(herbal medicine for famine relief)

Nicknames: Yang Jiao, beans (Compilation of Medicinal Forests), kidney beans, rice beans, kidney beans, long beans, Undaria pinnatifida beans (Illustration of Main Plants in China, Leguminosae) and pulp beans (Compilation of Guizhou Folk Prescriptions).

Source is the seed of cowpea, a leguminous plant.

Plant cowpea

Annual twining herbs. Stems glabrous or subglabrous. Stipules prismatic, tapering and acute at both ends, and attached to the stem at the base; 3 compound leaves alternate, the terminal leaflets are rhombic, and the leaflets on both sides are oblique elliptic. Inflorescence shorter than leaves, bearing 2 ~ 3 flowers; Bracteoles spatulate, caducous; Calyx bell-shaped, glabrous, shriveled, calyx teeth 5, lanceolate; Corolla butterfly, lilac or yellow-white, flag flap and wing flap have ears, keel flap has no ears; Stamens10,2-body; Pistil 1, ovary sessile, and the top of inflorescence is bearded. Pods are 20 ~ 30 cm long and droop; Seeds reniform or spherical. The flowering period is from June to July. The fruiting period is August.

It is cultivated in most parts of the country.

The root (cowpea root), leaf (cowpea leaf) and pod shell (cowpea shell) of this plant are also used as medicine, and each of them has a detailed article.

Collect autumn fruits and harvest them when they are ripe.

Chemical constituents Seeds contain a lot of starch, fatty oil, protein, nicotinic acid, vitamin B 1 and B2. The tender cowpea contains 22 mg% ascorbic acid.

Sex is sweet and plain.

① Southern Yunnan herbs: "It tastes flat."

2 Outline: "Sweet, salty, flat and non-toxic."

(3) Materia Medica: "Sweet and flat."

Meridian enters spleen and kidney.

(1) Depei Materia Medica: "Entering the Taiyin Meridian to Divide Qi."

2 "Materia Medica Seeking Truth": "Into the kidney and into the stomach."

Function is mainly used for strengthening spleen and tonifying kidney. Treat spleen and stomach weakness, diarrhea, vomiting, thirst quenching, nocturnal emission, leucorrhea, white turbidity and frequent urination.

① southern Yunnan materia medica: "Treating spleen and soil weakness, appetizing and strengthening the spleen."

② "Outline": "Regulating middle energizer, benefiting kidney and stomach, harmonizing five internal organs, regulating camp and health, and producing sperm. Quench thirst, stop vomiting, stop dysentery, diuretic, and detoxify rats. "

③ Materia Medica starts from the new: "Promoting blood circulation to reduce swelling, clearing away heat and detoxifying."

④ Outline of Medical Forest: "Nourishing the heart, purging the kidney, seeping water, benefiting water, reducing turbidity, and ascending the clear."

⑤ Records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine: "Nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, strengthening spleen and stomach, promoting digestion and resolving food stagnation. Treat kidney deficiency and indigestion, abdominal distension, leucorrhea and white turbidity, and nocturnal emission. "

Oral administration and dosage: decocted or cooked.

Should avoid "deserved materia medica": "qi stagnation should not be used."

Prescription 1 Treatment of indigestion, abdominal distension and belching: raw cowpea in proper amount, chewed and swallowed, or soaked in cold boiled water. (Handbook of Common Herbal Therapy in Chengdu)

② Treatment of leucorrhea turbidity: cowpea and rattan. Chicken stew set. (Sichuan Yearbook of Traditional Chinese Medicine)

③ Treatment of snake bite: cowpea, Shā rotto Katakuri, cherry leaf and soybean leaf. Rammed wool for external use. (Handbook of Common Herbal Therapy in Chengdu)

Remind you: cowpea, Chinese herbal medicine, comes from the internet. Please follow the doctor's advice before use.