Iris lactea

Iris lactea

[synonyms] Lishi (Ben Jing), Lishi (BIE Lu), mazianzi (Ben Cao Tu Jing), MA (Hebei Handbook of traditional Chinese Medicine).

[source] it is the seed of iris lactea.

[plant morphology] iris lactiflora (Tang materia medica), also known as Hanpu (Book of rites), Jucao, Zaishou, Sanjian (Ben Jing), Li (Shuowen), MAXIE (Zheng Xuan's notes to book of rites), Malian (Shicao Xiaoji), and licao (compendium).

Perennial herbs, about 25-30 cm high. The rhizome is thick, the root is thin and tough. Leaves basal, linear, 20-40 cm long, 3-6 mm wide, apex acuminate, entire, lower part purplish, hard, smooth, glabrous, parallel veins convex on both sides, 7-10. There are 3 leaflike bracts near the upper end of the stem; the flowers are light blue and purple, 1-3, at the top of the stem, perianth 6, 2 rounds, lower part united into a tube, outer ring spoon shaped, curved outward and drooping, inner ring oblanceolate, erect; stamen 3, closely connected with the outer side of the style, anther long; bee pistil 1, ovary lower, narrow and long, style 3, deeply split, flat, stigma 2-petal-shaped. Capsule fusiform, with, apex slender. Seeds numerous, reddish brown, irregularly rounded, ribbed. The flowering period is from April to June. The fruit ripens from August to September.

Born in the sunny mountains. It is distributed in most areas of China.

The roots, leaves and flowers of this plant are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] from August to September, when the fruit is ripe, cut the ear, dry it in the sun, beat the seeds, remove the impurities, and then dry it in the sun.

[medicinal materials] the dried seeds are flat or irregular oval polyhedron, about 5 mm long and 3-4 mm wide. The surface is reddish brown to dark brown, with yellowish brown or light yellow on the surface. Hilum, apical commissure slightly protruding. It's hard. The endosperm is thick, gray white and horny on the cut section; the embryo is located at one end of the hilum, white and slightly curved. Weak breath, weak taste. It is better to be reddish brown, full and pure.

Mainly produced in Jiangsu, Liaoning, Hebei, Beijing and other places.

In Xinjiang, the seeds of the same genus Iris lactea were used as medicine as iris lactea.

[processing] clean up the impurities, sift out the dust, mash or stir fry with fire until it bulges.

"Compendium": "where used as medicine fried, treatment of hernia is to stir fry it. "

Sweet and smooth.

① Ben Jing: "it tastes sweet and flat. "

② Bielu: "non toxic. "

③ Shu materia medica: "cold. "

[Guijing] 1. In "Depei Materia Medica": "entering Yangming meridians blood points. "

② In Bencao Zaixin: "entering the spleen and lung meridians. "

Functions and indications: clearing heat, removing dampness, hemostasis and detoxification. Treatment of jaundice, diarrhea, hematemesis, bleeding, bleeding, leucorrhea, throat obstruction, carbuncle.

① Ben Jing: "it is mainly used for cold and heat of skin, heat of stomach, wind cold and dampness, strengthening muscles and bones, which makes people addicted to food. "

② "Bielu": "stop upset, promote defecation, and grow skin. "

③ "Tang Materia Medica": "it is effective to treat the internal flow of blood and carbuncle. "

④ "Rihuazi Materia Medica" says: "it can cure women's blood gas depression, postpartum blood circulation and continuous channels, eliminate all sores and swelling poison, stop nose flood and vomiting blood, dredge small intestine, eliminate alcohol poison, cure yellow fever, apply snake and insect bites, kill grass poison. "

⑤ "Compendium" and "treatment of abdominal colic, abdominal cold accumulation, water dysentery and other diseases. "

⑥ Yilin zuanyao: "breaking blood, soft and firm. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-3 yuan; or into pills, powder. External use: tamping.

[taboo] 1. Bielu: "taking too much makes people loose.". "

② "It is forbidden for those who are hot and dry. "

[formula selection] ① for acute icteric infectious hepatitis: iris lactea. Take it in water. (Xinjiang Chinese herbal medicine manual)

② Water dysentery control: Iris lactiflora seed. The last three flavors are powder. Cooked soup, take a he Xu, and two inch dagger, into the abdomen that is broken. Both cold and hot are cured. (take emergency prescription with you, Malin powder)

③ Treat menorrhagia: iris seed three money, iris spend three money, four money. A total of fine powder, three times a day. (Xinjiang Chinese herbal medicine manual)

④ For the treatment of laryngopharyngeal obstruction, swelling, heat, pain and suffocation: Chuaner Liang and Erliang of iris. On medicine, pound fine Luo for powder, each service to honey water transfer under a money. (Sheng Hui Fang Sheng Ma San)

⑤ Treatment of sore throat: two money, three money, one or two. Take it in water. (Shandong Handbook of Chinese herbal medicine)

⑥ Treatment of epistaxis, hematemesis: two money, one or two, five money. Take it in water. (Shandong Handbook of Chinese herbal medicine)

[clinical application] 1

Stir fry the iris seed in the iron pot, take the powder orally, 3 times a day, 5-7g each time, reduce it for children. In addition, use 2 parts of powder and 5 parts of Vaseline to make ointment for external application. 59 cases of bone tuberculosis were observed and treated for 2-8 months. 20 cases were cured and 27 cases were significantly improved. The other results were unknown.

② Contraception

Mash 60 grams of iris seed, add 2 bowls of water to boil it into 1 bowl, add 0.5 Jin or 1 jin of yellow rice wine, cook a little, and divide it into 6 parts with dregs and soup. When menstruation comes, take it twice a day for three days. Or the crushed iris seed is processed into capsules. 50 grams of raw medicine is equivalent to 18 capsules, 3 capsules each time, twice a day. Take it from the first day of menstruation for 3 days. The decoction was used in 200 cases of women of childbearing age, 6 cases were pregnant within one month, 25 cases were observed, 4 cases were pregnant within three months, 7 cases were pregnant within six months. The capsule was used in 220 cases (about 80% of them were lactating women) and 63 cases were pregnant within 3 months. After taking medicine, a few of them have side effects, such as earlier menstruation, more or less menstruation, more or less leucorrhea and so on. Therefore, it is not ideal to use iris seed as a contraceptive.

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