Elsholtzia

Elsholtzia splendens

[synonym] coriander (notes to the classic of Materia Medica), coriander (qianjinfang), Xiangrong (materia medica for dietotherapy), Xiangrong (the classic of Materia Medica), zihuacoriander (the classic of Materia Medica), and honeybee grass (compendium).

[source] it is the whole herb with flowers of Elsholtzia haizhouensis.

[plant morphology] Elsholtzia haizhouensis

Perennial herbs, 30-40 cm high. Stem erect, usually brownish red, dichotomous branched or single, all tetragonal, densely covered with gray white curly pilose. Leaves opposite, broadly lanceolate to lanceolate, 2.3-3.5 cm long, 3-5 mm wide, apex acute or obtuse, base broadly cuneate, margin sparsely serrate, occasionally subentire, dark green above, densely white villous, light green below, densely glandular, sparsely villous along main vein. Inflorescence 2-lobed, apex glandular, glandular glandular, glabrous, glabrous, glabrous, glabrous, glabrous, glabrous, glabrous, glabrous, glabrous, glabrous, glabrous, glabrous, glabrous, glabrous, glabrous, glabrous, glabrous, glabrous, glabrous, glabrous, glabrous, glabrous, glabrous, glabrous, glabrous, glabrous, glabrous, glabrous, glabrous, glabrous, glabrous, glabrous, glabrous, glabrous Stamen 4, anther yellow, filaments inserted above the middle of corolla tube; pistil 1, ovary superior, style linear, stigma 2-divergent. Nutlets 4, suborbicular, brown, enclosed in persistent calyx. The flowering period is September. The fruiting period is October.

Born in the wild. It is distributed in Liaoning, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Gansu, etc.

[collection] harvest in summer and autumn. When the fruit is ripe, cut the aboveground part and dry it in the sun or in the shade.

[medicinal material] the whole grass is dry and covered with white hairs. Stem erect or slightly wavy curved, about 30-50 cm long, about 1-3 mm in diameter; near the root is cylindrical, the upper part is square, nodes are obvious, light purple or yellow green; brittle, easy to break. After wetting and flattening, the intact leaves are lanceolate or long ovate, 2.5-3.5 cm long and 3-5 mm wide, with sparse serrated edges, dark green or grayish green. There are spikes on the top of the stem, which are light yellow or light purple. The persistent calyx is bell shaped, and the bracts fall off or remain. It has strong aroma, pungent taste and slightly numb tongue. Tender quality, light purple stems, green leaves, many flowers and strong aroma are the best.

It is mainly produced in Jiangxi, Hebei, Henan and other places. Jiangxi has a large output and good quality. It is commonly known as "jiangxiangshua".

There are still several kinds of fragrant manuscripts used by people in different places: 1) in Sichuan, Shaanxi, Shandong and other places, the dried whole grass of Elsholtzia splendens is used as Elsholtzia splendens. The shape of the herb is similar to that of the above varieties, but the intact leaves are large, oval or lanceolate, 3.5-10 cm long and 1.5-3 cm wide; the inflorescence is spicate, and the flowers are obviously inclined to one side. In Sichuan, it is called "Deshang Elsholtzia" or "native Elsholtzia". Elsholtzia splendens described in Bencao Yanyi is this species, but it is rarely used in medicinal materials at present. See the "half side sue" section. ② In Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou and other places, the whole plant of Elsholtzia splendens is used as Elsholtzia splendens. See "shixiangsai". ③ In Yunnan, Sichuan and Guizhou, the whole herb of Origanum vulgare is used as Elsholtzia splendens. See "Elsholtzia splendens" article. ④ Elsholtzia used in Xinjiang is the whole plant of Elsholtzia calyciflora. See "Elsholtzia calyciflora". ⑤ In Tibet, the whole herb of Typha latifolia and its varieties is also called Mosla.

