Cotton seed

Cotton seed

(hundred grass mirror)

[synonym] kapok seed (materia medica Classic) and cotton seed (Lantai standard).

[source] it is the seed of Meliaceae, such as Gossypium hirsutum. See "cotton" for plant morphology.

[nature and taste] herbal classic: "pungent, hot, toxic. "

[pharmacological action] see "cotton root".

[function indications] warming kidney, tonifying deficiency and hemostasis. Treatment of testicular incontinence, enuresis. Hemorrhoids blood, prolapse, metrorrhagia, take down.

① "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": "burning, detoxification, hemorrhoids leakage, anal prolapse, lower blood, take half of each, black bean drenching wine. "

② "Medicinal properties test": "tonifying deficiency, warming waist, treating damage. "

③ Modern practical Chinese medicine: "it can promote the secretion of breast milk. "

④ Collection of commonly used folk herbs: "warming kidney, relieving pain. Treatment of leucorrhea, and treatment of enuresis in children. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 2-4 Qian; or into pills, powder. External use: smoked and washed with boiling water.

[should avoid] those with Yin deficiency and excessive fire should not take it.

[prescription selection] ① the treatment of impotence should not exceed: half a jin of cotton seed (soaked in water, dried in the sun, stir fried with wine, shelled with kernel), two liang of old paper (stir fried with salt water) and two liang of leek seed (stir fried). For the end, onion juice for the ball, Wuzi big. Two yuan for each serving, empty wine. (Zhumu trial prescription)

② Treatment of kidney size deviation: Cottonseed soup into the urn, the renal capsule sitting in the urn mouth, until the soup cold stop. Once or twice, the cold air will heal itself. (Huisheng Ji)

③ For the treatment of asthenia, timidity, fatigue and dyspepsia, coughing for a long time and vomiting blood: no matter how many cotton seeds are used, children's stools are soaked for one night, which is the end. Take one yuan for each, and take the Platycladus orientalis leaf soup. (jixiaofang)

④ More than night sweats: Cottonseed three or four money, a bowl of soup a day, hollow service for three or four days. (collection of compendium)

⑤ Treatment of milk shortage: cotton seed three money, broken, add two spoonfuls of rice wine, water, fried. (commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Shanghai)

⑥ Stomach cold pain: new cotton seed fried yellow black, research powder, take one to two times a day, two money each time, with ginger soup or warm water. (commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Shanghai)

⑦ Treatment of intestinal wind, intestinal red blood: huaimianhe a liter, Huaimi seven money. Use Tianmu bud tea to soak the juice, stir fry the two ingredients, put them into the tea juice, then stir fry again. After several times, the juice is dry and ground. Three yuan for each serving, and the hollow wine is adjusted. (deshengtang experience prescription)

⑧ Treatment of intestinal wind blood: raw persimmon two, bamboo knife cut off the pedicle of the core, with cotton into the persimmon, still covered, tile calcined storage, grinding fine powder, rice drink heat, heavy three service. (Wang Shigui's good prescription for no medicine)

⑨ Treatment of hemorrhoids: cottonseed, Sophora stem, leaves, fried soup fumigation. (Yang Su Yuan Chuan Xin Fang)

⑩ For hemorrhoids and hemorrhoids: Six taels of Cottonseed Kernel and six taels of black plum. A total of mash balls, Wutong Zi. Take three yuan in the morning and three yuan in the evening. (Zhou Yisheng's family prescription)

(11) treatment of blood collapse: a cotton seed (fried yellow), licorice, Scutellaria, etc. It's the end. Two yuan per serving, under the hollow yellow rice wine. (WAN Bing Hui Chun) two Chen Zong, cotton seed. The second flavor is burnt to keep its ash, and the yellow rice wine is sent down. (the best prescription)

(12) too much water is not enough: cotton seed, tile fried tobacco, for the end. Two yuan per serving, under the hollow yellow rice wine. (Cihang Living Book)

[discussion by famous experts] 1. In the classic of materia medica: "kapok seed is also a medicine for dispelling wind dampness and cold dampness. It's just the pain. Therefore, it can disperse wind evil; only its heat can remove cold and dampness. It is suitable for those with wind cold and dampness evil in the lower part. "

② "Ben Cao Zheng Yi" says: "in the old prescription, cottonseed kernel is used as the hemostatic product for harmonizing blood. If it is used to treat hematochezia, drenching blood, collapse, band, hemorrhoids, leakage and other diseases, it has the meaning of harmonizing blood, without cold and stasis. It is also used for tonifying the kidney and impotence, supporting the aged and the weak, and so on. It is also used for warming and nourishing, without the risk of being violent. It is mild and moisturizing. It is quite pure. It can nourish Yin fluid, help Yang Qi, moisturize hair, and moisturize skin. It is rich in blood and fat. It is different from Cinnamomum cassia and Aconitum carmichaeli. But this son is not without the role of Yang, kidney qi deficiency and cold, foot cold Yin flaccidity is appropriate, gouqi deficiency Yang is not solid, phase fire is not latent, fear of disturbance of the disadvantages, but also pure oil, more slippery discharge tired. Zhao's Gangmu Shiyi quoted huishengji. Mianzi boiled soup into the urn, sat and smoked it to cure the kidney falling. According to the testicle is too big, wood but not pain, mostly cold, treatment should be Wensan. "

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