Leek

Leek

(materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

[synonyms] fengben (the book of rites), caozhongru (the collection of Materia Medica), qiyangcao (Hou Ningji's medicinal manual), lazy vegetable (eryayi), Changsheng leek (Wang Zhen's agricultural book), zhuangyangcao (the collection of Materia Medica), and Biancai (Guangxi Medicinal Plant records).

[source] it is the leaf of Allium tuberosum.

[plant morphology] leek (Book of songs)

Perennial herbs, about 20-45 cm high, with strong odor. The rhizome is horizontal, with many fibrous roots and 1-3 clustered bulbs on it, which are oval cylindrical. Leaves basal; long linear, flat, 10-27 cm long, 1.5-9 mm wide, apex acute, margin rough, entire, smooth, glabrous, dark green. The inflorescence of the flower stems is triangular, up to 50 cm long; umbels are terminal; involucre is membranous, white, usually 1-3 pieces, base connate, apex acute; perianth is 6-lobed, white, lobes oblong, 4-6 mm long, apex acuminate or acute, arranged in 2 rounds, alternate; stamen is 6, filament length does not exceed perianth, middle part expands below, anther is yellow; pistil is 1, ovary Superior, 3-locular, triangular. Capsule obcordate triangular, green, 4-5 mm long, about 4 mm in diameter. Seeds black, flat, slightly semiovate, margin angulate. The flowering period is from June to July. The fruit period is from July to September.

It is cultivated all over the country.

The root, bulb (leek root) and seed (leek seed) of this plant are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[chemical constituents] the leaves contain sulfides, glycosides and bitterness.

[pharmacological action] the original liquid obtained by pressing and filtering the stem of Chinese chive in flourishing growth, 0.1-0.5 ml / 10 g, is injected intravenously into mice, which can produce shock like symptoms, even manic and spasmodic symptoms, then turn into sedation, drowsiness and cyanosis, and die half an hour later; intravenous injection of rabbit has mild hypotension; for isolated frog heart, it can inhibit first and then excite, and a large number of them can make the heart stop in the expansion phase; for frog heart, it has mild hypotension The blood vessels of lower limbs and rabbit ears had slight dilation. The results showed that 1% diluent had an excitatory effect on the isolated uterus, but the effect was reduced by half when heated at 100 ℃ for 60 minutes. When the distilled liquid was injected subcutaneously into mice, it also developed shock like symptoms, manic, cyanosis and even death of respiratory paralysis; when the distilled liquid was small, it caused significant decrease of red blood cells and hemoglobin in peripheral blood of rabbits; the hemolytic concentration of red blood cells in guinea pigs was 0.06-0.007%.

[flavor] pungent, warm.

① Bielu: "it tastes bitter, warm and nontoxic. "

② Rihuazi materia medica: "hot. "

③ "Diannan Materia Medica": "warm in nature, spicy and salty in taste. "

④ "Compendium": "astringent nature, ripe sweet acid. "

[meridian tropism] into the liver, stomach and kidney meridians.

① "Into the kidney. "

② "Gangmu": "entering foot Jueyin meridian. "

③ "Lei Gong's treatment of medicinal properties": entering the lung, spleen and kidney. "

④ "Seeking truth from Materia Medica": entering the liver, kidney, intestine and stomach. "

[function indications] warming the middle, promoting Qi, dispersing blood and detoxifying. Treatment of chest obstruction, choking diaphragm, nausea, hematemesis, hematemesis, hematuria, dysentery, thirst, hemorrhoids, anal prolapse, fall injury, insect and scorpion sting.

