Watercress

Watercress

(qianjinyi materia medica)

[synonyms] Chu Kui (Erya), Shui? And Shui Ying (Ben Jing), celery (Guo Pu's note to Erya), Shui? Celery (Diannan materia medica), wild celery (Hunan medicinal records).

[source] the whole plant of Apiaceae.

[plant morphology] Oenanthe javanica

Herbs perennial, hygroscopic or aquatic, all glabrous, glabrous, stoloniferous. The stem is cylindrical, up to 1 meter long, hollow, erect or straight upward from the creeping base, with many branches on the upper part, often protruding out of the water, each node on the lower part is slightly swollen, usually with many white fibrous roots; the stem surface is green, with longitudinal stripes. Compound leaves alternate, with petioles and leaf sheaths. The petioles attached to the lower part of the stem are 10 cm long, and both sides of the sheaths are membranous; the leaves are 1-2 pinnate; the leaflets or lobes are ovoid to rhomboid lanceolate, 2-5 cm long and 1-2 cm wide, with sharp apex, sharp teeth or round toothed serrations of different sizes on the edge, and unequal on both sides of the base; the leaves attached to the upper part of the stem are nearly sessile. Compound umbels terminal, usually opposite to terminal leaves; umbels 6-20; involucres absent, involucres 2-8, linear; flowers white, petiolate, filiform and soft; calyx teeth 5, small, short pointed; petals 5, obovate, apex concave, base with short claws; stamens 5, filaments long and slightly curved, anthers linear and short; ovary inferior, 2-locular, ovule 1, style forked, The base is cylindrical. The fruit is elliptic or nearly conic, with persistent calyx teeth and style at the upper end. The fruit edge is obviously raised, and the lateral edge is slightly wider than the other three edges. The flowering period is from April to May.

They like to live in low humidity depression or ditch. It is distributed in Henan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Taiwan, etc.

The flower of this plant (Apium graveolens) is also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] from September to October, the aboveground parts were harvested and dried.

[flavor] sweet and spicy, cool.

① Ben Jing: "it tastes sweet and flat. "

② Qianjin Shizhi: "it tastes bitter, sour and astringent, cold and nontoxic. "

③ Cui Yuxi's book of food: "it tastes sweet, less cold and non-toxic. "

④ Materia medica: stem, leaf, root: cold. Son: Wen, Xin. "

[channel tropism] entering lung and stomach channels.

① "Into the lung, stomach and liver. "

② New materia medica: "entering the heart and lung meridians. "

③ Summary of materia medica: "enter the hand foot Taiyin and Yangming scriptures. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and promoting diuresis. Treatment of fever, thirst, jaundice, edema, gonorrhea, leucorrhea, scrofula, parotid.

① Ben Jing: "the Lord woman chiwo. Stop bleeding, nourish essence, protect blood vessels, replenish qi, make people fat, healthy and addicted to food. "

② Qianjin Shizhi: "yijinli, Qufu fever. Cure five kinds of yellow disease, raw mash juice cold take one liter, two days. "

③ Cui Yuxi's "the book of food": "urinate, except water swelling. "

④ Meng Shen: "the food nourishes the spirit, benefits the strength, kills the stone medicine poison. "

⑤ According to the collection of Materia Medica, "the stems and leaves are crushed to extract the juice, which can remove the children's heat, the adults' heat poison after drinking, nasal congestion, body heat, and benefit the small intestine. "

⑥ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "to cure thirst, to cure collapse. "

⑦ Yilin zuanyao: "tonifying the heart, removing blood stasis and continuing injury. "

⑧ "Cao Zaixin" said: "in addition to vexation and antipyretic, phlegm and lower Qi, the treatment of blood points, the elimination of tuberculosis. "

⑨ "Suixiju diet spectrum": "clear stomach, remove heat, dispel wind, benefit mouth, teeth, throat leader. "

⑩ "The Chinese medicine plant records:" the tender stem pound juice takes, may treat the hypertension. "

(11) Guizhou folk medicine collection: "antipyretic diuretic, driving wind. Treatment of rheumatic neuralgia. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-2 Liang; or mash juice. External use: tamping.

[taboo] Ben Cao Hui Yan: "if the spleen and stomach are weak and the middle Qi is cold, you should fast. "

[selected formula] ① for children with fever, not cold after a month: water celery, malt, plantain. Take it in water. (materia medica of Southern Yunnan)

② Cure urination drench painful: water celery white root person, go leaf pound juice, well water kimono. (Sheng Hui Fang)

③ Cure urinate disadvantageous: water celery three money. Take it in water. (Hunan medical records)

④ Cure leucorrhea: water celery four money, Sedum two money. Take it in water. (Hunan medical records)

⑤ Treatment of urinary bleeding: water celery mash juice, daily six, seven. (Sheng Hui Fang)

⑥ Treatment of infantile cholera vomiting dysentery: celery leaf cut, boiled juice drink. (secret records of son and mother)

⑦ Treatment of parotid: mash water celery and apply tea oil to the affected area. (Hunan medical records)

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