Latin name beta vulgar variety madder.

Nicknames: sweet potato (don't record), beet (Japanese herbal medicine), cowhide vegetable (southern Yunnan herbal medicine), stone vegetable (seeking herbal medicine), pickle, pig pickle (Guangzhou flora) and mussel (vegetable cultivation in China).

Its source is the stems and leaves of a Lebanese plant-LYSIMACHIA LYSIMACHIA.

See above for plant morphology.

Sweet and cold.

1 "Don't record": ups and downs, great cold.

2 "Japanese Herbal Medicine": cold, non-toxic.

3 "Jiayou Materia Medica": flat, slightly toxic.

④ "Herbs for Disaster Reduction": salty in taste, flat and cold in nature and slightly toxic.

Meridian tropism

① Southern Yunnan Herbs: Entering Yangming Meridian.

② Compendium of Materia Medica: Starting from Foot Taiyin Meridian.

Function: clearing away heat and toxic materials, removing blood stasis and stopping bleeding. It is not easy to treat measles, heat toxic diarrhea, amenorrhea, turbid urine and swollen carbuncle.

(1) "Do not record": Strengthen clearing heat and relieve wind-heat toxin during treatment.

② Herbal Medicine of Tang Dynasty: Xia Yue made porridge with his dishes to clear away heat and stop dysentery. Apply moxibustion to relieve pain.

(3) "Materia Medica": Take the juice and treat cold-heat dysentery. It can also stop bleeding and promote granulation. If a person has a wound, apply it.

4 "Japanese herbal medicine": made into hot water, appetizing and clearing the heart.

⑤ Jiayou Materia Medica: tonify the middle energizer, lower the qi, regulate the temper, dispel the wind and benefit the five internal organs.

⑥ "Life Taste Diet Spectrum": clearing fire and expelling wind, killing insects and detoxifying, clearing dirt and turbidity, relieving acne and stopping menstruation, treating dysentery and stranguria, especially suitable for women and children.

⑦ Collection of common folk herbs: clearing away heat and promoting blood circulation. Treat anal swelling and pain.

⑧ Records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine: Treating measles with unclear spots and not red color at the beginning, treating amenorrhea, hematoma and anal swelling and pain in women.

Oral administration and dosage: decocted, 0.5 ~ 1 2 (fresh 2 ~ 4); Or mash the juice. External use: tamping.

People with diarrhea due to spleen deficiency should not take it.

1 Jiayou Materia Medica: Don't eat too much, get angry, chill your stomach first, and eat it.

2 "southern Yunnan materia medica": eating phlegm is harmful and useless. It is not suitable to eat if there is accumulation in the abdomen, and it is not suitable to eat more if there is no accumulation.

3 "Materia Medica Seeking Truth": People with spleen deficiency will have abdominal pain after taking it; People with qi deficiency will worry about getting angry when taking it; If you take it with people with slippery intestines, there is a danger of diarrhea.

Party selection

① The treatment period of measles in adults and children is not clear: red cowhide, coriander seed and cherry pit are 3 yuan, and they are decocted with water. (Sichuan Yearbook of Traditional Chinese Medicine)

② Treatment of hematemesis: red cowhide, bletilla striata and stew. (Sichuan Yearbook of Traditional Chinese Medicine)