Flower root of Hosta

Flower root of Hosta

(pinhui Essentials)

[source] it is the rhizome of Hosta, a Liliaceae plant. The plant morphology is detailed in "Hosta flower".

[collection] collect in autumn, remove stems, leaves and fibrous roots, wash, dry or fresh.

[chemical constituents] the root contains coumarins, triterpenoids, polysaccharides and amino acids.

Sweet and pungent, cold and poisonous.

① "Pinhuijingyao": "it tastes bitter, has cold nature, and has small poison. "

② "Gangmu": "Ganxin, cold, toxic. "

[Guijing] 1. Yuluoyaojie: entering the kidney meridian of foot Shaoyin. "

② "Re innovation of Materia Medica": entering the heart and liver meridians. "

[function indications] detumescence, detoxification and hemostasis. It is used to treat carbuncle, rash, pharynx swelling, hematemesis and bone sticking.

① "The essence of pinhui" says: "the root mashes the juice, cures various bone jams. "

② "The compendium of Medical Sciences" says: "mash the juice and take it to relieve all poisons; apply carbuncle and swelling. "

③ "Ben Cao Zai Xin": "treat all sores and poisons, break blood and detumescence, discharge pus and disperse wind. "

④ Classification of herbal medicine: "treating metrorrhagia, toothache. "

⑤ Lingnan medicine collection record: "if you have throat moth, take root and pound juice to gargle. "

⑥ "Collection of commonly used folk herbal medicines": "treatment of belt syndrome. "

⑦ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it is used to treat hematemesis, sore throat, carbuncle, gangrene and scrofula. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup or mash juice, 1-3 yuan. External use: tamping.

"Don't offend the teeth.". "

[prescription selection] ① for the treatment of breast carbuncle, the first step is to take the medicine with Hosta flower root and wine, and apply it with dregs. (maritime side)

② Treatment of metrorrhagia, leucorrhea: Hosta root two liang, stew to eat; or with three white grass each five money to one or two, stew to eat. (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

③ Under the fishbone choked: Hosta flower root, mountain red fruit root. Tamp the natural juice together and pour it into the throat in a bamboo tube. The bone is from the bottom, and do not touch the teeth. (business in heaven and earth)

④ Bone scraping and tooth extraction: one money for the root of Hosta, three cents for white arsenic, seven cents for white wine, two cents for Pengsha, three cents for clematis, and five cents for the head of Aconitum kusnezoffii. For the end, with a little pain, that is, from the fall also. (Yu Jushi's selection of strange prescriptions)

Chinese PinYin : Yu Zan Hua Gen