Indocalamus leaf

Indocalamus leaf

(compendium)

Liao ye (compendium).

[source] it is the leaf of Indocalamus Indocalamus.

[plant morphology] Indocalamus calamus, also known as bamboo.

Culm about 75 cm high. The diameter of sheath is 4-5 mm. The internodes are cylindrical or slightly flat at the top. The internodes are 2.5-5 cm long. The hollow is very small. The culm ring is rarely raised or even invisible. The sheath is 20-25 cm long. It is persistent. After withering, it is dark grass yellow with few transverse veins. Therefore, it is locally square lattice and glabrous, but the lower edge has soft brown cilia, which are fimbriate. As for the part covered by the lower sheath The top of sheath tongue is curved. There are a few trichomes on both sides of the sheath; the size of the sheath leaves varies, the shape is very narrow, sometimes more than 5 cm long, and there are some small transverse veins in square shape. 1 branch per node (rare 2). The leaves are curved on the growing plant, long lanceolate, over 45 cm in length and 10 cm in width. The apex is acuminate and elongated into a thin tip. The upper part is green and light, and the lower part is gray green and scattered with sawy pubescence. The midrib is wide and raised, yellow white. There is a line of felts on the back of the leaves along one side of the midrib. The secondary veins sometimes can be as many as 15 or even 18 pairs, and the small transverse veins are extremely thin The leaf base shrinks sharply, the leaf margin has a sharp small saw tip, and the petiole is strong and purplish. Inflorescence not seen.

Distributed in the Yangtze River Basin and other places.

The basal part of the leaf (Ruo DI) of this plant is also used for medicine.

[nature and taste] Compendium: "sweet, cold, non-toxic. "

[Guijing] "Depei Materia Medica" says: "start with Taiyin, and simultaneously foot Jueyin meridian. "

Functions and indications: clearing heat, stopping bleeding, detoxifying and detumescence. Treatment of hematemesis, bleeding, bleeding. Adverse urination, laryngeal obstruction, carbuncle.

"Compendium": "for men and women with hematemesis, bleeding, hematemesis, hemoptysis, lower blood. And burn save sex, warm soup take a money dagger. Also pass urine, benefit lung qi, throat, eliminate carbuncle. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-5 yuan; or calcined powder. External use: calcine and store the powder for blowing medicine.

[prescription selection] 1. Treatment of lung carbuncle and epistaxis: white flour, Indocalamus leaf ash, three coins each. On the two flavor research order uniform, divided into two services, after eating Jinghua water transfer. (Yuchen powder in Shengji Zonglu)

② Treatment of menstrual blood more than: Silkworm paper (regardless of how much ash), Ruo leaf (ash). Divide the two flavors evenly, take two daggers for each, and adjust the wine. (ER Hui San, Shengji Zonglu)

③ For the treatment of visceral poison and blood stasis, those who have not suffered from it for a long time are as follows: the leaves of chazhen are burned into black ash, the grinds are very fine, a little musk is added, and the hollow glutinous rice drink is adjusted. (Bai Yi Xuan Fang)

④ Treatment of dysuria after first astringent: dry leaves (burning ash), talc half Liang. On the end of the fine, each service three money Xu, rice drink tune down, empty service. (refer to the south, Zhen Ye SAN)

⑤ Treatment of sore throat: liaoye, JUNCAO burning ash, etc. (Linhu jijianfang)

Chinese PinYin : Ruo Ye