2 English reference dasheen [2 1 Century Bilingual Dictionary of Science and Technology]
A sweet potato [2 1 century English-Chinese two-way dictionary]
Taro [Landau Chinese-English Dictionary]
3 "Chinese Medicine Dictionary" Taro Taro is the name of Chinese medicine, which comes from "Herbal Yi Yan" [1].
3. 1 taro is also called taro, taro milk and taro root [1].
Taro, Taro, Taro, Taro and Sweet Potato
3.2 Source and place of origin: tuber of Araceae plant taro [1]. Widely cultivated in southern China [1].
3.3 Pungent, mild and slightly toxic [1].
3.4 Functions are mainly used for resolving phlegm, softening hardness, reducing swelling and resolving hard mass [1].
1. Treat lymphoid tuberculosis [1]. Take medicine, 6 ~ 9g each time, two or three times a day [1].
2. Treat abdominal gas addiction [1]. Soak clothes [1].
3. Pouring sores, swelling, mastitis, psoriasis, scalding by fire and water [1].
3.5 Chemical Composition This product contains 69.6% ~ 73.7% starch, and contains more B vitamins and B2 [1]. It also contains a variety of free amino acids and water-soluble polysaccharides, including heteropolysaccharide, triacontane, stigmasterol, carotene and three different plant lectins [1].
4 * Dictionary taro 4. 1 Source "Herbal Yi Yan"
4.2 pinyin name Yù Tou
4.3 The aliases of taro are Crouching Taro (Historical Records), Taro Kui (Hanshu), Taro Root (Yan Shigu's Note in Hanshu), Tuzhi (Other Records), Taro Milk (Method of Planting Taro) and Taro (China Medical Dictionary).
4.4 The source is the tuber of taro in Araceae. Excavate from August to September, remove fibrous roots and aerial parts, wash and dry. Among them, the middle root (tuber) is commonly called taro, and the small one is called taro.
4.5 Primitive perennial herbs. There are oval to rectangular tubers underground, brown and ciliated. Leaves are basal, often 4 ~ 6 pieces are clustered; The leaves are broad and thick, oval, about 30 ~ 50 cm long, full-edge, wavy, short and sharp at the top, ear-shaped at the base, dull at the ear, only round at the end, green, smooth and waterproof; Petiole is fleshy, long and thick, green or light green purple, and the base is sheath-shaped. There are 1 ~ 4 flower stems, which are led out from the base of leaf sheath, each inserted with 1 inflorescence, open and about 30 cm long. The spathe is about 20 cm long and pale yellow. Spikes are oval in bracts, shorter than spathe, with short appendages; Yellow male flowers are mostly born in the upper part, accounting for half of the ear, and green female flowers are born in the lower part, accounting for about 1/4 of the ear. Neutral flowers are located in the middle, accounting for 1/4 of the ear. It blooms in August.
The leaves (taro leaves), petioles (taro stalks) and flowers (taro flowers) of this plant are also used as medicine, and each of them has a special article in detail.
4.6 Habitats are distributed in South China and North China, both of which are cultivation areas.
4.7 Chemical composition Tubers contain protein 1.75 ~ 2.3%, starch 69.6 ~ 73.7%, ash1.1.68%, lipid 0.47 ~ 0.68% and calcium 0.059.
4.8 Sexual taste is sweet and flat.
① Don't record: "pungent, flat and poisonous."
② Tao Hongjing: "Born poisonous and slippery."
3 "Rihuazi Herbal Medicine": "Cold."
④ Southern Yunnan herbs: "Ganma."
4.9 "Materia Medica Seeking Truth": "Into the stomach."
4. The function of10 is mainly used for eliminating carbuncle and resolving hard mass, and treating scrofula, toxic swelling, abdominal addiction, psoriasis and soup fire injury.
① Don't record: "The main body is wide in stomach and smooth in skin."
(2) Materia Medica of the Tang Dynasty: "Cooking is cold, treating is hot, and quenching thirst."
(3) Meng Wei: "Take a bath to float the wind, and be careful that the wind blows for half a day."
(4) Addendum to Materia Medica: "Swallowing it can stimulate appetite, dredge intestines, break blood when cooking after delivery, and drink its juice to stop bleeding and quench thirst."
⑤ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Breaking blood and killing muscles." Cooked with fish, you will feel depressed, and you can make up for it by adjusting the middle. "
⑥ Southern Yunnan Materia Medica: "Treat deficiency of qi in the middle, replenish liver and kidney for a long time, and add lean marrow."
⑦ Medical Forest Compendium: Running Water.
⑧ Seeking the origin of materia medica: "Stop diarrhea."
Pet-name ruby "Interest-bearing Diet Spectrum": "Cure strangulated intestinal carbuncle by raw chewing, and take Dan medicine to disperse carbuncle for the first time."
Attending Lingnan Materia Medica Collection: "Cooking porridge and eating it at the end can cure boils and virtual sores in children, and it is also suitable for adults, which can avoid all scabies."
