Apple

Apple

(Wu Pu Ben Cao)

[synonyms] bincao (Shanhaijing), Daping (Tao Hongjing), Qicai (materia medica gleanings), four leaf vegetable (zhuiyan), tianzicao, potongqian (compendium), four eye vegetable (classified herbal medicine), four leaf herb (Tianbao materia medica), yehecao (Guangzhou flora), shuiducai (Luchuan materia medica), Yeguanmen (Chongqing herbal medicine), shuicaotou, shuijinhuatou, Yekuan Liancai, shizicao, Chuang at night, climbing at night (commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Shanghai), shuilingyang, sipailianchuan (commonly used folk herbal medicine in Zhejiang), shuifuqian, sidiecao, simianqiancao (Chinese herbal medicine in Fujian).

[source] it is the whole plant of Malus.

[plant morphology] apple

Perennial herbs. Rhizome creeping mud, slender and soft, non solid leaves with long petiole, 7-20 cm long, petiole top 4, cross shaped, opposite, thin paper; leaflets inverted triangle, 1-3 cm long and wide, rounded apex, entire, veins forked, below light brown, glandular scales. The sporophore is obliquely ovate or round, 2-4 mm long, hairy, and protrudes from the base of petiole, usually in 2 or 3 clusters. The petiole is less than 1 cm long, and the base is more or less contiguous. There are about 15 sporangia in the fruit, and each sporangia has a few megasporangia, surrounded by several microsporangia. Spore stage: summer and autumn.

Born in still shallow water. It is common in pools or paddy fields. It is distributed in subtropical and temperate zone.

[collection] it can be harvested in spring, summer and autumn.

Sweet and cold.

① "Gangmu": "sweet, cold, slippery, non-toxic. "

② "Food materia medica collection": "bitter taste, cold, non-toxic. "

③ Yilin zuanyao: "sweet and salty, cold and slippery. "

Functions and indications: heat clearing, diuresis, detoxification and hemostasis. Treatment of wind heat, purulent purulence, nephritis, hepatitis, malaria, diabetes, hematemesis, hematemesis, heat drenching, hematuria, carbuncle sores, scrofula.

① In the collection of Materia Medica, it is said that "when you drink juice by grinding, you can bite the poison into your abdomen, or apply heat sores. "

② Yilin zuanyao: "Dispelling vexation, relieving fever, eliminating phlegm and promoting water. "

③ Classification of herbal medicine: "it can treat women's red collapse and leucorrhea, irregular menstruation, annealing and detumescence. "

④ Tianbao materia medica: "clearing heart, relieving heat, removing fire poison. Cure grub chancre, apply sores, dispel clouds and disperse fog. "

⑤ Lu Chuan materia medica: "cool blood, stop bleeding. Treatment of hematemesis, bleeding, blood heat. "

⑥ "Treatment of heat and drench". "

⑦ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it can treat fire eye redness and swelling, gingival pain, hot drenching and urinating blood, and remove scrofula, hemorrhoids and carbuncle. "

⑧ "Quanzhou Materia Medica": "clearing heat and detoxification, promoting diuresis and detumescence, relieving pain, promoting qi and removing blood stasis. Treatment of edema, beriberi, heat boils, sores, sprains, insect bites and carbuncle swelling. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, fresh 1-2 Liang (large dose 3-5 Liang); or mash juice. External use: tamping.

[prescription selection] 1. To treat wind fire, red eye, nephritis, water vapor, swollen feet, hepatitis: Tian Zicao three money to one or two. Take it by frying. (commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Shanghai)

② Treatment of malaria: three to five liang of fresh clover. Take it three hours before the attack; or knead it with fresh whole grass, and fill your nose a few hours before the attack. (Zhejiang folk herbs)

③ Treatment of diabetes: Apple (sudden dry), Trichosanthes kirilowii, etc. Take human milk as pill. (notes on materia medica)

④ Treatment of hematemesis: fresh tianzicao two, duck liver one. Mash them together and heat them with boiling water. (Lu Chuan Ben Cao)

⑤ Treatment of heat sores, swelling and poison: a grasp of fresh apple leaves. Wash and pound well, apply to the affected area, change twice a day. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

⑥ Treatment of women's vaginal redness and swelling: five Liang clover. Take fried water with sugar. (Chongqing herbal medicine)

⑦ Treatment of sores: smash the fresh clover for external application, and change it once a day. (Zhejiang folk herbs)

⑧ Treatment of snakebite: a fresh clover whole amount of grass, add realgar powder three money, tamp around the wound. Two to three liang of fresh grass, mashed juice. Take cold boiled water and apply slag to the wound. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

⑨ Treatment of low back pain after trauma: first, stir fry the whole fresh apple grass with vinegar for six to one or two yuan, then add water to fry it and take it warm. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

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