buckwheat

buckwheat

(Qianjin Shizhi)

[synonym] Wumai, pengmai (daily herbal), Huaqiao, Tianyang (compendium), Qiaozi (herbal formula).

[source] it is the seed of buckwheat, a Polygonaceae plant.

[plant morphology] buckwheat, also known as Jingchang grass, Pyrola and Liuzhu grass.

Annual herbs. Stem erect, branched, smooth, red, sparsely papillate, 40-110 cm high. The leaves are alternate. The heart-shaped triangle forms a triangular arrow shape, some are nearly pentagonal, 2.5-5 cm long and 2-4 cm wide. The apex is acuminate, the lower lobes are round or acuminate, the base is nearly heart-shaped or halberd shaped, and the veins are papillated. The lower leaves have long petioles, the upper leaves are sessile; the stipules are membranous, short tubular, caducous; the racemose corymbs are axillary and terminal, short and dense in clusters; the pedicels are long; the flowers are long White or light pink, with slender pedicels, bracteoles at base; perianth 5-lobed, lobes ovate or elliptic; stamens 8; style 3, stigma capitate, ovary 1-locular, 3-ribbed. Achenes triangular ovate or triangular, apex acuminate, 3-ribbed, brown, smooth. The flowering and fruiting period is from July to August.

It is distributed and cultivated all over the country. The stems and leaves of this plant (raising wheat straw) are also used for medicine. See the special article for details.

[collection] before and after frost, the seeds are harvested when they become hot, and then the seeds are laid and dried in the sun.

[chemical constituents] there are salicylamine, 4-hydroxybenzamine and N-Salicylidene in achene.

Sweet and cool.

① "Qianjin · Shizhi" is sour, slightly cold and non-toxic. "

② Jiayou materia medica: "it is sweet, cold and nontoxic. "

③ "Suixiju diet": sweet, warm. "

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

① "To match the materia medica": "into the foot Dayin, Yangming. "

② Ben Cao Qiu Zhen: "enter the intestines and stomach. "

③ In Bencao Zaixin: "entering the spleen and lung meridians. "

[function indications] appetizer, wide intestine, lower Qi to eliminate accumulation. It is used to treat strangulated bowel disease, stagnation of intestines and stomach, chronic diarrhea, diarrhea, erysipelas erythematosus, carbuncle and back, scrofula, and burn caused by soup fire.

① Meng Shen: "it can strengthen the intestines and stomach, replenish qi and power, and continue the spirit. It can refine the five internal organs. "

② "Compendium of Chinese medicine" says: "it can reduce Qi, widen intestines, grind stagnant, eliminate heat, swelling, wind and pain, remove turbid leucorrhea, and accumulate spleen and diarrhea. "

③ "The preparation of Materia Medica": "to relieve the accumulation of alcohol. "

④ "Treating gonorrhea". "

⑤ Chinese medicine and plant illustrated book: "it can restrain cold sweat. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: pills and powder. External use: grind the end to mix or adjust to apply.

[taboo] 1. Qianjin Shizhi: "buckwheat is hard to eat, but it's very hot. "

② "The book of materia medica:" buckwheat is not suitable to eat, but also can promote the atmosphere, making people dizzy. "

③ "Pinhui abstract": "not with Pingwei Powder and alum with food. "

④ Yilin zuanyao: "buckwheat, when eaten after spring, can move the cold and cause chronic diseases. "

⑤ It is forbidden for people with deficiency cold of spleen and stomach. "

[prescription selection] 1. For the treatment of strangulated bowel disease: a pinch of wheat flour. Fried yellow, cooked in water. (simple formula)

② Treatment of mouth dysentery: buckwheat flour for 2 yuan per serving. Adjust the sugar to the water. (Tan Xian Jie Xiao Fang)

③ Treatment of men's turbid, women's red and white belt: stir fried wheat for the end, chicken white and pill Wuzi big. Take 50 pills each time, take salt soup three times a day. (Jisheng pill in Gangmu)

④ Treatment of pediatric oil Dan also swollen: buckwheat vinegar and apply it. (hand collection of Ministry of war)

⑤ Treatment of acne, ulceration, pus dripping, pain: buckwheat, grinding fine flour, acne break, this application; ulceration, this all over. (buckwheat flour in pox and rash therapy)

⑥ Zhitang huoshao: stir fry buckwheat flour yellow and apply it with Jinghua water. (wonderful recipe)

⑦ For the treatment of snake pan Huang, the following items are enclosed: buckwheat (fried, shelled), seaweed, white Bombyx Batryticatus (fried, shredded), etc. For the end, white plum soup, take half of the meat, and mung bean balls big. Take 60 or 70 pills each time. After eating, drink rice and take it five times a day. Its poison should be released from the stool. If you take it with light vegetables, it's better. Light vegetables grow on seaweed, which can also cure this disease. Avoid tofu, chicken, sheep, wine, noodles. (compendium)

⑧ Zhijiaojiyan: use water chestnut juice and buckwheat to mix and apply jiaojiyan. Three days later, the corns were pulled out. (compendium of Materia Medica)

⑨ Cure sore head black concave: buckwheat noodles cook food of, namely initiate. (ren Zhai Zhi Zhi Fang)

⑩ The treatment of carbuncle and back, all swelling poison: wheat flour, sulfur each two. At the end of the year, the well was filled with water and the harvest was made. Each with a cake, grinding water application, pain is not pain, pain is not pain. (ren Zhai Zhi Zhi Fang)

According to the compendium, buckwheat is the most effective way to reduce Qi and widen the intestine, so it can refine the intestines and stomach, and treat turbid, dysentery and abdominal pain. It's suitable for those with abundant Qi and damp heat. If the spleen and stomach deficiency cold people eat it, it is not appropriate to take off the vitality and fall the eyebrows. Meng Shenyun, who benefits from strength, is in danger. According to Yang Qi's "simple prescription", the stomach and abdomen are slightly painful, and diarrhea occurs immediately, but there is not much diarrhea. People who do it day and night make buckwheat noodles for meals. Three or four times in a row. For two months. Thin and timid is the most serious. When you use Xiaoshi Huaqi medicine, it doesn't work. One monk teaches you this, but the more you use it, the more effective it will be. This can be a sign of qi stagnation. It is also used in the treatment of infantile Tiandiao and lijiefeng in Puji. "

② "Seeking truth from Materia Medica" says: "buckwheat is sweet in taste and cold in nature. It can reduce Qi, widen intestines, eliminate accumulation and remove filth. It is suitable for leukorrhea, turbidity, diarrhea, acne ulceration, burn of soup fire, excessive Qi and damp heat. It is also good for treating infantile erysipelas redness and swelling by mixing vinegar with hot water; it is sweet in taste, cold in nature, hot in purgation, and falling in Qi, which can make the five internal organs stagnant and remove them. If you make the spleen and stomach weak, unable to eat, eating makes you dizzy. "

③ According to suixiju Diet Manual, "pengmai, cooked with Luomian, can appetizer and widen the intestines, replenish qi, resist wind and cold, refine dross and filth, grind and stagnate, and eat well with Raphani. The chronic disease is caused by the slight toxicity of the nature, which can be controlled by the radish. "

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