Taro

Taro

(compendium)

[synonyms] Tianhe (materia medica), Mimosa (gengxinyuce), gehexian (gehexian), guanyinlian (Gangmu), Jianwei wild taro and Toutou (raw herbal medicine preparation), dujiaolian (classified herbal medicine), wild taro and wooden taro (Lingnan medicine Collection), Guangdong evergreen (Chinese plant Atlas), tiger taro (Guizhou folk medicine Collection), dazhongtaro, dutaro Tianmeng (medicinal plant of Guangxi Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine), huhumeng (medicinal record of Nanning City), dayeye (Atlas of Chinese medicinal plant), yetaro (medicinal record of Lingnan), Tutang (medicinal record of Hunan Province), Tianhe (medicinal record of Hunan Province), Langdu (manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine) of Guangdong Province, and pushatou (medicinal record of Guangxi Province).

[source] it is the rhizome of Alocasia esculenta.

[plant morphology] Alocasia esculenta

Perennial herbs, up to 5 m high. Stem stout, up to 90 cm thick. Leaves alternate; broad ovate, extremely large, 30-90 cm long, 20-60 cm wide, apex short pointed, base broad heart-shaped arrow shaped, 2-lobed, lobes rounded at apex, connate near petiole, slit narrow, entire or slightly wavy, lateral veins about 9-12 pairs, thick and obvious, green; petiole stout, 60-90 cm long, lower part thick, amplexicaul. Flowers are unisexual, monoecious; inflorescence stalk is stout, about 2 in each leaf axil, 15-20 cm long; tube of foyan bract is 3-4 cm long, pink green, bracts boat shaped, 10-14 cm long, 4-5 cm wide, green yellow, apex acute; inflorescence of fleshy inflorescence is shorter than foyan bract. The female inflorescence is 2-2.5 cm in length, located at the lower part; the neutral inflorescence is 2.5-9.5 cm in length, located above the female inflorescence; the male inflorescence is 3 cm in length, located above the neutral inflorescence; the appendage is about 8 cm in length, with reticular grooves; the ovary is 3-4-locular. Berry red. Flowering: late spring and early summer.

It grows in the mountains. Distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Taiwan, Fujian, Hunan, Sichuan, Guizhou and other places.

The fruit of this plant (Alocasia esculenta L.) is also used for medicine. See special section for details.

[collection] all year round. When processing, use cloth or paper to pad hands to avoid poisoning. Cut off the skin with a knife, slice, soak and bleach with clean water for 6-7 days, change the water for many times, take it out for drying or fresh use.

[medicinal materials] the dried rhizomes are oval, oblong or cylindrical in shape with different sizes. The length of the rhizome can reach 90 cm and the diameter is 3-6 cm or more. Sometimes we can see the undeleted emboli, ring nodes and round root marks. The vascular bundles were scattered in yellowish spots, and the endothelial rings were clear. It is weak in breath, light in taste and numb in chewing.

Mainly produced in Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan and other places.

In addition, this product is used as Stellera chamaejasme in Guangdong. See "wolf poison".

[chemical composition] the corm contained 17.4% water, 4.11% crude protein, 0.84% crude fat, 4.99% crude fiber, 3.76% ash and 68.9% nitrogen-free extract. In addition, it contains the alkaloid, which is poisonous.

It is pungent, warm and poisonous.

① "Compendium": "Xin has great poison. "

② "Guangxi records of traditional Chinese medicine": "it is mild in taste, cold in nature and poisonous. "

③ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "warm in nature, pungent in taste, toxic. "

[functions and indications] it is used to treat malaria, acute vomiting and diarrhea, enteric typhoid, rheumatic pain, hernia, red and white belt, carbuncle, swollen poison, atrophic rhinitis, scrofula, scrofula, scabies, snake and dog bites.

① The compendium of Medical Sciences: "to treat malaria, poison, wind and scabies. "

② "Classification of herbal medicine nature": "treat all kinds of malignant sores, swelling and poison, and apply wine at the end. "

③ "Tianbao Materia Medica": "Application of scabies, scabies. "

④ "Guangxi Traditional Chinese medicine annals": "treatment of tuberculosis, Sha disease, fever, etc. "

⑤ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "internal and external hemorrhoids. "

[usage and dosage] take orally; decoct soup (Xujiu Decoction), 1-3 yuan (fresh 0.5-1 Liang, sliced and fried with rice until scorched, then add water to boil until rotten, remove residue). External use: paste, heat, rub or tamp.

[taboo] not raw. Otherwise, it will lead to tongue swelling and even suffocation. Those with deficiency should be cautious.

Yao Kecheng's food materia medica: "it's boring to eat by mistake. "

[prescription selection] 1. To cure cold and summer heat, headache and body fatigue: Seal wild taro root with wet paper, simmer it hot, wipe head, forehead, waist, front and back heart, bend hands and feet, which can make people feel comfortable all over the body. (collection of herbs in Lingnan)

② Treatment of wind heat headache: Wild taro seedling (slice), paste affected part. (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine)

③ Treatment of abdominal pain: Wild taro four Liang (fried yellow), sweep tube leaf two Liang (fried yellow). First, fry the wild taro well, then put down the leaves while boiling for a while, remove the dregs and warm up. Avoid drinking rice soup. (Lingnan herbal medicine)

④ Treatment of intestinal typhoid: Wild taro (sliced) four Liang, add one or two rice and two rusty nails, stir fry yellow, add water to fry. (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine)

⑤ Under the red and white belt: cut wild taro and stir fry with rice, add sugar and cook. (collection of herbs in Lingnan)

⑥ Treatment of rheumatism and bone pain: a thick piece of taro. First put a little in the center of taro, bake camphor with fire, while the fire is not out, quickly apply the affected area. (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine)

⑦ Treatment of hemorrhoids and hematochezia: trace taro 2 jin boiled chicken, boiled for 12 hours, take the soup to drink, also can take the chicken. (Lingnan herbal medicine)

⑧ Treatment of carbuncle, swelling, poison and sore: sliced wild taro, baked and pasted, cold and heat exchanger. (essential preparation of raw herbs)

⑨ Treatment of back carbuncle: taro and distiller's grains are mashed and applied to the affected area (do not use if it has ulcerated). (Lingnan herbal medicine)

⑩ Treatment of chronic atrophic rhinitis: Unicorn 100 cm, toad 1.5 cm, 1 cm, 2 cm, sesame oil amount. First, the toad venom is boiled with yellow rice wine, then the lotus root is crushed, and the sesame oil is boiled to dry and remove the residue. After cooling, the musk, toad venom, borneol and the original sesame oil are mixed to form the oil. Put the dropper into the nose. In addition, the paste preparation method: according to the dosage in the above prescription, toad venom is made into wine, unicorn lotus is mashed, juice is extruded, dregs are removed, toad venom, musk, borneol and appropriate amount of glycerin are added to form a mud paste. (Chinese Journal of Otolaryngology (2): 1161957)

(11) cure board sore: Mark taro, lard, mash and apply to the affected area.

(12) treatment of snakebite: two pairs of taro and one or two pieces of tangerine peel. Mash with salt water and medicine, wrap with wet paper or leaves, simmer and compress the affected area.

Treatment of rabies: taro four Liang, fried water ridge. Some of them were cooked with pork for half a month. Some also use taro to smash the wound. (11) Lingnan herbal medicine

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