Chinese name: Cuscuta
Class: Seed Cuscuta (Benjing)
Synonyms Cuscuta solid ("Wu Pu Ben Cao"), spitting silk sub ("Materia Medica Seek Original"), Wu Niang Vine Rice Rice ("Chinese medicine form of the nature of the empirical identification of the method"), yellow vine, Longshuzi ("Northeast medicinal plant Zhi"), LuoSiZi ("Jiangsu Plant and Drug Zhi ), Tanglongzi ("Handbook of Traditional Chinese Medicines"), Huangwanzi, Huangwangzi, Huangluozi, Doushuizi ("Handbook of Traditional Chinese Medicines of Shandong").
Originally from the seeds of Cuscuta or Cuscuta grandiflora, family Spinaceae.
For details of the plant form, see article Cuscuta.
Collected from July to September when the seeds are ripe and cut down with the host, dried in the sun, beat down the seeds, and bumped off the impurities.
Medicinal ① Cuscuta dry seeds are compressed spherical or ovoid, often concave on both sides, long diameter of about 1.5 mm, short diameter of about 1 mm.
The seed coat is reddish brown or brownish yellow, slightly rough.
Observed under an enlarged microscope: the surface is covered with fine dark dots, with a light-colored rounded point at one end, and a linear umbilicus in its center.
Hard and unbreakable.
Gas is absent, taste is slightly bitter and astringent.
The best is the one with full grains, free of dust and impurities.
Mainly produced in Liaoning, Jilin, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Jiangsu and other places.
②The traits of Cuscuta chinensis are similar to those of the previous species, but larger, with a long diameter of about 3 millimeters and a short diameter of about 2-3 millimeters, observed under an enlarged microscope: the surface has a short linear mottled pattern arranged into an irregular pattern.
Mainly produced in Shaanxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan and other places.
The seeds of Seaside Cuscuta and Soybean Cuscuta of the same genus are also used as Cuscuta for medicine in a few areas.
Chemical composition of dodder contains resin glycosides, sugars.
The seeds of Cuscuta vulgaris contain glycosides, vitamin A-like substances, the content of which is 0.0378% according to vitamin A. The seeds of Cuscuta vulgaris are also used as medicine in a few areas.
Soybean Cuscuta contains beta-carotene, gamma-carotene, 5,6-epoxy-alpha-carotene, dandelion xanthin and lutein.
Pharmacological effects of dodder seed's soy sauce (brewed with dodder seed and bean cake), infusion, and tincture enhance the contractility of the isolated toad heart, and the effect on heart rate is an increase in the former.
The latter two decreased it, and in anesthetized dogs caused a fall in blood pressure, a reduction in spleen volume, inhibition of intestinal motility, and showed an excitatory effect on the isolated uterus.
Cuscuta chinensis alcoholic aqueous solution subcutaneous injection in mice LD50 is 2.465 g / kg, according to 30 ~ 40 g / kg gavage does not appear symptoms of toxicity; according to 0.05 g / 120 g of the cuscuta chinensis soy sauce, dipping, tincture to the rats gavage for 70 days, and does not affect the growth and development of the animal, and did not see pathological changes.
Concocted Cuscuta: over Luo to remove impurities, washed, dried.
Cuscuta cake: take net cuscuta in the pot with water and boil until burst, brownish gray thick porridge, pounded for cake or add wine and noodles for cake, cut pieces, sun-dried.
① "Leigong gun baking theory": pick up, remove the coarse thin shell, with bitter wine soaked for two days, liquefied, with the natural juice of the yellow essence soaked overnight, to the bright, micro-fire fried to dry, into the mortar, hot burning, pestle and mortar more than 3,000 into a powder.
With the bitter wine and Huang Jing natural juice and Cuscuta relative use.
② "Compendium": all the use of cuscuta, with warm water to remove sand and mud, wine soaked overnight, exposure to dry pounding, not exhaustive, and then soaked and exposed to pounding, in a short time, all fine.
Another method, wine soaked four or five days, steam exposure four or five times, research for the cake baked, and then research powder, or cloud, dry exposure, into the paper strips of several pieces of the same pounding, instantly into powder, and save energy.
The flavor is pungent and sweet, flat.
①Benjing: flavor pungent, flat.
② "Bielu": sweet, non-toxic.
③ "Materia Medica Zheng"; taste sweet and pungent, gas slightly warm.
Attributed to the liver and kidney meridians.
