Fig

Chinese Name: Fig

[category]: fruits

[synonyms] Ali, Ayi, Dizhen (Youyang Zazu), tianshengzi (Diannan materia medica), yingriguo (Bianmin tuzuan), youtanbo (Guangzhou Chronicles), Miguo (qunfangpu), wenxianguo (caomubianfang), milky Berry (Hunan wild plants), pinxianguo (collection of folk herbs).

[source] it is the dry receptacle of Ficus carica.

Fig

Deciduous shrubs or small trees, up to 10 meters high, with milk. Many branches, branchlets stout, surface brown, by sparse short hair. Leaves alternate, obovate or suborbicular, 10-20 cm long, 3-5-lobed, rarely undivided, base heart-shaped, lobes usually obovate, apex obtuse, with irregular teeth; palmate veins distinct, dark green above, rough below, hairy, thick leathery; petiole 2-5 cm long, smooth or hairy. The flowers are monoecious, white and mostly on the inner wall of the total receptacle; the receptacle is pear shaped, 5-8 cm long at maturity, greenish or brownish blue, smooth and fleshy. The male flower grows between the bracts near the mouth of the receptacle, with 2-6 perianths, linear, 1 stamen, filiform, slender petiole, twice as long as the perianth; the female perianth has 4 perianths, broadly linear, superior ovary, elliptic, as long as the perianth; the achene is triangular ovate, endosperm rich, embryo curved. It blooms in summer. The fruit ripening stage is autumn.

It is cultivated all over the country.

The roots (Fig roots) and leaves (fig leaves) of this plant are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] harvest in autumn and dry repeatedly after harvest. This product is easy to be moulded, so it should be stored in a dry place or lime jar.

[medicinal material] the dried receptacle is oblong or quasi spherical, about 2 cm long, about 1.5-2.5 cm in diameter; the surface is yellowish brown to dark brown, bluish black, with wavy curved longitudinal edges; the top is slightly truncated, the center has a round protuberance, the base is narrow, with fruit stalk and residual bracts. It is hard, yellow and white in cross section, with many small achenes on the inner wall, and sometimes withered male flowers on the upper part. Achenes ovate or trigonous ovate, about 1-2 mm long, pale yellow, with persistent calyx envelope. It's very sweet. It is better to be dry, bluish black or dark brown without mould.

It is produced all over the south.

[chemical composition]: it contains citric acid, fumaricacid, succinic acid, malonic acid, proline, oxalic acid, malic acid, shikimic acid, quinic acid, alkaloids, glycosides, sugars, ficin, etc.

Sweet and smooth.

① "Diannan Materia Medica": "bitter, with small poison. "

② "Gangmu": "Gan, Ping, non-toxic. "

③ According to the diet of suixiju: "sweet, cold. "

④ "Medicine science": "the nature is flat, the taste is sweet and sour. "

[Guijing] Bencao Huiyan: "enter the hand foot Taiyin and hand Yang Mingjing. "

Functions and indications: invigorate the stomach, clear the intestines, reduce swelling and detoxify. Treat enteritis, dysentery, constipation, hemorrhoids, sore throat, carbuncle, scabies, benefit throat, appetizer and expel insects.

It is used for anorexia, abdominal distension, hemorrhoids, constipation, dyspepsia, hemorrhoids, anal prolapse, diarrhea, insufficient milk, sore throat, heat dysentery, cough and phlegm.

① "Diannan Materia Medica": "apply all nameless swelling poison, carbuncle, gangrene, scabies, scabies, yellow water sores, fish mouth and stool poison, milk knot, acne and broken; apply sesame oil to it. "

② Bian min Tu Zuan: "treating throat diseases. "

③ Wang Ying's food materia medica: "appetizer, stop diarrhea. "

④ "Compendium": "treat five hemorrhoids, sore throat. "

⑤ "To wash hemorrhoids" in "preparation of raw herbal medicine". Son, pot meat, detoxification. Pistil, milk. "

⑥ Yilin zuanyao: "Yifei, Tongru. "

⑦ "Suixiju diet spectrum": "Qingre, Runchang. "

⑧ "The white milk of fresh fruit is smeared with wart. "

⑨ Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "invigorating the stomach, relieving diarrhea, eliminating phlegm and regulating qi. For anorexia, dyspepsia, enteritis, dysentery, sore throat, cough, phlegm, chest tightness. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-2 Liang; or raw, 1-2 pieces. External use: decoct and wash, grind and apply, or blow throat.

[storage] store in a well ventilated and dry place to prevent mildew and moth.

[selection] 1. For sore throat: dry the fresh figs in the sun, grind them and blow the throat. (Quanzhou materia medica)

② Treatment of lung heat hoarseness: Fig five money, water decocting transfer sugar service. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

③ Treatment of hemorrhoids, anal prolapse, constipation: fresh fig raw or dried fruit 10, a section of pig large intestine, decoction. (Fujian Chinese herbal medicine)

④ For a long time, diarrhea: five to seven figs, fried in water. (Hunan medical records)

⑤ Hair milk: Fig two liang, tree sweet potato root two liang, golden needle flower root four to six Liang, milk pulp rattan two Liang. Stewed pig forelegs. (Chongqing herbal medicine)

⑥ Fig 150 grams, water decoction and rock sugar appropriate amount of service, treatment of lung heat hoarseness, cough and sore throat.

⑦ Eat two figs raw, or use ten dried fruits and pig large intestine, cook cooked food together, treat hemorrhoids, prolapse and constipation.

⑧ Fresh fig 10, water decoction wash the affected area, treatment of external hemorrhoids.

⑨ Two figs, 10 grams of fennel, decoction, hernia treatment.

⑩ Appropriate amount of fig branches, decoction, two or three times a day, treatment of enteritis.

(11) mash half a cup of fig juice and take it with boiling water once a day to cure asthma.

(12) 10 grams of fig leaves, fried instead of tea, treatment of jaundice.

Treat throat blister, prickle, FIG.

(14) fresh and tender fig leaves, wash and mash the juice, warm boiled water and take half a cup each time, to treat fish and crab poisoning, abdominal pain and vomiting.

⒂ fig pork soup: 250 grams of lean pork, cut into small pieces, 100 grams of fig (dry), the same soup, seasoning with salt. Reasonable intestines and stomach, detoxification and anti-inflammatory effect, treatment of hemorrhoids, chronic enteritis.

Chinese PinYin : Wu Hua Guo