Gall

Gall

(Haiyao materia medica)

[synonyms] Mo Shi Zi (Lei Gong Pao Zhi Lun), Wu Shi Zi (medicinal property Lun), Wu Shi Zi (Zi Mu Mi Lu), Wu Shi Zi (You Yang Za Zu), Ma Cha Ze (Fang Yu Zhi).

[source] it is the gall produced by the larvae of gall wasp, which parasitize on the young branch of gall tree.

[animal morphology] gall bee

Body small, about 6 mm long. It's black. There are 1 pair of compound eyes on the head and 3 single eyes. Antennae 1 pair, straight and slender. Wings 2 pairs, membranous, transparent; forewings without fringes, few veins, flat at rest. Three pairs, developed. The abdomen is spherical and laterally flat, and the female has a straight groove under the abdomen with ovipositors in it. The larva is as small as a maggot.

Gall wasps parasitize on gall trees. When females lay eggs, they first stab the buds of plants with ovipositors, and then lay eggs in the wounds. When they hatch into larvae, they can secrete liquid containing enzymes, so that starch in plant cells can be quickly converted into sugar and stimulate the meristem of plant cells. When the starch grains in the cells around the larvae disappear, they contract and form galls. After the larvae grow, they fly away through holes.

[collection] the galls that have not been perforated are usually collected from August to September and dried in the sun.

[medicinal materials] dry gall, slightly spherical, with short stalks, 1-2.5 cm in diameter, gray or grayish brown in appearance, with verrucous protuberance. Hard and thick, uneven section, yellow white or light yellow, glossy. Dead bodies of young bees are common. If the insect has been flying out, there is a hole in the middle, which is connected with the small hole on the surface, and the insect shell is left inside. Odorless, astringent and bitter. It is better to be big, heavy and gray in color than to be perforated.

Produced in Greece, Turkey, Iran and other places.

[chemical composition] it contains 50-70% Gallic tannin, 2-4% gallic acid, paragallic acid and resin.

Wash, dry and mash.

Bitter and warm.

① Tang materia medica: "bitter taste, warm, non-toxic. "

② "Haiyao Materia Medica": "Wenping, nontoxic. "

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

① "Yuluoyaojie" says: "entering the kidney of foot Shaoyin and liver meridian of foot Jueyin. "

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

③ Huiyue medical mirror: "entering the lung and kidney meridians. "

[function indications] solid Qi, astringent essence, astringent lung, hemostasis. It is used to treat large intestine deficiency, diarrhea, bloody stool, spermatorrhea, Yin sweat, cough, hemoptysis, toothache, trauma, bleeding and sore for a long time.

① "Treatise on medicinal properties": "it can't help but treat adults and children with cold and slippery abdomen. "

② "Tang Materia Medica": "it is mainly red and white, smooth intestines and healthy muscles. "

③ Haiyao materia medica: "it is used to control intestinal deficiency and cold dysentery, benefit blood and produce essence, harmonize qi and tranquilize the mind, treat Yin toxin and flaccidity, and burn ash. "

④ "Kaibao Materia Medica": "it governs infantile chancre, treats Yin sores, Yin perspiration, and warms moderate Qi. "

⑤ "Materia Medica from the new": "astringent essence solid gas, strong Yin help Yang, stop left drenching. "

⑥ Modern practical Chinese medicine: "it is used to treat chronic bronchitis, phlegm, cough, hemoptysis, hemoptysis and other diseases; it is also used for external use in knife wound bleeding, chronic skin diseases and other diseases. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 2-4 Qian; or into pills, powder. External use: grind the end to scatter or adjust to apply.

[should avoid] it is forbidden to take it when diarrhea starts, damp heat is stagnant or stagnant.

① According to the classic of Materia Medica, "Chibai dysentery is due to dampness and heat stagnation in the intestines and stomach, and should not be used in patients with excessive accumulation. "

② "From the new Materia Medica": "the nature is too astringent to be used alone. "

[prescription selection] 1. To treat infantile dysentery: no stone (slightly simmered), half a pair of skin (simmered). It is a fine powder. Take porridge and drink for half a dollar each time, three or four times a day. The quantity of children is increased or decreased. (no stone powder in Puji Fang)

② Treatment of infantile intestinal deficiency, heat, diarrhea, blood, or red stool juice, abdominal pain after heavy, day and night, more than five times: no stone, Sanguisorba officinalis each five money, Huangbai (file, honey fried) two liang, Huanglian (fried, file) one two five money, sour pomegranate skin one or two. Pound for fine powder, with vinegar cooked batter and balls, such as hemp. Take 10 to 20 pills each time. Drink warm rice and take it before eating. (there is no shiziwan in Ju Fang)

③ Treat blood dysentery, regardless of distance: no stone or two. Fine research, to soft rice and pills, such as beans big. Take ten pills with porridge before each meal. (Puji Fang)

④ Treatment of postpartum dysentery: no stone. Burning is the end. And wine service square inch dagger, cold is wine service, hot is drink. (secret records of son and mother)

⑤ For hemorrhoids, there are three stones (burning ash), three taels of Ailanthus root white skin (filing and stir frying), three parts of motherwort, two taels of Shenqu (stir frying), one or two leaves of cypress and one or two ears of mulberry. Smash the fine straw into powder. Every time before eating, warm congee drink to adjust a money. (Sheng Hui Fang has no stone powder)

⑥ Governance Yin sweat: no stone burning ash, first to warm (soup) bath, that is to silk micro Yan, Fu ash bag. (Zhang zhongjingfang)

⑦ Treat all mouth sores in children, stop pain: no stone three points (Micro Fire), licorice one point. Add medicine and pound it into powder. Every time on the sore thin mixed, cover Ling?. (Sheng Hui Fang)

⑧ Treatment of tooth pain: no stones, no matter how many, pound for powder. To wrap a money with cotton, when the pain bite, there is salivation. (no stone scattered in Shengji Zonglu)

⑨ Treat nose and face wine: if there is no stone in the South and there are holes, grind it with water and apply it at night. (Shi Yi De Xiao Fang)

[famous treatise] "seeking truth from Materia Medica" says: "gall nut is a special skill for strengthening kidney qi. For those who suffer from dreaminess, fine smoothness, Yin flaccidity, toothache, abdominal cold, diarrhea, sore, Yin sweating, all kinds of deficiency fire rising, and kidney qi not being solid, take the pain to strengthen kidney, warm stomach and spleen, so that Qi can press the Nadan field and not be discharged. It is said in the book that calming the mind and calming the soul means that the spirit is both collected and not floating. If he burns black ash Decoction to cure Yin toxin, he uses other medicine to dye hair and hair, and he uses it to wipe teeth, it all depends on his astringent power to protect himself. "

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