Drug name: dandelion

Source: the whole herb with roots of Taraxacum mongolicum, a dicotyledonous plant in Compositae.

Efficacy: clearing away heat and toxic materials, promoting diuresis and resolving stagnation.

Indications: acute mastitis, lymphadenitis, furuncle, furuncle, acute conjunctivitis, cold and fever, acute tonsillitis, acute bronchitis, gastritis, hepatitis, cholecystitis and urinary tract infection.

Tropism of nature and taste: slightly angry, slightly bitter.

Entering the liver and stomach meridians. (1) Gaoli: "Foot-less Yin Meridian." ② "Herbal Supplement": "Entering Yangming Taiyin Classic."

Usage and dosage: oral: decoction, 0.3 ~ l Liang (large dose of 2 Liang); Pour juice or powder. External use: tamping.

Contraindications to medication: those with yang deficiency, external cold and spleen and stomach weakness are contraindicated.

Drug compatibility: with Prunella vulgaris: clearing heat; Rehmannia glutinosa: clearing heat and detoxifying; Matching honeysuckle: eliminating carbuncle and eliminating selection; Cassia seed: clearing heat and purging fire.

Other names: Fu Gongying (Qianjinfang), Pu Gongcao, Pu Caocao (Tang Materia Medica), Fu Gongying (Qianjin Wing), Fu Gongying (Illustration of Materia Medica), Di Ding (Materia Medica), Jin Zancao (Shiru Dog Grass (Compendium), Milk Grass (Ben Yuan), Canfei Falling (Essence of Materia Medica), and Huang Goutou (Huanggou Head)

Name of prescription: dandelion, dandelion, fresh dandelion and viola yedoensis.

Product name: Dandelion. Many leaves, gray-green, yellow flowers, complete roots and dry without impurities are preferred.

Distribution of animal and plant resources: distributed in most parts of the country.

Collection and storage of medicinal materials: uproot before or just after flowering in spring and summer, remove soil and dry in the sun.

Latin scientific name: dandelion dandelion hand. -Maz. Dandelion. Heterowool wheat, broadleaf wheat, Tibetan wheat. -Maz.

Processing method: remove impurities, wash the soil, cut into sections and dry in the sun.

Textual research: from Tang herbal medicine; (1) Compendium of Tang Materia Medica: "Dandelion has leaves like chicory, yellow flowers and white juice, and everyone spits it." (2) Compendium: "Diding, many places in the north and south of the Yangtze River, also found elsewhere, but not in Lingnan. Small Cobb land, scattered and born. The stem and leaf tidbits are like chicory, but the ears are tender and edible. " ③ New edition of Materia Medica: "Dandelion decoction, which can be used for living. The method of frying is 100 kg each time, mashed with a stone mortar and fried with water in an iron pan. Decocting in water for 7 minutes in a pot, and draining the clear juice in a cloth bag; You can cook' gold' in each big pot. After cooking for ten times, take a clear plane and fry it in a large pot until it becomes thick. Then put it in a sand bottle, cook it with thick soup, pour it into a basin until its juice is like honey, melt it with Chinese skin cream, stir it evenly and dry it in the sun. About a thick juice, one or two pieces of human skin cream can be made into paste and sliced. One hundred catties of dandelion can get seven catties of ointment, which is a good medicine for treating sores and fire poison. Each prodrug should use one or two herbs instead of two yuan, which is the simplest and most wonderful method. There is no fresh grass to make hay, but when it is dry, it doesn't need 100 kilograms. Thirty kilograms can be used to boil cream and take seven kilograms. "

Identification of medicinal materials: the dried roots are slightly conical, curved, 4 ~ 10 cm long, with brown shriveled surface, brown or yellow-white hairs on the root head, or have fallen off. Leaves shrink into blocks or curly strips. The appearance is greenish brown or dark grayish green, and the main veins on the back of the leaves are obvious. Sometimes there are incomplete flower heads. Slight breath and bitter taste. More leaves, grayish green, complete roots and no impurities are preferred. It is produced in most parts of the country. In addition, there are many plants of the same genus, such as dandelion. Dandelion, dandelion in Jehol, dandelion in Tibet. -Maz. Wait. Can also be used as medicine.

Chemical composition of traditional Chinese medicine: dandelion contains dandelion sterol, choline, inulin, pectin and so on. The roots of medicinal plant Taraxacum mongolicum contain dandelion alcohol, dandelion alcohol, Φ-dandelion alcohol, dandelion alcohol, β-geraniol, stigmasterol, β-sitosterol, choline and organic acids. Leaves contain lutein, violaxanthin, plastoquinone, vitamin C 50 ~ 70 mg/100g and vitamin D5 ~ 9 mg/100g ... These flowers contain Arnidiol, lutein and xanthophyll. Pollen contains β-sitosterol, 5α- stigmasterol -7- ene -3β- alcohol, folic acid and vitamin C. Green calyx contains chlorophyll. The stem contains β -sitosterol and β -geraniol. This product also contains coumestrol, riboflavin 1.43 μ g/g and carotene 7.7 ~ 8.8%. The whole plant contains dandelion sterol, dandelion glycerol, dandelion penicillin, inulin, pectin and choline.