camellia

camellia

(compendium)

[synonym] Camellia sinensis (classified herbal).

Theaceae is the source of Camellia.

[plant morphology] Camellia

Evergreen shrubs or small trees, up to 15 meters high, glabrous and smooth. Leaves alternate, leathery, ovate to elliptic, 5-10 cm long and 3-4 cm wide, apex obtuse, base rounded to broadly cuneate, margin crenulate, dark green above, glossy below, both sides smooth and glabrous; petiole ca. 5 mm long. Flowers solitary in leaf axils or terminal, red, 6-8 cm in diameter, nearly sessile; calyx 5, green; petals 5-7, nearly round; stamens numerous, 2-whorled; pistil 1, ovary oblong, smooth, glabrous. Capsule globose. Ventricles dehiscent, ca. 3 cm in diam., glabrous and smooth. Seeds Subelliptic, dorsally angular, ca. 2 cm long, 1. 5 cm in diam. The flowering period is from April to May. The fruit period is from September to October.

It is cultivated in most areas of China.

[collection] the harvest period is from equinox to Guyu. Generally, it is picked when it is in bud, dried or dried, wrapped with paper and placed in a dry and ventilated place.

[herbal medicine] most of the dried flowers have no ovary, and all of them are rolled into block or irregular shape, 2-3.8 cm in length, 1.8-3.5 cm in width, yellowish brown to tan, the back of calyx is densely covered with gray white villi, with silky luster, 5-7 petals, base connate, upper end obovate, first end slightly concave, veined; stamens are mostly 2-whorled, outer whorls connected into one. It is soft, fragrant and sweet. It is better to be dry, red, not moldy, and the flower buds have not opened yet.

Produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Yunnan, Sichuan and other places.

[flavor] sweet, bitter, pungent, cool.

① According to the classic of Materia Medica, "the taste is sweet and slightly pungent, and the Qi is flat and slightly cold. "

② "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": "bitter, warm, non-toxic. "

③ "Hundred grass mirror": "taste astringent. "

[Guijing] 1. Bencao Zaixin: "entering the liver and lung meridians. "

② Summary of materia medica: "entering foot Jueyin and hand Yangming meridians. "

Functions and indications: cool blood, stop bleeding, disperse blood stasis and detumescence. It is used to treat hematemesis, bleeding, blood collapse, intestinal wind, dysentery, blood drenching, falling injury and scald.

① Zhu Zhenheng: "vomiting blood, bleeding, intestinal wind blood, and red for the end, into the child drowning, ginger juice and wine mixed service, can replace Curcuma. "

② "Compendium": "Tang fire burns, research the end of sesame oil transfer coating. "

③ Yilin zuanyao: "tonifying the liver, slowing the liver, breaking blood and removing heat. "

④ "Herbal mirror": "cool blood, break blood, stop bleeding. It can eliminate carbuncle swelling, break long-term dysentery, intestinal wind and blood, collapse with blood drenching, epistaxis and hematemesis; external application can burn sores. "

⑤ "Ben Cao Zai Xin": "treat blood, regulate intestinal wind, clear liver fire, moisten lung and nourish yin. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1.5-3 yuan; or grinding powder. External use: grind and apply sesame oil.

[prescription selection] ① for hematemesis and cough: yibaozhu mountain tea, baked black on tile, mixed with red granulated sugar, no matter how much it is taken every day. There are ten erhbaozhu camellia, five safflower, one or two Baiji and four red dates. Take it in a bowl of water, then take it with dregs, and eat dates at any time. (Wang Shigui's good prescription for no medicine)

② Treatment of dysentery: dahongbaozhushan camellia, dried in the shade as the end, mixed with sugar, steamed three or four times on the rice pot. (save the bitter sea)

③ Treatment of hemorrhoids bleeding: Baozhu mountain tea, research end Chongfu. (collection of compendium)

④ Treatment of nipple flowering, pain: Baozhu camellia, baked research for the end, with sesame oil. (collection of compendium)

Chinese PinYin : Shan Cha Hua