Artemisia argyi

(notes to the classic of Materia Medica)

[source] the dried leaves of Artemisia argyi.

[plant morphology] AI (the book of songs), also known as Bingtai (Erzhi), AI Hao (Erya, GuoPu's note), Yi Cao (bielu), moxibustion Cao (Youya), Qi AI (Qi AI Zhuan), Huang Cao (compendium), Jia AI (Yilin Zhuanyao), Tian AI (Bencao Qiuyuan), Cao Peng, AI Peng, Langwei Hao Zi, Xiang AI, yeliantou, Aji.

Perennial herbs, 45-120 cm high. Stem erect, round, hard, base lignified, covered with gray white hairs, branched from above middle. The leaves in the lower part of the stem wither at flowering; the middle leaves have short petioles, ovate elliptic, pinnatifid, lobes elliptic lanceolate, margin coarsely serrated, dark green above, thinly covered with white soft hairs, densely covered with glandular dots, grayish green below, densely covered with grayish white villi; the leaves near the top of the stem are sessile, and the leaves are sometimes undivided, lanceolate or linear Needle shaped. Inflorescence racemose, terminal, composed of many head inflorescences; involucre bracts 4-5 layers, outer layer smaller, ovate lanceolate, middle layer and inner layer larger, broadly elliptic, margin membranous, densely woolly; receptacle flat, hemispherical, with more than 10 female flowers and bisexual flowers; female flowers less developed, about 1 cm long, without obvious corolla; bisexual flowers are as long as female flowers, corolla tubular, Red, apically 5-lobed; stamens 5, anther aggregated, filaments short, inserted at the base of corolla; style slender, apically 2-branched, ovary inferior, 1-locular. Achenes oblong. The flowering period is from July to October.

It grows on roadsides, grasslands, wilderness, etc. There are also cultivators. It is distributed in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Gansu, etc.

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

The same genus of wild wormwood, also known as fire wormwood. The height is 45-100 cm. The middle leaves are pinnately divided in 1-2 cycles, the lobes are elliptic, lanceolate to linear, entire or serrate, without glandular spots on the upper leaves, nearly bald, and covered with white filiform hairs below; the upper leaves are almost sessile, and the lobes are narrow as lines. The flowering period is from September to October. It is distributed in most parts of the country. Its leaves can also be used as Wormwood Leaves.

[collection] in spring and summer, when the flowers are not blooming and the leaves are luxuriant, they are picked and dried in the sun or in the shade.

[medicinal material] the dry leaves are mostly shrunk and broken, with short stalks. The leaves are slightly pinnate, with irregular coarse serrations at the edge of the lobes. The top is gray green with soft hair, and the bottom is dense with gray white fluff. It's soft. It is fragrant and slightly bitter. The one with gray white, fluffy and rich aroma is the best.

In most parts of the country, there is a lot of production.

[chemical constituents] it contains volatile oil. The main components of the oil are Ⅰ, 8-jing, α - thujone, α - phellandrene, β - caryophyllene, camphene, zanthofenone, trans carveol and Ⅰ - α - terpineol.

[processing] Artemisia argyi leaves: remove impurities, stem and dust. Wormwood: take the dried Wormwood Leaves and crush them into wormwood, remove the hard stems and petioles, and screen the dust. Artemisia argyi charcoal: take the Artemisia argyi leaves and put them in a pot, stir fry them with fire until 70% black, spray them with water, mix them well and sift them through the wire, stir fry them again if they are not penetrated, take them out, cool them in the air, and store them in three days. (100kg of Artemisia argyi leaf, 15kg of vinegar)

① "Materia medica Yanyi": "dry ramming and sieving to remove the green dross, white, into the stone, for the sulfur moxa, moxibustion home. Get a little rice flour, can pound for the end, into the medicine. "

② "The compendium of Medical Sciences" says, "if you use moxa leaf, you need to use it for a long time. If you use it for a long time, you can treat it as soft and delicate, which is called ripe moxa. If you have moxibustion fire, it will hurt people's muscles and veins. Pick the clean leaves, remove the dust, put them into the mortar, and pound them with a wooden pestle. Remove the dross, and then pound the white ones until they are soft and rotten. If they are used for baking, the moxibustion fire will be effective. When adding into the powder, it is not good to use cooked wormwood, dry it with vinegar, pound it into cake, dry it and pound it again as the end, or use glutinous paste and cake, or stir fry it with wine. In Hong's Rong Zhai essays, it is said that AI Nan works hard. If he is in the white, three or five pieces can be milled together, and then he can make a fine end. "

Bitter, pungent and warm.

① Bielu: "bitter taste, mild temperature, non-toxic. "

② "Tang Materia Medica" says: "cold is born, hot is ripe. "

③ Compendium: "bitter and pungent, warm and ripe. "

[channel tropism] entering spleen, liver and kidney channels.

① In the compendium of Medical Sciences: "entering the Taiyin, Juyin and Shaoyin meridians. "

② New edition of materia medica: "entering the spleen, kidney and lung meridians. "

③ "Re innovation of Materia Medica": entering the heart and kidney meridians. "

Functions and indications: regulating qi and blood, expelling cold and dampness, warming meridians, hemostasis and stillbirth. It is used to treat cold and pain in the heart and abdomen, diarrhea and tendon transformation, long-term dysentery, vomiting, lower blood, irregular menstruation, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea, fetal restlessness, carbuncle and itch.

