(Notes on Materia Medica Classics)

Different names of Equisetum japonicum (On Leigong's Processing), Equisetum japonicum (Tao Hongjing), Five Elements Grass (Herbal Illustration), Equisetum japonicum (Shenghuifang), Equisetum japonicum (On Treasures), Pentagonal Grass, Longevious Vegetable, nine lions Grass (Compendium), Acid Amaranth and Anle Vegetable (Compendium). Sour vegetables (Collection of Guizhou Folk Prescriptions and Medicines), pig mother vegetables, lion grass (Fujian Folk Herbs), Dima vegetables (Records of Jiangsu Medicinal Plants), Hemlock vegetables, Ant vegetables (Records of Northeast Medicinal Plants), Mata vegetables (Shandong Traditional Chinese Medicine) and Longevity vegetables (Illustrated with China Medicinal Plants).

The source is the whole grass of Portulaca oleracea, a plant of Portulaceae.

Portulaca oleracea L.

Annual succulent herb, the whole plant is smooth and hairless, with a height of 20 ~ 30 cm. The stems are cylindrical, recumbent or obliquely upward, diverging and scattered from the base, and often reddish brown or purple on the sunny side. Leaves alternate or opposite, petiole is extremely short, leaves are plump and fleshy, obovate or spoon-shaped, length1~ 3cm, width 5 ~14mm, apex obtuse and rounded, sometimes slightly notched, base broadly wedge-shaped, entire, dark green above and dark red below. Flowers bisexual, small, yellow, usually 3 ~ 5, clustered in the axils of the top leaves; Total bracts 4 ~ 5, triangular-ovate; Sepals 2, opposite, ovate, joined with ovary at base; Petals 5, obcordate, apex retuse; Stamens 8 ~12, drug yellow; Pistil 1, ovary semi-inferior, 1 room, the top of the style is 4 ~ 6 split, forming a linear stigma. Capsule short conical, brown, dehiscent; Seeds are numerous, dark brown, with fine spots on the surface. The flowering period is from May to September. The fruiting period is June ~10 month.

Born in fields, wasteland and roadsides. It is distributed in most areas of China.

The seeds of this plant (Portulaca oleracea L.) are also used for medicine, and another article is detailed.

Collect in summer and autumn when the stems and leaves are lush, cut the whole grass, wash the soil, scald it with boiling water and dry it in the sun.

The dried herbs are shriveled and curled, often tangled into a ball. The stem is thin and twisted, about 15 cm long. The surface is yellow-brown to green-brown, with obvious longitudinal grooves. Brittle, easy to break, the center of the broken surface is yellow and white. Leaves are mostly shriveled or broken, dark green or dark brown. At the top of the branch, there is often an oval capsule or its fissure residue, and there are many tiny seeds in the fruit. The gas is weak and special, and the taste is slightly sour and sticky. Small, tender, leafy and turquoise trees are preferred.

It is produced all over the country.

Processing, removing impurities, removing residual roots, slightly moistening with water, cutting and drying.

The taste is sour and cold.

① Tao Hongjing: "Little acid."

② Herbal Medicine of Tang Dynasty: "pungent, cold and non-toxic."

(3) "Herbal Classics": "It tastes bitter, cold and nontoxic."

Meridian entering the large intestine, liver and spleen.

① Herbal Medicine of Southern Yunnan: "Entering the stomach."

(2) "Despei Herbal Medicine": "Start with the Sun and Yangming Meridian."

③ Rejuvenation of Materia Medica: "Entering the Liver and Spleen."

Functions: clearing away heat and toxic materials, dispersing blood and reducing swelling. Treat heat dysentery, purulent blood, heat stranguria, blood stranguria, leukorrhagia, carbuncle, swelling, malignant sore, erysipelas and scars. Used for diarrhea and dysentery caused by damp-heat, often combined with Coptidis Rhizoma and Radix Aucklandiae. Oral administration or external application of mashed juice can treat carbuncle swelling. It is also used for hematochezia and uterine bleeding, and has hemostatic effect.

(1) "Tang Materia Medica": "The main swollen fistula warts, Dao wipe it; Drink juice to control nausea, stranguria, blood flow of golden sores, blood stasis addiction, especially in children; "Wash your lips, pimples, horse sweat, and the stripes coated with poison with juice."

(2) Meng Yi: "Wet tinea and baldness, coated with horse tooth paste and ash. "Treat malnutrition, dysentery, wind and stick sores."

3 "Dietotherapy Materia Medica": "Mingmen. It also cures malnutrition and dysentery. "

④ Supplement to Materia Medica: "Quench thirst."

⑤ Shu Ben Cao: "The main corpse feet (human feet are often split in winter and summer) are swollen."

