English dodder
Source This product is the dried and mature seed of Cuscuta chinensis. Convolvulaceae. When the fruit ripens in autumn, the plants are harvested, dried in the sun, and seeds are buried to remove impurities.
Characteristics: This product is spherical, with a diameter of1~1.5mm. Its surface is grayish brown or yellowish brown, with tiny bumps, the umbilical cord is linear and one end is concave. Solid, not easily crushed by nails. A slight breath, a faint taste.
Identification (1) Take a small amount of this product, soak it in boiling water, and the surface is sticky; When heated and boiled until the seed coat breaks, a yellow-white rolled embryo can be exposed, which looks like spinning thread. (2) The powder of this product is yellowish brown or dark brown. The cross section of epidermal cells in seed coat is square or rectangular, and the side wall is thickened. The surface view is round and polygonal, and the wall at the corner is obviously thickened. The reticulate cells of seed coat are flaky, with 2 rows in cross section and bright bands; On the surface, it looks like a polygon contraction. Endosperm cells are polygonal or quasi-circular, and there are fuzzy particles in the cell cavity. There are fuzzy powder and fat oil droplets in cotyledon cells.
Processing of Semen Cuscutae: removing impurities, washing and drying in the sun. Salted Semen Cuscutae: Take clean Semen Cuscutae and fry it with salt water (Appendix II D) until it swells slightly. The surface of this product is brown, cracked and slightly fragrant. After soaking in boiling water, the surface is sticky, and after boiling, yellow to brown rolled embryos can be exposed.
Sweet and warm in nature.
Meridian tropism belongs to liver, kidney and spleen.
Functions: nourishing liver and kidney, arresting seminal emission and reducing urine, preventing miscarriage, improving eyesight and stopping diarrhea. Can be used for treating impotence, nocturnal emission, frequent micturition, soreness of waist and knees, blurred vision, tinnitus, fetal leakage due to kidney deficiency, restless fetal movement, and diarrhea due to deficiency of both spleen and kidney. External treatment of vitiligo.
Usage and dosage 6 ~12g; Appropriate amount for external use.
Store in a ventilated and dry place.
Extract the name of Cuscuta chinensis from China Pharmacopoeia.
Source "Ben Jing"
Pinyin names tú s and z ǐ
Alias Tusishi (Wupu Materia Medica), Tusizi (Qiuben Grassland), Mimiwumotherwort (morphological experience identification of traditional Chinese medicine), Rattan, Longxuzi (recorded in Northeast Medical Botany), Luozizi (recorded in Jiangsu Medical Botany), Fanzi (Manual of Chinese Herbal Medicine) and Huangwanzi.
The source is the seed of Cuscuta chinensis or Cuscuta grandis of Convolvulaceae. From July to September, when the seeds are ripe, they are cut together with the host, dried in the sun, put down and dusted off.
The morphology of the original plant is described in detail in the toast.
Features ① The dried seeds of Cuscuta Cuscuta are oblate or oval, and both sides are often depressed, with a long diameter of about 1.5mm and a short diameter of about1mm.. Seed coat reddish brown or brownish yellow, slightly rough. Observation under a magnifying glass: there are fine dark spots on the surface, bright spots at one end and linear hilum in the center. Hard and not easy to break. No gas, slightly bitter taste. It is best to have complete particles without dust and impurities. Location: Liaoning, Jilin, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Jiangsu and other places. ② The characters of Cuscuta chinensis are similar to those of the former species, but they are larger, with a long diameter of about 3 mm and a short diameter of about 2 ~ 3 mm Under the magnifying microscope, the surface of Cuscuta chinensis has irregular short-line markings. Location: Shaanxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan and other places. Cuscuta littoralis and Cuscuta soja are also used as medicines in some areas.
Pharmacological Action Soy sauce (made from Semen Cuscutae and bean cake), Semen Cuscutae extract and tincture can enhance the contractility of isolated toad heart, and the effect on heart rate is that the former increases. The latter two can reduce blood pressure, reduce spleen volume, inhibit intestinal movement and excite isolated uterus of anesthetized dogs. The lethal dose of ethanol-extracted aqueous solution of Cuscuta chinensis was 2.465g/kg, and there was no toxic symptom when the dosage was 30 ~ 40g/kg. 0.05g/ 1.20g dodder sauce, dip and tincture were given to rats by gavage for 70 days, which did not affect the growth and development of animals, and no pathological changes were found.
