Buckwheat root

Buckwheat root

(the secret of Li's grass)

[synonyms] Jinsuo YINKAI (Li's herbal secret), tartary buckwheat head (Cao Mu Bian Fang), wild buckwheat seed (classified herbal medicine), tieshizi (Tianbao materia medica), touguxiao (textual research on plant names and facts), lanqiaotou (collection of commonly used folk herbs), qiaomai Sanqi (commonly used folk herbs in Zhejiang), kaijinsuo and tartary buckwheat root (manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicines in Shanghai).

[source] it is the root and rhizome of Fagopyrum tataricum.

[plant morphology] Fagopyrum tataricum (Li's grass secret), also known as Wudu Cao, Wuji, shewang (materia medica gleanings), golden Fagopyrum tataricum (plant name and reality picture Research), wild buckwheat, sweet buckwheat, sour buckwheat, wild trigonometry, wild buckwheat, tiansongsan, Huamai, tiehuamai.

Herbs perennial, 50-150 cm high, all slightly white pilose. The taproot is thick, nodular, transverse and reddish brown. Stems slender, many branched, angulate, pale green and reddish. Simple, alternate, petiole 9 cm long. The upper part is gradually short, with white pubescence; the leaf blade is halberd like triangle, about equal in length and width; the top leaf is longer than wide, 7-10 cm long, apex long acuminate or tail pointed, entire or with microwave, base heart halberd shaped; the top leaf is narrow, sessile, base clasping stem; the upper leaf is green, the lower leaf is light green, with white fine pubescence on veins; sheath clasping stem. Cyme terminal or axillary; total pedicel 4-8 cm long, with white pubescence; perianth 5; stamen 3; style 3, stigma capitate. Achene ovoid triangular, about 6-8 mm long, apex with short tip, reddish brown. The flowering period is from September to October. The fruit period is from October to November.

It grows on grass slope, forest edge and loose soil in mountainous area. It is also planted beside houses and ditches. It is distributed in the middle, East and southwest of China.

[collection] from October to November, they were dug and dried in the sun.

[medicinal material] the dry rhizome is irregular, massive and woody; its surface is grayish purple, rough and uneven, with many pimples, bud marks and fibrous roots; its quality is hard, its cross section is slightly rough, reddish brown, with cracks and irregular fine lines. It is slightly sour and astringent.

Produced in Sichuan, Jiangxi, Jiangsu and other places.

[taste] bitter and sour, cold.

① "Materia medica collection": "sour, flat, non-toxic. "

② Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it tastes sweet and slightly bitter, has a temperament and is non-toxic. "

③ Zhejiang folk commonly used herbs: "cold in nature, pungent in taste. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and toxin, dispelling wind and dampness. Treatment of sore throat, carbuncle, rash, hepatitis, lung carbuncle, aching muscles and bones, head wind, stomachache, bacillary dysentery, leucorrhea.

① According to the collection of Materia Medica, "it is mainly used for carbuncle, gangrene, ulcers, red and white rashes, insect, silkworm, snake and dog bites, and vinegar rubbing on the sores, as well as ramming stems and leaves; for fear of poison entering the abdomen, it is necessary to boil juice and drink. "

② Li's Cao Mi: "for the treatment of mastitis, the wind poison should be put into all kinds of poisons. Take two parts of root and one part of ginger, and take it in water. Treatment of septicemia long illness, and wash hemorrhoids blood. "

③ In the compendium of compendium, it is said that "for the treatment of closed throat, throat wind and throat poison, gargle with vinegar. Treat white corrosion, mash juice to make wine. "

④ Textual research on the names and facts of plants: "it's necessary to treat Dieda. "Treat injury, activate blood circulation, relieve pain and unblock joint. "

⑤ Classified herbal medicine: it can treat qi stagnation, tonify middle Qi, and nourish spleen and stomach. Cure the bite of mad dog. "

⑥ Tianbao materia medica: "it is used to treat lumbago, backache, scrofula, Myrica rubra poisoning and headwind pain. "

