Kochia scoparia

Kochia scoparia

(Ben Jing)

[synonyms] dikui (Ben Jing), dimai (BIE Lu), Yiming (theory of medicinal properties), luochuzi (rihuazi materia medica), zhuchuzi (Diannan materia medica), qiantouzi (WanBing Huichun), chucaizi (Xinjiang medicinal materials), tiesabaizi (Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine records).

[source] it is the fruit of Kochia scoparia, a Chenopodiaceae plant.

[plant morphology] ground skin (Ben Jing), also known as Jian, Wang Shou (Er Ya), Wang Shu (Guo Pu's note on Er Ya), broom (Tao Hongjing), saliva clothes grass (Tang Ben Cao), duck tongue grass, Du Shu (Ben Cao Tu Jing), Bai di grass (compendium), Huang Hao (Ben Jing Feng Yuan), ground grass.

Annual herbs, about 50-150 cm high. The stem is erect, multi branched, green, and often turns red in autumn. Leaves alternate, sessile; narrowly lanceolate to linear lanceolate, 1-7 cm long, 1-7 mm wide, apex acuminate, base cuneate, entire, green above, glabrous, light green below, glabrous or pubescent; young leaves with white villous margin, then gradually falling off. The flowers are small, yellow green; perianth tubular, apex 5-toothed, lobes triangular, curved inward, wrapping ovary, middle rib like keel, with a green protuberance on the back of lobes; stamen 5, extending out of perianth; ovary superior, oblate, style very short, stigma 2. Utricle oblate, with persistent perianth at the base, spreading into 5 transverse wings. Seed 1, oblate, black. The flowering period is from July to September. The fruit period is from August to October.

It grows in the mountains, fields and roadsides, and is cultivated in gardens. Distributed in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Gansu and other places. It is cultivated in many places.

The tender stems and leaves of this plant (Kochia scoparia L.) are also used for medicine.

[collection] when the fruit is ripe in autumn, the whole grass is cut, dried in the sun, and the fruit is laid down to remove the impurities such as branches and leaves.

[medicinal material] the dried fruit is oblong Pentagram shaped, 1-3 mm in diameter and 1 mm in thickness. The outer surface is persistent perianth, membranous, apex 5-lobed, lobes triangular, soil gray green or light brown; some with 5 triangular wings, arranged like five pointed stars. The stipe and the central part of the fruit are punctate, with 10 ray marks, and the apex is prismatic. The perianth is easy to peel, with a nutlet in it. The pericarp is translucent, membranous, with punctate pattern, which is easy to peel. The seed is brown, flat, and looks like sesame. Under the enlarged mirror, the surface has punctate pattern, the middle part is slightly concave, the edge is slightly raised, and there are horseshoe shaped embryos in it, light yellow, oily, and white endosperm. The taste is slightly bitter. The color is grey green. It is better to be full and free of impurities.

Mainly produced in Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan and other places. In addition, it is also produced in Liaoning, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Jiangsu and Anhui.

In addition to the above varieties, there are also the same genus of broom (northeast); the sporophore of alkali Kochia (northeast, Shaanxi) is also used as medicine. There is little difference in the shape of the medicinal materials.

In East China, Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou and Shandong, the sporophore of Chenopodium album, commonly known as "huicaizi", is used as Kochia scoparia. The sporophore of Chenopodium album is obtuse triangular spherical, slightly compressed, about 1 mm in diameter; grass green to dark green, perianth tightly embracing the fruit, without membranous wings around, with short fruit stalk at the base and 5 long lines. Seeds are oblate, spherical, glossy, with linear patterns arranged radially. The smell is the same as Kochia scoparia. See "Chenzhou".

[chemical constituents] the seed contains 15% triterpenoid saponins and oil. The green part contains alkaloids.

[pharmacological action] the water extract (1:3) has inhibitory effect on dermatophytes such as Xanthomonas schlegeli and Microcystis auduensis in vitro. It has no diuretic effect on rats.

[flavor] sweet and bitter, cold.

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

② Bielu: "non toxic. "

③ "Gangmu": "Gan, Han. "

[channel tropism] entering kidney and bladder channels.

① Lu Fu: "into the bladder. "

② Yao Yao Fen Ji: "entering the kidney and bladder channels. "

[function indications] diuresis, clearing dampness and heat. It is used to treat dysuria, gonorrhea, leucorrhea, hernia, rubella, sore, scabies, wet itching of pudenda.

① Ben Jing: "it can control bladder heat and facilitate urination. Buzhong, Yijing Qi. "

② "Bielu": "remove the heat in the skin, disperse ulcers, hernia, strengthen Yin, make people moist. "

③ According to the theory of medicinal properties, "if you take it together with yangqishi, you can't recover from Yin impotence and replenish qi and strength; if you treat Yin and ovum diseases and remove hot wind, you can take a bath in soup. "

④ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Zhike redan swelling. "

⑤ "Diannan Materia Medica" says: "it can benefit the bladder, urinate and accumulate heat, wash the wind of skin, treat the heat of various meridians, clear the heat of fetus, and bring down damp heat. "

⑥ "Materia medica primitive": "to remove the accumulated heat in the skin, in addition to the skin wet itching. "

⑦ "Materia medica preparation requirements": "Yijing Qiangyin, in addition to deficiency heat, diuresis and Tonglin. "

⑧ "Yucatalpa medicine solution": "treatment head swelling and pain, fox hernia Yin decaying, waist pain, flank pain, blood dysentery, sores. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 2-5 yuan; or into pills, powder. External use: wash with boiling water.

