Hu Tonglei

Hu Tonglei

(Tang materia medica)

[synonyms] Hu Tonglu (Yan shigu's annotation in Hanshu), Shi Lu (rihuazi's materia medica), Shi Lei (Ling Biao Lu Yi), Hu Tongjing (compendium).

[source] it is the resin of Populus euphratica, which has been preserved in soil for many years.

[plant morphology] Populus euphratica, also known as Hu Tong (Han Shu).

Arbor, 15-30 m high. The shoots are hairy and fall off after one year. The winter buds are hairy and have no viscose. There are many variations in leaf shape. In long branches or young trees, the leaves are lanceolate, strip lanceolate or rhombic, 5-12 cm long, mostly full margin and short petiole; in short branches or old branches, they are broadly ovate and kidney shaped, 2.5-7 cm long, with teeth on the edge and 3-6 cm long petiole; in the same tree or branch, the middle leaf shape can be seen. Flowers unisexual, dioecious; catkin; male inflorescence 1.5-2.5 cm long; male bracts oblanceolate, caducous; stamens 23-27; female inflorescence 3-5 cm long; female ovary sessile, attached to the base of disk, stigma 6-lobed, purplish red. Capsule long elliptic, 8-15 mm long, short petiole.

Distributed in western Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang and other places.

There are two kinds of medicinal materials, old and new. One: the resin flows into the soil for a long time. It is massive or powdery with different sizes, and is yellowish brown. It's crisp and fragile. Second, the period of resin flowing into soil is short. Most of them are irregular round pieces, cherry green. It's soft and tender, not easy to break, with acid. It is better to be old, yellow and free from mud.

[nature and taste] Tang materia medica: "it tastes salty and bitter, cold and nontoxic. "

[Guijing] entering stomach meridian.

① Ben Cao Jing Shu: "enter the foot Yang Ming Jing. "

② "Seeking truth from Materia Medica" says: "it enters the stomach and the kidney at the same time. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat, resolving phlegm, softening and strengthening. Treatment of sore throat, toothache, tooth Xuan, chancre, alveolar wind, scrofula.

① "Tang materia medica:" the main big poison heat, upset, water and take vomit. "

② "Haiyao materia medica:" the main wind chancre hidden teeth pain, bone trough wind labor, can soft everything. "

③ Rihuazi materia medica: "the wind is controlled, the wind is lifted, the wind is lifted, the wind is lifted, the wind is broken, the wind is broken, the wind is broken, the wind is broken, the wind is broken, the wind is broken, the wind is broken, the wind is broken, the wind is broken, and the wind is broken."

④ "Qi Yuan of medicine": "Huang can not be removed without this. "

⑤ "Compendium": "throat heat pain, water mill sweep, take saliva. "

⑥ "Materia medica Huiyan": "reduce fire heat, smooth phlegm knot. "

[usage and dosage] external use: gargle with boiling water or sprinkle with grinding powder. Oral: into the powder.

[taboo] 1. Haiyao materia medica: "taking too much makes people vomit. "

② "Ben Cao Hui Yan": "do not use if you don't eat because of stomach deficiency. "

[prescription selection] 1. For the treatment of acute distention of the throat, swelling and obstruction: Hu Tong's three coins for tears, two coins for borax, one coin for raw alum, and one and five cents for Danxing. The total is the end. Use one or two teaspoons of ginger soup. (Ben Cao Hui Yan)

② Treatment of hot and humid toothache, like wind: Hutong tears mixed with musk. (compendium)

③ The treatment of sudden bleeding between teeth: Hu Tong tears half a Liang, Yan Luo for the end, with paste teeth, such as blood out of uncertainty, and then paste. (Sheng Hui Fang)

④ Treatment Teeth Root xuanlu hang out, pus blood, tone: wolfberry root one liter (cut), Hu Tong tears one or two. Add a piece of medicine, mix well, divide into five degrees, each degree with two large cups of water, fry until one, remove dross, heat and cold vomiting. (Sheng Hui Fang)

⑤ Treatment Teeth xuanlu have pus blood out, and children worm chancre broken: Tingli, Hu Tong tears each half two. On the two flavor, pound for powder, mixed in the affected area. (Sheng Ji Zong Lu)

⑥ Treatment of horse chancre: Jatropha alkaloid, Huangdan, etc. For the end of the mixed. (Yilin Jiyao)

⑦ Treatment of stomach and duodenal ulcer and general stomachache: Jatropha resin. Smash it, put it into a basin, add equal amount of water, heat it to dissolve it, filter it with four layers of gauze, collect and filter it, precipitate it for 24 hours, boil it in a hurry, do not stir it, until the water evaporates, it will become a dark brown solid, if the bottom layer is too carbonized, it will be removed; finally, grind it into fine powder and seal it in the bottle. Usage: 10% Wutong lye, 10 milliliters per adult, two grams a day, two times a day after meals, and a course of treatment for seven days. (selected prescriptions of Chinese herbal medicine in Xinjiang)

[discussion by famous experts] 1. In the compendium, it is said that "the stone tears enter the earth to receive brine gas, so its nature is cold and it can remove heat, and its taste is salty and it can enter the bone to be soft and firm. "

② "The classic of materia medica:" Hu Tong's tears, "the classic said: heat in the interior, the treatment of salty cold; also said: in the high, so more. Bitter to gush spit, cold to win heat, so the main big poison heat, upset belly, take spit and effect. In rihuazi, it is used to treat wind insects and toothache. Li claims that it can treat bone groove wind and tooth concealment, and the element words can't be eliminated. All of them are due to its bitter ability to kill insects, salty ability to penetrate bone, soft and hard ability, great cold ability to remove extreme heat. "

Chinese PinYin : Hu Tong Lei