Sunflower seed

Sunflower seed

(Ben Jing)

Kuizi (Synopsis of the Golden Chamber) and kuizi (good prescription for women).

[source] it is the seed of Malvaceae.

[plant morphology] Dongkui (Ben Jing), also known as Kui (the book of songs), Kui CAI (Shuo Wen), lukui (Er Ya Yi), Dongkui CAI (rescue materia medica), Huacai (compendium), Weizu (Xianfang PU), horseshoe mustard, Qicai (Yi Lin Bian Yao), Huachang CAI (Ningdu Zhou Zhi), jinqiankui, jinzihuakui (Zhi Jing Shi Ji), Donghan CAI (plant name and reality) The results showed that the main ingredients of the three vegetables were amaranth, fennel, slippery vegetable and odd vegetable.

Annual herb, 30-90 cm high. Stem erect, sparsely hairy or almost glabrous. Leaves alternate; palmate 5-7-lobed, rounded reniform or suborbicular, base cordate, margin obtusely serrate, palmate 5-7-veined, long petiole. The flowers are small, clustered in leaf axils, light red, bracteoles 3, broadly linear; calyx 5-lobed, lobes broadly triangular; corolla 5-petaled, obovate, apex concave; stamens numerous, filaments connate; ovary 10-12-locular, each locule has an ovule. The fruit is oblate and consists of 10-12 carpels. When the fruit is ripe, the carpels are separated from each other and separated from the central axis. The carpels are glabrous and light brown.

It is distributed all over the country.

The roots, seedlings or leaves of this plant are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] the seeds are harvested when they are mature in autumn.

[herbal medicine] the dried seeds are round, flat, orange petal shaped, or slightly kidney shaped, small, about 1.5-2 mm in diameter. The thin side is concave in the center, and the outer surface is brown yellow shell (pericarp), with ring-shaped wrinkles. The seeds are brown. It is hard and slightly fragrant after broken. It is better to be full and strong.

At present, most of the products used in the market are the seeds of Malvaceae plant Abutilon. In the various Materia Medica, Fructus Malvaceae and Fructus dimocarpi are listed separately, and their effects are not the same. Please refer to the articles of "Fructus dimocarpi" and "Fructus dimocarpi".

[chemical constituents] the seeds contain fatty oil and protein. Flowers contain anthocyanins. Fresh Holly contains 6.8-7.4% monosaccharide, 4.1-4.6% sucrose, 4.5-4.8% maltose and 1.2% starch

Sweet and cold.

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

② Bielu: "non toxic. "

③ "On medicinal properties": "slippery, flat. "

④ Ben Cao Zai Xin: "it tastes sweet and bitter, its nature is slightly cold, and it is non-toxic. "

[meridian tropism] into the large intestine, bladder meridian.

① "Lei Gong processed medicine solution": into the small intestine, bladder two channels. "

② "To match the materia medica": "into the foot Taiyin meridians Qi points. "

③ Ben Cao Qiu Zhen: "into the stomach, intestines and intestines. "

④ Ben Cao Zai Xin: "entering the liver and lung meridians. "

[function indications] diuretic, smooth bowel, under the milk. Treatment of two will not pass, gonorrhea, edema, women's milk can not, breast swelling and pain.

① Ben Jing: "the main five zang organs and six Fu are cold, hot and thin, and five Huang are beneficial to urination. "

② "Kuizi juice detoxifies Sichuan pepper poison. "

③ "Bielu": it can cure women's internal mammary dystrophy (internal "yizuo" blood "). "

④ "On medicinal properties": "treat five kinds of gonorrhea, master the swelling of milk, lower the milk. "

⑤ "Ben Cao Yan Yi" says: "those who suffer from carbuncle, furuncle, toxic heat and internal attack, but have not pus, swallow three or five pieces of water, then make orifices and pus out. "

⑥ "The compendium of Medical Sciences" says: "defecate, eliminate moisture, smooth the fetus, treat dysentery. "

⑦ "To reach all orifices" in "Bencao tongxuan". "

⑧ Ben Cao Hui: "the next coat. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 2-5 yuan; or powder.

[should avoid] it should not be taken if the spleen is deficient and the intestines are slippery. Pregnant women should take it with caution.

① "Huangqin is its envoy" is recorded in Ben Cao Jing Ji Zhu. "

② "Depai Materia Medica" says: "Qi deficiency depression, spleen deficiency and smooth intestines are forbidden. "

[prescription selection] 1. To cure stroke, one liter of kuizi, four liters of water, one liter of boiled water and one liter of meal. Pig fat inside is like chicken seed, one pill is better. (behind the elbow)

② Cure defecation impassable 10 days to January: kuizi powder into milk equal, kimono. (Sheng Hui Fang)

③ Treatment of blood drenching and deficiency of urine blood: sunflower seed one liter, water three liters, take juice, three times a day. (Qian Jin Fang)

④ Treatment of pregnancy with Zilin: yingzi one liter, three liters of water, boil two liters, and then take separately. (Qian Jin Fang)

⑤ Treatment of postpartum drenching: kuizi one, puxiao eight. Water two liters, fried eight, the next Xiaofu. (Yao Seng Tan's collected prescriptions)

⑥ Pregnancy has moisture, body weight, adverse urination, sprinkle gradually evil cold, from that dizziness: kuizi a Jin, Poria three Liang. On the two flavor, pestle for powder, drink service square inch dagger, three service, small convenience is more. (kuizi Fuling powder in Synopsis of the Golden Chamber)

⑦ To cure dystocia, if you don't get it, you should combine the seeds of okra, smash them, boil them with two liters of water, and then take one liter; if you have finished, you can only take half a liter, remove the dross and take them. (dietotherapy materia medica)

⑧ Treatment of fetal death: sunflower seed one liter, donkey hide gelatin five Liang. On the two flavors, five liters of water, boiling two liters, meal service. No more cooking. (Qian Jin Fang)

⑨ In the treatment of fetal death, if the mother wants to get sick: three Liang Achyranthes bidentata, one liter sunflower seed. On the two flavors, seven liters of water, boil three liters, three servings. (Qian Jin Fang)

⑩ For the treatment of dampness of Qi and pulse, inability of milk, stagnation of channels and collaterals, swelling and pain in the nursing house, and retention of carbuncle poison: sunflower seed (fried with incense), Amomum villosum, etc. At the end of the day, two dollars for hot wine. (women's prescription)

(11) treatment of blood dysentery and dysentery: Fructus Malvaceae is the last, 2 yuan for each serving, 1 yuan for waxed tea, and 3 days for boiling soup. (Sheng Hui Fang)

(12) treatment of malarial fever: dongkuizi dried in the shade is the last, and the wine takes two money. (Sheng Hui Fang)

⒀ governance night sweats: sunflower seed three money, water fried with sugar service. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)

(14) treatment of blisters on the face: Holly seed, cypress seed, Poria cocos, melon petal each one or two. For the end, after eating wine service square inch dagger, day three service. (Tao Hongjing)

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