Carrot

Carrot

(daily use materia medica)

[synonym] yellow radish (seeking the source of Materia Medica), red radish (suixiju diet), clove radish (Modern Practical Chinese Medicine), asparagus (flora of Guangzhou), red radish (flora of Lingnan).

[source] it is the root of carrot.

[plant morphology] carrot

Herbs annual or biennial, somewhat spiny. The root is stout, fleshy, red or yellow. The stem is erect, mostly 90-60 cm high. Leaves with long petiole, 2-3 pinnate compound leaves, lobes narrowly lanceolate or nearly linear; petiole base enlarged. The flowers are small, white or light yellow, compound umbels, at the top of long branches; the involucral bracts are leaflike, finely divided; the umbels are numerous, spherical, and the outer flowers have larger and equal petals. Fruit oblong, ca. 3 mm long, somewhat compressed dorsally, spiny along ridge. The flowering period is April.

It is cultivated all over the country.

The fruit of this plant (carrot seed) is also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] in winter, the roots were dug, the stems, leaves and fibrous roots were removed and washed.

[chemical constituents] the root contains a variety of carotenes, such as α -, β -, γ - and ε - carotenes, lycopene, hexahydroplycopene, vitamin B1 (0.1 mg%), B2 (0.3 mg%) and anthocyanins. It also contains sugar 3-15%, fatty oil 0.1-0.7%, volatile oil 0.014%, umbelliferide, etc. The content of volatile oil in roots decreased with growth, while the content of carotene increased with growth. The volatile oil contains α - pinene, camphene, myrcene, α - phellandrene, myrrhene and so on. It also contains caffeic acid, chlorogenic acid, gallic acid and p-hydroxybenzoic acid. The bitterness of carrot is often produced after cold storage, which is proved to be 3-methyl-6-methoxy-8-hydroxy-3,4-dihydroisocoumarin by separation. Carrots also contain a hypoglycemic ingredient that can be extracted from dried carrots with petroleum ether.

The leaves contain a lot of carotene, which can be used as raw materials for carotene production. The content of luteolin-7-glucoside in leaves was 0.01%. Carotene and pyrrolidine were also found in the aerial part

Flowers contain anthocyanins, quercetin and kaempferol.

[pharmacological action] the amorphous yellow component isolated from the petroleum ether extract of dried carrot, dissolved in almond oil, has obvious hypoglycemic effect when injected into human, rabbit and dog.

Sweet and smooth.

① Daily use materia medica: "it tastes sweet and pungent, non-toxic. "

② "Yinshan Zhengzheng" says: "it tastes sweet, flat and nontoxic. "

③ Yilin zuanyao: "it's hard to be born, but it's sweet to be ripe. "

[meridian tropism] entering lung and spleen meridians.

① "Seeking truth from Materia Medica": entering the lung, entering the spleen at the same time. "

② Summary of materia medica: "start with, follow yangmingjing. "

Functions and indications: Invigorating the spleen and resolving stagnation. Treatment of dyspepsia, dysentery, cough.

① "Daily use Materia Medica": "wide in the lower Qi, scattered in the stomach evil stagnation. "

② "Compendium": "lower Qi, tonifying the middle, benefiting the chest, diaphragm, intestines and stomach, calming the five zang organs, making people healthy. "

③ Yilin zuanyao: "moisten the kidney, strengthen Yuanyang, warm the lower part, and remove cold and dampness. "

④ "Lingnan caiyao Lu" says: "if you have leprosy, you can always drink it in boiling water. It can eliminate heat and detoxify. You can use it fresh or dry. "

⑤ Modern practical Chinese medicine: "treating chronic dysentery. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, raw food or mashed juice. External use: mash juice and spread it.

[selection] 1. For measles: four liang of carrot, three liang of coriander and two liang of water chestnut. Add more water and boil it into two bowls for one day.

② For chickenpox: four taels of carrot, three taels of chestnut, three taels of coriander, two taels of water chestnut. Take it by frying.

③ Treatment of pertussis: four pairs of carrots, twelve red dates with a core. Three bowls of water, fried into a bowl, free to serve. More than ten times in a row. (selected the prescription to produce the records of Lingnan herbal medicine)

[famous writer's discussion] 1. In Ben Cao Qiu Zhen: "carrot, because of its pungent taste, is scattered, sweet taste is harmonious, and heavy quality is reduced. Therefore, it can widen the middle and lower Qi, and make the evil of intestines and stomach go away with it. However, the book also says that tonifying the healthy food in the middle is not due to the deficiency of the middle, but to the deficiency of the middle. If the deficiency of the middle is not due to the deficiency of the middle, then the healthy food can be obtained. "

② According to Yilin zuanyao, "carrots are sweet and nourishing, so they can invigorate the Yang and warm the body. Their function is like a snake bed. "

Chinese PinYin : Hu Luo Bo