Sunflower seed

Chinese Name: Begonia chinensis

Class: root

[synonyms] zibeitiankuizi (Yizong Collection), Millennium mouse excrement (Gangmu Taiyi), golden mouse excrement (Guizhou folk medicine Collection), Millennium mouse excrement, Dingzi (Guiyang folk medicine), tianquzi, yewutouzi, jitui, sanxuezhu (Hunan medicine records), tiankuizi root (Jiangxi herbal medicine).

[source] it is the tuberous root of Anemone (Ranunculaceae). The plant morphology is detailed in the article "Tian Kui".

[collection] from May to June, root tubers were dug, fibrous roots were removed and dried in the sun.

[medicinal materials] most of the dry tuberous roots are oval, spindle shaped, or cylindrical and twisted, 1-3cm long and 0.5-1cm wide, with dark brown outside, rough surface, irregular longitudinal grooves and horizontal lines; there are petiole residues at the top of tuberous roots, several layers of yellowish brown sheath scales outside, fibrous roots or fibrous root marks. It is brittle in texture, flat in section, white in skin and yellow in wood. Weak Qi, sweet taste first and then astringent. It is better to be dry, big, black on the outside and white on the inside without fibrous impurities.

It is mainly produced in Jiangsu, Hunan and Hubei. In addition, it is also produced in Anhui, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and other places.

[chemical composition] it contains alkaloids, lactones, coumarins, phenolic components and amino acids.

[processing] wash with water, slice and dry in the sun.

[flavor] sweet and bitter, cold.

① "South Yunnan Materia Medica" says: "cold in nature, bitter and pungent in taste. "

② "Seeking the source of Materia Medica": "sweet, light, flat. "

③ Zhejiang folk herbal medicine: "cold in nature, sour in taste, poisonous. "

[Guijing] Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "entering spleen, small intestine and bladder. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat, detoxifying, detumescence, dispersing nodules and diuresis. It is used to treat carbuncle, scrofula, scrofula, drenching, leucorrhea, lung deficiency, cough, hernia, epilepsy, infantile convulsion, hemorrhoids and traumatic injury. Snake bites.

① "Diannan Materia Medica" says: "disperse various sores and swelling, attack carbuncle and gangrene, discharge pus and relieve pain, treat scrofula, dissipate tuberculosis, treat women's milk knot, milk obstruction, redness, swelling and pain, breast carbuncle, milk rock as hard as stone, take it or loose or ulceration. "

② "Herbal mirror": "clearing away heat, treating carbuncle, swelling and poison, sores, falls, mad dog injuries, hernia, hemorrhoids, labor injuries. "

③ "Seeking the source of Materia Medica": "it is good for treating phlegm and fire, eliminating sores and soaking wine. "

④ Guizhou folk medicine collection: "anti inflammation, eyesight, to the eye Yi; can also drive the wind, cold surface, the treatment of infantile convulsion and sow madness. "

⑤ Guiyang folk herbs: "clearing heat and detoxifying. Treatment of epilepsy, snake bite. "

⑥ "Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals": "Lishui Tonglin, detoxification. Treatment of uric acid stones, urine leaching is not clear. "

⑦ Guizhou herbal medicine: "calming shock, relieving pain, relieving asthma, detoxifying. "

⑧ Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "it can cure snake and insect bites, falls, urinary tract stones and dry skin. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 1-3 yuan; grind powder or soak wine. External use: tamping or juice point.

[taboo] Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine records: "it should not be used for those with spleen deficiency, loose stool and clear urine. "

[prescription selection] ① for carbuncle, swelling and toxin: appropriate amount of fresh radix Anemarrhenae, mashed and applied externally. (Jiangxi herbal medicine)

② Treatment: Purple back Begonia seed, with a grain of each year, with crucian carp mash apply. (Yizong Collection)

③ For the treatment of scrofula and breast cancer: five points for the root of Anemone, two to three yuan for the shell, three to four yuan for the oyster and one yuan for the licorice. Take it several times. (Zhejiang folk herbal medicine)

④ Snake bite treatment: two thousand years of mouse excrement. Mash it up and change it every day.

⑤ Treatment of tuberculosis: four taels of mouse excrement for a thousand years. Put it in a big pig's stomach, boil it to pieces and eat three.

⑥ Treating deficiency cough and resolving phlegm. Stewed meat.

⑦ Treatment of stomach heat and pain: two thousand years of mouse excrement. Mash and swallow in boiling water.

⑧ Cure sow madness, sheep epileptic Madness: thousand years mouse excrement 5 to 7 (about 1 money). Grind it into fine powder, swallow it with Shaojiu before onset, and use three to five doses in succession. (4) prescriptions are given below (Guiyang folk herbs)

⑨ Treatment of children's salt Roar (asthma): one or two thousand year mouse excrement, soaked in saline overnight, research. Take five minutes each time, and swallow with ginger and boiled water.

⑩ Treatment of infantile convulsion: the Millennium mouse excrement five points research end, boiled water swallow.

(11) treatment of external hemorrhoids: a proper amount of mouse excrement for a thousand years, rub tung oil on the affected area. If there is a leak, use five money to tamp down the affected area.

(12) treatment of fracture: one or two thousand year old mouse excrement, mulberry white skin, water wax gourd skin, jade loquat each, mash down, and wrap the affected area after bone setting; then use one or two of this product, soak one jin of wine, and take five yuan of wine each time. (the following prescription is Guizhou herbal medicine.)

Treatment of eye shadow: five thousand year old mouse feces. Mash the juice and add it to the eye. (Guiyang folk herbs).

[clinical application] ① treatment of upper respiratory tract infection in children

2-4 ml of 100% tiankuizi injection was injected intramuscularly, 1-2 times a day. If the body temperature is above 39.5 ℃, other antipyretic drugs should be added appropriately. 96 cases were treated, 84 cases were cured, 5 cases were improved and 7 cases were ineffective.

② Treatment of carbuncle

Take appropriate amount of Begonia seeds, wash and mash them, add appropriate amount of honey and mix them into paste (suitable for use now). Rinse the affected area with warm saline, wipe it dry, and then apply ointment. The scope of dressing should be slightly larger than that of inflammation, about 1-2 cm thick. The drug should be applied 2-3 times a day, even at night. Generally, after 2-3 times, the local pain is greatly reduced and the inflammation is localized; after 2-3 days, the systemic symptoms of the patients are greatly reduced or disappeared. Five cases of carbuncle were treated. The diameter of the lesion was about 4-8 cm. After 14-34 times of dressing, the patient was cured in 5-13 days.

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