Sesame seed

Sesame seed

(Fujian folk herbal medicine)

[synonyms] gangyouma, gangzhima, shanyouma, tianyouma, xiantaocao, wild sesame, goushishu, false sesame, and niufu The results showed that: Wei (Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine), shanyema (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine), baitougong and youmajia (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual), yemajia and pseudomajia (Guangdong Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] is the whole plant of Wutong plant.

[plant morphology] Sesamum indicum

Small shrub, about 1 m high. Branchlets densely grayish yellow green pubescent. Leaves alternate, linear lanceolate or oblong linear, 4-8 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide, apex obtuse or mucronate, base rounded, veins 3, entire, glabrous or almost glabrous above, densely covered with grayish white or yellowish stellate pilose below; petiole 5-7 mm long. Inflorescence axillary, densely floret; bract 1 piece, linear, acutely needlelike; petiole short; calyx simple, 6-7 mm long, 5-lobed, stellate pubescent; petal 5, lavender, linear, ca. 1 cm long; stamen 10, united into stamen column, stamen column and stamen stalk, apically 5-lobed, anthers clustered between cleft teeth, staminodes 5; ovary 5-locular, hairy, style weak. Capsule ovoid oblong, 12-20 mm long, apex mucronate, densely stellate pilose. The flowering period is from June to July. The fruit period is from November to December.

Born in barren mountains, hills, barren slopes and roadsides. It is distributed in Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and southwest China.

[collection] before June, the whole plant was collected, sectioned and dried.

[chemical constituents] the root contains flavonoid glycosides, phenols and tannins.

[flavor] pungent, slightly bitter, cool.

① "The taste is bitter and the nature is cool. "

② Fujian folk herbal medicine: "sweet, cold, non-toxic. "

③ "Nanning medicine annals": "it's bitter and cool. "

Functions and indications: relieving exterior, clearing away heat, detumescence and detoxification. Treatment of cold, fever, headache, thirst, rash, measles, dysentery, enteritis, carbuncle, rash, sore poison, eczema, hemorrhoids.

① "Raw herbal medicine nature preparation": root: cure sore, detoxify, stop bleeding, bury mouth; also can open large intestine, eat more, defecate faster. "

② Flora of Guangzhou: "Ye: mash and apply to the affected area to cure sores and poisons. "

③ Fujian folk herbal medicine: "removing blood stasis to produce new, eliminating carbuncle and detoxifying. "

④ "Drug records of Nanning city": "relieving exterior, clearing heat, treating Sha Qi, febrile cold, toxic sores. "

⑤ Quanzhou materia medica: "clearing away heat and relieving thirst, eliminating phlegm and relieving cough. Treat lung disease, rash. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-6 yuan (1-2 Liang fresh). External use: tamping.

[taboo] according to Guangxi Medical Plant atlas, "it is forbidden to take medicine for deficiency cold syndrome. "

[prescription selection] ① for external pathogenic Sha Qi, yang jaundice, heat malaria: shanzhima, guyangtenggen, Zanthoxylum nitidum, etc. Co milling. One for each. Bring it down with boiling water and take it two or three times a day. (illustrated records of medicinal plants in Guangxi)

② Cure dysentery: fresh mountain sesame one or two. Add water and fry. Take it twice a day. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

③ Treat rheumatism pain: Mountain sesame root two liang, yellow rice wine four Liang. Drink water and fry. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

④ Treatment of wind and poison: fresh mountain sesame one to two. Wash and chop, one duck egg, fry in water. (Minnan folk herbal medicine)

⑤ Treatment of carbuncle and swelling: fresh sesame leaf. Tamping. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

⑥ Treatment of parotid: two to three pairs of shanzhima leaves. Tamp the affected area. (Lingnan herbal medicine)

⑦ Treatment of orchitis: fresh sesame seven to eight money. Drink wine, water, half, stew service. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

⑧ Cure tuberculosis cough: fresh mountain sesame root three to five money. Wash and slice, add water and rock sugar. (Minnan folk herbal medicine)

⑨ Treatment of bone tuberculosis: one or two sesame roots, and a male chicken (to remove intestinal debris), drink with water stew, two or three times service. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

⑩ Treatment of lymphatic tuberculosis: Mountain sesame root two Liang. Drink half of the wine and stew. (Fujian folk herbal medicine)

(11) treatment of snakebite: two to three taels of sesame root. Fry and drink with wine; rub the affected area separately. (Lingnan herbal medicine)

(12) leak control tube: two liang of sesame root, half a jin of mutton. Add boiling water to stew

Treatment of enteritis and diarrhea: Sesame root five money to one or two. Take it in water. (Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine, Guangzhou Military)

(14) treatment of eczema: dried sesame root powder, rice wine to spread the affected area. (Handbook of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine of Guangzhou Army)

Treatment of mastitis: one or two cases of fresh sesame. Fried in wine. Use fresh leaves for external application. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

(16) treatment of Snakehead: mash the fresh leaves of mountain sesame and brown sugar and apply them to the affected area. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

[clinical application] ① treatment of hypertension

Take dry root 12 as decoction or fluid extract, one dose a day, two or half doses a day for individual cases, twice a day. 18 cases were treated, including 1 case of stage I, 4 cases of stage II and 13 cases of stage III. The shortest time of taking medicine was 7 days, and the longest was 70 days, with an average of 34.3 days. According to the standard of Beijing Fuwai Hospital, 5 cases were markedly effective, 4 cases were effective, 2 cases were mild effective and 7 cases were ineffective. In stage III, 4 cases were markedly effective, 2 cases were effective and 1 case was mild. The improvement of symptoms seems to be palpitation, insomnia, blush, nocturnal polyuria, dizziness and so on. Eight patients were examined for serum cholesterol before and after treatment, of which 6 cases were low and 2 cases remained unchanged. No severe toxicity was observed in heart, kidney and blood during the treatment. Only a few patients had side effects such as diarrhea, abdominal pain, headache, nausea, vomiting, sweating, eyelid tremor and numbness of limbs, but no effect on the treatment.

② Treatment of hemorrhoids

Take 8 catties of sesame root, 1 catty of banana leaf and 1 catty of lime milk to make clear and transparent injection for local injection. Injection method: anus routine disinfection, procaine local anesthesia, use hemostatic curved forceps to fix the root of hemorrhoids, and then slowly inject 0.3-0.6 ml of liquid medicine from the top of hemorrhoids. After the hemorrhoids turn gray and black for about 15 minutes, remove the forceps, rinse with Bromogeramine, insert Vaseline gauze, cover and fix. In 215 cases, 1 case was invalid, and the rest of the hemorrhoids withered 3-5 days after treatment and healed about 10 days later. All patients with severe kidney disease, circulatory system disease, active pulmonary tuberculosis and pregnant women should not use it. For patients with acute anal infection and hemorrhoids bleeding, injection should be done after the inflammation subsides. Each injection should not exceed two hemorrhoids at most, and the second injection should be about half a month apart. In addition, the aponeurosis around hemorrhoids should be protected during injection to prevent the damage of liquid medicine. Often keep the stool unobstructed, daily with potassium permanganate solution line local sitz bath 3 ~ 4 times, avoid eating spicy food. After injection, there was no systemic reaction, and a few cases had local distention, which could be tolerated.

Chinese PinYin : Shan Zhi Ma