Efficacy and Function of Malvaceae Plants
Malva seed is an uncommon Chinese medicine. Shennong materia medica is listed as top grade.
Alias: sunflower seed, sunflower seed, hemp seed.
Source: dried seeds of Malvaceae. The roots and leaves of mallow are also used in medicine. Mostly wild.
Origin: It is produced in most parts of the country.
Character identification: the stem and seed are kidney-shaped, and the two ends of the central depression are raised. The diameter is about1.5 ~ 3 mm. The surface is grayish brown, one end is long and sharp, and the other end is short and slightly round. Strong quality. There are yellow and white seeds in the broken shell, oily. Tasteless, light and slightly sweet.
Main ingredients: The seeds contain fatty oil and protein. Flowers contain anthocyanins. Fresh mallow contains monosaccharide 6.8% ~ 7.4%, sucrose 4. 1 ~ 4.6%, maltose 4.5% ~ 4.8% and starch 1.2%.
Efficacy and function: diuretic, laxative and prolactin.
Processing: removal of impurities, raw use.
Sexual taste: sweet and cold.
Meridian tropism: entering the large intestine, small intestine and bladder meridian.
Function: diuresis, intestine moistening and lactation promoting.
Indications: Constipation, gonorrhea, edema, galactorrhea and breast pain.
Clinical application: mallow seed is sweet, light, cold and moist, and it is a product that can help qi flow and induce resuscitation. It can not only promote defecation, but also reduce lactation and swelling. Its galactagogue effect is similar to Akebia manshuriensis and Akebia manshuriensis.
1, used to treat gonorrhea, edema, etc. The former is often combined with Semen Plantaginis and Lygodium japonicum, while the latter is combined with Poria.
2. For constipation, it can be used together with peach kernel and dark plum kernel, which has the functions of moistening intestine to relieve constipation, moistening dryness and smoothing intestine, softening and resolving hard mass.
3. Used for symptoms such as breast obstruction and breast pain. It is often combined with Pangolin, Semen Vaccariae, Radix Astragali and trotters. And has the function of promoting blood circulation and promoting lactation.
Caution: Avoid taking it for people with spleen deficiency and intestinal slippery, and use it with caution for pregnant women.
Dosage: 6 ~ 15g, or Chengwan powder.
For example, the prescription is 1, which is used to treat stranguria, fatigue and hematuria. Recipe: Malva seed 100g, water 300g, juicing, three times a day.
2, cure dystocia, if not. Herbs for dietotherapy: 200g sunflower seeds, mashed, boiled with 400 ml water, 100g, deslagging, and taken immediately.
3. Treat blisters and sores on the face. Tao Hongjing said: 30g of sunflower seeds, 30g of arborvitae seeds, 30g of poria cocos and 30g of melon petals, which is the last. Take it with wine after meals 1g, three times a day.
Attachment 1: mallow root.
This product is an uncommon Chinese medicine. It was first published in Records of Famous Doctors.
Alias: sunflower root.
Source: Malus tonkinensis.
Nature and taste: sweet, pungent and cold.
Function: clearing away heat and toxic materials, dredging orifices and treating stranguria.
Indications: thirst-quenching, gonorrhea, adverse stool and hypogalactia.
Precautions: Do not take it for the weak with spleen-yang deficiency.
Dosage: 30 ~ 60g, external use: burnable, grindable and miscible.
Examples of prescriptions: treatment of heat stranguria, intestinal obstruction and styloid process pain: Shenghui Recipe: 30g of Plantago Seed and 30g of Malva Root, decocted in water and taken separately.
Attachment 2: winter sunflower leaves.
Alias: winter sunflower seedling leaves.
Source: Malus tonkinensis.
Main ingredients: leaves contain mucus.
Sexual taste: sweet and cold.
Functions: clearing away heat, promoting blood circulation and moistening intestines.
Indications: cough due to lung heat, diarrhea due to heat toxin and jaundice.
Precautions: it is forbidden for people with spleen deficiency and slippery bowel, and it is forbidden for pregnant women.
Dosage: 30 ~ 60g, or taken by pounding juice, for external use: pounding the affected part.
Examples of prescriptions: 1, for pneumonia, take "Chongqing Cao Hong" with winter sunflower leaves to cook porridge.
2. To treat jaundice, 60 grams of mallow, 90 grams of coriander, 60 grams of viola yedoensis, 30 grams of plantain seeds, 90 grams of lean meat, and stew with water.
3, cure sore throat, winter sunflower leaves, flowers, dry in the shade, decoction and gargle, Jiangxi Herbal Manual.
Introduction of sunflower seeds
Malva seed, scientific name of traditional Chinese medicine. It is the fruit of Malvaceae plants Malvaceae and Malvacea rugosa. Wild sunflowers are distributed all over China. Winter sunflowers are planted in southwest China, Hebei, Gansu, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan and other places. It has the effects of diuresis, stranguria, constipation and lactation. Commonly used for gonorrhea, edema, constipation and breast milk.
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Fruit.
Sexual taste
Sweet taste, cold nature.
Meridian tropism
It belongs to large intestine, small intestine and bladder meridian.
efficacy
Diuretic and stranguria-relieving, laxative and lactation-promoting.
therapy
Gonorrhea, edema, constipation, no milk.
