Heather leaf

Chinese Name: shinanye

[category] foliage

[synonyms] fengyao (compendium), Photinia leaf (from the new materia medica), luancha (from the inheritance of compendium), Hongye, Shiyan leaf (manual of Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the dry leaf of Photinia serrulata.

[plant morphology] Photinia, also known as Millennium red, grapevine, stone eye, fan bone wood, chisel angle, stone class, oil wax tree, water mangrove.

Evergreen shrubs or small trees, up to 12 m high. The crown is round and branched. Leaves alternate, leathery, long elliptic or long obovate, 8-16 cm long and 3-6 cm wide, apex acute or acuminate, base broadly cuneate or rounded, margin with fine and sharp serrations, dark green on top, glossy on bottom, yellowish green on bottom, prominent on both sides, often covered with white powder; petiole 2-3 cm. Terminal panicle corymb, 10-18 cm in diameter; calyx campanulate, lobes 5, triangular; petals 5, broadly ovoid, white; stamens numerous, filaments of different lengths; ovary half inferior, style usually 2, base connate. Pear red, subglobose, ca. 5 mm in diam. The flowering period is from April to May. The fruiting period is October.

It is often planted in the courtyard. It is distributed in Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Hubei, Sichuan, Hunan, etc.

The fruit of this plant (Shi Nan Shi) is also used for medicine. See special section for details.

[collection] all year round. After drying, tie it into a small bundle.

[herbal medicine] the dried leaves are oblong in shape, 8-16 cm long and 3-6 cm wide, with petioles; the edges are finely serrated, reddish brown or dark brown on the top and slightly light on the bottom; the main veins are prominent, and both sides are smooth and glabrous. The leaves are thick, leathery and crisp. Without Qi, it tastes bitter and astringent. Brownish yellow and no impurity is preferred.

Mainly produced in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places.

[chemical constituents] the leaves and branches contain cyanosides, but the roots do not.

[pharmacological action] 10% leaf extract can kill Schistosoma japonicum cercariae and Oncomelania hupensis in vitro. 70% leaf ethanol extract can inhibit isolated frog heart, constrict isolated rabbit ear blood vessels, inhibit isolated intestine, and reduce blood pressure of anesthetized dogs. It has no effect on the growth, liver and lipid metabolism of rats.

Heath used in Japan is a Rhododendron plant. Its toxicity (mice) is 2-3 times stronger than that of heath. It can cause spasm. The two should not be confused.

[processing] wash, moisten, cut and dry.

It's hard, it's smooth.

① Ben Jing: "the taste is pungent and the taste is flat. "

② Bielu: "Ping, poisonous. "

③ "Pinhui essence": "it tastes hard, has a flat nature and is non-toxic. "

[Guijing] into the liver and kidney channels.

① In the book of Materia Medica, it is said that "when entering the foot, the Yin and Shaoyin meridians are silent. "

② Ben Cao Zai Xin: "entering the lung and kidney meridians. "

Functions and indications: dispelling wind, dredging collaterals and benefiting kidney. It can cure wind arthralgia, backache, kidney deficiency, foot weakness, migraine and rubella. Dispelling wind and tonifying kidney. It can be used for rheumatic muscle and bone pain, impotence and spermatorrhea.

① Ben Jing: "it can nourish the kidney qi, injure the Yin, and benefit the muscles, bones and skin. "

② Bielu: "it can cure weak feet, promote five kinds of evil Qi, and remove heat. "

③ According to the theory of medicinal properties, "it can remove heat, add kidney qi, treat the pain of soft feet, kill insects, and expel all kinds of wind. "

④ "The compendium of Medical Sciences" says: "soaking wine and drinking can cure head wind. "

⑤ Yilin zuanyao: "moisten the kidney, invigorate the liver, strengthen the fire of life gate. "

⑥ "Modern practical Chinese medicine": "treatment of impotence, spermatorrhea, female waist cold infertility, irregular menstruation and other diseases. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1.5-3 yuan; or into pills, powder. External use: grind powder, sprinkle or blow nose.

[should avoid] those with Yin deficiency and excessive fire should not take it.

① "Wujia is the envoy of the book of Materia Medica". "

② "On medicinal properties": "evil thistle. "

[prescription selection] ① treat foot and knee contracture, remove rheumatism, activate blood vessels, and benefit vital energy: Shinan, Baizhu, Niuxi (samya, soaked in wine for one night, baked), Fangfeng, Tianma, gouqi, Huangqi (file) each two liang, GUI (remove coarse skin), pilose antler (crisp, remove hair) each one two Liang. The top nine ingredients are used as Wutong, and one is papaya, and the other is the skin and flesh, so that it can be cooked and made up. Take 30 pills to 50 pills each time, warm wine and salt soup. (Shinan pill in Shengji Zonglu)

② Treatment of female nerve migraine: Photinia leaf three money, Chuanxiong one money, angelica one money and a half, Gastrodia one money and a half, Ligustrum lucidum two money. Fried in water, three times a day. (Modern Practical Chinese Medicine)

③ Treat children fall by mistake, or hit the head frightened, liver system by the wind, resulting in pupil is not right, view east see West, view west see East: Shinan one or two, Veratrum three, melon pedicle five or seven. For the end, every blow a little into the nose, three times a day, oral administration of bezoar liver medicine. (Fang Nan San)

④ Cure wind addiction rash after ten days don't understand: Heather leaf (to thick stem, raw use) three Liang. Ramming is the end. Take half a coin to a coin dagger each time, mix it with wine, fry it for a boil, and warm it up. (Shinan wine in Shengji Zonglu)

⑤ Treatment of rat fistula: Shi Nan, Sheng Di Huang, Fu Ling, Huang Lian, er Huang each two. For the scattered. Apply it to the sore, and let it go again. (behind the elbow)

Chinese PinYin : Shi Nan Ye