2 English reference pachyrhizus [Landau Chinese-English Dictionary]
Wayaka yambean root [Xiangya Medical Dictionary]
3 Roots of Labiatae plant sweet potato seedlings or hairy sweet potato seedlings A Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine Sweet potato is the name of traditional Chinese medicine, which comes from the Herbs for Saving the Famine and is the alias of bamboo shoots recorded in Jia You Bu Zhu Shen Nong Herbal Medicine [1].
3. 1 Alias of sweet potato: sweet potato, sweet potato, wild notoginseng, silkworm eggs and lotus root [2].
3.2 Source and place of origin: rhizome of Lycopus lucidus Turcz. or L.lucidus turcz.var.hirtus regel. [2]. The former is distributed in Northeast China, Shaanxi, Hebei, Sichuan and Yunnan. The latter is distributed in the north and south of China [2].
3.3 Sexual taste is sweet, pungent and warm [2].
3.4 Functions are mainly used for promoting blood circulation and benefiting qi [2]. Indications are hematemesis, epistaxis, postpartum abdominal pain, leukorrhagia [2].
3.5 Usage and dosage of sweet potato: 4.5 ~ 9g [2].
3.6 Chemical components The rhizome of sweet potato seedlings contains lycopodium, fructose, raffinose and stachyose [2].
4. Root tuber of Leguminosae potato * Dictionary * Sweet Potato 4. 1 Source "Records of Medicinal Plants in China"
4.2 Pinyin name digu ā
4.3 The aliases of sweet potato are sweet potato, cold melon, cold potato, kudzuvine, kudzuvine and radish (Records of Medicinal Plants in China), grass melon shavings (Luchuan Materia Medica), shage and radish (Jiangxi Herbal Manual).
4.4 The source is the tuberous root of the leguminous potato. Mining in autumn.
4.5 Original form of annual herbaceous vines. The tuberous root is fleshy, fat, conical or spindle-shaped, with a diameter of10cm. The skin is light yellow, rich in fiber, easy to peel off, white in meat and sweet and juicy in taste. Stems twine, 3 ~ 7 meters long. Compound leaves, alternate; There are 3 leaflets, the top leaflet is rhombic, 3.5 ~16cm long and 5.5 ~18cm wide, and the leaflets on both sides are oval or rhombic, 3.5 ~14cm long and 3 ~13.5cm wide, and the edges are toothed or palmately divided. Flowers are light blue, violet or white, with a length of15 ~ 20 mm, clustered into racemes, with joints at the base of the clusters; The wing flap is the same length as the flag flap, with ears at the base of the flag flap, and the keel flap is blunt and bent inward, which is the same length as or over the wing flap; Style and stigma inflected. The pod is 7.5 ~13cm long and12 ~15mm wide, with fine coarse hairs. The seeds are nearly square, wide and about 7 mm long. The flowering period is from July to September. Fruit period10 ~11month.
4.6 Habitats are distributed in Taiwan Province, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Hunan and Hubei.
4.7 Chemical composition: the root tuber contains 0.56g of protein per100g. 0.18g of fat and 8.2g of carbohydrate. Leaves contain potato glycoside.
4.8 Sexual taste "Lu Chuan Ben Cao": "Sweet, cool."
4.9 Functions: Indications for promoting fluid production and quenching thirst.
① LU Chuan Ben Cao: "Promoting fluid production to quench thirst, treating fever and thirst."
② Annals of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine: "Quench thirst and relieve alcohol poisoning."
4. 10 Usage and dosage of sweet potato for oral administration: raw or cooked.
4. 1 1 Supplementary prescription for chronic alcoholism: sweet potato mixed with white sugar. (Annals of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine)
4. 12 extract