Processing of Semen Cuscutae: removing impurities, washing and drying in the sun. Toast cake: put clean dodder in a pot, add water until the flowers burst, and when it becomes brown-gray thick porridge, mash it to make a cake, or add yellow wine and flour to make a cake, cut it into pieces and dry it in the sun. ① Lei Gong's baking theory: collecting, removing the thick and thin shells, soaking in bitter wine for two days, percolating out, soaking in Polygonatum juice overnight until it is bright, frying with slow fire until it is dry, putting it in a mortar, heating, and pulverizing with a pestle of more than 3,000 yuan. Compared with Cuscuta chinensis, bitter wine and yellow essence juice are used. (2) Outline: Where dodder is used, wash away the sand and mud with warm water, soak it in wine for one night, expose it to the sun and dry it, and mash it. If it is not exhausted, soak it and mash it again, which will be explained in detail later. Another method is to soak the wine for four or five days, steam it for four or five times, grind it into cakes, bake it, grind it into powder, or cloud it, and when it is dry, put some pieces of paper in it and pound it together, and it will become powder immediately, which is also labor-saving
Sweet and flat in nature. 1 classic: spicy and plain. 2 "no recording": sweet and nontoxic. 3 "Ben Cao Zheng"; It tastes sweet and pungent, and the gas is slightly warm.
Meridian tropism enters liver and kidney meridians. ① "Herbal Jing Shu": spleen, kidney and liver. ② New edition of materia medica: entering the heart, liver and kidney.
The main function is to nourish the liver and kidney and benefit the eyesight. Treat waist and knee pain, nocturnal emission, thirst, urine and dark eyes. (1) Tonifying liver and kidney: This product is commonly used for tonifying kidney, diuresis and stopping nocturnal emission. Can be used for treating lumbago and knee pain, impotence and nocturnal emission caused by liver and kidney deficiency. This quality is soft, nourishing liver and kidney without dryness. (2) Abortion prevention: it is used for people who are weak and prone to abortion, and is often combined with Taxilli and Dipsacus. (1) Classic: The main principle is to stop injury and tonify deficiency, invigorate qi and strengthen the body, and improve eyesight after long-term administration. (2) tripterygium wilfordii's theory of canning and storing: supplementing people's body and helping others' bones and muscles. ③ Don't record: nourishing muscles and strengthening yin, strengthening bones and muscles, cold main stem, spontaneous emission of essence, excessive drowning, bitter taste and thirst, and accumulation of cold blood. ④ Theory of medicinal properties: treat deficiency and cold in men and women, add lean marrow, remove waist pain and knee cold, and treat thirst and heat. ⑤ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": tonify five strains and seven injuries, cure ejaculation, benefit hematochezia, and moisten the heart and lungs. ⑥ Wang: tonify liver and wind deficiency. ⑦ Shandong Traditional Chinese Medicine: Treating women often practices abortion.
Oral administration and dosage: decocted, 3 ~ 5 yuan; I still took the pills and dispersed them. External use: fry and apply.
Note 1 Notes on Materia Medica: Good wine. Dioscorea, turpentine, pathogenic bacteria. ② Classic of Materia Medica: Those with strong kidney fire and strong yang spirit but not flaccidity should avoid it, and those with dry stool should also avoid it. ③ "Deserved Materia Medica": It is forbidden to be used by pregnant women, people with bloody collapse, yang deficiency, constipation, kidney fire and fire due to yin deficiency.
Attachment ① Tonifying kidney-qi, strengthening yang, helping the spirit, and lightening the waist and feet: one catty of Semen Cuscutae (washed, boiled with wine, mashed into cakes and baked) and four ounces of Radix Aconiti Lateralis (prepared). * * * for the end, wine paste pills, five big, fifty pills under the wine. ("Bian Que Shuxin" Dodder Pill) ② Treatment of low back pain: Dodder (soaked in wine) and Eucommia ulmoides (peeled and fried) are equally divided. For fine powder, yam paste pills are as big as five pills. Take 50 capsules each time, and add salt wine or salt soup. ("10 1 recipe selection") 3 Treatment of husband's cold pain in waist and knees, or numbness and weakness: one or two fangs (washing), one or two Achyranthes bidentata. Soak in the same wine for five days, dry in the sun, and then put the original soaked wine into the wine with low alcohol content to make a paste, and search for pills as big as barrels. Twenty capsules are packed in hollow wine. ("Experience behind") 4 Treat waist and knee cold, benefit qi and improve eyesight: Cuscuta