Castor seed

English name:

Castor seed

Pinyin:

Bì Má Zi

Alternative names:

Diospyrospermum seed, castor kernel, Cannabis sativa seed, and Red Cannabis seed.

Herbal Category:

Fruit/Seed Category

Taste:

Sweet; pungent; flat; slightly toxic.

①Tang Ben Cao: sweet and pungent; flat; with small poison.

②Yu Rowan Pharmacopoeia: bitter flavor, flat.

Cataloging:

Into the large intestine. Lung meridian.

①The Explanation of the Medicinal Properties of Lei Gong Cao Zhi (《雷公炮制药性解》): It enters the spleen and large intestine meridians.

② "The Materia Medica Again": into the liver, spleen and lung meridians.

3 "Summary of the Materia Medica": it enters the Taiyin and Sun meridians of the hand and foot.

Introduction of medicinal parts:

The seeds of castor beans, family Euphorbiaceae.

Origin and distribution:

Cultivated throughout the country.

Morphological features:

Ricinus communis Tall annual herb, in the tropics or southern regions often become perennial shrubs or small trees. Young parts are white powder, green or slightly purple, glabrous. Single leaves alternate, long-petiolate; leaf blade peltate-orbicular, 15-60 cm in diameter, sometimes as large as 90 cm, palmately divided to less than half of the leaf blade, lobes 5-11, ovate-lanceolate to oblong, apex acuminate, margin serrate, main veins palmate. Panicles opposite and terminal to the leaves, 10-30cm or longer, bearing male flowers proximally and female flowers distally; petals sexually homogamous, without petals; male calyx 3-5-lobed; stamens numerous, filaments much-branched; female calyx 3-5-comprehended; ovary 3-locular, 1 ovule in each locule; styles 3, crimson, bilobed. Capsule globose, 1-2 cm long, with soft spines, dehiscent at maturity, seeds oblong, smooth and mottled. Flowering period May-August, fruiting period July-October.

Use and dosage:

Externally: appropriate amount, pounded or toned compress. Internal use: in pills, 1-5g; raw or fried food.

Precautions:

Contraindicated for pregnant women and people with slippery stool.

①The Classic of the Materia Medica (《本草經疏》)：If the spleen and stomach are weak and the large intestine is not solid, do not use it lightly.

Effects and functions of castor beans:

Subduing swelling and pulling out toxins; diarrhea and stagnation; clearing the channels and opening the orifices. Main canker sore and poison; scrofula; carbuncle; paralysis of the throat; scabies and ringworm sores; burns; edema and distension; stool dryness and knotting; crooked eyes and mouth; bruises and injuries. It is used for canker sore, paralysis of throat, scrofula, dryness and knotting of stool.

①Tang Materia Medica: Mainly used for watery syndrome.

② "Rihuazi Materia Medica": treatment of water bloating and fullness of the abdomen, finely ground water; sores and scabies, can also be studied and applied.

3 "Materia Medica Derivative Supplement": can be out of the tangible stagnant material, so take the fetus and birth, the uterus, the leftover bone, pus and blood with it.

4 "Compendium": the main winds of the migratory winds do not attempt, loss of voice and mouth, deafness, tongue distension, paralysis of the throat, snoozing and wheezing, feet poisonous swellings, Dan tumor, soup and fire injuries, needles into the flesh, women's fetus clothes do not go down, the son of the intestines out of the opening of the orifices and meridians, to stop all the pain, reduce swelling and pus extraction of toxins.

Accessory prescription:

①Treatment of boils and abscesses: castor beans more than twenty, remove the shell, and a small amount of salt, rice and pounded well, compress the affected area, change twice a day. ("Fujian Folk Medicine")

② treatment of carbuncles at the outset: peeled castor beans a, rosin four. The castor is crushed into rosin powder, mix thoroughly, stirred into a paste with boiling water, placed in cold water to cool into a paste for spare. When used, the white paste according to the size of the sore surface spread on paper or cloth to paste the affected area. (Liaoning "Chinese herbal medicine new medical method information selection")

③ treatment of scrofula: castor beans fried hot, peeled, rotten chewing, sleep service three, two, gradually increased to more than ten. (Diffractions of the Materia Medica)

④ Treatment of sores and swelling in the pharynx: castor seed a (peeled), park nitrate one money. With the same research, new water for a service, even into the second or third service effect. ("Medical Quasi")

5 treatment of paralysis of the throat: castor seed hemp seeds, take the meat of the pounded, paper rolled as a tube, burning smoke inhaled. ("Medical Zhengzhuan" holy smoke tube)

6 cure all bone choking: castor beans seven. Shell research fine, into the cold water stone powder, wrapped so that the dry and wet to get, with a bamboo gimlet pick two, three money into the throat, a few moments to swallow the water that is down. ("Wei's family collection formula")

7 cure plague wind, finger contracture, the pain between the joints is unbearable, and gradually to break down: castor one or two (peeled), Huanglian one or two (filed as beans). To a small bottle into a liter of water, with immersion, spring and summer three days, autumn and winter five days, and then take a castor seed, broken, to dip in the water, a stream of Pingdan, gradually increased to four, five, micro benefit might as well be, the bottle of water is less and more added. Avoid moving wind food. ("medical quasi")

8 treatment of soup and fire injuries: castor beans, clam powder and other points. Research paste. Soup damage coated with oil, fire sores coated with water. ("Nutrition must be used prescription")

9 treatment of dog bites: castor seeds 50. Remove the shell, well water research paste, first wash the bite with salt water, the second to the castor seed hemp paste paste. ("Pocket Square")

⑩ treatment of wind and headache unbearable: frankincense, castor beans and other points. Pound the cake, with the left and right to paste the solar plexus. ("Compendium")

(11) the treatment of pediatric disintegration hernia: castor beans three, echinococcus (peeled) thirty, stone swallow seeds (burned) a, talc (end) two money dagger, musk (research) half a money dagger. On the five flavor pounding research, thin batter and pills, such as mung beans, each serving fifteen pills, empty heart, fried lantern heart soup. ("Sheng Ji General Records" castor pills)

(12) treatment of wheezing and coughing: castor seed shells fried hot, picking the sweet to eat, and more service to see the effect. (Health easy simple formula)

(13) the treatment of difficult labor and the uterine clothing does not go down: castor beans seven. Research as a paste, coated with the soles of the feet, the child and the clothes before the next, then quickly wash away. ("Sea set of examination and prescription")

(14) catalyze birth and stillbirths: castor seeds three, four croton. Research fine, into the musk a little, paste the umbilical cord heart. (Health family treasure formula)

(15) treatment of uterine desiccation: castor beans, withered alum and other points. For the end, An paper into the support, still castor kernel fourteen, research paste coated with the top of the heart. ("extracted Yuan Fang")

(16) treatment of violent prolapse of the anus: castor beans one or two. Rotten mortar and pestle for paste, twisted into a cake, two fingers wide, paste fontanel; such as Yin evidence of prolapse of the anus, raw epiphyllum, onion, garlic with the research for the paste, in accordance with the previous method of paste. ("Live young heart book" castor cream)

(17) the treatment of crooked eyes and mouth; castor seed kernel seven or seven grains. Research as a cake, the right distorted in the left hand heart, left distorted in the right hand heart, but the copper pot full of hot water, sitting on the medicine, cold that is, change, five or six times that is also correct. ("Women's good prescription")