Myrica rubra

Myrica rubra

(dietotherapy materia medica)

[synonyms] Zhuozi (beihulu), shengshengmei (shengshengmei), baitimei (pinhuijingyao), Zhuhong (Zhuhong), Shumei (Chinese tree taxonomy).

[source] it is the fruit of Myrica rubra.

[plant morphology] Myrica rubra

Evergreen trees, up to 12 meters high, crown spherical. Leaves alternate; oblong or oblanceolate, leathery, 8-13 cm long, upper narrow, apex slightly obtuse, base narrowly cuneate, entire, or apex with a few serrate, dark green above, glossy below, smooth glabrous, with golden glands. Flowers dioecious; male inflorescence clustered in leaf axils, cylindrical, about 3 cm long, yellow red; male flower with 1 bract, ovate, sharp apex, 2-4 bracts, ovate, 5-6 stamens; female inflorescence oval, about 1.5 cm long, often single in leaf axils; female flower base bracts and bracts, ovary ovate, style very short. The drupe is spherical, about 1.8 cm in diameter. The exocarp is dark red and consists of many cysts. The endocarp is hard, about 9 mm in diameter. It contains a seed without endosperm. The flowering period is April. The fruit period is early summer.

It is distributed in Southeast provinces of China.

The root (Myrica rubra root), bark (Myrica rubra bark) and seed kernel (Myrica rubra nucleolus) of this plant are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] in early summer, the fruits are harvested when they are ripe.

[chemical constituents] the fruit contains glucose, fructose, citric acid, malic acid, oxalic acid, lactic acid and wax, and also contains monoglucoside and a small amount of diglucoside of anthocyanin. The leaves contain volatile oil and tannin, as well as dandelion alcohol, α - thymol, β - thymol, hemp oil alcohol, mesoinositol and myricetin. Heartwood contains gum.

Sweet and sour, warm.

① "Dietotherapy Materia Medica": "warm. "

② Rihuazi materia medica: "heat, slight poison. "

③ Kaibao materia medica: "acid, warm, non-toxic. "

④ "Daily use Materia Medica": "sour, sweet, warm, non-toxic. "

[channel tropism] entering lung and stomach channels.

① "Into the liver, spleen, heart cells. "

② Yuluoyaojie: "start with Taiyin lung meridian. "

③ In Bencao Zaixin: "entering the spleen and stomach meridians. "

[function indications] it can produce body fluid, quench thirst, harmonize stomach and eliminate food. It can cure thirst, diarrhea, dysentery, abdominal pain, cleanse intestines and stomach, and relieve alcohol.

Fruit can cure heart and stomach qi pain, dysentery, vomiting and diarrhea; bark can stop bleeding, external use can cure wound bleeding, fall injury, muscle and bone pain.

① Meng Shen: "he Wu Zang can cleanse the intestines and stomach, and can also cure dysentery. "

② Materia medica: quench thirst. "

③ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "treat vomiting and reverse vomiting wine. "

④ "Kaibao Materia Medica": "it is used to remove phlegm, stop vomiting, eliminate food and drink. "

⑤ Yuluoyaojie: "sour and astringent to reduce convergence, treatment of heart and lung depression, treatment of dysentery injury, hemostasis.". "

⑥ "Modern Practical Traditional Chinese medicine": "treatment of oral pharyngitis. "

⑦ "It is effective for heart and stomach qi pain and cholera. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: eating raw, soaking in wine, salting or burning. External use: tamping, burning, grinding, twitching nose or adjusting.

[to avoid] 1. Meng Shen: "you must not eat too much. It can damage your teeth and tendons. "

② "Rihuazi materia medica:" avoid green onion. "

③ Kaibao materia medica: "eating too much makes you hot. "

④ According to the book of classics, it is not suitable to eat too much for people with blood heat. "

⑤ "From the new Materia Medica": "eating too much leads to ulcers and phlegm. "

[selection] 1. Treatment of dysentery: Yangmei Shaofu. (Puji recipe, bayberry recipe)

② Treatment of dysentery and prevention of heatstroke: red bayberry wine soaked clothes. Or fry it for five dollars. (Jiangxi Chinese herbal medicine)

③ Treatment of gastrointestinal fullness: bayberry pickled salt reserve, the longer the better, take a few with boiling water. (Quanzhou materia medica)

④ Treat headache more than: Myrica rubra for the end, with a little twitch nose take sneeze. (compendium)

⑤ Cure all injuries, stop bleeding and generate muscle, no scar: Myrica rubra and salt core pestle like mud, into a tingzi, bamboo tube in the collection, once broken fill, small can be applied. (behind the experience)

⑥ Treatment of soup fire: waxberry pinworm ash for the end, transfer tea oil application. (Quanzhou materia medica)

⑦ Treatment of nasal polyps or general granulation: red bayberry (even nuclear) and cold rice mashed very rotten, apply the affected area. (Quanzhou materia medica)

⑧ Red bayberry is soaked in old wine (the older the wine, the better). Take one or two pieces a day, twice a day, to cure dysentery.

⑨ Red bayberry soaked with sorghum wine, eat one or two each time, twice a day, treatment of diarrhea, Sha gas abdominal pain.

⑩ Yangmei bark 6G, decoction, treatment of diarrhea and dental ulcer.

(11) grind the bark of Myrica rubra, 3 g each time, take it with boiling water, treat acute gastroenteritis; if take 10 g each time, take it in the morning and evening, take it with boiling water or Shaojiu, treat lumbar bone contusion pain.

(12) the bark of Myrica rubra is 15g to 30g, which is decocted in water to treat scrofula.

He has more than one dysentery. With red bayberry burned, research for the end, each serving two money, rice soup sent down. Take it twice a day.

(14) scabies. Wash with the bark and root decoction of Myrica rubra.

Toothache. Gargle with bayberry bark and root decoction.

Chinese PinYin : Yang Mei