fights. The wine has been soaked for a long time, drained in Gan Lu, dispersed, dried up and finely chopped. Two yuan each time, with warm wine for three days. After taking it, eat three to five spoonfuls of water and rice to maintain pressure until the third or seventh day, and even take it to San Qian. ("Puji Fang") 5 Treatment of fatigue and liver qi, dark eyes: dodder 22. Soak in wine for three days, expose to the sun and dry, mash into powder, and the chicken balls are big. Take 30 capsules each time with warm wine. ("Sheng Hui Fang") ⑥ Treatment ointment: Semen Cuscutae (soaked in wine, steamed, pounded and baked), half of ootheca mantidis (baked), and one point of Alisma orientalis. The top is fine powder, and honey is a pill, as big as a buttonwood tree. Take 20 capsules each time, and send them to the hollow with black rice. ("Miao Fang" Tusi Pill) ⑦ Treat red and turbid urine, deficiency of heart and kidney, essence and little blood dryness, dry mouth, upset and hot, dizziness and palpitation: Semen Cuscutae and Radix Ophiopogonis are equally divided. For the end, honey pills are big, and salt soup is seventy pills at a time. ("Outline") ⑧ Treat deficiency of heart qi, excessive thinking, deficiency of kidney meridian, weakness of true yang, drowning and turbid urine, and frequent occurrence of wet dream: five or two dodder seeds, three or two white poria cocos and two or two stone lotus seeds (shelled). The top is fine powder, and the wine is boiled into pills, such as buttonwood. Take 30 capsules each time and put them under the hollow salt soup. Regular use can soothe the nerves, tonify deficiency, nourish blood and induce diuresis. ("Fang Ju" Futu Pill) 9 Treatment of excessive urination or incontinence: dodder (steamed with wine), ootheca mantidis (roasted with wine), oyster (calcined), cistanche deserticola (moistened with wine), aconite (processed, peeled and umbilical cord), Schisandra chinensis, and chicken. The top is the bottom, and the wine paste pill is as big as a abital. Take 70 capsules each time, and add salt and wine before eating. ("Shiyidexiaofang" Semen Cuscutae Pill) Indications: Spleen Deficiency, Diet Loss and False Stool: Semen Cuscutae Siliang, Radix Astragali and Atractylodis Macrocephalae (stir-fried in the soil). Ginseng, Radix Aucklandiae each one or two, Fructus Psoraleae, Fructus Foeniculi each eight money. Candy is made into pills. Take San Qian in the morning and evening, with soup and wine. ("Authentic Wheat Prevention") ⑾ Curing thirst: Cuscuta chinensis is not limited. Wash it, wash it with clear water, soak it in wine for three nights, control drying, moisten it, mash it into powder, bake it into fine powder, and refine honey into pills, as big as a buttonwood tree. Drink 50 capsules before meals, two or three times a day; Or disperse and drink San Qian. ("All Fingers Confused" Dodder Pill) ⑿ Treat yin deficiency and hyperactivity of yang, fever in limbs, and every wind is like fire: one or two dodder seeds and one or two Schisandra fruits, and three or two raw places. The top is good at the end. Meals and drinks are adjusted to two yuan before eating. (Fried Semen Cuscutae with Chicken Peak Puji Formula) ⒀ Treatment of itching and pain at the lower part of hemorrhoids like insect bites: Boil Semen Cuscutae until yellow and black, and coat the end with black-bone chicken. (After Elbow) 14. Treatment of eyebrow tinea sore: stir-fry Semen Cuscutae, grind into powder, and apply oil. ("Four Essentials of Mountain Living") ⒂ Quench thirst. Drink it at will with the decoction of Semen Cuscutae, and stop it to a certain extent. [14] White turbid nocturnal emission (if you think too much, your heart and kidney will be damaged, your true yang will not be solid, you will gradually discharge, your urine will be white and turbid, and wet dream will have nocturnal emission). Use five taels of dodder, three taels of white poria cocos and two taels of Shi Lian meat, grind them into powder, and add wine to paste them into balls, the size of which is like five taels. Take 30 ~ 90 capsules each time and send salt soup. This prescription is called pagoda pill. ⒄ Urine dripping wet. Boil the juice with dodder and drink. ⒅ Pain in the waist and knees (numbness and weakness). Soak one or two Semen Cuscutae (washed) and two Radix Achyranthis Bidentatae in wine, take them out, dry them, grind them into powder, and boil them into pills with the original wine. Take twenty or thirty capsules each time, take them in a hollow, and send wine. Pet-name ruby body, face suddenly swollen up. Soak one liter of Semen Cuscutae in five liters of wine for two or three nights, and drink one liter each time. Three times a day, the swelling will not go away, and continue to take medicine.
