Xanthium sibiricum root

Root (dietotherapy materia medica)

[source] it is the root of Xanthium sibiricum, a Compositae plant.

[chemical composition] it contains glucoside and has anticancer effect.

[pharmacological action] the water or methanol extract of the root (containing glycosides, melting point 242 ℃) can prolong the life of mice inoculated with Ehrlich ascites cancer.

[nature and taste] food therapy materia medica: "warm. "

[function indications] it is used to treat sore, carbuncle, wind in throat, erysipelas, hypertension and dysentery.

① "Dietotherapy Materia Medica": "Ding Zhong Kui heavy, raw ramming Xanthium root leaf; and children urine wring juice, cold take one liter, three degrees a day. "

② Yilin zuanyao: "treating the same, making bath soup to remove wind and moisten dryness. "

③ "Treatment of cough" in Guangxi Traditional Chinese medicine annals. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, fresh 0.5-1 Liang; mash juice or boil cream. External use: Fry water to smoke to wash or boil cream to spread.

[Yiji] Yilin Zhuanyao: "avoid pork and glutinous rice. "

[prescription selection] ① to treat all kinds of swelling: root, stem, seedling and seed of Xanthium sibiricum, but take one color, burn it as ash, coat it with hogwash and mud, and dry it. (Qian Jin Fang)

② Treatment of all hall swelling: Xanthium root in half, five, even to onion three. Wine for two hours, fry for one hour, take hot sweat. (secret experience recipe)

③ Treatment of carbuncle and back, no head sores, swollen and toxic furuncle, wind itching, sore, toothache and throat obstruction: collect Cang ear root and leaf, wash, sun wither, file, big pot five mouth. Add water to boil, sift out the coarse dregs, filter the cloth and silk, and then put them into a clean pot. Fry them in a hot pot, thicken them in a slow fire, stir them into paste, and seal them in a new pot. Each to apply, toothache that is applied to the teeth, throat applied to the tongue or hold, take a spoonful of wine daily. (WANYING paste in Linhu Jijian Fang)

4. Treat the wind of throat obstruction: root, ginger, and research and remove the juice, with warm Baijiu white liquor and juice suit. (good recipe for experience)

⑤ Treatment of erysipelas: fresh roots and leaves of Xanthium sibiricum, fried soup, smoked and washed red and swollen place. (secret recipe of Guiyang)

⑥ Treatment of hypertension: Xanthium root five money to one or two. Take it in water. (Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

⑦ Cure dysentery: Xanthium root one or two. Simmer brown sugar in water. (Guizhou herbal medicine)

⑧ Treatment of nephritis edema: Xanthium root one or two. Decoction or compatible application. (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)

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