[chemical constituents] Elsholtzia haizhouensis and Elsholtzia densiflora contain 0.3% volatile oil, and the main component is Elsholtzia diol. It also contains sterols, phenolic substances and flavonoid glycosides.

[processing] remove impurities, spray with water, remove residual roots, cut into sections and dry in the sun.

"Lei Gong Paozhi Lun": "if you pick Elsholtzia splendens, remove the roots and leave the leaves, file them carefully and dry them violently, don't make fire. "

[flavor] pungent, slightly warm.

① Bielu: "the taste is pungent and mild. "

② Meng Shen: "Wen. "

③ "Diannan Materia Medica": "warm in nature, bitter and pungent in taste. "

④ "Ben Cao Hui Yan": "it tastes sweet, warm and nontoxic. "

[channel tropism] entering lung and stomach channels.

① "Lei Gong processed medicine solution": into the lung, stomach two channels. "

② In the book of Materia Medica, it is said that "entering the Foot Yangming and Taiyin, hand Shaoyin.". "

③ According to the interpretation of Materia Medica classic, "enter the gallbladder meridian of foot Shaoyang, lung meridian of hand Taiyin, large intestine meridian of hand Yangyin. "

Functions and indications: perspire to relieve summer heat, disperse dampness by running water, warm the stomach and regulate the middle part of the body. It can be used to treat cold in summer, cold in drink, headache and fever, aversion to cold without sweat, chest distension and abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, edema and beriberi.

① Bielu: "the main cholera, abdominal pain, vomiting, scattered edema. "

② Meng Shen: "to the hot wind, turn tendons, can be boiled juice meal service. And dry end stop epistaxis, take it with water. "

③ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Xiaqi, in addition to vexation and heat, cures nausea and reverses cold air. "

④ Lu Yan Ben Cao: "typhoid fever at the end of four seasons."

⑤ The supplement to the meaning of materia medica: "it can cure heat injury and facilitate urination. "

⑥ "Diannan Materia Medica": "removing pathogenic factors, treating heat stroke, headache, summer diarrhea, abdominal pain, summer heat, cough, sweating, warming stomach, and moderate. "

⑦ Wang Ying's food materia medica: "in summer, when you cook and drink tea instead of tea, you can have no fever, adjust your stomach to moderate temperature, and gargle with juice to remove odor. "

⑧ The compendium of Medical Sciences: "the main foot Qi is cold and hot. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-3 yuan, or grinding powder.

[should avoid] those who show deficiency should not take it.

① "From the new Materia Medica": "those who do not have exterior evils should abstain.

② "To match the materia medica": "fire Sheng Qi deficiency, yin deficiency heat is prohibited. "

[prescription selection] ① treatment of disharmony between spleen and stomach, chest and diaphragmatic distension, internal cold, external cold evil, aversion to cold and strong heat, body pain, limb fatigue, cholera vomiting, spleen pain, upset stomach, middle alcohol, four seasons typhoid headache: two liang of Elsholtzia splendens, half liang of licorice, one or two of white lentils, one or two of Magnolia officinalis, one or two of Fuzhen. The upper part is fine. Take two yuan for each, boil the soup and add salt. (local prescription of Elsholtzia Decoction)

② Treatment of cholera Tuli, limb pain, cold sweat, thirst: Elsholtzia two, Polygonum one or two. Mash and sift the two flavors. Take two daggers and one cup of water for each, fry for seven minutes, remove the dregs and take warm clothes for three days. (Elsholtzia Decoction in Shengji Zonglu)

③ Treatment of cholera abdominal pain vomiting dysentery: Sheng Xiangsha (cut) 1 liter, garlic 1 liter (broken), Magnolia six Liang (fried), ginger 12 Liang. Cut the four ingredients in a bucket of water, boil three liters, and take three servings to stop vomiting and dysentery. (emergency prescription: Elsholtzia Decoction)

