Croton

(Ben Jing)

[synonyms] Ba Shu (Ben Jing), gang Zi (Lei Gong Pao Zhi Lun), Jiang Zi (Ruizhu Tang empirical formula), Lao Yang Zi (compendium), shuangbiaolong (Lingnan caiyao Lu), Meng Ziren (Chinese medicine Zhi), Ba Guo (traditional Chinese medicine morphological experience identification method), Ba mi (medicinal materials collection), shuangbiao, hongziren, Dougong (Nanning medicine Zhi), duyuzi, Luan Dou, Gongzai (records of traditional Chinese Medicine), babaili (records of Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medicine), Baren, mangzi (manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou Army).

[source] it is the seed of Croton.

[plant morphology] Croton

Evergreen trees, 6-10m high. Young branches green, sparsely stellate pilose or almost glabrous; biennial branches gray green, with indistinct yellow longitudinal cracks. Leaves alternate; petiole 2-6 cm long; leaf blade ovate or oblong ovate, 5-13 cm long and 2.5-6 cm wide, apex acuminate, base round or broadly cuneate, 2 glands near petiole, leaf margin sparsely serrate, sparsely stellate hairs on both sides, 3 main veins; stipules caducous. The flowers are unisexual and monoecious; the raceme is terminal, with male flowers at the upper part and female flowers at the lower part; the pedicel is thin and short, with stellate hairs; the male flowers are green, smaller, with 5-lobed calyx, sparsely with stellate hairs; the sepals are ovate, the petals are 5, involute, with dense fine woolly hairs on the inner surface, and the stamens are 15-20, The female flower has 5-lobed calyx, no petals, round ovary, 3-locular, densely covered with short and thick stellate hairs, 3-style, slender, 2-lobed each. Capsule oblong to obovate with 3 obtuse angles. Seeds long ovate, 3, yellowish brown. The flowering period is from March to May. The fruit period is from June to July.

Most of them are cultivated plants; they are wild in valleys, streams, open fields, and sometimes in dense forests. It is distributed in Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Taiwan, Zhejiang and Jiangsu.

The root (Croton root), leaf (Croton leaf), seed coat (Croton shell) and seed kernel fat oil (croton oil) of this plant are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] from August to September, the fruits are harvested when they are ripe. After being dried in the sun, the shells are removed, and the seeds are collected and dried in the sun.

[medicinal materials] the dried seeds are oval or oval, slightly flat, about 1-1.5 ha m long, about 6-9 mm in diameter, about 4-7 mm in thickness, with grayish brown to brown surface, smooth and little luster. Caruncle in the hilum - end, for a small protuberance, easy to fall off. The chalazal point is at the other end. There is a ridge between the chalazal point and the caruncle. The cross section is slightly square. The testa is thin and crisp. After peeling off, the seed kernel can be seen, and the outer layer is silvery white endosperm. Endosperm milk is fat, light yellow and oily. There are 2 thin cotyledons in the center. The radicle is small, toward the end of caruncle. There is no Qi, the taste is slightly astringent, and then there is a lasting pungent feeling. It is better to be big, plump and white. The quality of the seeds with empty grains and oil stained seeds is inferior.

It is mainly produced in Sichuan, Guangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou. Sichuan has the best yield and the highest quality. In addition, it is also produced in Guangdong, Fujian and other places.

[chemical composition] it contains croton oil, including glycerides of oleic acid, linoleic acid, Croton oleic acid and CIS angelic acid, and croton glucoside.

[processing] Croton kernel: pick up the impurities, mix them with sticky rice soup or noodle soup, put them in the sun or bake them, rub off the skin, and shake the kernel. Croton cream: take the Croton kernel, crush it, wrap it with multi-layer oil absorption paper, heat the micro Kang, press it to remove the oil, take it out every two days for regrinding and changing the paper, press it six or seven times as above until the oil is as high as possible, take it out, grind it fine, and sift it.

Huo Gong's treatise on frying and frying: "in all practice, Croton should be broken, boiled with sesame oil and wine, and then used after paste research. Every time you do one or two things, you should take wine and sesame oil as your measure. "

It is pungent, hot and poisonous.

① Ben Jing: "it tastes pungent and warm. "

② Wupu materia medica: "Shennong, Qibo, Tongjun: Xin, poisonous. Huangdi: sweet, poisonous. "

③ "Qi Yuan of medicine": hot in nature, bitter in taste. "

④ Yilin zuanyao: "Xin Xian, re, Du. "

[channel tropism] entering stomach and large intestine.

① "Lei Gong processed medicine solution": into the spleen, stomach, large intestine three channels. "

② Ben Cao Zai Xin: "entering liver and kidney meridians. "

Functions and indications: purging cold accumulation, clearing orifices, expelling phlegm, draining water and killing insects. It can be used to treat cold accumulation and stagnation, chest and abdominal distension, acute pain, blood stasis, phlegm mania, diarrhea, edema, external use to treat laryngopathy, laryngoarthralgia, malignant sores and scabies.

