Brassica

Brassica

(Tang materia medica)

[synonyms] Hu CAI (Popular Literature), Han CAI (prescriptions for all kinds of diseases), Tai CAI (Youya), Brassica (daily herbal medicine), Tai Jie (Peizhi)), Qingcai (suixiju diet), red rape (Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine).

[source] it is the tender stem and leaf of Brassica napus.

[plant morphology] rape

Annual or biennial herbs, about 1 meter high. Stem stout, glabrous or slightly hairy. The basal leaves and the lower stem leaves split in harp shape, 18-25 cm long and 4-8 cm wide, with long oval or oblong apex lobes; the middle and upper leaves of the stem are obovate elliptic or oblong, with sharp apex, heart-shaped base and half amplexicaul. Inflorescence in an open raceme; sepals 4, green, slightly extended outward, arranged in 2 whorls, inner whorl, sepal base slightly expanded; petals 4, bright yellow, obovate, with obvious reticulate veins, arranged in a crisscross, entire, clawed; stamens 6, 4 strong, arranged in 2 whorls; pistils 1, ovary superior, 1-locular, separated by a membranous membrane into pseudo 2-locular. Long horned fruit, 2-4 cm long, 5 mm in diam., apex with a long beak. Seeds numerous, black or dark reddish brown, sometimes yellow, subglobose, ca. 3 mm in diameter. The flowering period is from March to May. The fruit period is from April to June.

It is cultivated all over the country.

The seeds of this plant (Brassica campestris L.) are also used for medicinal purposes.

[chemical composition] it contains a small amount of quercetin and vitamin K. amyloid, a highly branched polysaccharide and a 12s globulin were isolated.

It is pungent and cool.

① Qianjin Shizhi: "it tastes pungent, cold and nontoxic. "

② Rihuazi materia medica: "cool. "

[Guijing] 1. In Depei materia medica: "start with Taiyin classic. "

② "Into the lung, liver and spleen. "

[function indications] disperse blood and detumescence. It can be used to treat fatigue, hematemesis, dysentery, erysipelas, heat toxin sores and mastitis.

① "Qianjin? Shizhi" says: "it is mainly used to treat waist and foot arthralgia, as well as oil swelling and erysipelas. "

② Tang materia medica: "the main wind travel, Dan swelling, mastitis. "

③ "Materia medica collection": "breaking blood, maternal cooking. They also pounded the leaves and applied Chiyou rash. "

④ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": it can treat postpartum blood wind and blood stasis. "

⑤ "Kaibao Materia Medica": "breaking through the blood stasis of Baihuang. "

⑥ "Gangmu": "treat gangrene and pea sores, disperse blood and detumescence. "

⑦ "Suixiju diet spectrum": breaking the knot and dredging the intestine. "

⑧ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "treating hematemesis. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: boiled or mashed juice. External use: fried, washed or tamped.

[should avoid] patients with measles, scabies and eye diseases should not eat.

① "Baibing Fang": "the body odor people eat, the disease intensifies. "

② "With the rest of the diet spectrum": "hair wind dynamic gas, where suffering from waist and foot mouth blocking disease, and postpartum, Sha pox. The chronic disease of sore family, eye syndrome and time feeling should be avoided. "

[formula selection] ① treatment of blood vomiting due to overwork: a litter of red rape (whole plant), boiled water. (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)

② Zhizhudan: seal it with Brassica heat. If the remaining heat does not heal, it should be sealed within three days. Even if it is dry, it should not be stopped. (Qian Jin Fang)

③ Treatment of children red Dan: Brassica vegetables juice three, I apply. (Qian Jin Fang)

④ For the treatment of heat sores caused by natural fire, it seems to be a seed at the beginning, gradually as big as a blister or a fire, and the sores are also colored. The sores are hot, and they become more and more immersed in a moment. There is no limit to the number of Brassica vegetables (mashing and wringing juice), Glauber's salt, rhubarb and raw iron clothes. Mash rhubarb powder and mirabilite, etc.; mix the paste with Brassica juice, apply the medicine on the sore with a bald pen, and then order it again when it is dry. It is very effective to use it frequently. (Jin Xiao Fang)

⑤ Treatment of toxin and heat swelling: three Liang roots of Brassica campestris and three Liang roots of leaves of Brassica campestris. On the two flavor, pound, with chicken Qinghe, paste, dry is easy. (Jin Xiao Fang)

⑥ To cure women's breast blowing: mash Brassica and apply it. (daily use materia medica)

⑦ In the treatment of gangrene, the hand, foot, shoulder and back are used. Suddenly, the hair is as thick as red beans. The juice is peeled out: Boil Brassica vegetables, take two liters of juice, and eat dried and cooked Brassica for several times, less with salt sauce. The winter moon studies its son, the water kimono. (Qian Jin Fang)

⑧ Treatment of pea sores: boil and wash the Brassica. (Qian Jin Fang)

⑨ Treatment of dysentery day and night more than, abdominal pain, mind upset: Brassica (pound, wring juice) two together, honey - together. With warm make warm. (Sheng Hui Fang)

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