⑾ "Illustration of Chinese Medicinal Plants": "Use boiling water to blend linseed oil to treat fire injuries and burns; Rubbing warts with taro slices can be removed. "
4. 1 1 taro oral administration and dosage: decoction, 2 ~ 4 Liang: or pill powder. External use: pounding or decocting in water.
4. 12 note ① Tao Hongjing: "It is poisonous to eat raw, but it is inedible."
(2) "One Thousand Jin Diet Prescription": "Don't eat too much, move and be cold."
③ "Materia Medica": "Eating too much leads to qi stagnation in the spleen."
4. 13 attachment ① treatment of scrofula, with or without collapse: taro with fragrant stems (whichever is bigger) is not limited. Slice, dry in the sun, grind into fine powder, and bleach with jellyfish skin. The water chestnut soup is a pan pill, as big as a plane tree. Every time you take it, you should take old jellyfish skin and water chestnut soup. ("China Medical Dictionary" Yuer Pill)
(2) Treating tinea gives birth to a catty of taro, which is crushed and stained with wine for two or seven days, on an empty stomach. ("Alone")
③ Treatment of swelling caused by wind of various sores: burn taro ash, mix with warm soup, and apply it to the sore surface with a thickness of three points. It's easy to do, but it's five degrees (Qian Jinfang)
④ Treatment of soft sores on the head: Apply taro and dry it immediately. ("purely unilateral")
⑤ Treatment of psoriasis: taro and raw garlic. * * * Mashed and applied to the affected area.
⑥ Treatment of pain in bones and muscles, innominate swelling, snakehead finger injury and snake insect injury: grind taro with sesame oil, and apply vinegar to the affected area if it is not broken.
⑦ Treatment of long-term hematochezia: four yuan for taro root, decoction, white sugar against white dysentery, and brown sugar against red dysentery. (⑤ The following is Hunan Pharmacology)
4. 14 from * dictionary
Edible taro is the underground tuber of Araceae perennial herb taro, which is native to tropical areas such as China, Indian and Malaysian.
Taro, also known as taro, tastes soft and sweet, and its nutritional value is similar to that of potato, and it does not contain solanine. It is easy to digest, does not cause poisoning, and is a good alkaline food. It can be eaten as a staple food steamed and dipped in sugar, and can also be used to make dishes and snacks, so it is a favorite root dish. In Guangdong and other places, eating taro on Mid-Autumn Festival is a long-standing custom.
5. 1 The nutritional value of taro is 1. Taro is rich in protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, magnesium, sodium, carotene, nicotinic acid, vitamin C, B vitamins and saponins. Among minerals, fluorine content is high, which has the functions of cleaning teeth, preventing caries and protecting teeth.
2. Its rich nutritional value can enhance human immune function, and it can be used as a staple food for preventing and treating cancer. It plays an auxiliary role in cancer surgery or postoperative radiotherapy, chemotherapy and its rehabilitation;
3. Taro contains a mucin, which can produce immunoglobulin or antibody globulin after being absorbed by human body, which can improve the body's resistance. Therefore, Chinese medicine believes that taro can detoxify, inhibit and digest swelling and toxic pain of human body, including cancer toxin, and can be used to prevent and treat tumors and lymphoid tuberculosis.
4. Taro is an alkaline food, which can neutralize the accumulated acidic substances in the body, regulate the acid-base balance of the human body, beauty beauty and blacken hair, and can also be used to prevent and treat hyperacidity;
5. Taro is rich in mucosaponin and various trace elements, which can help the human body to correct the physiological abnormalities caused by the lack of trace elements, stimulate appetite and help digestion at the same time, so Chinese medicine believes that taro can make up the middle coke.
5.2 Selection of taro 1. Skillfully peel taro: Put taro with skin into a small bag (only half a bag), grab the bag mouth with your hands, drop the bag on the concrete floor several times, and then dump the taro, and you will find that the taro skin has been peeled off. Taro contains more starch, and eating too much at a time will lead to bloating;
2. Raw taro has little toxicity and must be cooked when eating; Raw taro juice can easily cause local skin allergies, which can be solved by wiping with ginger juice.
5.3 Taro is suitable for the general population and can be eaten.
1. Especially suitable for the weak;
2. People with excessive phlegm, sensitive physique (urticaria, eczema, asthma, allergic rhinitis), children with food stagnation, people with poor appetite and diabetic patients should eat less; At the same time, people with stomachache and epigastric damp-heat stagnation should not eat it.
5.4 the therapeutic effect of taro taro taro is sweet, flat and slightly toxic, belonging to the gastrointestinal tract;
Has the effects of invigorating stomach, relaxing bowels, detoxicating, invigorating middle energizer, benefiting liver and kidney, relieving swelling and pain, invigorating stomach and spleen, dispersing stagnation, regulating qi, resolving phlegm and replenishing essence.
Indications: lump, phlegm, scrofula, constipation, etc.
5.5 Foods similar to taro should not be eaten with bananas.
5.6 Suggestions for eating taro 1. Taro can be eaten as a staple food steamed and dipped in sugar, and can also be used to make dishes and snacks, so it is a favorite root food.
2. When the taro is cooked, it must be cooked, otherwise the mucus inside will be * * * throat;