⑦ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it is used to treat scrofula, leucorrhea, stomachache, hematemesis and laryngitis. "

⑧ Zhejiang folk commonly used herbs: "detumescence and detoxification, treatment of throat obstruction, flowing fire, mastitis, joint swelling and pain, stretching and flexing of tendons and collaterals.". "

⑨ Common Chinese herbal medicine in Shanghai: "clearing away heat, detoxifying, detumescence, dispelling wind and dampness. It is used to treat aching muscles and bones, hepatitis and abdominal distension. "

⑩ "Common Chinese herbal medicine in Nanjing area": "treating lung abscess. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.4-1 Liang; or grinding powder. External use: mash or grind juice.

[selected formula] ① for children with drooling (spleen and stomach deficiency fire): one or two fresh tartary buckwheat heads. Boiled water clothes. (Chongqing herbal medicine)

② Treatment of head pain, brain pain, age does not heal: tianyangmaigen two to four Liang (fresh double), wild chrysanthemum six to seven Liang. Decoct in water, make yellow rice wine and brown sugar, and take them twice a day in the morning and evening. (records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)

③ Treatment of itching: buckwheat head (fresh) a Jin, iron water chestnut (fresh) a Jin, Polygonum multiflorum (fresh) four Liang, stew kill oral. (Chongqing herbal medicine)

④ Control Liuhuo: fresh buckwheat root half Jin. Take it in water. (records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)

⑤ Treatment of joint swelling and pain: tianyangmai whole grass two to three Liang, fried in water, after meals. (records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)

⑥ Treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma: fresh wild buckwheat, fresh Fangji, fresh Achyranthes bidentata each one or two. Take it in water. In addition, take junxincao mashed mouth, with the vertical basin grass mashed external application. (selected works of the whole exhibition: cancer)

⑦ Treatment of anal prolapse: fresh buckwheat root 12 Liang, Sophora flavescens 12 Liang. Fry in water and smoke the affected area while it's hot. (records of yam planting in Tianmu, Zhejiang)

[clinical application] ① treatment of lung abscess

The root of Fagopyrum esculentum is sliced and dried in the sun. Add 1250ml of water or old yellow rice wine to each half catty, seal it in pottery, steam it for 3 hours, and get about 1000 ml of pure juice. According to the age and severity of the disease, take 20, 30 or 40 ml each time, three times a day. In general cases, use water; for those with persistent high fever, poor discharge of stinky sputum, and long-term unhealing, use alcohol. 232 cases were observed and the cure rate was 86.2%. Most of the patients had been treated with antibiotics before treatment, and some of them had no fever. After taking this medicine, most of the fever rises, the cough increases, and a large amount of stinky pus sputum is discharged; if there are no complications, it can be gradually eased and cured. Fever and chills usually disappear within 1-2 weeks, and the discharge of stinky pus and sputum is often within 1-2 weeks. Chest pain, shortness of breath, hemoptysis and inability to lie on one's back were alleviated with the increase of sputum output. X-ray fluoroscopy or radiography showed that all lesions disappeared in 200 cases and improved in 32 cases. The shortest hospitalization days were 5 days and the longest 69 days, with an average of 22 days. This medicine is also effective in the treatment of empyema and pneumonia in children

② Treatment of bacillary dysentery

Take wild buckwheat root 5 money, coke Hawthorn 3 money, raw licorice 2 money, fried, 1 dose a day. 46 cases were treated, most of them were effective with 1-3 doses. It also has certain effect on amoebic dysentery.

③ Treatment of suppurative infection

At the beginning, apply fresh leaves of Fagopyrum tataricum to the affected area and change the dressing 1-2 times a day. If the inflammation is serious and the patient has aversion to cold, fever and pain, he should take it twice with fresh leaves 1-2 decoction or dry powder 3-5 times a day. 436 cases of furuncle, infection of skin trauma, acute mastitis, cellulitis and deep abscess were treated with certain effect.

Chinese PinYin : Tian Qiao Mai Gen