straw

straw

(materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

[synonyms] Daoyao (Guangya), daogao (Cui's zhuanyaofang), Daogan (Liu Yuxi's chuanxinfang), Hegan (compendium).

[source] stems and leaves of rice, a gramineous plant. See "japonica rice" for plant morphology.

[chemical constituents] rice leaves contain pigments similar to anther xanthin and dandelion xanthin, and carotenoids such as neoxanthin, anther xanthin, iridoid and lutein. The stems and leaves contain a small amount of reducing sugar and sucrose. It has been reported that rice straw contains anti-cancer polysaccharides.

Sweet and smooth.

① "Diannan Materia Medica": "warm in nature, sweet in taste. "

② "Gangmu": "Xingan, hot, non-toxic. "

③ Bencao Zaixin: "it is pungent, warm and nontoxic. "

[Guijing] Bencao Zaixin: "entering the spleen and lung meridians. "

[function indications] wide middle, lower Qi, eliminate food accumulation. For choking diaphragm, nausea, food stagnation, diarrhea, abdominal pain, thirst, jaundice, turbidity, hemorrhoids, burns.

① "Materia medica notes:" the main yellow body for gold, boiling juice immersion. "

② "Diannan Materia Medica": "Kuanzhong, Xiaqi, Wenzhong, Zhixie, xiaoniuma meat accumulation, children's milk stagnation, abdominal pain. Straw Festival, walk around the meridians, treatment of phlegm fire pain. "

③ According to Bencao Zaixin, "go through the meridians, benefit the intestines, widen the middle and replenish the Qi. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1.5-3 Liang; or ash drenching juice clarification. External use: soak in boiling water.

[prescription selection] 1. It can't be used to treat choking food: thin shoots of red rice, burn ashes, roll a bowl of soup, drench the juice three times with silk, take the juice, add one clove, half cardamom, one rice, and cook porridge. (pick Yuan Fang)

② Treatment of nausea: Xian stalk burning ash drenching juice warm, make vomiting, cover stomach insects, can also kill. (compendium)

③ Treat eating beef, hurt food, chest noisy, vomiting nausea, chest fullness and slight pain, do not want to eat, face yellow and thin, abdominal hunger pour full, choking after eating swelling: straw five money, sugar one money. Take it in water. (materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

④ Treatment of children's diet injury spleen, long diarrhea more than: glutinous rice grass three money. Take it by frying. For those who have diarrhea for a long time, add Zhenhuai medicine

⑤ Drinking water for diabetes: take the ash from the center of the rice straw, soak it in the soup, and clear it. (Shi Yi De Xiao Fang)

⑥ Treatment of infectious hepatitis: glutinous rice grass, dandelion each two. Take it in water. (manual of Chinese herbal medicine by Su Yi)

⑦ Cure urination white muddy: glutinous rice grass decoct thick juice, dew overnight, take it. (pick Yuan Fang)

⑧ Treatment of hemorrhoids: rice gaoshao ash drenching juice, hot stains three or five degrees. (Cui Shi Bian Yao Fang)

⑨ Treatment of soup fire wound sores: rice straw ash cold water panning seven times, with wet stand, dry is easy, if sores wet, baking oil application. (Yi Jian Fang for health)

⑩ For those who want to get rid of hand and foot swelling due to fever, they are also in charge of heaven's travel: rice straw and ash juice stains. (emergency preparation)

(11) treatment of paddy field dermatitis: rice straw, alum each equal amount. First cut the rice straw, add water to boil for 30 minutes, then add alum 10 minutes before application, wash outside. (manual of Chinese herbal medicine by Su Yi)

(12) to control the damage of horse fall: burn the ash of rice straw, use the newly cooked wine and distiller's grains to mix with salt, and take the juice from the ash before drenching to drench the pain. (Liu Yuxi's chuanxinfang)

Solution arsenic poison: straw burning ash drench juice, adjust indigo three money service. (medical abstract)

[clinical application] glutinous rice grass in the treatment of acute infectious hepatitis

Daily with 3 liang of glutinous rice grass, add 1000 ml of water, fried into 200 ml, twice. Generally 25-30 days, individual slightly longer. A total of 43 cases were treated, 35 cases were cured recently (symptoms disappeared, hepatomegaly retracted to below 0.5cm, liver function returned to normal), the average length of stay was 10.2 days, 7 cases were improved (symptoms relieved, hepatomegaly was still more than 1cm under the rib or liver function was not normal), invalid. 1 case. After taking the medicine, the common symptoms such as anorexia, anorexia and whole ear weakness disappeared quickly, with an average of about 13 days; liver pain disappeared later, with an average of 20.1 days; hepatomegaly recovered in an average of 28.3 days. The average recovery time of liver function: jaundice index 10.9 days, alanine aminotransferase 23.1 days, musk wool 27 days. In addition, more than 30 cases were treated with 1.5 Liang Decoction of glutinous rice straw twice a day. In general, after 2 days of medication, the urine volume increased, from red to white, appetite increased, and symptoms relieved; after 7-10 days, the jaundice index decreased to 7-12 units, and the yellow staining of skin and sclera disappeared.

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