① "Ben Jing" says: "it mainly deals with typhoid fever, warm malaria, cold and heat, breaks through the accumulation of various diseases, remains the habit of drinking phlegm, and has edema in the abdomen. Swing and practice the five viscera, open up the closed, benefit the water Valley Road. Get rid of the bad meat. "

② "Bielu" said: "the treatment of women with closed moon, rotten fetus, golden sores, impetigated blood, husband's Yin decaying, killing spots and stinging poison. "

③ "Theory of medicinal properties": "it mainly breaks the heart and abdomen, accumulates Qi, treats ten kinds of edema, flaccid arthralgia and abdominal distension. "

④ According to Materia Medica, it is characterized by a variety of addictions, such as qi stagnation, fullness, abdominal accumulation, cold air and blood clots, persistent food, phlegm and water retention. "

⑤ "Rihuazi Materia Medica" says: "it can relieve all diseases, relieve obstruction, eliminate wind and invigorate labor, invigorate spleen and appetizer, eliminate phlegm and blood, discharge pus, detumescence and poison, and kill visceral insects. It is used to treat malignant sores, polyps and scabies. "

⑥ Qiyuan of Medicine: "guide Qi to dissipate accumulation, remove viscera and stop cold, digest cold and cold injuries, remove cold and dampness in stomach. "

⑦ "Tang Ye Ben Cao": "it can dredge the intestines and stop diarrhea. "

⑧ "The compendium of Medical Sciences" says: "it can treat diarrhea, convulsion, heart and abdomen pain, hernia, wind deviation, deafness, laryngopharyngitis, toothache, Tongli and Guanqiao. "

[usage and dosage] take orally: take pills and powder, 0.5-1 points (with croton cream). External use: packing the ear and nose with cotton, rubbing the affected part with plaster or silk.

[should avoid] do not take it if there is no cold accumulation, pregnant women or weak.

① Ben Cao Jing Ji Zhu: "to make it. It's evil. I'm afraid. "

② "Yao Dui": fear asparagus, wild rice shoots, sauce drum, cold water. Good fire. Contrary to morning glory. "

③ "Theory of medicinal properties": it can drop fetus. "

④ The supplement to the meaning of materia medica: "no cold accumulation should be avoided. "

[prescription selection] 1. For the treatment of cold excess and chest, for those without fever: 3 points, Croton 1 point (remove the heart skin, boil black, grind as fat), 3 points. The three flavors are powder, and the white drink and kimono are used. The strong one will get half the money, and the winner will get less. Disease in the diaphragm will vomit, in the diaphragm will benefit. Disadvantage, into a cup of hot porridge, more than benefit, into a cup of cold porridge. (Bai San in Treatise on Febrile Diseases)

⑤ It can cure all kinds of sudden and violent diseases in the heart and abdomen, if the evil guest is disobedient, the heart and abdomen are full, the pain of the stroke is like a thorn, the breath is urgent, the mouth is quiet, and the corpse is mortified. The dead: Rhubarb one or two, one or two, Croton one or two (peeled heart, boiled, external research as fat). First, mash rhubarb and dried ginger as the end, grind Croton into the middle, and treat 1000 pestles together. It is used as powder, and honey and pill are also good. If you take three or four pills of soybean with warm water, or if you don't take them, hold your head up and pour them into your throat. If you don't take them, you should drink them in a moment. If you don't take them, you should also drink them with three pills. If you have a quiet mouth, you should fold your teeth and pour them. (Synopsis of the Golden Chamber) San Wu Bei Ji Wan

⑥ Treatment of cold addiction night food, long drink does not disappear, constipation: Croton kernel 1 liter, sake 5 liters. Boil for three days and three nights, research, make hot, combined with wine and low fire fried, pills as big as Hu Dou, take one pill for each, underwater, if you want to vomit, take two pills. (Qian Jin Fang)

④ Cure PI Jie Bai Huang: five Croton (wrapped in paper to remove oil), three Liang red koji (fried), one or two wheat bran (fried). All research for the fine end, the total for the pill, such as millet big, every empty Xinfu ten pills, white soup. (maritime side)

⑤ For the treatment of Yin toxin, febrile disease, heart knot, according to the extreme pain, constipation, but slightly warm out of breath: Croton ten grains, research, into the face of a money, twist into a cake, an navel, with small moxa stick moxibustion five strong. When the Qi is reached, it will be connected. (ren Zhai Zhi Zhi Fang)

⑥ Treatment of infantile l phlegm asthma: Croton a grain, pestle rotten, soft wrap plug nose, phlegm is from the bottom. (ancient and modern medical records)

⑦ Treatment of cold, phlegm and asthma: spread out a piece of green orange peel, add a piece of Gangzi, mazhading, burn on the fire, grind the powder, ginger juice and wine for one hour, take it. (medical theory)

⑧ More than summer water diarrhea: dabadou a grain (shell). On the acupuncture set, lamp burning, research fine, wax and make a pill, underwater, before eating. (Shi Yi De Xiao Fang, Zhen tou WAN)

⑨ Treatment of dysentery: Croton one or two, skin heart, boil, fine research, take Rehe pills, hollow rice drink, the amount of power to add or subtract. Beef liver is better. Or take steamed cake pills. (empirical formula)

⑩ Chibai for infantile dysentery: Croton (simmered, degreased) one money, two money (grind), Feiluo noodles, boiled paste pills, millet, large amount of people use it. Red soup, white rice soup, red and white ginger soup. (Quan You Xin Jian)

(1) treatment of summer heat injury, cold and hot, cholerae, dry mouth and thirst: 25 pieces of Croton (remove the skin film, research oil, such as powder), one or two points of Huangdan (stir fry, research, Luoguo). Take five pills each time. Soak them in water for a short period of time. Don't swallow them with fresh water. (kufang shuijindan)

(12) the treatment of abdominal disturbs greatly, and the skin is black. It is called dropsy: 90 Croton (peeled heart) and 60 almonds (peeled tip). And boil to make yellow, pound and it, take as big as a bean, to the degree of underwater, do not drink. (behind the elbow)

Treatment of cirrhosis ascites: Croton cream one money; five points. Placed in four or five layers of yarn

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