Linglingxiang

Linglingxiang

(notes on materia medica)

[synonyms] Xucao (Shanhaijing), yancao (Nanyue annals), huicao (bielu), vanilla (Kaibao materia medica), linglingxiang, lingzixiang (MengXiBiTan), huanglingcao (gengxinyuce), Xuxiang (seeking truth from materia medica), lingcao (Handbook of Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole plant with roots of Primulaceae.

[plant morphology] Lingxiang, also known as guanglingxiang (compendium), guanglingxiang, Pingnan Xiang and manshanxiang.

Perennial erect herbs, with strong aroma, about 1 meter high. Root like. Stems often creeping in the lower part, smooth glabrous, ribbed or thinly winged. Leaf blade ovate, 4-9 cm long, 1.5-4.5 cm wide, apex acuminate, base cuneate, both petioles extending into wing shape, entire, wrinkled, dark green above, light green below, papery, 3-4 lateral veins on each side, sunken above and protruding below. Flowers solitary in leaf axils, pendulous, petiole slender; calyx pale green, 5-lobed, lobes ovate lanceolate; corolla yellow, 5-lobed, lobes elliptic, longer than sepals; stamens 5, equal, inserted on corolla tube, filaments very short, separated, basidiophore, halberd; ovary superior, 1-locular, special central placenta, ovules numerous, style rodlike. Capsule globose, pericarp gray white, membranous. Seeds small, many, dark brown, angular. The flowering period is May. The fruit period is from July to August.

The valley, the river, the forest. It is distributed in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Hubei, Guangdong and Guangxi.

[collection] from September to October, the plants were uprooted, the sediment on the roots was removed, and dried or dried in the shade.

[medicinal material] dry whole grass, mostly distorted, gray green to purple brown green. There are longitudinal lines and three ridges on the surface, and there are whisker like adventitious roots on one side. Brittle, easy to break, triangular section, yellowish white. Leaves alternate, long petiole, ovate, wrinkled, base cuneate, winged, pinnately reticulate, papery. Sometimes in the axils with a spherical capsule, white, slender petiole, as long as 3.5 cm, calyx persistent, thin pericarp, containing most of the small brown black seeds, a three-dimensional triangle. Root like, brownish black. The aroma is rich and the taste is slightly bitter. It is better to have tender stems and leaves, gray green, dry, strong aroma and no sediment.

Produced in Guangxi, Guangdong and Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and other places.

According to the linglingxiang of Haozhou in Zheng Lei Ben Cao and the linglingxiang Fu in the textual research of plant names and facts, they all resemble Basil or nine storied pagoda of Labiatae, but at present, basil is used as linglingxiang only in Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas. The nine storey tower is only distributed in Taiwan and Hainan Island. Linglingxiang on the market is mainly Lingxiang, which is consistent with Mengzhou linglingxiang in Zheng Lei Ben Cao.

Sweet and warm.

① Bielu: "it tastes sweet, flat and nontoxic. "

② "On medicinal properties": "bitter taste, non-toxic. "

③ Haiyaoben: "it tastes pungent, warm and nontoxic. "

[Guijing] 1. Ben Cao Qiu Zhen: "enter the lung. "

② "To match the materia medica": "enter the Taiyin and Yangming meridians. "

[function and indications] dispel wind and cold, dispel filth and turbidity. Treatment of typhoid, cold, headache, chest and abdominal distension, Xiali, spermatorrhea, nasal congestion, toothache.

① Bielu: "it can improve the eyesight, stop the tears, treat the essence, remove the bad smell, typhoid fever, headache, upper Qi and lumbago. "

② Can it cure nasal polyps and nasal polyps?. "

③ "Haiyao materia medica:" the main wind evil Chong heart, dental Che swelling pain, virtual labor chancre hidden, all teeth boiled, fried with good. "

④ Rihua in materia medica: "for the treatment of blood gas and abdominal distension, take it with wine. "

⑤ "Kaibao Materia Medica" says: "it is mainly used to treat evil Qi, heart and abdomen full of pain, lower Qi, and make soup pills with various incense. "

⑥ "Dispersing wind and cold, dispelling pestilence, haze and miasma". It can cure the pathogenic cold and headache. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1.5-3 yuan; or into pills, powder. External use: gargle with grinding powder or boiling water.

