Light vegetables

Light vegetables

(Meng Shen)

[synonyms] shell vegetable (Jiayou materia medica), sea clam (compendium), red clam (Dongyi Baojian), pearl vegetable (compendium of Materia Medica).

[source] the meat of Mytilus edulis and other mussels.

[animal morphology] Mytilus edulis

2 shells, about 15 cm long, wedge-shaped. The top of the shell is small, located in the front of the shell, the ventral margin is slightly straight, the dorsal margin and ventral margin form an angle of 30 degrees, extending backward and upward, and the dorsal margin is arc-shaped. The shell surface is divided into two parts, the upper part is wide and oblique to the back edge, the lower part is small and curved to the abdomen edge, and the growth pattern is obvious but irregular. The surface of the shell is brownish black, and the top of the shell is often worn and white. The inner surface of the shell is gray blue with pearl luster. There is a wide black edge from the end of dorsal ligament to the end of ventral edge. The skin of the shell surface is rolled around the edge of the shell to form a reddish brown narrow edge. The coat mark and adductor muscle mark are obvious, the anterior adductor muscle mark is small, located in the inner side of the shell top, the posterior adductor muscle mark is large, oval, located in the posterior dorsal edge. The inner surface of the shell top has two small main teeth. The ligaments are brown. The mantle heals at one point, and the margin of the mantle has branched tentacles. The posterior end of the foot is flaky and the anterior end is rod-shaped. Foot silk thick, light yellow.

It lives in shallow water and rocks. It is distributed in the Yellow Sea, Bohai Sea and East China Sea.

[collection] all year round. After catching, take the meat, fresh or processed for dried vegetables.

[chemical constituents] the content of water, protein, fat, carbohydrates, ash, calcium, phosphorus, iron, riboflavin and nicotinic acid in dried mussel is 13 g, 59.1 g, 7.6 g, 13 g, 6.9 g, 277 mg, 864 mg, 24.5 mg, 0.46 mg and 3.1 mg respectively.

[flavor] salty, warm.

① Meng Shen: "warm, non-toxic. "

② "Materia medica: sweet, warm, non-toxic. "

③ "Materia Medica from the new": sweet and salty, warm. "

[Guijing] into the liver and kidney channels.

① "Ben Cao Hui Yan": "enter the Foot Yangming, Taiyang Jing. "

② Yao Yao Fen Ji: "into the liver and kidney channels. "

Functions and indications: tonifying liver and kidney, benefiting essence and blood, eliminating gall. Treatment of asthenia, fatigue, emaciation, vertigo, night sweat, impotence, lumbago, hematemesis, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea, gall, hernia.

① Meng Shen: "postpartum blood knot, abdominal cold pain, treatment of Baihuang, run hair, treatment of collapse in the band.". "

② "Materia medica notes:" the main deficiency and strain, due to the production of thin and barren, blood gas accumulation, abdominal cold, bowel sounds, diarrhea, low back pain, banded, hernia. "

③ Rihuazi materia medica: "cooking cooked food can nourish the five zang organs, replenish Yang, regulate waist and foot Qi, eliminate persistent food, and eliminate cold air in the abdomen. "

④ Jiadiao materia medica: "it is used to treat asthenia, fatigue, less blood essence, and hematemesis. The woman takes it and leaks it. The husband has diarrhea for a long time and cooks it. "

⑤ "Eliminate gall Qi". "

⑥ "Suixiju diet spectrum": "tonifying kidney, benefiting blood, filling essence, treating legacy, belt, collapse, drenching, impotence, Yin cold, thirst, gall. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang. Or into the pill, powder.

[selected prescription] for dizziness and night sweats during sleep: three liang of light vegetables (baked, ground fine powder) and two liang of tangerine peel (ground fine powder). Yan He, honey for pills, take two money each, three times a day. (Modern Practical Chinese Medicine)

[discussion by famous experts] 1. Introduction to medicine: "light vegetables are effective in treating fatigue, heat and bone steaming. It is necessary to eat more. If you count two kinds of pills and powder, it has no great effect. "

② "Materia medica Huiyan": "light vegetables are the medicine for tonifying deficiency and nourishing kidney. Cai Xinwu said that it belongs to the mesoderm. It has a sweet and light smell and a cool nature. Therefore, it is good at treating kidney deficiency and heat, heat stagnation, hematemesis, dysentery, hematochezia, gall formation and tendon formation. "

Chinese PinYin : Dan Cai