⑥ "Kaibao Materia Medica": "The main eye is blind, and it is beneficial to defecate, remove cold and heat, kill insects, quench thirst, and break the sore. And burned to ashes, and vinegar for many years, first moxibustion Ding swollen. "If you seal it, it will be rooted out. If you make a raw juice suit, you should profit from evil things and get rid of white worms."

⑦ "Daily Herbal Medicine": "Cool the liver and retreat."

⑧ Herbal Medicine in Southern Yunnan: "Supplementing qi, relieving summer heat, relaxing the stomach and lowering qi, moistening intestines, eliminating stagnation, killing insects, and treating sores, swelling and pain."

Pet-name ruby "Compendium": "Dispelling blood to reduce swelling, promoting bowel movement to prevent miscarriage, detoxicating and treating stranguria, and treating postpartum sweating."

Attending "Essential Herbs": "Treat red dysentery, clear away heat and toxic materials, and wash away hemorrhoids and furuncle."

Usage and dosage for oral administration: decoction, 3 ~ 5 yuan (fresh 2 ~ 4 Liang); Or pound juice to drink. External use: ramming, burning ash, grinding into powder, blending or decocting and washing.

It is advisable to avoid the "Herbal Classics": "Do not use it if the spleen and stomach are deficient in cold and the intestines are slippery; "The bait decoction must not be mixed with turtle shell."

Prescription ① Treatment of bloody dysentery: two large grips (cuts) of Herba Equiseti, and three combinations of japonica rice. Cook porridge with water and purslane, and talk about food on an empty stomach without salt and vinegar. ("Sheng Hui Fang" horse tooth porridge)

② Treatment of postpartum bloody dysentery, dysuria and umbilical abdominal pain: raw Herba Ardisiae, pounding, taking juice three times, frying for a while, mixing with honey, and taking it suddenly. ("Economic Efficiency Produces Treasure")

③ Treatment of urinary fever: Take purslane juice. ("Shenghuifang")

(4) To treat leucorrhea with red and white discharge, you can take it without asking the pregnant women: three combinations of purslane and ground juice, and one piece of chicken egg white. First, warm it, then pour amaranth juice, and take it at a mild temperature. ("Folk Prescriptions on the Sea")

⑤ Treatment of appendicitis: Hold raw purslane. Wash 30 ml of mashed juice, add cold boiled water 100 ml and appropriate amount of sugar, and take it three times a day, each time 100 ml. (Fujian Traditional Chinese Medicine 6 (3):113, 196 1)

⑥ Treating carbuncle for a long time: Poultry purslane juice, fried to apply it. (Qian Jin Fang)

⑦ Treating malignant sores for many years: Poultry purslane. (southern Yunnan materia medica)

⑧ Treatment of foot-eating scabies: Dry purslane is grinded into powder, honey is applied, and after one night, the insects come out. (Maritime Party)

⑨ Treatment of flowering sore: a catty of purslane is burned to ashes, finely ground and applied with pig fat. ("Shenghuifang")

Attending to cure ear sores: one or two parts of purslane (dry) and half two parts of phellodendron amurense (file). Dao Luo is the end, each take a little, cotton wrapped in the ear. ("Shenghuifang")

⑾ Treatment of onychomycosis: one or two parts of purslane (dried in the shade) on the wall, one part of radix aucklandiae, cinnabar (ground) and one part of salt (ground). The four ingredients, except the cinnabar and salt, are filed and mixed evenly, put in an iron, burnt with charcoal, taken out and finely ground, that is, the cinnabar and salt powder are added, and then evenly ground, and then rotated and applied to the sore for three or two times a day. ("San Ji Zong Lu" Ma Tooth Powder Prescription)

⑿ Treatment of baldness in children: apply purslane decoction or burn pig fat and apply it. ("Shenghuifang")

[13] Treating children's fire pill, it is as hot as fire, and it will be damaged around the waist: apply purslane on the second day. ("Guanglifang")

[14] Treatment of scrofula: Purslane is dried in the shade and burned with ash, and it is mixed with the paste of December pig. Wash the sore with warm water and dry it for three days. ("Emergency Recipe")

⒂ Treatment of scrofula is not broken: Portulaca oleracea is mixed with indigo flower, three times a day. ("Simple Recipe")

⒃ Treatment of * * * swelling and pain: Portulaca oleracea leaves, clover, etc. The decoction is smoked and washed twice a day. ("Simple Prescription of Lakeside Collection")

⒄ Treatment of centipede bite: Apply purslane juice. (Behind the Elbow)

⒅ athlete's foot is swollen, the heart is full of bloating, and the urine is less astringent. Cook with purslane and a small amount of japonica rice and sauce.