Correlation compatibility
1, treatment of pregnancy gonorrhea, dysuria: Malva seed, talc, Akebia stem, etc. Top and bottom, four yuan each, one lamp of water, seven inches of scallion, fried to six points, and brought it to me. ("Women's All-round")
2. After postpartum immersion: sunflower seeds are combined, and the park is eight points. Two liters of water, decocted eight times, and then taken. ("Yao Monk Tan Ji Fang")
3, treatment of urinary tract obstruction in children: one liter of sunflower seeds, two liters of water, one liter of boiling, divided into six baht. ("1,000 yuan for the party")
4, the treatment of pregnancy has water vapor, weight, unfavorable urination, cold, dizziness: sunflower seeds a catty, three or two. Two flavors are served and the pestle is scattered. Take a square-inch knife three times a day, and the more you use it, the more convenient it is. (Synopsis of the Golden Chamber, Zi Kui Poria Powder)
5, the death penalty, unreasonable urination, support dead: two liters of sunflower seeds, four liters of water, one liter of cooking, suddenly served. How about a pig fat like an egg? (Behind the elbow)
6, treatment of constipation for ten days to January: sunflower seeds are divided into equal parts at the end of milk, kimono. (Sheng Huifang)
7, cure stillbirth, if the mother is sick: Achyranthes bidentata three two, sunflower one liter. Serve two flavors, seven liters of water, three liters of water and three servings. ("1,000 yuan for the party")
8, treatment of bloody dysentery, dysentery: at the end of winter sunflower seeds, two yuan each time, one dollar into wax tea, cooking soup, three days. (Sheng Huifang)
9, cure facial blisters to make light white: winter sunflower seeds are fried and researched, cypress seeds are not researched, and white glutinous rice is blackened, each with three or two. Serve three flavors, mash them and grind them into powder. Take two yuan each time, warm the wine and lie down after eating. ("Shengji Zonglu" Dongkuizi Powder)
dosage
Oral administration: decoction, 6-15g; Or turned into powder.
Pay attention to use
It is forbidden for people with spleen deficiency and intestinal slippery, and pregnant women should use it with caution.
Deserved materia medica: Qi deficiency subsidence and spleen deficiency with intestinal slippery are both forbidden. ?
Prepare herbs by frying.
I. Collection and disposal
Harvest the seeds when they are ripe in spring.
Second, the processing method
Take the original medicinal materials, remove impurities and peel, wash and dry. Mash it with time.
Store in a ventilated and dry container.
morphological character
1. Wild sunflower: also known as sunflower, turmeric, sunflower, dewdrop sunflower, winter sunflower, slippery vegetable, duck foot sunflower, Wei foot, water chestnut, shepherd's purse, slippery intestine vegetable, money sunflower, money purple sunflower, winter cold dish and winter amaranth. Biennial herb, 60-90 cm tall. The stem is stellate villous. Leaves alternate; The petiole is 2-8cm long, and only the upper sulcus is tomentose; Stipules ovate-lanceolate, stellate pilose; Leaf blade kidney-shaped to round, 5- 1 1cm in diameter, usually palmately 5-7-lobed, short, triangular, blunt-pointed, with blunt teeth at the edge, and both sides are extremely sparse and rough or almost hairless. Several flowers are clustered between leaf axils, with few sessile to extremely short stalks; Bracteoles of involucre 3, linear-lanceolate, ciliate; Calyx cup-shaped, 5-lobed, broadly triangular, sparsely stellate and hirsute; Corolla pale white to reddish, petals 5, 6-8 mm long, top concave, clawed; Staminal column 4 mm long, hairy; Style branch 10- 1 1. The fruit is oblate, with a diameter of 5-7mm, 10- 1 1, with smooth back and reticulation on both sides. The seeds are kidney-shaped, about 65438 0.5 mm in diameter, purple-brown, and bare. Flowering: March-165438+1October.
2, winter mallow: also known as wrinkled mallow. The difference between this species and wild sunflower is: annual herb, unbranched. The stems are pilose. Petiole thin, puberulent; Leaf blade is round, 5-7-lobed, 5-8 cm in diameter, heart-shaped at the base, serrated at the edge, especially wrinkled. These flowers are white. The fruit is oblate, about 8 mm in diameter, with mericarps 1 1, reticulate and villous. The seed is about 1mm in diameter and dark black. Flowering from June to September.
growing environment
1, wild sunflower: it is produced in plains and Shan Ye. It is distributed all over China.
2. Winter sunflower: It is planted in southwest China, Hebei, Gansu, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan and other places.
Trait recognition
The fruit of mallow consists of 7-9 small mericarps, which are flat and disc-shaped, with persistent calyx at the bottom. The schizocarp is orange petal-shaped or kidney-shaped, with a diameter of 1.5-2mm, and the center of the thinner side is depressed. The outer surface of the pericarp is brownish yellow, the back is smooth, and there is a slightly concave dot on each side, and there are radioactive stripes outward from the dot. The seeds are orange petal-shaped, kidney-shaped, and the seed coat is black to brown. Hard and broken cotyledons are heart-shaped, and two pieces overlap and bend. Slight breathing and astringency.
pharmacological action
The phagocytic activity of reticuloendothelial system was significantly enhanced.
Related exposition
1, On Begonia Induced Slippery Tire: Li Shizhen? Kwai, light in taste and light and smooth in quality, can induce resuscitation, promote lactation, reduce swelling and prevent miscarriage. Its roots, leaves and seeds have the same function. ? (summary)
2. "Outline": According to Wang Zhen's "Agricultural Book", it says: Sunflowers, sunny grass. Its food is good, and there are many rural areas, regardless of the fat ridge. The king of all kinds of dishes, prepare for the four seasons. Rich and drought-resistant, sweet and non-toxic, it can prevent hunger, lick wax, cure diseases at the root, and be salty without giving up. Give priority to real vegetables and benefit the living. Now people no longer eat it, and there are no seeds. ?