Bamboo leaf pepper

Chinese Name: Zanthoxylum bungeanum

[category]: fruits

[synonym] gouhuajiao (plant of central China), Huajiao, soushanhu (Guangxi Chinese veterinary medicine plant), yehuajiao (Hangzhou medicine plant record), smelly Huajiao, Sanye Huajiao, Shanjiao, Yujiao (Hunan medicine record), shanhuajiao, Jijiao (Zhejiang Tianmu medicine plant record), baiguanzi, wanhuazhen (Jiangxi medicine record), Yanjiao (Sichuan common Chinese medicine record).

[source] it is the fruit of Zanthoxylum bungeanum, a Rutaceae plant.

[plant morphology] Zanthoxylum bungeanum

Shrubs or small trees, up to 4 meters high. The branches are dark purple with opposite prickles. The base of the prickles on the old branches is corked and dark grayish brown. Leaflets 3-9, opposite, sessile or with very short petioles; leaflets lanceolate or elliptic lanceolate, sparse ovate, 5-9 cm long, apex pointed, base cuneate, margin crenulate, papery, glabrous on both sides, glabrous and sparsely glandular punctate on main veins, lateral veins inconspicuous. Cymose panicles axillary; flowers small, greenish green; perianth segments 6-8, triangular or subulate; stamens 6-8, connective apex with a glandular spot; pistil carpels 2-4, usually 1-2. Follicles 1-2-valved, sparse 3-valved, red, with prominent glandular spots on the surface and thin pericarp. Seeds black, glossy, 3-4 mm in diameter. The flowering period is from March to May. The fruit period is from June to August.

It grows in low mountains, sparse forests, shrubs and roadsides. It is distributed in the southeast and southwest of China.

The root bark, root and leaf of this plant are also used for medicine. Pericarp is used as Zanthoxylum bungeanum in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Guangxi, Hunan and other places.

[chemical constituents] the fruit contains volatile oil. The stem contained 0.02% Magnolia alkaloid and 0.01% zanthoxyline.

[flavor] pungent, warm.

① Guizhou folk medicine: "the taste is pungent and the nature is warm. "

② Jiangxi herbal medicine: "it is warm in nature, pungent in taste, and has little poison. "

③ Common Chinese herbal medicine in Sichuan: "bitter, pungent, warm, with little poison. "

Functions and indications: dispersing cold, relieving pain and removing Ascaris. Treatment of stomach cold and roundworm abdominal pain, toothache, wet sores.

① "Guangxi medicine plant directory": "Xingqi Xiaozhong, Qufeng Sanyu, Zhike, quascaris. Treat stomachache. "

② Jiangxi herbal medicine: "dispelling cold, relieving pain, relieving snake venom. "

③ "Sichuan commonly used Chinese herbal medicine": "dispersing cold, promoting Qi, killing insects, dispelling wind. It can cure chest and abdomen cold pain, Ascaris lumbricoides stomachache, wind cold toothache, dampness toxin itching sore. "

[usage and dosage] take orally: decoction, 2-3 yuan; take at the end of research, 0.5-1 yuan each time. External use: wash with boiling water.

[prescription selection] ① for stomachache and toothache: one to two coins for Zanthoxylum bungeanum and three coins for Rhizoma zingiberensis. At the end of the study, warm boiled water was taken. (Jiangxi herbal medicine)

② Treatment of abdominal pain: Bamboo pepper fruit three to five money, water decocting service; or research end, each time five to one money, rice wine delivery service. (Jiangxi herbal medicine)

Chinese PinYin : Zhu Ye Jiao