Papaya

Papaya

(Lei Gong Paozhi Lun)

Different names (Erya), chaguashi (bielu), tiejiaoli (qingyilu).

[source] it is the fruit of Begonia pedunculata, a Rosaceae plant.

[plant morphology] Begonia tangutorum (qunfangpu)

Shrub, 2-3m high. Branches brown, spiny, lenticels distinct. Petiole 3-15 mm long; stipules nearly semicircular, variable, often falling off; leaves ovate to elliptic lanceolate, 2.5-14 cm long, 1.5-4.5 cm wide, apex pointed or obtuse round; base broadly cuneate to suborbicular, margin glandular serrate, sometimes irregular double serrate, upper green, lower light green, glabrous on both sides, or glabrous on lower middle rib when young Light brown pubescence. Flowers clustered, scarlet, white or pink, pedicel very short; sepals 5, erect, purplish red, nearly oblong, about 5 mm long, margin and inner surface with yellow pubescence; petals 5, suborbicular, about 1.7 cm long; stamens many, about 4 layers, anthers dorsifixed, oblong, 2-locular; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 5-locular, style 5, lower part slightly United. Pear oval or spherical, about 8 cm long, yellow or yellow green, aromatic. The flowering period is from March to April. The fruit period is from September to October.

Cultivated or wild, distributed in East China, central China and southwest China.

The roots (papaya roots), branches and leaves (papaya branches) and seeds (papaya seeds) of this plant are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] harvest the ripe fruits from September to October, boil them in boiling water for 5-10 minutes, take them out, sun them until the skin is wrinkled, cut them into 2 or 4 pieces longitudinally, and then sun them until the color turns red. If the sun night dew frost, the color is more bright.

[medicinal material] papaya, also known as wrinkled skin papaya. It is a dry fruit. It is oblong in shape. It is usually oval hemispherical in shape. It is 4-8 cm long, 3.5-5 cm wide and 2-8 mm thick. The outer skin is brownish red or purplish red, slightly glossy, often wrinkled, and the edge curls inward. The seed is hard, the cut surface is brownish red, and the ovary is flat or concave. Most of the seeds fall off, and sometimes the ovary wall can be seen. Seeds triangular, reddish brown, containing 1 white kernel. It is slightly sour and astringent. It is better to be big, wrinkled and purplish red.

It is mainly produced in Anhui, Zhejiang, Hubei, Sichuan and other places. In addition, it is also produced in Hunan, Fujian, Henan, Shaanxi and Jiangsu. Xuancheng, Anhui Province, is known as xuanpapaya, which is of better quality.

In addition, the fruits of the following plants of the same genus are also used as papaya in a few areas: 1. The fruits of the same genus are used in East China, Southwest China and Henan, and are commercially known as "Chaenomeles glabrata". After drying, the peel is smooth and wrinkle free. See "Chaenomeles glabrata". ② This fruit is used in Southwest China and Shaanxi Province. See the article "Guazi". ③ The fruit of Chaenomeles sinensis. It is used in Gansu Province. ④ The fruit of Tibetan papaya. Used in Tibet.

[processing] wash with clean water, soak slightly, moisten until transparent, steam in steamer, slice in hot water, expose in the sun at night, and change from red to purple black. Stir fry papaya: put papaya slices in the pot, stir fry gently until slightly burnt.

[chemical composition] it contains malic acid, tartaric acid, citric acid, saponins and flavonoids, catalase in fresh fruit and hydrocyanic acid in seed.

Sour and warm.

① "Lei Gong Paozhi Lun": fragrant, sweet and sour. "

② Bielu: "sour, warm, non-toxic. "

③ Qianjin Shizhi: "it tastes sour and salty, warm, astringent and non-toxic. "

④ "Medicine Huayi": sour taste, cool nature. "

⑤ Yucatalpa medicinal solution: "it is pungent in taste, astringent in nature and slightly cold. "

[Guijing] into the liver and spleen meridian.

① Li Gao: "human hand foot Taiyin blood.". "

② "Lei Gong processed medicine solution": into the lung, spleen, liver three channels. "

③ In the book of Materia Medica, it is said that "entering the foot Taiyin, Yangming, and entering the foot Jueyin meridian. "

④ The four meridians of spleen, lung, liver and kidney are involved. "

Functions and indications: Soothing the liver and stomach, removing dampness and relaxing tendons. It is used to treat vomiting, diarrhea, tendon changing, dampness arthralgia, beriberi, edema and dysentery.

① "Lei Gong Paozhi Lun": "adjust Ying Wei, help Gu Qi. "

② Bielu: "the main dampness Bi evil, cholera vomiting, more than turn tendons. "

③ "Dietotherapy Materia Medica": "it is a good way to cure vomit. After vomit, it turns muscle, and then it is boiled and drunk. "

④ "Materia medica Shipai": "cool air, strengthen muscles and bones, eat, stop water, thirst after dysentery, drink and take it. And beriberi heart, take a son, fried, tender better. And stop vomiting, heart diaphragmatic phlegm spit. "

⑤ "Haiyao Materia Medica": "astringent lung and stomach, spleen cutting liver, food quench thirst. "

⑥ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "anti vomiting, diarrhea, galloping porpoise and beriberi edema, cold and hot diarrhea, heart and abdominal pain, thirst treatment. "

⑦ Wang Haogu: "remove dampness and stomach, nourish spleen and lung. Good for abdominal distension and heart distention. "

⑧ Daily use materia medica: "it is used to treat beriberi attack, leg and knee pain, quench thirst and detumescence. "

⑨ Bencao Zaixin: "it can restrain the liver, spleen and stomach, activate blood circulation and dredge the meridians. "

