Pu'er tea

Pu'er tea

(Ben Jing Feng Yuan)

[synonym] Puyu tea (physical knowledge) and Daye tea (dendrology).

[source] the leaves of Puer tea, a plant of Theaceae.

[plant morphology] Pu'er tea

Evergreen shrubs or small trees, about 3 m tall. Branchlets gray, pubescent when young. Petiole elliptic or elliptic, apex ovate or 10.5-16.5 cm long, glabrous when young, apex ovate or villous. Flowers solitary in leaf axils; sepals 5, glabrous; petals 7-9, obovate, oblong, white, ca. 2 cm long; stamens numerous; ovary superior, spherical, densely pilose, 3-5-locular, style 3-lobed, glabrous. Capsule oblate, dark brown, 3-4 cm in diameter. Seeds suborbicular, brown, ca. 15 mm in diam.

It is distributed in Yunnan.

Bitter and astringent, cold.

① "The compendium of compendium" says: "bitter and astringent. "

② Ben Cao Zai Xin: "it tastes sweet and bitter, has a cold nature, and is non-toxic. "

[Guijing] Bencao Zaixin: "entering liver and stomach channels. "

Functions and indications: eliminate meat, expel wind and phlegm, expel heat, detoxify, generate fluid and quench thirst. The treatment of Sha Qi abdominal pain, dry cholera, dysentery.

① "Every source of the book of songs" says: "eliminate food, fight malaria, stop dysentery. "

② "Gangmu Shiyi": "it can relieve greasy cattle and sheep poison, expel phlegm and lower Qi, scrape intestines and relieve diarrhea. "Also:" Pu'er tea cream, sober up Xiaoshi Huatan, Qingwei Shengjin, particularly powerful. "

③ "Ben Cao Zai Xin": "it can treat the floating heat of liver and gallbladder, relieve the deficiency fire of lung and stomach, generate fluid and quench thirst. "

④ "Suixiju diet spectrum" says: "good at spitting wind and phlegm, eliminating meat. When the symptoms of summer heat, blood stasis, abdominal pain, dry cholera, dysentery and so on start, it is easy to drink. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-2 yuan.

[taboo] "empty person is forbidden" in the compendium. "

[prescription] treatment of depression: eggplant stalk (collected in fuyuecai, dried), burned in the room; with two coins of Pu'er tea in it, fried and served, and served in a short time. (hundred grass mirror)

Chinese PinYin : Pu Er Cha