Alias: mountain rat _, Thistle.
Plant name: Cirsium japonicum.
Growing environment: This product is a robust perennial herb. Most of them were born in the wilderness or barren hills, and sometimes they were seen by the roadside.
Distribution: south of the Yangtze River basin, common in all parts of Guangdong, not seen in the suburbs of Guangzhou.
Such as medicine part: root.
Collection period: spring and summer.
Self-mining location: hill.
Sexual taste: cold and bitter.
Function: cooling blood, removing blood stasis and stopping bleeding.
Indications, dosage and usage: 1, phlegm-fire cough, compatibility; 2, urine stinging, white turbidity: dry root 1 to 2 Liang, decocted with water; 3, bruises, compatibility.
Prescription 1: (Phlegm-Fire Core Formula) Radish Root 5 yuan, Chestnut Shell 5 yuan, Melaleuca Paper 5 yuan, Prunella 5 yuan, three bowls of water, decocted into a bowl of clothes.
(Fang Jie) Radix Raphani cools blood and reduces fire, while chestnut shell is winded. Melaleuca paper clears away heat and phlegm, while Prunella vulgaris promotes qi and dissipates stagnation. Compendium of Materia Medica says: "Prunella vulgaris is pungent in taste and cold in nature, which is the main medicine for treating scrofula and rat fistula." This prescription is stable in nature and is an agent for reducing fire and resolving phlegm.
(Brother Fang) It is rare to cool the blood and reduce the roots of volcanic radish, replace the phlegm fire with a chimney of liver fire, and the paper of chestnut shell withered in summer, and the method of releasing heat and donating phlegm.
Prescription 2: (Prescription for traumatic swelling and pain): Radix Raphani 5 yuan, Chicken Bone Fragrant 5 yuan, Hammer 5 yuan, Jinniu 5 yuan in the ground, 3 bowls of clear water, decocted into a bowl of clothes, and served with wine.
(Fang Jie) "Compendium of Materia Medica" Cirsium japonicum radish has the function of cooling blood and removing blood stasis, and the chicken bones are fragrant, which is called true fragrance. According to "Compendium of Materia Medica", its advantages "have the effects of treating golden sores, stopping bleeding and relieving pain, reducing swelling and promoting granulation." A thousand hammers are Taiwan Wu, warming the middle and activating qi, and expelling wind and swelling in the ground, all of which are effective drugs for expelling wind and promoting qi and swelling.
(Brother Fang) Trauma, blood stasis, swelling and fatigue, mountain radish, chicken bone fragrance, golden bull and hammer can relieve pain.
Additional prescription
Treating cough and asthma due to lung heat: five yuan for Mongolian radish, four yuan for licorice, two yuan for San Qian, two yuan for polygala tenuifolia and one yuan for lotus thistle. * * * Fine grinding. Three times a day, five cents to one dollar each time, and take it with boiling water.
Treating damp-heat in liver and gallbladder and jaundice with red eyes: five yuan for safflower, two yuan for gypsum San Qian, two yuan for Mongolian radish, two yuan for Akebia stem, two yuan for summer, two yuan for terminalia chebula, and two yuan for ephedra and San Qian. * * * Fine grinding. Three times a day, five cents to one dollar each time, and take it with boiling water.
Yin deficiency: Poria cocos, Poria cocos. Boil the cream. (Wang Anqing's Hundred Herbs Collection)
For the initial treatment, take the poria cocos (sliced) three times, steamed with Shao Chen wine and rice, and take it three times. ("Hundred Herbs Mirror")
Treat bayberry with poison: Talim, decoct it with wine. (Wang Anqing's Hundred Herbs Collection)
Treatment of vomiting in pregnancy: 9 grams of Codonopsis pilosula, 9 grams of bamboo shavings, 9 grams of Atractylodes macrocephala, 5 grams of Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi and 3 grams of licorice. Decoct with water. (Anhui Chinese herbal medicine)
Treatment of fatigue, anemia and dizziness: 30 grams of codonopsis pilosula (finely cut) and 2 eggs. Mash and mix well, and steam on the rice cooker. (Food Traditional Chinese Medicine and Convenient Prescriptions)
Treatment of hypertension: Changium smyrnioides 15g, Achyranthes bidentata 15g. Decoct with water. (Food Traditional Chinese Medicine and Convenient Prescriptions)
Poison treatment of furuncle: Changium smyrnioides 9g, Taraxacum mongolicum, Viola yedoensis each 15g. Decoct with water. (Anhui Chinese herbal medicine)