Dried winter vegetables

Dried winter vegetables

(collection of compendium)

[alias] meiganlai (compendium of compendium) and chengancai (materia medica renewed).

[source] stems and leaves of Brassica chinensis, a cruciferous plant, were salted, steamed and dried. The plant morphology is detailed in "wocai".

[flavor] salty and bitter, flat.

Ben Cao Zai Xin: "it tastes bitter and salty, has a flat nature and is non-toxic. "

[Guijing] Bencao Zaixin: "entering the lung and kidney meridians. "

Functions and indications: Nourishing Yin, appetizing, resolving phlegm and benefiting diaphragm. Treatment of lung heat, phlegm cough, throat pain, aphasia.

① "Compendium of selected materials": "appetizer, lower Qi, blood and body fluid, tonifying deficiency, phlegm cough. If you are old enough, you can't make a sound by drinking in soup. Mash with wine, apply soup and burn. "

② "Bencao Zaixin": "it can treat cough caused by lung fire, remove phlegm and regulate qi, treat laryngeal pain and aphasia, benefit Yin and nourish water. "

[selected prescription] the symptom of white fire pill is like swelling of water, swelling of limbs, white skin, not eating when full, afraid of light: winter vegetables (don't fall into the water, the older the better), decoction, bath and take it. (collection of compendium)

Chinese PinYin : Gan Dong Cai