① Bielu: "an Wu Zang, in addition to stomach heat. "

② Tao Hongjing: "if you cook crucian carp and Tetrix, you can cut off the soldiers and benefit from them. "

③ "Dietotherapy Materia Medica": "benefit the chest and diaphragm. "

④ Materia medica notes: "warming the middle, lowering Qi, tonifying deficiency, harmonizing viscera, making people able to eat, replenishing Yang, stopping discharge of white pus, abdominal cold pain, and cooking it. It is also used to kill snakes, cobras, scorpions and poisonous insects. "

⑤ Rihuazi materia medica: "it can stop the discharge of essence and blood, warm the waist and knees, and it is also good for eating except the chronic cold in the heart and abdomen, the cold in the chest, the dysphagia and abdominal pain. Apoplectic aphasia research juice service, heart, spleen and stomach pain very, health research service, snake, dog bite and sore, tamping. "

⑥ The supplement to the meaning of materia medica: "cold drink with juice can cause blood stasis in the lower diaphragm and fill the liver qi. "

⑦ "Danxi Xinfa" says: "if the menstruation is retrograde, or bloody, or spitting blood, take it with leek juice. "Those who are injured by falling should drink leek juice or eat with porridge. "

⑧ "Diannan Materia Medica" says: "it can smooth the intestines and stomach, or eat gold, silver and bronze articles in the abdomen, and then eat them. "

⑨ Compendium: "drinking raw juice, the master gasps for breath, and dissolves the poison of preserved meat. Boiled juice drink, stop thirst, night sweats, smoked maternal blood supply, enema hemorrhoids anal prolapse. "

⑩ "Guizhou folk medicine collection" says: "it can cure asthma and roar for a long time, and it can also promote lactation. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: mash juice drink, 1-2 Liang; or stir fry for food. External use: tamping, juice dripping, hot frying, ironing or frying water fumigation.

[should avoid] patients with Yin deficiency and internal heat, sore and eye disease should not eat.

① Meng Shen: "you can't eat hot leeks ten days after fever. You will feel sleepy when you eat them. "

② The classic of materia medica: "do not take it if you have heat due to deficiency of stomach qi. "

③ "Ben Cao Hui Yan:" the more painful and itchy it is, the more painful and itchy it is. "

④ "Seeking truth from Materia Medica" says: "fire is full of yin deficiency, which is the most taboo. "

⑤ "With the rest of the diet:" malaria, sore home, Sha, acne after all taboo. "

[prescription selection] ① for the treatment of chest stuffiness, the acute pain in the heart is like a thorn in the cone, and it is not allowed to pitch, sweat or pain on the back, and it is not allowed to treat or die: the raw leek or root is five Jin (washing), and the juice is pounded. Pour a little, spit out the blood in the chest. (Meng Shen Fang)

② Treatment of Yang deficiency, kidney cold, Yang is not vibration, or waist and knee cold pain, spermatorrhea dream discharge: leek white eight Liang, walnut meat (peeled) two Liang. Stir fry with sesame oil and serve for one month. (Fang Mai Zheng Zong)

③ Stomach turning: two leek juices and one milk. Use half a pair of ginger juice and mix well. Warm clothes. (Danxi Xinfa)

④ For the treatment of laryngeal apoplexy, you can't eat: a handful of leeks, mashed and boiled thin, cold is easy. (Qian Jin Fang)

⑤ Treatment of hematemesis, spitting blood, hematemesis, bleeding, drenching blood, urine blood and all blood syndromes: ten jin of leek, mash juice, five Jin of raw Rehmannia (chopped) soaked in leek juice, dried in the hot sun, with raw Rehmannia black rot, dried leek juice as the degree; into the mortar, mash thousands of times, such as rotten paste without residue, for the ball, marble big. Take two pills every morning and evening, and fry the white radish in the soup. (Fang Mai Zheng Zong)

⑥ Lower intestine blood stasis: leek juice cold drink, very experience. (Zhu Zhenheng)

⑦ Treatment of Henoch Schonlein purpura: a jin of fresh leeks, wash, mash juice, add 50 ml urine of healthy children. Once a day, take twice. (selected materials of new TCM therapies in Fujian Province)

⑧ Water stop Valley dysentery: leek soup porridge, fried. You can eat whatever you like. (heart mirror of food medicine)

