Morinda officinalis

(Ben Jing)

[synonyms] Morinda officinalis (the classic of Materia Medica), wind (the annals of traditional Chinese Medicine), rabbit intestine (the manual of traditional Chinese Medicine).

[source] it is the root of Morinda officinalis.

[plant morphology] Morinda officinalis, also known as sanmancao (tangbencao), Budiao Cao (rihuazi Bencao), jiyanteng, heiteng Zuan, furunculus and Tripterygium.

Twining or climbing vines. Rhizome fleshy, cylindrical, more or less a rosary root, fresh skin white, dry dark brown. There are sinuous stripes and the cross section is purplish red. The stem is cylindric, with longitudinal ribs. The branchlets have brown coarse hairs when young, and the surface is rough when old. Leaves opposite, long elliptic, 3-13 cm long, 1.5-5 cm wide, apex short acuminate, base cuneate or broadly cuneate, entire, below along midvein covered with short coarse hairs, leaf margin often with sparse short eyelashes; petiole with brown coarse hairs; Stipule sheath. Inflorescence capitate, 2-10 flowers, on top of branchlets, rarely axillary; calyx obconical, 3-4 mm long, with irregular teeth or nearly truncated at the apex; corolla fleshy white, throat of corolla tube contracted, inner surface densely short hairy, usually 4-lobed; stamens 4, filaments very short; ovary inferior, 4-locular, style 2-lobed. Berry subglobose, 5-9 mm in diameter, red at maturity, with persistent tubular calyx tube at the top. The flowering period is from April to May. The fruit period is from September to October.

It is wild in valleys, streams or under mountain forests. It is also cultivated. It is distributed in Guangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, etc.

[collection] dig in winter and spring, wash the soil, remove the fibrous roots, sun dry to 60-70% dry, gently beat flat with wood rough and dry in the sun; or steam first, sun dry to half dry, then beat flat and dry in the sun.

[medicinal materials] the dried roots are curved, oblate or cylindrical, with different lengths and diameters of 1-2 cm. The surface is grayish yellow. There are thick but not deep longitudinal wrinkles and deep horizontal lines, and even the skin breaks to expose the wood, forming a section about 1-3cm long, shaped like chicken intestines, so it is called "Chicken Intestines wind". The results show that the fracture surface is uneven and the transverse section is cracked; the skin is bright lavender and the wood is yellowish brown, and the width of the skin is twice that of the wood. No gas, sweet and slightly astringent taste. It is better to be big, fat, beaded, fleshy and purple. Those with thin strips, thin meat and gray color are inferior in quality.

Mainly produced in Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

[processing] Morinda officinalis: remove impurities, soak them in hot water, remove the wood core while it is hot, cut into sections and dry in the sun. Fried Morinda officinalis: take, mash, put in the pot, add water to fry the soup, remove the licorice residue, add the picked Morinda officinalis, cook until it is soft and can draw out the wooden core (at this time, the remaining soup should not be too much), take it out, take out the wooden core while it is hot, and dry it in the sun. (100kg each Morinda officinalis, 6kg 4 liang licorice) salt Morinda officinalis: take the picked Morinda officinalis, mix it with salt water, steam it thoroughly in the cage, remove the wood core and dry it in the sun. (100kg of each Morinda officinalis, 2kg of salt, add proper amount of boiling water for clarification)

① "Lei Gong Paozhi Lun" says: "if you want to use Morinda officinalis, you must soak it in soup for a night. When it's a little soft, it will come out, but when it's soaked in wine, it will come out again. You can boil it in the same way to make it Brown, remove the chrysanthemum, and wipe it with cloth to make it dry. "

② "The compendium of Medical Sciences:" soak in wine for one night, and use it as medicine. If it is in urgent need, soak it in warm water to soften the heart. "

[chemical constituents] the root contains anthraquinone and flavonoids.

Sweet and warm.

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

② Bielu: "sweet, nontoxic. "

③ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": bitter taste. "

[Guijing] into the liver and kidney channels.

