chive

chive

(Chongqing herbal medicine)

[synonym] miancong (materia medica justice), huocong (Chongqing herbal medicine).

[source] it is the whole grass or root head of Welsh Onion (Liliaceae).

[plant morphology] chive

Herbs perennial, clustered. The root is tough, the bulb is not obvious, and the outer layer is covered with tunica. Leaves basal, linear, hollow and thin, 15-60 cm long. Scape drawn from foliage; as long as leaves or slightly shorter than leaves; inflorescence terminal, flowers numerous, pink to purple; perianth 6, lobes long pointed; stamen 6, filaments protruding; pistil 1, ovary 3-locular. The flowering period is June.

It is planted all over the country.

[collection] from March to April.

[chemical constituents] the bulb contains crotonaldehyde, 2-methylpenten-2-aldehydemethylpropyl disulfide, allyl propyl disulfide and so on; the seed contains several kinds of gamma glutamyl peptides.

[nature and taste] Chongqing herbal medicine: "pungent, warm and non-toxic. "

[function indications] Chongqing herbal medicine: "ventilate and sweat, remove cold and relieve exterior, treat wind cold, cold and headache. External application of cold and dampness, swelling, gout, sore. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction. External use: tamping.

[prescription selection] ① for cold, headache, runny nose and cough: two liang of scallions and one or two of Bombyx Batryticatus. Soak in wine and set aside.

② Treatment of children with cold: two to three chives, a piece of ginger, five pieces of wind (tender tip) three to seven. Take it in boiling water.

③ For arthritis and sprain: four liang of scallions and one or two of ginger. Mash external application (red swelling with wine fried, not fried in summer).

④ Treatment unknown swelling poison: thin fragrant onion three Liang. Mash together with honey and pack.

⑤ The treatment of sprains, swelling and pain does not go away: seven fine fragrant scallions, four Liang flour, three money Yellow Gardenia, two liang land elm, two liang small blood vine. Mix and pound the velvet, fumigate it with wine for seven times, and then apply it with yellow paper after annealing. Chongqing herbal medicine was selected.

Chinese PinYin : Xi Xiang Cong