Water hyacinth

Water hyacinth

(pinhui Essentials)

[synonyms] Ailanthus sinensis (Shengji Zonglu), Ailanthus altissima (Gangmu), fengyanzi (commonly used veterinary medicine), Ailanthus altissima (Shandong traditional Chinese Medicine), Ailanthus altissima (Shanxi Traditional Chinese medicine records), Ailanthus altissima (Jiangsu traditional Chinese medicine records), chunlingzi (yiyaoweisheng (1): 3-81973).

[source] it is the fruit of Ailanthus altissima. For plant morphology, please refer to "Ailanthus altissima Bunge".

[collection] from August to September, the fruit was harvested when it was hot, the fruit stalk was removed and dried in the sun.

[medicinal materials] the dried Samara is oblong, flat, slightly curly at both ends, 3.5-4 cm long and 1-1.2 cm wide, yellowish brown, slightly glossy, with fine veins on the surface, membranous, a transverse convex grain in the middle, a oblate protuberance in the middle, containing a seed, and a few Samaras have residual fruit stalks. The seed is oblate with yellowish brown seed coat and two yellowish green thick oil-rich cotyledons. It tastes bitter, especially the seeds.

It is produced in most parts of the country.

[nature and taste] Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "bitter and astringent in taste, cold in nature. "

[function indications] it is used to treat dysentery, intestinal wind, hematochezia, hematuria, metrorrhagia and leucorrhea.

① Jiayou materia medica: "blood in stool. "

② "Collection of medicinal materials": "for the treatment of intestinal wind, hematochezia, urination and blood, for the treatment of bone jams. "

③ Shandong traditional Chinese medicine: "it is a hemostatic drug. To cure women's HAEMORRHEA. "

④ Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "it has the same function as Ailanthus altissima Bunge (Ailanthus altissima Bunge), and is mostly used for hemostasis. "

⑤ "Northeast commonly used Chinese herbal medicine manual": "treatment of spermatorrhea impotence; fried after the end of the research hematochezia. "

⑥ "Northeast commonly used Chinese herbal medicine manual": "for hematochezia, hematuria, HAEMORRHEA. "

⑦ "Shanghai commonly used Chinese herbal medicine": "for dysentery, hematochezia, leucorrhea. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 1-3 yuan; or grind powder.

[prescription selection] 1. For the treatment of intestinal wind and diarrhea: toon pods are used for half a lifetime, half of them are burned, and they are made into powder by ramming Luo. Each time you take a dagger and drink warm rice, you can adjust it at any time. (chungusan in Shengji Zonglu)

② Treatment of leucorrhea, urethritis: Fengyan grass two liang, fried Huang Yan Mian, each take two money, water delivery service. (Handbook of common Chinese herbal medicines in Liaoning)

⑧ Shampoo and brighten your eyes: water hyacinth, burn ash, drench your hair, add Toona ash is better. (Yi Jian Fang for health)

[clinical application] treatment of chronic tracheitis

Take chunlingzi crude drug dry pressed powder and equal amount of honey to make pills, each pill weighs 2 yuan. 1 money each time, 3 times a day, 10 days as a course of treatment. After three courses of treatment, the effective rate was 88.25%, and the markedly effective rate was 43.26%. The curative effect of simple type is higher than that of wheezing type, and that of deficiency cold type is higher than that of phlegm heat type. This medicine has certain antitussive and expectorant effect, but has poor antiasthmatic effect. The main side effects were dry mouth, nausea and dry stool, which disappeared spontaneously except for individual withdrawal.

Chinese PinYin : Feng Yan Cao