Perilla frutescens

Perilla frutescens

(yinpianxinshen)

Another name: ebazi (another record) and yusuzi (records of traditional Chinese Medicine).

[source] it is the fruit of Perilla frutescens.

[plant morphology] Perilla frutescens (materia medica tujing), also known as EBA (bielu), Perilla frutescens (Diannan materia medica), Perilla frutescens and pseudoperilla frutescens (preparation of raw herbal medicine), Perilla frutescens (textual research on the name and reality of plants), Perilla frutescens, Perilla frutescens, dog dung thin, dog dung thin.

Annual erect herb with fragrance, 0.5-1.5m high. Stem green, rounded, quadrangular, many branched, except the base, dense slender white hair. Leaves opposite; leaves ovate or round, 3-9.5 cm long, 2-8 cm wide, apex acute or acuminate, base round or broadly cuneate, margin coarsely serrated, both sides green and hairy, below slightly pale and glandular; petiole 10-45 mm long, densely white. Raceme axillary and terminal; bracts ovate, apex acute or caudate; calyx campanulate, with 5 teeth and 10 veins, divided into 2 lips, outer hair and glandular points, inner throat with 1 loop of villous hairs; corolla white, tubular, 2-lipped, outer hair, inner middle hair with 1 loop, upper lip 2-lobed, lobes wider, apex slightly concave, lower lip 3-lobed, lobes on both sides semicircular, middle lobe transversely elliptic Stamens 4, 2-strong, slightly outstretched, filaments glabrous, anthers 2-locular; ovary 4-lobed, style glabrous, slightly outstretched, stigma 2-lobed. Nutlets brown or grayish white, obovate, ca. 2 mm long, ca. 1. 7 mm in diam. The flowering period is from August to September. The fruit period is from September to October.

Wild on the roadside, but also cultivated. It is distributed from Hebei to the Yangtze River Basin and all over the south.

The roots and near roots of this plant are also used for medicine, including the old stem (frutescens), stem (frutescens) and leaf (frutescens).

[collection] when the fruit is ripe in autumn, the whole grass is cut, the fruit is beaten, the impurities are removed, and the fruit is dried in the sun.

[medicinal material] the dried fruit is oval or slightly triangular cone-shaped, with a long diameter of 2.5-3.5 mm and a short diameter of 2-2.5 mm. The surface is grayish white to yellowish white with raised netting. The peel is crisp and easy to crush. The seed kernel is yellow white and rich in oil. It is slightly fragrant and greasy. It is better to have large, plump and no impurity.

Produced in Jiangsu, Hebei, Shandong, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places.

This product is used in Sichuan, Guizhou and other places with the same effect, see "zisuzi".

[chemical composition] the seed contains fatty oil, mainly linseed oil and triglyceride. The whole herb contained volatile oil, and the sleeve contained l-perillaldehyde, perillenone, Tricholoma matsutake alcohol and l-linalool.

(1) bielu: "it is pungent, warm and nontoxic. "

② "Yinpianxinshen": "Xin, Ping. "

Functions and indications: lower Qi, eliminate phlegm, moisten lung and widen intestine. It can treat cough, phlegm, asthma, qi stagnation and constipation.

① Bielu: "it is mainly coughing and adverse, lowering Qi, warming complement (" body "and" marrow "). "

② "Dietotherapy Materia Medica": "raw food can quench thirst and moisten lung. "

③ "South Yunnan Materia Medica": "appetizer spleen. Assimilating phlegm and dispersing wind. "

④ "Yinpianxinshen": "Pingfei Qi, Zhini. It can cure cough and asthma and dredge the intestines. "

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 1.5 ~ 3 yuan.

Chinese PinYin : Bai Su Zi