[taboo] "evil cuttlebone" in "preparation of Materia Medica". "

[prescription selection] ① treatment of Yang deficiency and weak Qi, adverse urination: yetaishen four money, Clematis half money, inch Ophiopogon six money (with heart), Kochia one money. Take it by frying. (xuanyang Decoction in Zhongshen Xilu of Medicine)

② For the treatment of yin deficiency and blood deficiency, urination is unfavorable: one or two for Huaishu, five for raw tortoise shell (mashed), five for raw hangshao, and one for Kochia. Take it by frying. (Jiyin Decoction in Zhongshen Xilu of Medicine)

③ Treatment of pregnancy with gonorrhea, urine count, to less, sudden heat pain, soreness, hand and foot pain: Twelve pairs of Kochia scoparia, the first four liters of water, fried two and a half liters, three temperature service. (secret records of son and mother)

④ Treatment of long blood dysentery, more than day and night: Kochia one or two, Sanguisorba three points (file), Scutellaria three points. The prescription of the medicine is "Weixi Luowei powder". Each service, regardless of time, to drink porridge under two money. (Sheng Hui Fang)

⑤ Treatment of eye pain and squint and slander, due to the heat of the Ming: take Kochia juice in the eye. (sengshen Jifang)

⑥ Treatment of freckles: five taels of Kochia, one liter of Cassia. On the two flavor mash screen, rice drink and pills. After each meal, take 20 to 30 pills. (Kochia pill in Guangji prescription)

⑦ Treatment of liver deficiency and blurred eyes: one jin of Kochia scoparia (dried in Yin, rammed for the end), five Jin of raw Rehmannia (Jingtang rammed, twisted juice). Mix the herbs together, dry them in the middle of the day, and pound them into powder. Each service, hollow to warm wine tune down two money, night lying, to warm water tune again. (DI Fu Zi San, Sheng Hui Fang)

⑧ The treatment of hypochondriac pain, pain over a long period of time, sometimes launched: June, July to take Kochia, Yin dry, at the end. Take a square inch dagger, five or six times a day. (behind the elbow)

⑨ Rule jump weight lifting, stroke Yin Decadence: Atractylodes five points, Kochia very, Guixin three points. The first three things are crushed. Take a knife, three days. (behind the elbow)

⑩ Treatment hernia: Kochia fried incense, research at the end of each serving a money, under the wine. (simple formula)

(11) treatment of hemorrhoids: regardless of the number of Kochia, baked on new tiles, rammed for powder. Take three daggers each time, and drink them with corn for three days. (DI Fu Zi San, Shengji Zonglu)

(12) treatment of breast blowing: Kochia is the last. Every three money, hot wine, sweating more. (local skin wine from experience Collection)

⒀ treatment of thunder head wind swelling: Kochia, with ginger research rotten, hot wine Chongfu, take sweat more. (Sheng Ji Zong Lu)

(14) treatment of limb warts: Kochia, alum, etc. Wash the soup frequently. (Shouyu shenfang)

Treatment of carbuncle: Fructus Kochiae, semen Raphani each one or two. Simmer, wash the affected area while hot, twice a day, 10-15 minutes each time. (selected materials of new medical treatment of Chinese herbal medicine, Inner Mongolia)

(16) Wind is hot and naked. One liter of Kochia scoparia (baked), half a jin of raw land to take juice, share cake, dry, grind fine. Three yuan for each service, hollow service, wine delivery.

(17) Eye pain, squint. Use Fructus Kochiae for juicing.

(18) Leitoufeng (Note: the disease is swelling and pain of the head and face, aversion to cold and fever, too similar to typhoid fever). Use Kochia scoparia and ginger to grind and rot, take it with hot wine, and sweat will heal.

(19) Hernia. Stir fry with Fructus Kochiae and grind. For each serving, the wine is delivered.

(20) Blood dysentery. Five liang of Kochia scoparia, one or two of Sanguisorba officinalis and Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi were used for the final research. Take one spoonful of each and adjust it to warm water.

(21) gonorrhea during pregnancy. Use twelve liang of Kochia scoparia, add four liters of water, fry until two and a half liters, take it in batches.

(22) no urination. Use Kochia juice clothing, or use Kochia a, fried with water.

(23) eyes were injured and sunken. The crossbow is protruding. Use two pairs of Kochia leaves (wash away the soil), mash and squeeze the juice, and take a little bit of each eye. If there is no fresh leaf in winter, it is OK to take dry leaf and boil it into thick juice.

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