① "Lei Gong's treatment of medicinal properties": entering the spleen and kidney meridians. "

② New edition of materia medica: "entering the heart and kidney meridians. "

③ "Into the foot Jueyin liver meridian, Foot Yangming stomach meridian. "

Functions and indications: tonifying kidney yang, strengthening muscles and bones, dispelling wind and dampness. Treatment of impotence, less abdominal cold pain, urination can not help, uterine deficiency cold, wind cold dampness Bi, waist and knee pain.

① "Ben Jing" says: "the main wind evil, Yin flaccid not up, strong bones and muscles, Anwu Zang organs, Buzhong Zengzhi Yiqi. "

② Bielu: "it can treat head and face wind, lower abdomen and Yin phase, induce pain, lower Qi, supplement five kinds of labor, and benefit essence. "

③ "Theory of medicinal properties": "it is used to treat men's dream of ejaculation, strengthen Yin, remove head and face apoplexy, advocate lower Qi, gale and blood scab. "

④ "Rihuazi's Materia Medica" says: "the five internal organs should be calmed, the mind should be calm, and all the wind should be removed. Treatment of edema. "

⑤ Compendium: "it can cure beriberiberi, eliminate wind diseases and replenish the sea of blood. "

⑥ "Seeking the source of Materia Medica": "resolving phlegm, treating cough and asthma, dizziness, diarrhea, eating less. "

⑦ Guangzhou army's Manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine: "tonifying the kidney and strengthening yang, strengthening muscles and bones, dispelling wind and dampness. Treatment of kidney deficiency, waist and foot weakness, flaccid paralysis, rheumatism, bone pain, neurasthenia, impotence, spermatorrhea, premature ejaculation, insomnia; women infertility. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: boil soup, 1.5-3 yuan; put into pill, powder, liquor or ointment.

[should avoid] those with Yin deficiency and excessive fire should not take it.

① Ben Cao Jing Ji Zhu: "to make it. It's an evil Dynasty. "

② In the classic of Materia Medica, it is said that "all diseases are characterized by excessive fire, red stool, bitter mouth, red eyes, painful eyes, irritability and thirst, and dry stool, which should be avoided by salty methods. "

③ "Depai Materia Medica" says: "excessive fire, ejaculation, yin deficiency, lack of water, adverse urination, dry mouth and tongue are forbidden. "

[selection of prescriptions] 1. Treating deficiency and yang deficiency without lifting, five labors and seven injuries. Can eat, under the gas: Morinda officinalis, raw three Jin each. Soak it in five bottles of wine, remove the dross and take warm clothes. It often makes the wine smell and not vomit when drunk. (Qian Jin Fang)

② For a woman with a long cold uterus, irregular moon pulse, more or less, under the red and white belt: three liang of Morinda officinalis, six liang of Liangjiang, sixteen liang of zijinteng, two liang of Qingyan, four Liang each. The top is the end, and the wine paste is the pill. Every 20 pills, warm salt and wine, salt and soup. One day, one afternoon and one night. (Baji pill in bureau prescription)

③ For the treatment of wind cold waist and crotch pain, you can't walk: Morinda officinalis in half, Achyranthes bidentata in half (remove seedlings), in half, cassia heart in half, wuqie skin in half, in half, in half (remove coarse skin, roast slightly yellow, judge), in half (crack, judge). Add medicine and pound Luo as the end. Refine honey and pound three or two hundred pestles. The pill is as big as a seed. Before each meal, drink 30 pills with warm wine. (shenghuifang Baji pill)

④ It can't help to cure urination: Morinda officinalis (heart removed, two flavors boiled with green salt and wine), shredded rabbit (steamed with wine). For fine powder, wine paste for the ball, such as big. Take 20 pills each time, and send them with salt wine or salt soup before eating. (wonderful recipe)

⑤ Treatment of white turbidity: < U > Zi < / u > (boiled in wine for one day, baked), Morinda officinalis (heart removed, soaked in wine), ragged paper (fried),,,, five flavors in each one or two. On the end, wine paste pills. Hollow salt soup. (Puji Fang)

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