(Essentials of Raw Herbs)

Different names, such as Poguo (answer to the generation outside the ridge), Jiupi (hand mirror of Scholar's Academy), Luo (outline), Pan Anguo (materia medica), Qijieguo, Fuji Zi (flora of Guangzhou), etc.

The source is the seed of purple sweet potato.

Plant morphology (textual research on plant names and facts)

Trees, up to 10 m. The bark is brown. The leaves are papery, oblong to oblong-oval in width, 8-25 boxes of rice in length and 5- 15 cm in width, with a sharp or blunt tip and a dull and hairless base. The petiole is 2.5 ~ 5 cm long. Panicle pendulous, 8 ~ 28 cm long; Flowers mixed, no corolla; Calyx pink, 5-lobed to middle, lobes triangular, pubescent; Staminal column weak and curved; Female flowers are few, ovary hairy, stipitate, 5-lobed, style curved. Kelp is leathery, ovoid, 4 ~ 8 cm long and 2.5 ~ 3.5 cm wide, with a beak, dark red at maturity and short fluff. 1 ~ 5 seeds, ellipsoid, dark chestnut. Flowers bloom in May. The fruiting period is June-July (Guizhou).

Wild hillside forests or bushes are also cultivated. Distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou and other places.

The shell of this plant (the shell of Eichhornia crassipes) is also used as medicine, which is described in detail in another article.

Sweet and warm in nature.

1 Yao Kecheng's Materia Medica of Food: "Sweet."

(2) Essentials of raw herbs: "Sweet and flat."

The function is mainly used to warm the stomach and kill insects. Treat abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, and hernia pain caused by insect accumulation.

(1) Yao Kecheng's "Eating Materia Medica": "Treat insects in viscera, abdominal pain, addiction and hard accumulation in children." Nourishing liver and gallbladder, improving eyesight, relieving cough and fever, expelling wind and relieving restlessness, and reducing fire. "

(2) "Essentials of Raw Herbs": "Treat children's nature, study the durability of burning (children's rotten heads), and apply oil; Heat cook the meat. "

Administration and dosage Oral: decocted or ground into powder. External use: calcination, storage, grinding and rubbing.

Prescription 1: Treat roundworm in the abdomen, great pain in the heart and white spots on the face: seven tablets of Luo and seven tablets of morning glory. Decoct with water.

2 cure nausea and vomiting, eat immediately; Or spit at dusk, spit at dusk: seven Luo Huang Zi. Calcination, the daily wine is adjusted to one inch, and the service is completed.

③ Treatment of hernia pain: Qiluo Huang Zi. Fry with wine. (Yao Kecheng's "Edible Materia Medica" was selected)

Remind you: Eichhornia crassipes, Chinese herbal medicine, comes from the Internet. Please follow the doctor's advice before use.