Soap pods

Soap pods

(compendium)

[synonym] Gleditsia sinensis (Leguminosae), Gleditsia sinensis (medicinal materials).

[source] it is the fruit of legume soappod.

Soap pods

Trees, 5-12 m high, without spines. It has 2 double pinnate compound leaves, 6-10 pinnae alternate, 20-24 leaflets, oblong, 2.3-5 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide, both ends round, apex slightly absent, base slightly irregular, entire; both sides covered with silky pilose. Panicle terminal, flowers miscellaneous, white or purplish, long stalked, pendulous; calyx tube 5-6 mm long, funnel-shaped, with 10 veins, pubescent, lobes subulate; petals 5, rectangular, apex obtuse, slightly longer than sepals, hirsute; stamens 10, filaments pilose; ovary sessile, style thick and short. The pod is oblong, 7-12 cm long and 3-4 cm wide, with a short beak at the apex, flat or thick, glabrous, 2-4 seeds: the seeds are nearly spherical and slightly flat, black, 2 cm in diameter. It blooms in summer. The fruiting period is August.

It grows in the mountains and by the woods. It is distributed in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Anhui, Hubei, Fujian, Guangdong, Sichuan and other places.

The seeds of this plant (soapstone) are also used for medicine. See special section for details.

[collection] collected in October and dried in the shade.

[chemical constituents] it contains saponins.

[flavor] pungent, warm.

① "Compendium": "pungent, warm, slightly toxic. "

② Ben Cao Hui Yan: "pungent, warm, non-toxic. "

[function indications] remove stubborn phlegm and clean dirty. Treatment of cough, phlegm stem, dysentery, intestinal wind, stool poison, head sores, scabies.

① "Gangmu": "to rheumatism, dysentery, hematochezia, sores, ringworm, swelling poison. "

② "Expectorant" in Chinese medicine and plant Atlas. For cough and phlegm. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 coin; or into pills, powder. External use: tamping, grinding, sprinkling or mixing.

[should avoid] "Ben Cao Hui Yan:" stomach weak, eat less, do not eat the disease, do not use it. "

[prescription selection] 1. No mouth for diarrhea: a piece of soap pod filled with salt, with the burning property as the end, and a little into the white rice porridge. (business in heaven and earth)

② Treatment of intestinal wind: soap (single tooth), burning ash storage, to a piece of research, cake paste pills, a piece of at the end, drink soup to swallow. (Puji Fang)

③ At the beginning of the treatment of stool poison: apply it with soap. (simple formula)

④ Treatment of wind deficiency, swollen teeth, kidney deficiency of the elderly, or pain caused by rubbing teeth with herbal medicine: only son soap, with green salt solid, burning, research powder mixed, or into a little camphor. (health home formula)

⑤ In the treatment of children's head sores, the soup becomes pus due to injury, and the water is not enough: the soap is burning, and it is mixed with powder and sesame oil. (maritime side)

⑥ To cure the purulent and purulent disease: remove the core, fill it with sugar, put two Croton in it, tie it with hemp rope, solidify it with salt mud, calcine it with fire, smoke it with green smoke, keep it, remove the mud, add the powder of betel nut, divide it into five or seven parts, grind well, and apply it with sesame oil. First, wash it with hot soup, then wash it with warm water, dry it with soft silk, and apply the medicine for one night, then it will take effect, and there is no need to wash it after application. (Puji Fang)

⑦ Treatment of head and ear sores, eyebrow ringworm and bird's nest sores: soap (calcined) for one cent, alum for one cent, research evenly, and apply sesame oil. (pick Yuan Fang)

⑧ Treatment of tinea is not cured: Chuan Jin skin decoction, with soap to core and intima, soak soup, always rub it. (simple formula)

⑨ Cure jade stem wet itch: a soap, burning. Apply sesame oil. (the wonderful recipe for life)

[discussion by famous experts] 1. In the classic of materia medica: "if there is dirty and filthy Qi in the intestines and stomach, if the Qi is depressed in the middle, it will produce ulcers and poison; if it is discharged outside, it will be intestinal wind, diarrhea and pus blood. Soap pods can clean up dirty and greasy, dredge the accumulation of filth, and clear the intestines and stomach. "

② In the book of Ben Jing Feng Yuan, it is said that "the soap pod can remove the obstinate phlegm and dirt without reducing two kinds of soap (tooth soap and long soap). Infatuation is better than golden elixir. It is also used to prevent arsenic from remaining in the intestines and stomach. "

Chinese PinYin : Fei Zao Jia