④ Treatment of water storm wind, water gas, edema, or sore water, all swelling: dry Elsholtzia a Jin, Atractylodes macrocephala seven Liang. The first two ingredients are mashed and sifted; the second one is thick boiled Elsholtzia to extract juice, and the third one is a pill, which is as big as Wuzi. Every ten pills, four or five times a day and night, is very good for urination. The combination of flowers and leaves in summer is also good. Avoid black carp, seaweed, woad, peach, plum, sparrow meat. (Elsholtzia pill in sengshen Jifang)

⑤ Treatment of sudden bleeding on the tongue, such as drilling: Mosla juice take a liter, three days. (behind the elbow)

⑥ Heat injury (lying wet when the wind, or unconnected cold, headache and fever, tendon rotation, retching, cold limbs, etc.). With Elsholtzia 1 jin, Magnolia officinalis (ginger juice fried), white lentils (micro fried) each half Jin, file powder. Take five yuan each, add two bowls of water, half a bowl of wine, fry into a bowl, put water in medium, and take it after cooling. Even into two clothes, very effective. This prescription is called "Elsholtzia drink". The lentils in the prescription can be replaced by Coptis chinensis (stir fried with ginger juice).

⑦ Edema: 50 Jin Elsholtzia, filed into the pot, add water for a long time to boil, remove the residue and then deep fry, thick enough to pinch the ball, that is to make the ball, such as Wuzi big. Take five pills each time, three times a day. The dosage can be added a little every day, so that the urination can be smooth. This prescription is called "Elsholtzia Decoction". Another prescription: Elsholtzia leaf a Jin, water a bucket, boil rotten, to slag, and then boil into paste, add Atractylodes macrocephala at the end of seventy-two made into pills, such as Wuzi big. Take ten pills each time, and send down the rice soup. This prescription is called "shenshishushu pill".

⑧ Upset and flank pain. Take one or two liters of Mosla juice.

⑨ Nosebleed. With Elsholtzia research tired, water Chongfu a money.

[discussion by famous experts] 1. Supplement to the meaning of materia medica: "Elsholtzia splendens has the ability to control water from top to bottom. If the lung gets it, it will clear away and heat up. Elsholtzia macrophylla is also used to treat heat and urinate. Thick Decoction into paste, for the pill, in order to control the effect of water swelling disease. "Materia Medica" says that the treatment of cholera is indispensable. "

② According to the compendium of Medical Sciences, "in the treatment of summer diseases, Xiangpu drink is the first medicine. However, in summer, Yang Qi is suppressed by Yin and evil. Therefore, this medicine is suitable for headache, fever, aversion to cold, irritability and thirst, vomiting or diarrhea, or cholera. If the diet is not good, the people who work as mourners suffer from heat, thirst, sweating, dyspnea, diarrhea or vomiting, it is the syndrome of fatigue and internal injury. We must use Dongyuan Qingshu Yiqi Decoction, Renshen Baihu Decoction and the like to relieve fire and benefit yuan. If you use Elsholtzia medicine, it is heavy deficiency of its surface, but also with heat. Elsholtzia is a kind of medicine for relieving exterior symptoms in summer and the moon. For example, ephedra is used in winter, especially for those with deficiency of Qi. Nowadays, people don't know that the heat will hurt their vitality. They can use tea instead of tea, regardless of their diseases. It's a dream. And the nature of warm, not hot drink, but vomit adverse, drink only appropriate cold clothing, there is no case of rejection. Its water control work has a marvelous effect. "

③ According to the classic of Materia Medica, "Elsholtzia can relieve the summer heat of cold depression, cholera abdominal pain, vomiting and muscle rotation. It is mostly made by eating too much in the summer and cold, combining external evil with internal injury. It can relieve the exterior with the middle, so it is also the master. The function of removing dampness and promoting diuresis is the same for those with loose water and swelling. "

④ "Materia medica Huiyan": "Elsholtzia, and the spleen water medicine. When it is used for heat injury, it is used to eliminate and store water; when it is used for cholera, it is used to calm irritability; when it is used for edema, it is used to urinate. Its pungent, warm and diuretic, have thorough

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