① Bielu: "it's mainly about moxibustion. It can be used for decocting, stopping dysentery, vomiting blood, hiding sores in the lower part, and bleeding in women. It benefits Yin Qi, generates muscles, dispels wind and cold, and makes people have children. "

② Tao Hongjing: "it can also stop blood injury by pounding leaves to moxibustion all kinds of diseases. Juice kills Ascaris. Bitter wine decocting leaves to cure tinea. "

③ "Theory of medicinal properties": "to stop blood collapse, to settle the fetus, to stop abdominal pain. Zhichi Baili and Wuzang hemorrhoids diarrhea. "Take it for a long time to stop cold diarrhea. And the evil spirit of the heart, take the leaves to drink. "

④ "Tang Materia Medica": "the main blood, bleeding, purulent blood dysentery, boiled and pill powder appointment. "

⑤ "Dietotherapy Materia Medica": "golden sore, collapse, cholera, stop fetal leakage. "

⑥ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "stop cholera, turn tendons, treat heartache, nose flood, and take down. "

⑦ Capsule: "warming the stomach. "

⑧ "Lvyan materia medica:" for the treatment of pharyngeal and laryngeal pain and heat stagnation, if the diet is harmful, rinse with mashed juice. "

⑨ Wang Haogu: "it's a disease to treat the pulse. The abdomen is full and the waist dissolves like sitting in water. "

⑩ "Compendium": "warm, by cold, dehumidification. "

(11) Ben Cao Zheng: "dispel the wind and cold, prevent malaria. "

(12) Bencao Zaixin: "regulating menstruation, relieving depression, regulating qi and promoting blood circulation. Treatment of postpartum convulsion, umbilical sores in children. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 1-3 yuan; add pills, powder or mash juice. External use: mash velvet to make a stick or make moxa stick to smoke moxibustion, mash and apply, fry and wash with water, or stir fry and warm iron.

[should avoid] it should be used with caution in patients with Yin deficiency and blood heat.

① "Compendium": "bitter wine, make it. "

② "Preparation of Materia Medica": "blood heat is forbidden for patients. "

③ According to Fengyuan, it is forbidden for those with Yin deficiency, excessive fire, blood dryness, and persistent blood loss. "

[prescription selection] ① treatment of apoplexy and heartache: three liters of mature Artemisia argyi, three liters of water, one liter of boiling water, removing dross and taking it. If you are polite, you should spit out insects. (behind the elbow)

② Treatment of cold pain in spleen and stomach: Bai Ai Mo Decoction for two yuan. (Yi Jian Fang for health)

③ Treatment of enteritis, acute urinary tract infection, cystitis: Artemisia argyi leaf two money, two money, car front twelve six money. Take it in water, once a day, morning and evening. (Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, China)

④ Treatment of dysentery, abdominal pain, restless sleep: wormwood (fried), tangerine peel (white soup immersion, baked) and so on. On the two flavor mash for the end, wine cooked rotten rice and pills, such as Zi Da. Twenty pills for each, hollow. (xiangai pill in Shengji Zonglu)

⑤ Treatment of dampness, cold, dysentery, pus, abdominal pain, women's lower blood: dry wormwood leaf four Liang (fried coke storage), Sichuan white ginger one or two (gun). On the end, vinegar cooked noodles paste pills, such as Wuzi big. Take 30 pills each time and drink with warm rice. (AI Jiang Tang in Shi Yi De Xiao Fang)

⑥ To cure one or two mouthfuls of hematemesis, or heart bleeding, or internal collapse: cooked AI San Ji Zi Xu, five liters of water, boiled two liters of service. (Qian Jin Fang)

⑦ The treatment of nosebleed is not only: the ash of wormwood can be blown, but also the leaf of wormwood can be decocted. (Sheng Hui Fang)

⑧ After the treatment of fecal blood: Artemisia argyi leaf. Fry concentrated juice and take Sanhe. (Qian Jin Fang)

⑨ In the process of treating women's collapse, it has been more than one day: cooked Artemisia argyi is as big as chicken, half Liang and one dollar. Water five, first boil Artemisia argyi, ginger to two and a half, into the glue, closed, divided into three services, fasting service, one day. (prescription for health preservation)

⑩ Treatment of functional uterine bleeding, postpartum hemorrhage: argyi leaf charcoal one or two, each five money. One dose daily, decoct twice. (selected materials of new medical treatment of Chinese herbal medicine, Inner Mongolia)

(11) treatment of women's leucorrhea: Artemisia argyi leaves (pestle like cotton, remove dust and stem, wine boiled for a week) six Liang, Bai Su, each three Liang (all rice swill soaking, sun dried fried), body (wine fried) two liang, one or two. Altogether for the end, every morning take three money, white soup tune down. (Ben Cao Hui Yan)

(12) treatment of pregnant patients with restlessness, or low back pain, or fetal heart, or more than blood: Artemisia argyi a chicken, four liters of wine, boiling two liters, divided into two services. (behind the elbow)

To cure postpartum abdominal pain and to die, because of cold: Chen Qi AI 2 jin, baked, rammed on the navel, covered with silk, ironed, until the mouth of AI gas, the pain will stop. (Yang Cheng's empirical formula)

(14) the treatment of night sweats is more than one: ripe AI Er Qian, white San Qian, three. Water for one hour, fry for eight minutes, lie in warm clothes. (compendium)

The treatment of carbuncle and gangrene is not suitable, and the sore is cold and stagnant: after washing with AI Decoction in the north, smoke it with white glue. (ren Zhai Zhi Zhi Fang)

(16) cure head wind and face sores, itch yellow water: AI Er Liang, vinegar 1 liter, casserole

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