Pueraria lobata

Pueraria lobata

(bielu)

[synonym] kudzu Tiaohua.

[source] it is the flower of Pueraria lobata, a leguminous plant. The plant morphology is shown in the section "Pueraria lobata".

[collection] after the beginning of autumn, when the flowers are not fully released, harvest them, remove the stems and leaves, and dry them in the sun.

[medicinal material] the dried flower buds are irregular oblong or slightly oblate kidney shaped, 5-15 mm long, 2-6 mm wide and 2-3 mm thick. Sepals grayish green, base connate, apex 5-toothed, lobes lanceolate, 2 teeth connate, surface densely covered with yellow white trichomes. There are two lanceolate bracteoles at the base. Petals 5, equal length, protruding outside calyx or covered by calyx, blue purple, light blue purple or light brown. There are 10 stamens, 9 of which are commissural. The pistil is slender, slightly curved and hairy. Weak breath, weak taste. It is better to have big, lavender and unopened flowers.

It is mainly produced in Hunan, Henan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Anhui and other places.

[processing] remove the handle and impurities, and screen the soil.

Sweet and cool.

① "Diannan Materia Medica": "the nature is slightly cold, the taste is sweet and flat, and the taste is slightly bitter. "

② "Gangmu": "Gan, Ping, non-toxic. "

③ Yilin zuanyao: "sweet, cold. "

[Guijing] "Depei Materia Medica": "enter the Foot Yangming Scripture. "

Its main function is to sober up the spleen. Treatment of wine, fever, thirst, do not think of diet, nausea and vomiting acid, vomiting blood, intestinal wind blood.

① Bielu: "Xiaojiu. "

② "Diannan Materia Medica": "it can treat dizziness, cold aversion, strong heat, sober up the spleen, drink dysentery, not thinking about food, chest and diaphragm fullness, hair Er, vomiting, acid sputum, wine poison stomach, vomit blood, vomit blood, eliminate heat. "

③ "The compendium of Medical Sciences": "the treatment of intestinal wind and lower blood. "

④ Yilin zuanyao: "Qingfei. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1.5-3 yuan; or into pills, powder.

[prescription selection] 1. Excessive drinking, vomiting and phlegm, upset mind, chest and diaphragm stuffiness, shaking hands and feet, reduced diet, and adverse urination: three points for lotus Qingpi, five points for Muxiang, one and five points for orange peel, ginseng, Polyporus umbellatus, white Poria cocos, two points for Shenqu, Zexie, dried ginger, Atractylodes macrocephala, five points for baidoukou, Gehua and Amomum villosum. For the very fine end, balance and even, each take three money dagger, white soup tune down, but get a little sweat, wine disease to carry on. (Gehua Jieyu Decoction in theory of spleen and stomach)

② Treatment of drinking heat, poison damage to the spleen and stomach, hematemesis, fever, thirst, urine red less: Pueraria one or two, Coptis one money, talcum one or two (Shuifei), powder grass five money. For the fine powder, hydration for the pill, each take a money, boiling water. (Gehua Qingre pill in Materia Medica of Southern Yunnan)

According to Ben Jing Feng Yuan (treatise of famous experts), "kudzu flower can detoxify wine and poison, and it must be used as ginseng. However, those who are not poisoned by alcohol should not take it. Taking it will damage people's health. It will open up the muscles and hurt the body fluid by venting. "

Chinese PinYin : Ge Hua