("Lei Gong's Theory of Making Fire")

Different names: Jinsuotian (the theory of Lei Gong's baking), Chenopodium album, Chenopodium album (a weed-killing drug), Grey Strips (a potherb book), Grey Diced Cabbage (a compendium), Grey Crisp, Grey Amaranth (a compilation of medical forests), and Grey Amaranth (a square square).

The source is the whole grass of Chenopodiaceae plant Chenopodiaceae.

Plant morphology of Chenopodium album

Panicum miliaceum, 20-450 cm tall. The stems are erect, branched, angular and striped. Leaves alternate; The lower leaf blade is 3-lobed, and 2 lobes near the base are short, oval or triangular, and there are usually small teeth under each lobe; The middle leaf blade is elliptic, with wavy teeth on the edge, blunt apex and wedge-shaped base; The upper leaves gradually become smaller, longer and narrower, shallowly toothed or nearly entire; Both sides of leaves are slightly covered with powder; The petiole is slender and fragile. Inflorescence axillary or terminal, with thin and sparse flower clusters, covered with powder particles; Tepals 5, light green, with white edges, without ridges on the back, bent inward; Stamens 5, protruding from perianth; Stigma 2, linear. Utricles are all wrapped in perianth. The seeds are oblate and black. The fruit ripens in June-July.

It is wild in wasteland or fields. It is distributed in most areas of China.

Harvest in March-April, fresh or dry.

Sweet, bitter and cool.

(1) Notes on Materia Medica: "Sweet in taste, flat in nature and non-toxic."

② "Herbal Medicine for Disaster Relief": "The taste is slightly bitter and the nature is cool."

③ Compendium of Medical Forests: "Sweet, cold; Red and gray, small poison. "

The function is mainly used for eliminating dampness and detoxifying. Treat sores, swelling, toxin, scabies and wind itching.

(1) Materia Medica: "Malignant sores are mainly bitten by insects, silkworms and spiders. , crushed and coated with oil; Can also be cooked, can also be used for bath soup, to scabies wind itching; Burning to ashes, cavities in the mouth and internal teeth, killing teeth and hiding sores. Take ash and pour juice three or four times, corrode polyps, remove vitiligo, sunspot anhydride and pork as sores. Son: Cook it well and kill three bugs. "

② Outline of Medical Forest: "Eliminating damp heat."

③ Annals of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine: "It can clear away heat and reduce fever."

Oral administration and dosage: decocted, 1 ~ 2. External use: frying, washing or pounding.

Choose the prescription for treating purpura: ash (no matter how much, burn the ash, pour the juice with paper lining and refine it to about two spoonfuls), realgar, cinnabar, greasy powder, musk, frog ash, sulfur and alum lime. Eight flavors are served, and seven flavors are ground into powder, which is easy to dry and difficult to moisten with vinegar. (The General Record of Shengji is drawn in gray)

Remind you that this Chinese herbal medicine comes from the internet, please follow the doctor's advice before using it.