Trick postpartum sweating. Grind purslane into juice and take three pills. If there is nothing fresh, you can cook the juice with the dry one.

⒇ Postpartum bloody dysentery, aversion to urination, and abdominal pain. Stir-fry raw portulaca oleracea L., add honey and mix.

(2 1) *** swelling and pain. Use Portulaca oleracea leaves and Folium Trifolii equally, decoct and smoke. Twice a day, effective.

(22) red and white. Mash the juice with purslane, pour it into one or two warm egg whites, and take it at a time at a low temperature. Generally, it takes effect twice.

(23) white worms in the abdomen. Boil a bowl of water with purslane and eat it with salt and vinegar on an empty stomach. Soon white worms were discharged.

(24) Wind tooth swelling and pain. Soak a handful of purslane in the affected area with chewing juice, and the swelling will subside.

(25) malignant sores inside and outside the ear. Use half a tiller and one or two dried purslane, and grind them into the final coating.

(26) Infantile umbilical ulcer. Burned with purslane, ground and coated.

(27) Furuncle is swollen and toxic. There are two parts of purslane and three parts of lime, which are ground into powder, mixed with egg white and applied.

(28) accumulated years of bad sores. Mash and seal with purslane, or decoct with sweat and apply.

Clinical application ① Prevention of bacillary dysentery

Clean and chop fresh stems and leaves of Portulaca oleracea, add 3 kg of water to 1 kg of Portulaca oleracea, decoct 1 kg, and filter. Adults take 70 ml three times a day for 2 ~ 7 days. Children take 60% purslane decoction, or cut purslane into wonton, steamed bread stuffing, or cook porridge to eat; Each catty of fresh purslane can be given to 15 children, and taken every other day 1 time. Some areas are also eaten as non-staple food crystals for 10 days. After thousands of cases of observation, the incidence of bacillary dysentery decreased obviously when taken in the epidemic season.

② Treating bacillary dysentery, enteritis and dysentery carriers.

The curative effect of Portulaca oleracea on acute and chronic bacillary dysentery is similar to that of other drugs for dysentery, such as sulfadiazine and synthetic mycin. The effective rate for acute cases is above 90%, and the effective rate for chronic cases is also around 60%. Dosage: The effective dose of Portulaca oleracea L. has a wide safety range. Although it is taken in large quantities, it is not toxic. However, there are also reports of allergic skin rash caused by taking 1 00% purslane decoction. Some people advocate that fresh grass should be taken daily 1 kg and hay should be halved. Clinically, 50% decoction (hay), 50 ~100 ml each time, or 100% decoction (fresh grass), 40 ~ 70 ml each time, taken 3 ~ 4 times a day, and reduced for children, with 7 ~10 days as a course of treatment. No toxic reaction was found in chronic cases after taking it for 4 weeks. For stubborn cases, purslane decoction can be diluted and then retained, 200 ml each time, once a day 1 time. Portulaca oleracea L. and Amaranthus tricuspidata L. can also be made into injections (each milliliter is equivalent to each crude drug 1 g). Adults should be given intramuscular injection of 2 milliliters each time, 2-3 times a day, and 3 days in a row is a course of treatment. In addition, Portulaca oleracea, Pulsatilla chinensis and Cortex Phellodendri can be made into a mixture according to the ratio of 3:1:1,and the therapeutic effect is also satisfactory. During the treatment of Portulaca oleracea, patients with severe water loss should be rehydrated as usual, and belladonna mixture can be given to patients with abdominal pain. Most of the acute cases were quickly controlled after taking the medicine. The body temperature returned to normal within1~ 2 days, the frequency of defecation turned to normal within 3 ~ 6 days, abdominal pain and diarrhea disappeared within 3 ~ 4 days, and the stool culture turned negative within 2 ~ 6 days at the latest 1 1 day. Portulaca oleracea also has the same effect on dysentery carriers, enteritis and dyspeptic diarrhea.

③ Treatment of hookworm disease.

Adult 1 time is 5 ~ 6 Liang of fresh purslane, decoct juice, add 50 ml of vinegar, or add appropriate amount of white sugar, and take it on an empty stomach once a day or twice, and take it for 3 days continuously. If the second and third courses of treatment are needed, the interval must be10 ~14 days. Clinical observation 192 cases, after taking medicine1~ 3 courses, the negative rate of fecal eggs accounts for about 80%. Portulaca oleracea can also be made into tablets or1:2 fluid extract, with tablets having higher curative effect, followed by fluid extract and decoction being worse.

④ Treating acute appendicitis.