①The Materia Medica Classic; Spleen, Kidney and Liver meridians.
2 "The New Edition of the Materia Medica": into the heart, liver and kidney meridians.
Functions and Indications- Cuscuta chinensis tonifies the liver and kidneys, benefits the essence and marrow, and brightens the eyes.
To treat soreness of the waist and knees, spermatorrhea, thirst, residual leaching of urine, and darkness of the eyes.
(1) Nourishing the liver and kidney: this product is commonly used to nourish the kidney and reduce urination and stop spermatorrhea.
It is used for lumbar and knee pain, impotence and spermatorrhea due to insufficiency of liver and kidney.
This product is soft and moist, tonifying the liver and kidney without being dry.
(2) Fetus: used for those who are weak and prone to miscarriage, often combined with Sang Sheng Sheng and Ren Jian.
①Benjing: the main renewal of absolute injury, replenish insufficiency, benefit qi strength, fat and healthy people, long service bright eyes.
② "Lei Gong Cannon Frozen Lecture": tonifying the human Wei Qi, help people tendons and veins.
3, "Other Records": the strong yin, strong muscle, firm sinews and bones, the main stem in the cold, semen from the sperm, drowning with residual leaching, bitter thirst, cold blood for the accumulation.
4 "Treatise on the Nature of Medicine": the treatment of men and women cold, add lean marrow, to go to the waist pain and cold knees, but also the main thirst and heat.
5 "Rihuazi Materia Medica": tonifying the five labors and seven injuries, treating spermatorrhea, urinating blood, moistening the heart and lungs.
6 Wang Haozhan: tonifying wind deficiency in the liver.
(7) Shandong Traditional Chinese Medicine: treating miscarriage in women with frequent habits.
Use and Dosage Internal: decoction, 3-5 qian; or into pills, bulk.
External use: frying and mixing compresses.
Contraindications ① 《Collected Notes on the Classic of Materia Medica》：Get wine good.
Diosmia, turpentine for the make, evil Sambucus bacteria.
② "Materia Medica": the kidney family more fire, strong Yang not impotent people avoid it, the stool dry knot people also avoid it.
3 "to match the Materia Medica": pregnant women, hematochezia, strong Yang, stool knot, kidney fire, yin deficiency fire, six prohibited.
Selection ① tonifying the kidney qi, Yang Dao, help the spirit, light waist and feet: Cuscuta seeds a catty (panned, boiled in wine, pounded into a cake, roasted), epiphyllum (system) four two.
*** for the end, wine paste pills, sycamore big, wine under fifty pills.
(The magpie heart book "Cuscuta Zi Pill) ② treatment of lumbago: Cuscuta (wine soaked), Cortex Eucommiae (peeled, fried broken silk) and other points.
For the fine powder, to the yam paste pills as big as a stout.
Each serving fifty pills, salt wine or salt soup.
(The hundred a selected formula) ③ cure husband waist and knee accumulation cold pain, or stubborn hemp weakness: dodder (wash) one or two, one or two knees.
With the wine soaked for five days, exposure to dry, for the end, the original soaked in wine and then into the less alcohol wine as a paste, search and pills, such as barrels big.
Twenty pills of wine in an empty heart.
("After Experience") ④ treatment of waist and knee wind cold, benefit color, bright eyes: Cuscuta seeds a bucket.
Soak in wine for a long time, drain out and dry, and then diffuse, so that the wine is dry for the degree, pounded into a fine Luo for the end.
Each service two money, to warm wine under the mix, day three.
After serving, eat three, five spoons of water and rice pressure, to three or seven days, more to three money to serve.
(Pu Ji Fang) ⑤ Treatment of labor injury to the liver qi, dark eyes: Cuscuta chinensis two taels.
Soaked in wine for three days, exposed to dry, pounded into a powder, chicken seeds and pills sycamore tungzi size.
Every time you take thirty pills of warm wine in the heart.
("Sheng Hui Fang") ⑥ treatment of ointment lymph: cuscuta (wine soaked, steamed, pounded, baked), cuttlebone (roasted) each half a two, zedo a point.
Superfine powder, honey for pills, such as sycamore seed size.
Each serving twenty pills, empty heart with clear rice drink sent down.
(The miraculous effect of good prescription "Cuscuta pill) (7) the treatment of red urine, heart and kidney insufficiency, sperm less blood dryness, dry mouth and annoying heat, dizziness, dazed and anxious: Cuscuta, Maimendong, and other points.
