Pomegranate peel

Pomegranate peel

(Lei Gong Paozhi Lun)

[synonym] pomegranate shell (Lei Gong Pao Lun), sour pomegranate skin (behind the elbow), acid shell of Anshi pomegranate (bielu), sour pomegranate skin (compendium), Western pomegranate skin (Mindong materia medica).

[source] it is the pericarp of pomegranate.

[plant morphology] pomegranate (Lei Gong Paozhi Lun), also known as Chu pomegranate (Guangya), an pomegranate (Zhang Hua's natural history), Dan RuO (Youyang Zazu), Jin PA (compendium), Jin Pang (qunfangpu), Xie pomegranate, Hai pomegranate, Xiba pomegranate, Xi'an pomegranate and Zhong pomegranate.

Deciduous shrub or tree, 2-5M high. Its bark is bluish gray; its young branches are nearly round or slightly tetragonal, its ends are usually spiny, glabrous, and its leaves are opposite or clustered; its leaves are obovate to oblong, 2.5-6 cm long and 1-1.8 cm wide, and its apex is pointed or slightly concave; its base is gradually narrow, entire, glossy on the top, glabrous on the bottom, with raised main veins and short stalks. Flowers 1 to several, branchlets apical or axillary, pedicel 2-3 mm long; flower diameter about 3 cm; calyx tube campanulate, fleshy and thick, red, lobes 6, triangular ovate; petals 6, red, alternate with sepals, obovate, rugose; stamens many, inserted in the middle of calyx tube, anthers spherical, filaments thin and short; pistil 1, ovary inferior or semi inferior, upper 6-locular, with lateral membrane Placenta, lower 3-locular, with axial placenta, style round, stigma capitate. Berry subglobose, pericarp thickly leathery, yellow or reddish when ripe, with thin septum inside and persistent calyx at the top. Seeds numerous, obovate, angular. The flowering period is from May to June. The fruit period is from July to August.

It grows on hillside or in garden. It is distributed in most areas of China.

The root bark (pomegranate root), leaf (pomegranate leaf), flower (pomegranate flower) and fruit (sour pomegranate and sweet pomegranate) of this plant are also used for medicine. See special regulations for details.

[collection] in autumn, when the fruit is mature and the top is cracked, it is picked, the seeds and the flesh are removed, and the petals are cut to dry in the sun or dried by low fire.

[medicinal material] the dried pericarp is irregular or semicircular, 2-3 mm thick. The outer surface is dark red or brownish red, rough, with small white bumps; the top has persistent calyx; the base has fruit stalk. The inner surface is bright yellow or brownish yellow, and there are raised and reticular fruit stalk residual marks. It is brittle and hard, and easy to break. Weak Qi and astringent taste. Thick skin and reddish brown color are preferred.

[chemical composition] it contains tannin 10.4-21.3%, wax 0.8%, resin 4.5%, mannitol 1.8%, sugar 2.7%, gum 3.2%, inulin 1.0%, clay 0.6%, gallic acid 4.0%, malic acid, pectin, calcium oxalate and Isoquercitrin.

[processing] remove impurities, remove residual pulp and seeds, wash, cut into pieces and dry in the sun.

"Lei Gong Paozhi Lun" says: "if you use pomegranate peel, leaf or root, don't make iron. If you make pomegranate shell, regardless of dry and wet, first soak it in water for a night, until it is clear, its water is like ink It is not available. "

[flavor] sour, astringent, warm, toxic.

① "On medicinal properties": "sour taste, non-toxic. "

② "Diannan Materia Medica": "cold in nature, sour and astringent in taste. "

③ "Gangmu": "sour, astringent, Ju, non-toxic. "

④ "Guangxi Traditional Chinese medicine": "bitter taste, warm nature, toxic. "

[Guijing] into the large intestine and kidney.

① "Lei Gong processed medicine solution": into the large intestine, kidney two channels. "

② Summary of materia medica: "start with Taiyin and foot Shaoyin meridians. "

[functions and indications] astringent bowel, hemostasis, insect repellent. For chronic diarrhea, dysentery, hematochezia, anorectal prolapse, spermatorrhea, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea, abdominal pain and scabies.

① Bielu: "treat dysentery, stop leakage essence. "

② "Treatise on medicinal properties": "in the treatment of muscle and bone wind, the waist and feet are not successful, and the walking contracture is acute and painful. Main astringent bowel, stop red white diarrhea. Take juice to stop eyes and tears, and treat leakage essence. "

③ "Ben Cao Shi Yi": "main Ascaris lumbricoides. Take it by frying. "

④ "Diannan Materia Medica": "it can cure diarrhea for a long time. It can also cure dysentery, purulent blood and blood under the large intestine. "Tongaristolochia Decoction for infantile malnutrition. "

⑤ "The treatment of insect teeth" in Materia Medica Mengluo. "

⑥ "Compendium": "stop diarrhea, lower blood, prolapse, collapse in the belt. "

⑦ "Preparation of raw herbal medicine nature": "cure tumor sores, wash colic. "

⑧ Ben Cao Qiu yuan: "wash scabies and scabies. "

⑨ "The folk herb of science": expelling hookworm and tapeworm. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.8-1.5 yuan; or powder. External use: fumigating and washing with boiling water or blending with grinding powder.