⑨ The treatment of diabetes and excessive drinking: leek seedlings eat three or five Liang a day. Stir fry or make soup, no salt, but eat ten jin is good. Don't eat during the Qingming Festival. (Zheng He Ben Cao)

⑩ Treatment of hemorrhoids: the leek is not much, first heat the soup, the soup in the basin, the basin covered with utensils, leaving a hole, but the leek in the soup bubble, to the Valley Road sitting on the hole, so that the gas fumigation; wait for the temperature, with leek gently wash sores several times. (Pocket recipe)

(11) treatment of postpartum hematuria: leek (cut) into the bottle, injection of hot vinegar, to the mouth of the bottle to the nose. (women's prescription)

(12) treatment of anal prolapse does not shrink: a jin of raw leeks. It is divided into two parts, wrapped in soft silk and ironed with each other. It is easy to be cold and easy to be served. (Sheng Hui Fang)

Treatment of golden sore bleeding: leek juice and weathered lime, daily dry, every use for the end, apply it. (Linhu jijianfang)

(14) treat ear juice: drop leek juice three times a day. (Sheng Hui Fang)

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(16) treatment of traumatic injury: three fresh leeks and one flour. Mash together. Apply to the affected area twice a day.

To treat urticaria: chives, licorice each five money, fried; or fried with chives food.

(18) treatment of uterine prolapse: half a jin of leek. Fry soup to fumigate and wash vulva.

(19) treatment of heatstroke coma: mash leek juice, drip nose. (16) the following prescription comes from the manual of Chinese herbal medicine of Jiangsu medicine)

Treatment of lacquer sore itching: leek leaf pestle application. (doumenfang)

[clinical application] for the treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection

The fresh leeks were soaked in 1:3000 potassium permanganate for 1 hour, then soaked in 0.2% Furacilin Solution for 24 hours. The leeks were taken out and rinsed with 1% salt water for 10 minutes. The leeks were pressed and filtered under aseptic operation. The leeks were placed in the refrigerator for standby. In clinical use, the wound surface was routinely cleaned, and 1-2% procaine was applied. After about 5 minutes, the wound surface was applied with sterilized gauze soaked with leek juice, 1-3 times a day. If the wound is in the compression or easy to fall off, vaseline gauze can be added to bandage. If there were fistulas, the wounds were first expanded to remove the corrupt tissue, and then filled with leek juice gauze, 1-2 times a day. Two patients with Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection after burn were treated, and the results were satisfactory.

Zhu Zhenheng said: "heartache is caused by eating hot food and anger depression. If the blood is left in the stomach, leek juice and Platycodon grandiflorum should be added to the medicine to improve Qi and blood. For those with heartache caused by kidney qi attack, leek juice and Wuling powder should be used as pills and hollow fennel soup should be used. Cover leek impatient, can open appetite blood stagnation also. For nausea, you should use two cups of leek juice, one cup of ginger juice and one cup of milk, take it gently, cover leek juice to eliminate blood, ginger juice to eliminate phlegm and stomach, and milk can relieve heat, moisten dryness and tonify deficiency. "

② The compendium of Chinese medicine: "the leaves of Chinese chives are hot and the roots are warm. They have the same functions. When they are born, they are pungent and disperse blood. When they are ripe, they are sweet and tonic. When an old man is sick, he chokes and spits when he eats. He has a sharp pain in his chest. He may order him to take leek juice, add a little salt plum sauce, sip it carefully, and then gradually add it. Suddenly, he spits out thick saliva and gets better. This is also Zhongjing's use of Allium macrostemon for treating chest obstruction, which is also based on the meaning of Xin Wen Neng San Wei Wan Tan Yin Xie Xue. "

③ According to the classic of Materia Medica, leek is pungent when it is born, sweet when it is ripe, and tonifying the middle. It is also good for liver, dispersing stagnation and guiding blood stasis. Because it is slightly acidic, it enters the liver and dominates the blood. It can disperse the stagnation of blood. It is also a medicine for promoting Qi in the blood. The heart controls the blood and the mind is specialized

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