can induce heat downward, treat diarrhea, severe shoulder, dry and wet cholera, stop bleeding; taking it into anus can pass pylorus and treat dysentery All right. "

⑨ "Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine records": "treatment of tuberculosis, blood dysentery, and collapse in the belt. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decocted soup, 1.5 ~ 3 yuan; raw food, simmered food or mashed mud as pills. External use: tamping, suppository or slice moxibustion.

[should avoid] those with Yin deficiency and excessive fire, eye disease, mouth disease, throat disease, tongue disease and current disease should not eat.

① "The classic of Materia Medica" says: "those who have heat in the lung and stomach, fire in the liver and kidney, Qi deficiency and weak blood should not touch their lips. "

② "This Jing meets the original": "beriberi, wind disease in time, after the disease to avoid food. "

③ "Suixiju diet spectrum": "Yin deficiency, internal heat, fetal birth, Sha pox, seasonal diseases, sores, malaria, blood syndrome, eye diseases, mouth, throat and other diseases should be avoided. "

[prescription selection] 1. To treat cold pain in the heart and abdomen: soak garlic in vinegar for two or three years, and eat several. (Linhu jijianfang)

② Cure night cry abdominal pain, face green, cold syndrome: garlic (simmer, research, dry day), frankincense 5 points. Pound, pill, mustard seed big. Take seven pills each time, and drink milk. (Shi Yi Di Xiao Fang)

③ Cure water gas swollen full: garlic, snail, plantain, etc. Boil cream, spread paste navel, water from then swirling down. (history of barnyard grass)

④ Rule swelling: garlic, into the dead black fish belly, wet paper package, fire simmer cooked, with food. Avoid pepper, salt, onion, sauce. Eat more and heal yourself. (food materia medica by Yao Kecheng)

⑤ Treat the foot and turn the tendon: grind the heart of the foot with garlic to make it hot. (the wonderful recipe for life)

⑥ For the treatment of cold malaria, the hands and feet tremble, the heart is cold and the face is green: a single garlic, half a pair of yellow pills. On the drug phase and, with a thousand pestle, the ball as big as black beans. When not, take two pills with tea. (Xiji recipe garlic pill)

⑦ Treatment of malaria: single headed garlic, burned on white carbon, at the end, take Fangcun dagger. (behind the elbow)

⑧ Treatment of crab poisoning: dry garlic juice drink. (Yao Seng Tan's collected prescriptions)

⑨ Treatment of visceral poison: the end of Rhizoma Coptidis, with a single garlic, simmer fragrant thoroughly, research and into the mortar treatment pills, such as Wuzi big. Take 30 or 40 pills each time, and drink with rice. (suanlian Wan in Benshi Fang)

⑩ To cure epistaxis, we should not take medicine: peel a piece of garlic, grind it like mud, make a big cake of money, thick as a bean, with left nose bleeding, stick it to the left foot heart, right nose bleeding, stick it to the right foot heart, both noses come out, stick it to it. (brief aid to all)

(11) treatment of epistaxis, hemoptysis, hematemesis and hematuria. Two garlic, mash into mud, divide into two parts. One was wrapped in eight layers of hemp paper and placed in Baihui acupoint. The other was wrapped with seven layers of hemp paper, placed at Yongquan acupoint, and then heated with hot iron. (selected materials of new medical treatment of Chinese herbal medicine, Inner Mongolia)

(12) treatment of tuberculosis: fresh garlic, one or two heads at a time. After smashing, take a deep breath to absorb its volatile gas, twice a day, one to three hours each time. (selected materials of Liaoning new Chinese herbal medicine treatment exhibition)

⒀ treatment of children with pertussis: garlic five money, brown sugar two money, a little ginger. Take it in water, several times a day, depending on your age. (prescription of traditional Chinese medicine in Guizhou)

(14) treatment of brain leak and nasopharynx: slice garlic and stick it to the heart of the foot. (pick Yuan Fang)

For the treatment of gold sores and apoplexy, Jiao Gong Zhang: one liter of garlic, breaking the heart, four liters of ashless wine, boiling garlic to make it rotten, and taking one liter of it, you will sweat like rain in a moment. (Meng Shen's Bi Xiao Fang)

(16) treatment of infantile umbilical wind: single head garlic, slice, put on the navel, moxibustion, and stop when there is garlic gas in the mouth. (on simple formulas)

To treat the back gangrene, swelling and headless (use wet paper to stick the swelling, but a little dry first, it is the sore head): use ten garlic, half black bean sauce, and frankincense. Grind the sores, place them on the sores and spread them with moxibustion. Moxibustion will make the sores painless, and moxibustion will make the sores painless. (Essentials of surgery)

(18) cure all swelling and poisons: mash three or four single headed garlic, add sesame oil and grind them, paste them thick on the swelling, and then dry them easily. (compilation of food materia medica)

(19) treatment of neurodermatitis: appropriate amount of garlic, mashed, wrapped with gauze, external application of the affected area. In addition, moxibustion with moxa stick separated from garlic until the pain, once every other day. (selected materials for investigation of unilateral and verified prescriptions)

Treatment of women's Yin swelling itching: Garlic Soup wash, the effect is to stop. (Yonglei qianfang)

(21) to cure centipede bite, the pain is not only: garlic, rub the sting, the pain stops. (Mei Shi Ji Yi Fang)

[clinical application] ① treatment of bacillary dysentery

Garlic has inhibitory effect on Shigella dysenteriae, and the clinical effect is also obvious. Usage: one enema method: first, wash the intestines with 500-800 ml of normal saline, then add 100 ml of 10% garlic extract heated to 37-38 ℃ by water bath, slowly inject it into the anus within 10 minutes, and ask the patient to endure for 15-30 minutes before defecating. Once or twice a day, once a day after 3 days, 6-10 times as a course of treatment. The disadvantage of this method is that there is burning sensation in anorectum and ileocecal region, and abdominal pain may appear during the first enema, but all of them are transient. Pregnant women should not use it. Second, oral method: generally use "garlic syrup". Take 50g peeled Purple Garlic, mash it, soak it in 100ml warm water at 38 ℃ for 2 hours, then filter it with gauze, add half syrup. The freshly prepared product did not deteriorate after refrigerated for one week. Dosage: 20-30 ml for adults, once every 4-6 hours until recovery; 10% garlic syrup, 20-30 ml for children, 3 times a day; or 20% garlic syrup (containing 20% Purple Garlic liquid, 40% tea liquid, 20% male syrup, 60%), 10-15 ml for adults, 3-4 times a day (10 ml for children over 10 years old, 10 ml for children under 10 years old) 5 ml each time, 2.5 ml each time for 2-3 years old). Observation of hundreds of cases, the average cure rate is more than 95%, body temperature average 1 ~ 2 days to normal, after the weight of 2 ~ 5 days to disappear, stool average 2 ~ 4 days to return to normal, generally do not cause constipation. According to clinical and experimental observation, purple garlic has stronger germicidal and seedling inhibition effect than white garlic, and fresh garlic has better germicidal and seedling inhibition effect than old garlic. Methods: 130 cases of acute and chronic bacillary dysentery were treated with garlic retention enema. After treatment, 126 cases (96.9%) were examined by sigmoidoscopy. The average time was 6.3 days. It was proved that garlic retention enema had a special effect in promoting the healing of distal colonic lesions. this

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