eggplant

eggplant

(notes on materia medica)

[synonyms] Luosu (mengshen), Kunlun melon (Daye Zaji), grass turtle shell (health mainlun), cheese crisp (yizilu of the Five Dynasties), dwarf melon and diaocaizi (flora of Guangzhou).

[source] it is the fruit of Solanaceae.

[plant morphology] eggplant, also known as Dongfeng grass (Diannan materia medica).

Annual herbs. Stem erect, stout, 60-100 cm high, base lignified, upper branched, green or purple, spinless or sparsely spiny, all stellate pilose. The leaves are oval, 6-18 cm long and 3.5-12 cm wide, apex obtuse, base often askew, leaf margin often wavy lobed, surface dark green, two faces stellate pilose; petiole 2-5 cm long. Cyme lateral, containing only a few flowers; calyx campanulate, apically 5-lobed, lobes lanceolate, stellate pilose; corolla purplish blue, transverse diameter about 3 cm, lobes long ovate, spreading, with fine hairs outside; stamens 5, filaments short, inserted corolla throat, anther yellow. Pistil 1, ovary 2-locular, style cylindrical, stigma small. Berries oblong, globose or long columnar, dark purple, light green or yellow white, smooth; base with persistent calyx. The flowering period is from June to August, and the fruit sets after flowering.

It is cultivated in most parts of the country.

The roots and stems (Solanum tuberosum), leaves (Solanum tuberosum), flowers (Solanum tuberosum) and persistent calyx (Solanum tuberosum) of this plant are also used for medicine. See the special section for details.

[collection] harvest the fruits when they are ripe in summer and autumn.

[chemical constituents] it contains trigonelline, stachydrine, choline, solanine and other alkaloids. The content of solanine in seeds was the highest, ranging from 1.2% to 1.5%. The pericarp contains solaneside, perillin, delphinin-3-glucoside and delphinin-3,5-diglucoside.

[pharmacological action] the extract of fruits and leaves (fresh or dried powder) can reduce the blood cholesterol level of rabbits and humans by oral administration or injection, and has diuretic effect. However, this result has not been confirmed by oral administration of 12-24 g / day of this plant dry powder to healthy men.

Sweet and cool.

① Kaibao materia medica: "it tastes sweet and cold. "

② "Suixiju diet spectrum": "sweet, cool. "

[channel tropism] into the spleen, stomach and large intestine.

① Ben Cao Qiu Zhen: "enter the intestines and stomach. "

② According to Bencao Zaixin, "it enters the liver and spleen meridians. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat, promoting blood circulation, relieving pain and detumescence. It is used to treat intestinal wind, lower blood, heat toxin, carbuncle and skin ulcer.

① Meng Shen: "master cold and heat, five Zang Lao. And vinegar rub it, apply swelling poison. "

② Cui Yuxi's Shijing: "it is mainly used to fill the skin, replenish qi and strength, and promote beriberi. "

③ "Rihuazi materia medica:" it can cure warm diseases and spread the Qi of corpse and labor. "

④ "Diannan Materia Medica": "disperse blood, stop breast pain, detumescence and widen intestines, burn ash rice soup, treat intestinal wind, blood and hemorrhoids. "

⑤ Yilin zuanyao: "to be broad, to disperse blood, to quench thirst. "

⑥ "Suixiju diet spectrum": "promoting blood circulation, relieving pain, eliminating carbuncle, killing insects, already malaria, hernia and other diseases. "

Usage: the dosage of tamping and external application. Oral: into the pill, powder or wine.

[prescription selection] 1. Treatment of strong wind and hot phlegm: no matter how much rhubarb and old eggplant are stored in a new bottle, buried in the soil, and turned into water after a year, then taken out and put into Kushen motong pill, such as Wuzi. When the food is ready to lie down, drink 30 grains. (Ben Cao Tu Jing)

② Long term treatment of intestinal wind diarrhea blood: eggplant big three. For the first taste, wrap a piece of wet paper, simmer it in the fire, take it out and put it into a magnetic jar. Heat it up and add 1.5 liter of ashless wine. Then seal it with wax paper. After three nights, remove the eggplant and serve the warm wine separately. If so, it will not be more than three times. (eggplant wine in Shengji Zonglu)

③ Treatment of heat sores: raw eggplant a, cut two points, make the mouth small, to pulp three points, like a jar, will be closed in the swelling on the corner. Then take out the purulent, such as purulent. (eggplant horn recipe in Shengji Zonglu)

④ Treatment of women's milk crack: Autumn Cold eggplant crack, dry in the shade, burning, grinding, water transfer coating. (supplement to the good prescription)

[clinical application] eggplant for external use in the treatment of various surgical diseases

One old rotten foot: take the skin of fresh purple eggplant, topically, 1-2 times a day. At the beginning of the treatment, the local symptoms worsened and the reaction disappeared about one week. Second, skin ulcer: take eggplant simmer calcination, grind into fine powder, add a small amount of borneol, mix well, spread wound, gauze bandage. Third, mastitis, sores and carbuncle: Sprinkle eggplant powder on vaseline gauze. Apply to the affected area. 4 cases were all effective.

Chinese PinYin : Qie Zi