Dried Portulaca oleracea L. and Taraxacum mongolicum L. (fresh herbs can also be used, the dosage is doubled, decocted in water twice, and the decoctions are combined and then concentrated to 200 ml, and taken in the morning and afternoon respectively 100 ml. After treatment of 3 1 case, except for 1 case, which had poor curative effect and switched to surgical treatment, all the others were cured and discharged. Most of them returned to normal within 3 ~ 8 days, abdominal pain, rebound pain, abdominal muscle tension disappeared, tenderness disappeared or there was slight deep tenderness. In another method, Portulaca oleracea is washed and mashed, wrapped in gauze, squeezed and filtered, and 30 ml of raw juice is taken, and appropriate amount of white sugar and cold boiled water are added to make it 100 ml, which is 1 time, and it is also effective to take it three times a day.

⑤ Treatment of tuberculous lymphadenitis

Take 6 taels of whole grass, clean it, dry it in the sun, process it into fine powder, put it into 8 taels of boiled pig's plate oil, and stir it with an iron spoon while it is hot. When white smoke comes out, put the pot down, add 8 taels of honey, stir it into paste, and cool it to get ointment. Before taking the medicine, wash the affected area with rice washing water (rice washing with cold boiled water), spread it into a small plaster according to the size of the sore and apply it to the affected area, cover it with gauze, and fix it with cloth. Change it every two days 1 time, and the degree of recovery will be uninterrupted. During the treatment, avoid eating scaly fish and soft-shelled turtle and avoid sexual intercourse. This ointment has the same effect on other bone tuberculosis ulceration. At the same time, this ointment can be used for oral administration to treat various tuberculosis. Administration: every time1~ 3 yuan, three times a day. Clinical observation 1 18 cases, including 42 cases of lymphoid tuberculosis, 3 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis and 45 cases of other tuberculosis (including spinal tuberculosis, bone tuberculosis, intestinal tuberculosis, renal tuberculosis, etc.), all received different degrees of curative effect. Fresh purslane was washed and boiled, and the juice was squeezed out and boiled into paste, which was used to treat cold abscess. After conventional debridement, the ointment was applied to the affected area, and the dressing was covered and fixed, which also achieved certain curative effect.

⑥ Treating boils and suppurative diseases.

Take 4 ~ 6 taels of fresh Portulaca oleracea, clean and mash it, add 2 ~ 3 Jin of water, boil it (it is not advisable to fry it for a long time), and when the water temperature drops to about 40℃, wash the affected area with a towel dipped in liquid medicine, 2 ~ 4 times a day; Or wet compress the affected area with 4 ~ 6 layers of gauze soaked liquid medicine. 2 ~ 4 times a day, 20 ~ 60 minutes each time; Portulaca oleracea can also be pounded into mud paste and applied to the wound surface, plus surgical fixation, and the dressing should be changed 4 ~ 6 times a day. Washing and tamping are suitable for suppurative dermatoses and surgical infections, such as summer sores, furuncle, breast abscess, erysipelas, cellulitis, perianal abscess, paronychia, etc. Washing can also be used for yellow sores, ecthyma, tinea pedis infection, etc. Wet compress is mainly used for erosive and exudative skin lesions, such as eczema, Luanchuang, infantile eczema, contact dermatitis, etc. The above diseases can be cured in1~ 2 weeks by external treatment with purslane and appropriate internal medicine. Purslane was used to wet compress the rotten and exudative skin lesions, and the exudation stopped in an average of 3 ~ 5 days, and the epithelium was regenerated.

⑦ Used to contract uterus.

After more than 500 cases of clinical observation, Portulaca oleracea injection can replace ergonovine to contract uterine smooth muscle, and its effect is even stronger than ergonovine. Each ml of injection is equivalent to 0.5 ~1.0 yuan of crude drug, and 2 ml can be injected intramuscularly for postpartum hemorrhage and functional uterine bleeding; For caesarean section and curettage, it can be injected directly into both sides of the uterine bottom or into the cervix.

⑧ Treating children's blunt diarrhea.

Take 0.5 ~ 1 .0 kg of Portulaca oleracea, decoct the soup, add appropriate amount of white sugar to taste, and take it as a drink in several times,1day, and take it for 2 ~ 3 days. Or take fresh purslane, wash it, bake it and grind it into powder, 3g each time, and take it with warm water, 3 times a day.

Pet-name ruby treatment of pertussis in children

Take 50% purslane syrup 100 ml, four times a day, and take it three days. Generally, after taking medicine for 3 days, the cough is reduced, the attack time is shortened, and the symptoms are alleviated.

Note: Purslane only takes the function of dispersing blood and reducing swelling, but now this product has become an important medicine for treating bacillary dysentery. In recent years, it has been used to treat whooping cough, tuberculosis and purulent diseases. In addition, this product also has diuretic effect.

Remind you: purslane, a Chinese herbal medicine, comes from the internet. Please follow the doctor's advice before using it.