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

[taboo] 1. According to diet therapy materia medica: "do not eat too much, it will damage teeth and bones. "

② Introduction to medicine: "avoid lead and iron. "

③ "Materia medica classic:" the lower waist and knees are weak. Due to the deficiency of essence and blood, it is not suitable for those who lack true Yin. It is not suitable for those who are not deficient in spleen and stomach and have excessive accumulation. "

[prescription selection] ① to treat vomiting and diarrhea and to turn tendons: one papaya (big, four broken), one Chencang rice. On the piece of medicine, two large cups of water, fried to a half, to dross, always warm a combined service. (Sheng Hui Fang) two pieces of papaya juice, one piece of Muxiang powder. On the two flavor, to hot wine tune down, regardless of the time. (Shengji Zonglu) three Dried Papaya or two, Evodia rutaecarpa half Liang (soup seven times), fennel one point, licorice (fried) one money. File for powder, each serving four big money, water one and a half, ginger three, perilla ten leaves, fried seven minutes, to dross, take before eating. (Papaya Soup in San Yin Fang)

② Antiemetic: papaya (end), musk, greasy powder, Muxiang (end), betel nut (end), each word. On the same research, batter pills, such as small rice big, each take one or two pills, licorice underwater, no time service. (papaya pill in pediatric medicine syndrome Zhijue)

③ More than diarrhea: rice beans two liang, papaya, ginger, licorice each one or two. For the end of the fine, each serving two money, rice drink tune, not to the time. (Jifeng Puji recipe Papaya Soup)

④ Treat rheumatism guest beat, hand foot waist knee cannot move: papaya a, green salt half Liang. Peel the umbilicus with papaya, and add one or two Wutong Fructus Evodia, remove the branches, set the thread into the hot, fine and heat, and add the green salt half a second. The fruit is large, and forty pills each, and the tea wine is served. Before eating. (water melon pill in Yang's family collection)

⑤ To cure lumbago and strengthen muscles and bones: two pairs of Achyranthes bidentata (soaked in warm wine, cut and baked), one piece of papaya (decapitated and steamed into Artemisia argyi leaves), one or two pieces of Morinda officinalis (decapitated), one or two pieces of fennel (fried), one or two pieces of woody incense, one or two pieces of cinnamon (decapitated). On the fine powder, into ripe papaya and moxa leaf with pestle thousand, such as hard, more under honey, pills such as Wuzi big, each take 20 pills, hollow salt soup. (papaya pill in Imperial medicine prescription)

⑥ Treatment of knee tendon pain: cook papaya to make rotten, research for pulp atherosclerosis, with wrapped pain, cold is easy, three or five degrees a night, hot wrapped will be poor. When cooking papaya, add half of the wine and cook it. (dietotherapy materia medica)

⑦ For the treatment of acute tendons, the items are strong and can not be turned to the side: Xuanzhou papaya two (take the cover to remove the root), myrrh two (Research), frankincense one or two (Research). The first two ingredients are mixed with papaya, and then steamed with bamboo for three or four times. They are rotten and ground into paste. Take three or five teaspoons each time, and the Rehmannia wine will melt (half a cup of raw rehmannia juice, two cups of ashless wine, one eighth of it, and warm the paste). (Decoction with water melon)

⑧ Treatment of all beriberi, leg and knee pain: a flower papaya (cut off the top to cover, to the edge), a aconite, gun peeled, sun, for fine powder. Put the Aconitum carmichaeli powder in the papaya, and then cover it with ripe wormwood. Sign it with bamboo stick and bind it with hemp thread. Use rice vinegar to boil it in porcelain, and then grind it into paste in stone tools. In other words, use two or three bowls to spread out the spoon in the bowl. You can see the thickness of the bowl. Cover the bowl on the baking cage and bake it slowly. Touch it with your hand. If you don't touch your hand, copy it with the spoon and spread it out in front of you. Don't let the flour scorch. Don't make it lump. After several times of doing so, you can make it into pills only when it's dry and wet . (papaya pill in Wei family's collection)

⑨ Treatment of dry beriberi, pain can not be Ninja: a dried papaya, alum - two, fried water, by hot fumigation, the "magic recipe"

⑩ For the treatment of foot dampness, it can attack the heart and chest, block up the stagnant phlegm: one or two papaya (dry), one or two tangerine peel (soaked in soup, removed the white pulp, baked), one or two ginseng (removed the reed head), half two cinnamon, half two cloves, two or two betel nuts. The last medicine is tamarind, and the honey and tamping three, two hundred pestle, pill are like Wutong Zi, each time is not taken, and thirty pills are made of ginger soup. (shenghuili papaya pill)

(11) for the treatment of beriberi pain, both men and women can take it. If people feel rheumatism, foot pain, swelling, it is appropriate to take: betel nut seven, tangerine peel (to white), the melon each one or two, Evodia rutaecarpa, perilla leaf each three money, Platycodon grandiflorum (to Lu), ginger (and skin) each half two. Cut it carefully and fry it once. Use three bowls of water and fry it slowly until one and a half bowls. Remove the dregs. Then add two bowls of water to fry the dregs. Take a small bowl and mix the medicine and juice twice. Set it at the head of the bed. At the next day's five o'clock, divide it into three or five clothes, only cold clothes, and slightly warm clothes in winter. (Jiming powder, standard of syndrome differentiation and treatment)

(12) treatment of beriberi, congestive heart, chest diaphragmatic fullness and depression: a piece of abdominal skin, a piece of perilla, a piece of Dried Papaya, a piece of licorice (fried), a piece of woody incense and a piece of notopterygium. Fine file for Yinzi, divided into three clothing. For each serving, fry one liter of water until three minutes, and take it orally. Papaya powder

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