South candle

South candle

(compendium)

[synonym] wufanguo (Pharmacology).

[source] it is the fruit of Vaccinium bracteatum.

[plant morphology] wufanshu, also known as niujin (the collection of Materia Medica), heifancao, wufancao (rihuazi materia medica), wucao (Kaibao materia medica), nanzhuo, ranshu, houzhuo, houshu, the king of plants and trees, weinamu (the book of Materia Medica), wufancao (the compendium), wushuishu, kangjuzi and blueberry.

Evergreen shrubs, 1-3 m high, many branched. The branches are fine, grayish brown with red, with punctate hairs when young, falling off when old. Leaves alternate; ovate elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 3-6 cm long and 1-3 cm wide, margin sparsely serrate, base cuneate, apex acute, leathery, glossy, midrib short hairy; petiole short and inconspicuous. Raceme axillary, 2-5 cm long, with 10 flowers, slightly hairy; bracts lanceolate, 1 cm long, margin inconspicuously serrate; petiole 0.2 cm long, villous; calyx campanulate, 5-lobed, externally villous; corolla white, pot shaped, 5-7 mm long, villous, apex 5-lobed; stamens 10, anther apex elongated into tubular, filaments with white trichomes; ovary inferior, ovary, inflorescence 2-5-lobed, Style 6 mm long. Berry globose, red, purple black at maturity, about 5 mm in diameter, calyx teeth persistent, containing several white seeds. The flowering period is from June to July. The fruit period is from August to September.

On hillsides, roadsides, or shrubs. It is distributed in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong and Taiwan.

The roots and leaves of this plant are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] from August to September, the fruits were picked and dried after ripening. Place in a dry place.

[medicinal material] dried fruit, spherical, 4-5 mm in diameter. The surface is dark reddish brown, slightly wrinkled, with persistent calyx, calyx tube bell shaped; the apex is 5-lobed, lobes triangular, covering more than 2 / 3 of the fruit, with yellow punctate style marks at the top, and fruit stalk at the base. It tastes sour and slightly sweet.

Produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places.

[chemical composition] the dry fruit contains about 20% sugar and 7.02% free acid (mainly malic acid and a little citric acid and tartaric acid).

[pharmacological action] the extract can denaturate Ehrlich ascites cancer cells in vitro.

[nature and taste] Compendium: "sour, sweet, flat, non-toxic. "

[Guijing] new edition of materia medica: "entering the kidney and liver meridians. "

Functions and indications: tonifying kidney and strengthening essence, strengthening tendons and improving eyesight. Treatment of long discharge Mengyi, long diarrhea, red and white belt.

① "Compendium": "strengthen muscles and bones, replenish qi and strength, strengthen essence and retain beauty. "

② "Medicine science": strengthen the kidney. For a long time, the treatment of dream legacy, body deficiency, weak Qi, red and white belt. "

[usage and dosage] take orally: decoct soup, 2-4 yuan; or take pills.

[formula selection] add jingsui, Shujin Mingmu: nanzhuzi (living) 2 kg, Ginkgo (shelled) 4 liang, yam powder 1 kg, Poria cocos 4 liang, euryale seed 1 kg, mashed together as cake, fire baked as powder; add wolfberry 1 kg, Rehmannia 1 kg, Cornus officinalis 1 kg, mulberry leaf powder 2 kg (tender mulberry is wonderful), jushengzi 1 kg. Total for the end, honey for the pill. Every morning the old wine gives five dollars. (new edition of Materia Medica)

According to yaoyaofenji, the compendium of medicine contains three items in the branches and leaves of Nanzhu, namely, stopping discharge, eliminating sleep and whitening, and two items in Yuzi, namely, strengthening the essence and keeping the appearance, which are the same as the branches and leaves. This almost intertextuality is not the same as the indications of other drugs, or the branches or leaves, or the branches or leaves. I'd like to have a taste of Yunan Zhuzi. It's very effective in treating dysentery and diarrhea. It's also effective in treating drowsiness after meals. We can see that it is not only the branches and leaves that stop discharge but also sleep. It is also effective to treat dysentery and blood stasis for a long time, which is not mentioned in "Materia Medica". Once made a prescription, it used nanzhuzi as the king, Shouwu as the minister, Gu Yasheng and Jiao as the assistant, and its drugs were added according to the disease, such as Jiuli plus Coptis, Muxiang, CHEHE Zi, jiuxie plus yam, Jianlian, chuosheng plus Yizhi, Yuanzhi, Lixue plus Coptis, Huaihua, Danggui, Diyu. It's really like xiangsiying. "

Chinese PinYin : Nan Zhu Zi