(1) Haiyao materia medica: "get Cimicifuga, Xi Xin Shan. It's not suitable to take too much. It's breathless. "

② Kaibao materia medica: "good wine. "

[selection] 1. To treat typhoid fever, to remove heat, to stop the next benefit: two liang of huicao, four liang of Huanglian, two liang of Danggui. Cut the upper three flavors with six liters of water, cook them for two liters, and drink them for three days. Avoid pork, cold water, etc. (huicao Decoction in fan Wang Fang)

② Treatment of typhoid fox confused anal: huicao, Huanglian each four Liang. Finely cut, take a bucket of white acid pulp, soak it for one night, boil it for one liter and take it in three parts. (xiaopinfang)

③ Cure five kinds of dysentery: Lingling vanilla (root removed, soaked in salt and wine for half a month, fried dry), every two into guangmuxiang one and a half money, for the end. For those with acute abdominal pain, take cold water for one and a half yuan, pass three or four times, and drink hot rice for one and a half yuan to stop dysentery. Only avoid raw pears. (back to the soul pill in the collection of prescriptions near the lake)

④ Treatment of dream and semen loss: smoked grass, ginseng, dried rehmannia, Atractylodes macrocephala, peony each three Liang, Fu Shen, GUI Xin, licorice (fried) each two liang, jujube 12 (brag). Cut the upper nine flavors into eight liters of water and boil them for three liters. Divide them into two servings. Each serving is like walking four or five miles. On one side, there are three or two Poria cocos. Avoid peaches, plums, sparrow meat, vinegar, seaweed, woad and green onion. (Xiao pin Fang Xun Cao Tang)

⑤ Treatment of toothache: linglingxiang (clean washing, soft fire drying), Piper (washing, filing, fire drying). First of all, a piece of charcoal was used as the fine powder to wipe the painful area, and then the gums were wiped clean. Then the medicine was used to wipe the painful area. The old man took off the medicine to clean the painful area

⑥ Treatment of dandruff: linglingxiang, Angelica dahurica, etc. Water decoction, into the chicken white mix, apply dozens of times, life is not raw. (Sheng Hui Fang)

⑦ For head wind, phlegm, nausea and lazy eating: zhenlingxiang, agastache leaves, Sasa root (fried) etc. At the end of the day, two yuan for each serving, three for each serving. (the parties)

⑧ Treatment of children with head heat, nasal obstruction: sheep pulp three Liang, smoked grass one or two (file). On the third or fourth day, rub the back with the ointment. (Sheng Hui Fang)

[clinical application] prevention and treatment of cold and influenza

Take 1 jin of the branches and leaves of manshanxiang, add 2000 ml of water and fry them to 1000 ml. Adults take 100ml daily for 3 days (children take less). After one month of continuous observation, 3 (1.8%) of the 165 patients in the influenza epidemic area took the preventive medicine, while 10 (14%) of the 68 patients in the control group took the preventive medicine. The patients were treated with compound manshanxiang tablets, 8 tablets each time, 3 times a day. Seven leaves a day, three cents a day. Among 349 patients, 89% were effective within 3 days; among 152 patients with fever, 90% were antipyretic within 2 days. No obvious side effects were found. According to the experimental research, 75% of the mount perfumes in chicken embryo can inhibit and inactivate influenza virus.

In the compendium of the compendium of famous experts, it is said that "fumigating grass is fragrant, and its Qi is pungent and dispersive. Therefore, it is used for the evil Qi in the heart and abdomen, toothache and stuffy nose. The spleen and stomach like fragrance, and fragrance can nourish the nose. Take more for asthma to dissipate Qi. "

Chinese PinYin : Ling Ling Xiang