Lycoris radiata

Lycoris radiata

(Ben Cao Tu Jing)

[synonym] Laoya garlic (Shiyi daoxiao prescription), black garlic (compendium), silver key (compendium Collection), Du garlic (Guizhou folk medicine Collection), jiuceng garlic, GUI garlic (Fujian folk herbal medicine), longzhaocaotou (commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Shanghai).

[source] the bulb of Lycoris radiata.

[plant morphology] Lycoris radiata, also known as Shuima (the classic of Materia Medica), suanhecao (shiyidaofang), yizhijian (Huiji Fang), suanhecao, laolaolaosuan (compendium), cockroach flower (compendium Collection), longzhaohua, Xinmi night flower, hairy crab flower, wild Narcissus, Honghua Lycoris, 36tong.

Herbaceous perennial, bulb broad elliptic, or subglobose, covered with purplish brown bulb skin, usually 1.4-4 cm in diameter. Leaves tufted, linear or banded, 14-30 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, fleshy, turquoise above, pink green below, entire. The stem is solid, about 30 cm high, umbel shaped, with 4-6 flowers; bracts membranous, brown, lanceolate; flowers bisexual, usually red, or with white margin, about 3.5 cm long, without fragrance; there are short tubes under perianth, upper 6 lobes arranged in 2 rows, narrowly inverted lanceolate, about 4 cm long, retrorse; stamens 6, about 2 times as long as perianth lobes; ovary inferior , 3-locular, style slender, very long, stigma capitate. Capsule dorsal crack, many seeds. The flowering period is from September to October. The fruit period is from October to November.

It grows in the wet and shady place of mountain, roadside and forest edge. It is distributed in Henan, Shaanxi, East China, South China and southwest China.

[collection] harvest after autumn, wash and dry in the shade.

[herbal medicine] the dried bulb is oval or nearly spherical, 4-5 cm long and 2.5-4 cm in diameter. The remaining leaves at the top and the base are up to 3 cm long, with many white fibrous roots at the base. There are 2-3 layers of black brown membranous scales on the surface of the bulb, 10 layers of white sticky fleshy scales in the bulb, growing on the shortened bulb disc, and yellow white buds in the center. It has special garlic flavor, spicy and bitter taste.

It is produced in most parts of the country.

[chemical constituents] there are many kinds of alkaloids in bulb, mainly including homolycorine, lycorine, Narcissus, lycorine, lycorine, pseudolycorine and Saussurea. It also contains alkaloids such as allitridine, norallitridine, demethylhomoallitridine, allitridine, episaussurea, striatine and strobilodine. In addition, it contains about 20% starch, and also contains two components, lycosidinol and lycosidinol, which have inhibitory effect on plant growth and anticancer effect. The leaves and petals contain sugars and glycosides

The alkaloids in the bulb of Lycoris radiata are basically the same as that of this product, and lycorine is also contained.

It is pungent, warm and poisonous.

① "Ben Cao Tu Jing": "Xin, Wen, have small poison. "

② "Gangmu": "Xin Gan, Wen, there is a small poison. "

[function indications] expectorant, diuretic, detoxification, emetic. It is used to treat laryngopathy, edema, ascites, carbuncle, swelling and toxin, sores, scrofula, food poisoning, phlegm and saliva obstruction, jaundice.

① "Ben Cao Tu Jing": "it is mainly used to apply swelling toxin. "

② "Gangmu": "boils evil core, river water decocting, take sweat, and pound it. And in the stream poison, wine boiled half Sheng service, take vomit. "

③ In the compendium of compendium, it is used to treat laryngopathy, phlegm, white fire pill, lung carbuncle and decocting wine. "

④ "Chinese medicine plant illustrated book": "the treatment of pleurisy, peritonitis water storage disease. "

⑤ "Records of Shaanxi traditional Chinese medicine": "expectorant, emetic, diuretic, carbuncle swelling. Indications: adverse urination, cough, phlegm and asthma, food poisoning. "

⑥ "Mindong Materia Medica": "clearing away heat, detoxifying, dispersing and swelling. Cure dysentery. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 yuan. External use: tamping or boiling water fumigation.

[should avoid] patients with deficiency of body, no solid evil and vomit evil should not take it.

[selection]: treat double moths: old garlic and garlic, Baijiu, and white wine. (ten complete mirror of the great doctor)

② Treatment of phlegm fire gas urgent: cockroach flower root, wash, bake for the end, sugar tune, wine next money. (collection of compendium)

③ Treatment of food poisoning, phlegm and saliva congestion: fresh Lycoris five to one money, decoction induced vomiting. (Shanghai Handbook of Chinese herbal medicine)

④ Treatment of edema: fresh Lycoris eight, Castor seeds (peeled) 70 to 80. A total of smash Pang Yongquan point day and night, if not cured, again. (Zhejiang folk herbal medicine)

⑤ Treatment of sores and swelling: apply appropriate amount of Lycoris to the affected area. (commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in Shanghai)

⑥ Cure various sores of stool poison: Smash and apply it with one arrow. If the poison is too strong, the raw Baijiu will be decocted, and the sweating will be more. (Sheng Hui Fang)

⑦ For the first time: mash the garlic, stick it on paper, and change it frequently. (Zhou Yisheng's family prescription)

⑧ Wash hemorrhoids leakage: Crow garlic, lotus seed. Mash, no matter how much, good wine fried, put in the bottle first smoked, wait for half a day soup temperature, pour out wash, three times. (collection of compendium)

⑨ Take off the production of intestinal Governance: Crow garlic, three bowls of water, fried a bowl and a half, to dregs fumigation. (Shi Yi De Xiao Fang)

⑩ All sores of stool poison. Mash and smear with Lycoris radiata. If the poison is serious, wash the Lycoris radiata, sprinkle it with raw white, fry it and sweat it out.

(11) the parturient intestine was removed. Use a handful of Lycoris, add three bowls of water and fry them into a bowl and a half. Remove the dregs and smoke the affected area.

(12) children's convulsion, a call and absolutely. Wrap the palms and soles of feet with hemp thread, then wrap them around the lower side, and then light the palms and soles with lights. At the same time, with Lycoris (sun dried), plantain, etc. into the end, water evenly paste palm. Then in the hands and feet, shoulders, eyebrows, nose and other places to light, can make the sick recovery.

Chinese PinYin : Shi Suan