Tung oil root

Tung oil root

(records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

[synonym] tongzishugen (Cao Mu Bian Fang), tongyoushushi (Lingnan caiyao Lu), gaotongzigen (collection of folk herbs), tongyoushugen (Guizhou herbs).

[source] it is the root of Jatropha fordii, a Euphorbiaceae plant. The plant morphology is detailed in "Jatropha fordii".

[collection] collected from September to October, fresh or dried.

The root is thick, black, spongy.

It is pungent, cold and poisonous.

① Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it is cold in nature, pungent in taste and has little poison. "

② Guizhou herbal medicine: "cool in nature, pungent in taste. "

[function indications] Xiaoshi, Lishui, Huatan, insecticidal. It is used to treat food accumulation, fullness, edema, distention, asthma, scrofula and ascariasis.

① "Cao Mu Bian Fang": "lower Qi, treat fullness. "

② "Stew lean meat, treat foot swelling. "

③ "Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals": "treat food accumulation, fullness, chest fullness and moisture edema. "

④ Guizhou herbal medicine: "clearing away heat and toxin, promoting diuresis, relieving constipation, stopping bleeding and eliminating accumulation. "

⑤ Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine: "kill insects, eliminate food, regulate qi, promote phlegm. Treatment of ascariasis, chest fullness, do not think about diet, asthma, rash. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decocting soup, 4-6 yuan (1-2 Liang fresh); grinding powder, stewing meat or soaking wine.

[taboo] collection of commonly used folk herbal medicines: "pregnant women should take it with caution, and if they take more, they will vomit. "

[formula selection] 1. Treatment of distention: tung oil tree root, Sapium sebiferum root each three money, yangque flower root five money. Stewed pork. (Guizhou herbal medicine)

② Treatment of children's tuberculosis, tuberculosis cough (children's tuberculosis): oil tung root two Liang (dry one or two), stewed pork half a Jin, to slag, take soup meat. Take one dose every two days for three to five times. (Guizhou folk medicine Collection)

③ Cure turn storehouse spit blood: tung oil root two Liang. Take one or two herbs, add water in two small bowls and fry soup in one bowl. In addition, take one or two herbs and soak them in four Liang liquor. When vomiting blood, take water decoction, once. Then take wine extract, three times a day, one glass each time. (Guizhou folk medicine Collection)

④ Treatment of scrofula: Tongyou shushihe pig meat decoction, can eliminate. (collection of herbs in Lingnan)

⑤ Treatment of ascariasis: tung oil root four to five points. Grind fine flour, add flour to make steamed bread, and finish it at one time. (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

⑥ Treatment of infantile malnutrition: tung oil tree root one or two. Half a catty of stewed pork. (Guizhou herbal medicine)

⑦ Treatment of gingival swelling and pain: tung oil root one or two. Decoct with water to remove the dregs, add two green shell duck eggs and cook them together. Serve the soup and eat the eggs. (Jiangxi herbal medicine)

⑧ Treatment of mental illness: tung oil tree root two to four Liang, soil Niuxi two liang, single bamboo core two Liang (or niujiaozhu four Liang), Zhuru two liang, alum three money. In severe cases, add two liang of reed root, and then add three coins of Acorus tatarinowii when the condition gets better. Mild one dose a day, severe two doses a day, generally five to ten days. (selected medical and health science and technology data of Guangdong Province)

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