He Meng

He Meng

(Chinese medicine and plant records)

[synonyms] shuifengjiao (Chinese Tibetan Scripture), hemingcao (materia medica), shuizaojiao (classified herbal medicine), mupaidou, mubarnyard grass (Guangxi Chinese veterinary medicine plant), dumugen, yezaojiao, Dayang nocturnal grass (Chinese medicine plant record), hefushuzi, comb tree (Jiangxi folk herbal medicine), YeYe, Yangliu, yehuaishu, (Hunan medicine record), hefucao, yelan（ They are: Jiangxi herbal medicine, yeyashucao, yehandou, wild bean fern, Salix Hailiu, lantiancao, Fujian herbal medicine.

[source] it is the whole plant of Gleditsia sinensis.

[plant morphology] Gleditsia sinensis

Annual semi shrubby herbs, up to 1 m high. Stem erect, cylindrical, the upper part of more light green branches, soft, hollow. Double pinnate compound leaves, alternate, 20-30 pairs of leaflets, linear, with a vein on the back. Raceme axillary, 1-4-flowered, with bracts and bracteoles; calyx 2-lipped, upper lip 2-toothed, lower lip 3-toothed; corolla butterfly shaped, yellow, flag petal round, petal curved and slightly beaked; stamens 10, 2-bodied (5 + 5); ovary stipitate, linear, style filiform, stigma terminal. Pods linear and flat. There are 4-8 pod nodes at maturity. There is one seed in the pod node. Seeds kidney shaped, dark brown and glossy. The flowering period is summer and autumn. The fruit ripens from October to November.

Growth tide wetland or waterside. It is distributed in North China, Southeast China and southwest China.

The root, stem xylem and leaf of this plant are also used for medicine.

[chemical constituents] the fruit contains alkaloids, saponins and tannins.

Sweet and light, cold.

① "It tastes sweet, cold and nontoxic. "

② Tianbao materia medica: "it tastes bitter, light and sour. "

③ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it is cool in nature, astringent in taste and non-toxic. "

④ Common Chinese herbal medicine in Shanghai: "bitter, flat. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat, removing wind, removing dampness, detumescence and detoxification. Treatment of wind heat, cold, jaundice, dysentery, gastritis, abdominal distension, gonorrhea, carbuncle, dermatitis, eczema.

① "Materia medica notes": "the main hot shower, urine red astringent, children's disease. Eyesight, water, hemostasis dysentery. Mash the juice. "

② "To get rid of the wind, to kill insects" is one of the most important works in the book of the names and facts of plants. "

③ "Tianbao Materia Medica": "eliminate wind and distension. Treatment grub chancre, jaundice, application swelling poison. "

④ Classified herbal medicine: treating fire and swelling. Steaming chicken is good for water and drenching. "

⑤ "Clearing heat and eliminating stagnation" is a common Chinese herbal medicine manual of Guangzhou army. Treatment of gastrointestinal flatulence, dyspepsia, gastritis pain, wind heat, cold, eczema, dermatitis. "

⑥ Jiangxi herbal medicine: "clearing away heat and dampness, detumescence and hemostasis. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-5 yuan; or powder. External use: tamping or frying and washing.

[prescription selection] 1. Adverse effect on urination: he Meng has two to five coins. Take it by frying. (commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Shanghai)

② Treatment of jaundice: tianzaojiao (fresh) 52. Take it in water, one dose a day. (Jiangxi herbal medicine)

③ Cure furuncle carbuncle: he Meng two to five money. Take it by frying. (commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Shanghai)

④ Rule blowing milk: water fluffy horn, no matter how many, new tile calcined dry, for fine powder, Linwo wine mixed with two money dagger. If it is broken, a little yellow water will also work. (zhongzang Jing)

⑤ Treatment of urticaria: he Meng appropriate, decoction wash. (commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Shanghai)

⑥ Treatment of traumatic bleeding: he Meng fresh grass appropriate, break the external application. (commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Shanghai)

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