Mahogany

Mahogany

(Jinhua, selected prescriptions of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines)

[synonym] red tiger thorn, bird buta, red thorn tube, red bird butu (Jinhua's "selection of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine prescriptions"), Erythrina rubra, red bird buta thorn, red Jatropha curcas, HuJiao thorn, thousand needles, red leaf cat thorn, red leaf umbrella thorn, red thorn Party (Zhejiang folk commonly used herbal medicine).

[source] the root bark of Acanthopanax senticosus.

[plant morphology] Acacia spinosa

Small trees, about 3 m high. Branches densely covered with slender straight spines. 2-pinnate compound leaves, 30-60 cm long, 5-7 leaflets, 1 pair of leaflets at the base; leaflets membranous to papery, ovate oblong to needle shaped, 4-11.5 cm long, 2-2.5 cm wide, apex long acuminate, base rounded, lateral leaflets, base skewed, margin sparsely serrate, with pinkish white below, sessile or short petiole. The flowers are small and white, with reddish brown hairs on inflorescence and stalk; calyx 5-toothed, triangular ovate; petals 5-ovate; stamens 5-locular; ovary 5-locular, style 5-detached. Fruit globose, 5-branched, 2-3 mm in diameter, with 5 reflexed persistent styles.

It is distributed in Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

[collection] the roots can be picked all year round, dug up, washed, peeled or sliced, and dried for later use.

[nature and taste] 1. Jinhua's selected prescriptions of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines: "slightly bitter. "

② Zhejiang folk commonly used herbs: "warm in nature, slightly bitter in taste. "

Functions and indications: dispelling wind and removing heat, promoting qi and blood circulation, detumescence and detoxification. It is used to treat rheumatism, arthralgia, ulcers, traumatic injuries and carbuncle.

"Promoting blood circulation, breaking blood stasis, dispelling wind and promoting Qi, clearing heat and detoxifying" is the main content of Jinhua's "selected prescriptions of common Chinese herbal medicines". It is used to treat traumatic injury, fracture, female septicemia, osteomyelitis, carbuncle, rabies bite, rheumatic arthralgia. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 3-5 yuan; or soak in wine. External use: tamping.

[selected formula] ① for rheumatoid arthritis: Radix Hedysarum and Radix Hedysarum. Make a pig's hoof soup and cooked pork.

② Cure ulcer disease: red? Wood root 2 to 3 Liang, long stem South Schisandra vine (hongmuxiang), black medicine, orange, licorice each three money. Take it in water.

③ Treatment of traumatic hematoma: red? Wood root skin with salt a little mash, external application of the wound.

④ Treatment of traumatic injury, rheumatic pain, neuralgia: red? Wood root, red fennel newspaper, acanthopanax gracilis root each 2 jin, Polygonum cuspidatum root 3 jin, licorice half Jin, Shaojiu 30 jin. First, soak the medicine in cold boiled water, then add the liquor, soak for 30 days, take out and filter. 10 ml for adults three times a day.

⑤ Treatment of sciatica: red? Wood root, Lingxiao root, yam, shidoulan each one or two, tiger thorn root five money. Take it in water.

⑥ Treatment of metrorrhagia: red plum root, Elaeagnus root, artichoke root each two to four Liang. Cook with pork sandwich. Have inflammation fever, drink add June snow, Houttuynia cordata, jiejiecao each one or two. (selected out "Zhejiang folk commonly used herbs")

Chinese PinYin : Hong Mu