For the end, honey pills sycamore size, salt soup under each seventy pills.
("Compendium") ⑧ treatment of heart gas deficiency, too much thought, kidney meridian deficiency, the real sun is not solid, drowning has more leaching, urine white, dream frequent ejaculation: Cuscuta chinensis five two, Poria cocos three two, stone lotus seed (shelled) two two.
Superfine powder, boiled in wine paste for pills, such as sycamore seeds big.
Each serving thirty pills, empty heart salt soup down.
Regular use of the town to benefit the heart and mind, nourish the blood, clear urination.
(Bureau of Porcupine Pills) ⑨ treatment of urination or incontinence: Cuscuta (wine steamed) two taels, cuttlebone (wine-roasted) half a taels, oyster (calcined) one or two, Cistanchis (wine moistened) two taels, epiphyllum (shelled, peeled, umbilical cord), schizandra each one or two, the cockles of half a taels (slightly roasted), antler velvet (wine-roasted) one or two.
The above for the end, wine paste pills, such as the size of a stout.
Each serving seventy pills, salt wine before eating any down.
(The World Medical Doctor Getting Effective Formula "Cuscuta Seed Pills) ⑩ cure spleen yuan insufficiency, diet reduction, stools not solid: Cuscuta Seed four two, Huang Jie, in the white artemisia (soil mixing fried).
Ginseng, wood sorrel one tael each, bone marrow and cumin eight cents each.
Molasses sugar for pills.
Morning and evening take three coins, soup and wine to make down.
("Square Vein Zheng Zong") (11) the treatment of thirst: dodder seeds do not care how much, pick clean, water amalgamation, soaked in wine for three nights, control the dry, multiply the moist pounded into loose, roasted and then fine powder, refined honey and pills, such as a sycamore tree seed large. Drink fifty pills before eating, two, three services a day; or as a loose, drink under three money.
(The whole life refers to the fan formula "Cuscuta Zi pill) (12) treatment of yin deficiency and yang bloom, limb fever, when the wind is as hot as a fire: Cuscuta Zi, Schizandra chinensis each one or two, the raw dry rhubarb three taels.
The above is finely powdered.
Rice drink down two money, before eating.
(Jifeng Pu Ji Fang) Cuscuta decoction) (13) treatment of hemorrhoids lower itching pain like insects: Cuscuta boiled to make yellow and black, the end of the chicken seeds and yellow and coated.
(After Elbow Square) (14) the treatment of eyebrow refining ringworm sores: cuscuta seeds fried, research, oil mixing the compress.
(The Four Essentials of Mountain Dwelling) (15) More than thirst.
With the dodder seeds decoction juice to drink at will, to the extent of stopping.
(16) White Turbidity and Ejaculation (too much thinking and anxiety, deficiency of the heart and kidneys, and lack of solidity of the true yang, with gradual leaching, white turbidity in the urine, and ejaculation of semen in dreams).
Using dodder seeds five two, white poria three two, stone lotus meat two two, *** research for the end, add wine, paste wine into pills, such as Wuzi big.
Each serving thirty to ninety pills empty heart service, salt soup sent down.
This formula is called Porcupine Pills.
(17) Drenching of urine.
Boiled juice of Cuscuta chinensis is used for drinking.
(18) Pain in the waist and knees (stubborn numbness and weakness).
Cuscuta (washed) one or two, two knees, soaked in wine, removed to dry, research for the end of the original wine paste into pills such as Wuzi large.
Each serving two, thirty pills, empty heart, wine send down.
(19) Sudden swelling of the body and face.
Use a liter of Cuscuta chinensis, soaked in five liters of wine for two or three nights, and drink one liter each.
Three times a day, the swelling does not go away, continue to take the medicine.
Report of famous experts ① "Materia Medica Classic": five flavors, but the Xin through the four gas, both the four flavors, "the scripture" said that the kidney is bitter and dry, the urgent need to eat Xin to moisten the genus of cuscuta is also, and the Xinxiang hot and dry Xin, very different, scholars do not harm the righteousness of the rhetoric can be also.
To complement the spleen, kidney and liver meridians to medicine, the main continuation of the absolute injury, make up for the shortfall, benefit from the gas, fat and healthy, the three meridians are real, then the absolute injury continued to be insufficient to make up for carry forward.
Spleen blood, combined with muscle and the main limbs, foot Yangming, Taiyin's gas, the force is long and fat.