[taboo] Materia Medica from the new: "those who can love the diaphragm and become phlegm, and those who have not finished dysentery, if they take it too early, they will do harm. "

[prescription selection] 1. To cure chronic dysentery: the dried pomegranate is finely ground, and the rice soup is mixed with three or four coins. (the divine dispensation of Puji Fang)

② Treatment of pregnancy, more than body violence, abdominal pain: Anshi durian two liang, angelica three Liang, donkey hide gelatin two Liang (fried), cooked wormwood such as chicken two. Take nine liters of water, boil two liters and take three servings. (pomegranate peel soup in Chan Jing Fang)

③ Before the treatment of feces, there is blood, which makes the face yellow: vinegar pomegranate skin, fried at the end of the research, each serving two money, fried with eggplant branches soup service. (Qian Jin Fang)

④ Treatment of anal prolapse: pomegranate peel, chenbitu, add a little alum, strong fried fumigation, plus gallnut fried research, support it. (medical banknote category)

⑤ I can't bear the pain of treating insects, so I spit more sour water: sour pomegranate peel or two (file), peach Fu or two (file), Hu powder or two, wine or two, betel nut powder or two. On the piece of medicine, two large cups of water, fried before two taste to one, to dross, next Hu powder, betel nut, wine, more fried a boil, slightly hot, divided into three services. (shenghuifang pomegranate peel powder)

⑥ Drive tapeworm, Ascaris: pomegranate peel, betel nut each equal parts, research fine powder, take two money each time (children's discretion), twice a day, for two days. (Shandong Handbook of Chinese herbal medicine)

⑦ Treatment of Dingzhong maliciousness: Acupuncture on the four sides of the wound with durian skin, and moxibustion on the four sides of the face, with pain as the degree, still apply durian powder, wrap it in a hurry, stay in the meridians, and even root out. (behind the elbow)

⑧ Treatment of psoriasis: a pomegranate skin dipped in very fine alum powder rub the affected area, the initial rub when slight pain. (Shandong Handbook of Chinese herbal medicine) two pomegranate peels (stir fried charcoal), grind one part finely, three parts sesame oil, and mix them into paste. Shake the oil well. Apply the affected area evenly with a brush, twice a day. (selected works of the whole exhibition: Dermatology)

⑨ Prevention of paddy field dermatitis: pomegranate peel two liang, gallnut two liang, Sanguisorba officinalis (fried black) two liang, alum five Liang. Take five Jin of clear water, put the first three herbs into the water and fry them for another 10 minutes. Then add alum and stir it with a wooden stick until all alum is dissolved in water. Then fry until the remaining liquid is about three jin. Remove the residue and cool for standby. When using, hands and feet must be soaked in the liquid medicine before going into the water; cotton balls can also be used to dip and apply. When the liquid is dry, it will be put into water. Every time you come out of the water to rest, you must immerse it before you go into the water. (Shanghai Journal of traditional Chinese medicine, 1966:1706)

⑩ For the treatment of foot and stomach sores, it starts as millet, and the itching is gradually opened. It is soaked in yellow water, itching, pain and ulceration. Then it causes a chronic disease around the tibia: the sour durian skin decoction is cold, and it is swept day by day, and the healing is stopped. (authentic medicine)

(11) treatment of scald caused by soup fire: appropriate amount of pomegranate peel. At the end of the study, apply sesame oil to the affected area. (Guizhou herbal medicine)

[clinical application] ① treatment of bacillary dysentery

Take pomegranate peel to make 50% or 60% decoction, 10-20 ml each time, 3-4 times a day, 7-10 days as a course of treatment; for chronic bacillary dysentery, take it for 2 weeks, stop taking it for 1 week, and then take it for 2 weeks as a course of treatment. 50 cases of acute bacillary dysentery were treated. After a course of treatment, 49 cases were cured and 1 case was improved. The average time of fever abatement was 1.3 days, the time of abdominal pain and tenesmus disappearing was about 4.8 days, the time of stool returning to normal was 4.6 days, and the time of stool microscopic examination returning to normal was 5.3 days. 4 cases of chronic bacillary dysentery were treated. After 2 weeks of drug withdrawal, sigmoidoscopic examination showed that the lesions disappeared, and fecal culture for more than 3 times was negative.

② Treatment of amoebic dysentery

Take 60% Pomegranate Peel Decoction 20 ml each time, 3 times a day, after meals, for 6 days as a course of treatment. If invalid, take another course of treatment. After a course of treatment, 40 patients were followed up for half a year, and there were no symptoms. Among them, 36 cases were negative in fecal examination three times in a row. Nausea and tinnitus occasionally occurred during the course of medication, which could disappear by itself.

③ Treatment of a variety of infectious inflammation

Take pomegranate peel to make 100% decoction, dry powder and take capsule orally, 3 times a day, 1-2 capsules each time. A total of 415 cases of enteritis, biliary tract infection, acute and chronic tracheitis, pulmonary infection, chronic appendicitis, lymphadenitis, multiple furuncle and traumatic infection were treated. 305 cases were cured, 57 cases were basically cured, 36 cases were improved and 17 cases were ineffective.

In addition, with pomegranate peel fried coke research powder, spread in the ear, has a certain effect on suppurative otitis media.

Chinese PinYin : Shi Liu Pi