Discussions among various factions ① Classic of Materia Medica: Of the five flavors, only four are pungent and slippery, and four are complicated. The classic says that kidney is bitter and dry, and dodder belongs to it, which is completely different from pungent and hot. Scholars don't use words to hurt righteousness. The main drugs are spleen, kidney and liver, and the main drugs are stopping injury, tonifying deficiency, benefiting qi and strengthening the body resistance. If all three meridians are solid, the injury will stop without making up. Spleen controls blood, binds tendons and main limbs, and Yangming Taiyin is full of qi, so it gains weight. Nourishing spleen and muscles, benefiting liver and kidney, strengthening yin and strengthening bones and muscles, and warming can tonify kidney and strengthen yang, so the cold in the main stem is refined, and there is more than drowning. Bitter mouth and thirst are caused by deficiency of both spleen and kidney, internal heat and insufficient body fluid. Two dirty organs make up, and two diseases heal themselves. Cold blood accumulation, strain leads to blood stasis, yang deficiency leads to internal cold, and blood can't be controlled with pneumatic and weak qi, but it will accumulate for a long time. Any strain is caused by spleen, kidney and liver. If the liver and spleen are vigorous, blood stasis will be self-sufficient. (2) Herbal Yan Hui: Semen Cuscutae, a medicine for tonifying kidney and liver, warming spleen and invigorating stomach. However, the tonic is not intense, warm but not dry, so it enters the kidney meridian, and deficiency can be tonic, which can actually benefit, cold can be warm, heat can be cool, wet can be dry, and dry can be moist. If it is not Phellodendron amurense and Anemarrhena asphodeloides, it is bitter and cold but not warm, and it has the gas of purging kidney meridians; If it is cinnamon and Alpinia oxyphylla, it is hot but not cold, and it has dryness of moving kidney meridians; If it is not cistanche deserticola and Zuoyang, it will be salty and stagnant, and the kidney meridian will be wet. For example, in Shennong Materia Medica, the so-called "even injury and benefiting qi, improving eyesight and benefiting essence" is proved by tonifying kidney and liver, warming the middle warmer and nourishing the stomach. ③ New edition of Materia Medica: Cuscuta chinensis can be reused or used exclusively. In case of patients with guilty conscience, dreaminess day and night, frequent ejaculation, use three ounces of Semen Cuscutae, ten bowls of water and three bowls of boiled juice, and take it three times, once in the morning and once in the evening. Will never be left behind. This is caused by qi disease of heart, liver and kidney and insufficient fire and water. Cuscuta chinensis is a holy medicine for nourishing the heart, liver and kidney, which is particularly powerful and can reach the three meridians directly, giving full play to its functions. He fidgeted at night, his eyes were dim and his feet were weak. He can use one or two, and ginseng, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata, Atractylodis Macrocephala, hawthorn and so on all have miraculous effects. 4 "Ben Feng Jingyuan": Cuscuta chinensis, expelling wind and improving eyesight, separating the qi of liver and kidney. Its taste is pungent and sticky, just like Du Zhongqiang's tendon warming waist and knees. Its function specializes in nourishing essence, strengthening bones and muscles, stopping bleeding, cold essence, excessive drowning, soreness of knees and knees, qi deficiency of liver and kidney in the elderly, lumbago and cold knees. This product is compatible with Fructus Psoraleae and Eucommiae Cortex. All fascia belongs to the liver. For those who have no vision due to qi deficiency, Ophiopogon japonicus should be supplemented with honey pills, which is effective. Don't use it if the yang is strong but not flaccid, the stool is dry and hard, and the water is red and astringent. Helping yang is based on its nature. ⑤ Materia Medica Justice: Toast is superior to nourishing yin and dredging collaterals. Its taste is slightly pungent, so it is feasible to store yang in yin, which is absolutely different from other yin-nourishing drugs. Miao Zhongchun said that among the five flavors, Xintong belongs to Siqi, Jingyan Xinyirun and Cuscuta, which is completely different from pungent, hot and dry fragrance. "Ben Jing" continues to heal wounds, tonify deficiency and qi, strengthen the body and nourish people, all of which have the meaning of dredging veins, warming yang and harmonizing. Fruit juice can remove acne and soften the skin. It goes without saying that the vagina will be full if you take it for a long time. The so-called nourishing yin and strengthening tendons and bones in Bielu also means regulating yin and yang. If the stem is cold and slippery, the yuan yang will be uncomfortable, and the yin will not be taken. If the kidney yang is drowned, it will not be scattered and the atmosphere will not be lifted. If the husband's mouth is bitter and dry, it is obviously the accumulation of cold blood in the shade, which is also the ignorance of Yang. But good at nourishing yin and yang, circulating, so cure. It is inherent to regard the first generation of Radix Rehmanniae as a special nourishing yin.
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