Supplementing the spleen to nourish the muscle, benefit the liver and kidneys so strong yin, firm tendons and bones, warm and can make up for the yang in the kidney, so the main stem in the cold semen from the drowning of the remaining leach.
The mouth is bitter and dry thirst, spleen and kidney deficiency and internal heat, fluid due to the lack of it, the two organs are complementary, the two diseases since the cure.
Cold blood for the accumulation of people, labor injury is blood stasis, lack of Yang Qi is cold, blood with the gas line, the gas can not be weak blood to line, and for a long time for the accumulation of carry on.
All labor injuries are caused by the spleen, kidney and liver, and the liver, spleen and qi are strong, so the blood will be stagnant on its own.
2 "Herbal remedies": Cuscuta, tonifying the kidney and liver, warming the spleen to help the stomach of the medicine.
But complementary and not harsh, warm and not dry, so into the kidney meridian, false can be complementary, real can be beneficial, cold can be warm, hot can be cool, wet can be dry, dry can be moist.
Not if cypress, mother of pearl, bitter cold and not warm, have diarrhea kidney meridian gas; not if cinnamon, Yi Zhi, hot and spicy and not cool, have to move the kidney meridian of dry; not if Cistanches, Zao Yang, sweet and salty and stagnant gas, have to generate kidney meridian of wet than also.
As the Shennong Materia Medica is known as the renewal of the absolute injury, the benefit of energy, bright eyes, all by tonifying the kidney and liver, warming the spleen and stomach of the signs of experience.
3 "New compilation of the Materia Medica": Cuscuta, can be reused, can also be a special flavor.
When the heart is weak, day and night dreams, the frequent leakage of semen, with cuscuta three two, ten bowls of water, cooking juice three bowls, divided into three servings, morning, afternoon, evening, a service.
And never again.
This is the heart, liver, kidney three meridians Qi disease, water and fire due to the deficiency.
Cuscuta is complementary to the heart, liver, kidney of the holy medicine, the situation is not mixed with other flavors, the force is especially dedicated, so can directly into the three meridians in order to receive the full effect.
He, such as the night dream restlessness, two eyes dim, feet weak, can be used one, two two, with ginseng, ripened earth, atractylodes, catkin, and so on, with the more built wonders.
4 Ben Jing Feng Yuan: Cuscuta, eliminate wind and eyesight, liver and kidney qi points.
The nature of its flavor pungent and warm texture viscous, and the strong tendons of the warm waist and knees of the Duchenne is no different.
The work is specialized in benefiting the essence, firm tendons and bones, stopping ejaculation, the main stems of cold semen, drowning with residual leaching, to go to the knees and tibia, the old man, liver and kidney qi deficiency, lumbar pain, knee cold, and the complementary bone fat, Duchenne, the tendons and membranes are all part of the liver also.
Gas deficiency pupils without God, to Maimendong supporting the honey pill service, effective.
Where the sun is strong and not impotent, the stool is dry and knotted, the water is red and astringent, do not use, in order to its nature to help the sun is also.
⑤ "Justice of the Materia Medica": Cuscuta for the yin to pass the upper product.
The flavor is slightly pungent, then the yin in the yang, keep and can go, and other nourishing the yin of the drugs in favor of the greasy stagnation of the absolutely different.
Mu Zhong-ol said that the five flavors, Xin through the four qi, the "scripture" said that Xin to moist, the genus of dodder is also, and Xin Xiang dry heat of Xin, very different, the solution is extremely pertinent.
Ben Jing" to continue the absolute injury, make up for the shortfall, benefit the energy, fat and healthy people, in the nourishment, all have XuanTongHundred chakra, warm transport yang and the meaning of.
Juice to go to the face, also soft and moist skin function.
Long service is the yin liquid enough and the eyes from the bright.
The so-called "Beilu" to support the yin and strong muscle, firm muscle and bone, but also yin and yang two adjustment of the meaning.
Stem cold and slippery, the yuan yang discomfort and the yin does not take in, drowning in the leaking, the kidney yang is not cloth and the atmosphere is not lifted.
If the mouth is bitter and dry thirst, Ming for the dryness of the yin liquid, cold blood into the accumulation, but also for the yang gas is not propaganda, but this good nourishing yin liquid but also perfume and Yang and circulation of the hundred veins, so the treatment.
To visualize the generation of Huang Zhi specializing in complementary Yin, keep and do not go, there are between.