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Herbs in southern Yunnan

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Alias earth eggs ("

Zunyi prefecture records

"), Yunnan sweet potato ("

Textual research on plant name map

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sweet potato

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Empirical identification method of traditional Chinese medicine

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The source is

Convolvulaceae

Plant sweet potato tuberous root.

Plant morphology sweet potato

Perennial twining herbs. The root tuber is spherical or ovoid, with reddish brown or yellowish white epidermis and milky white mucus. The stems are slender and hairless. Leaves alternate; The stem length is 0.9 ~ 2. 1 cm; Leaves are ovoid, broadly elliptic or oblong, 3-5cm long and1.4-3.5cm wide, with short apex, rounded or obtuse base, whole or shallowly corrugated, smooth and hairless on both sides, or pilose near the base edge. Flowers solitary leaf axils or cymes; Pedicel is 3 times as long as petiole, and there are 2 bracteoles near the top; Sepals 5, ovoid; Corolla yellow, funnel-shaped, 3 ~ 4.5 cm in diameter, about 4 cm long; Stamens 5, anthers white, oval; Pistil 1, ovary superior, yellow base.

nectary

Style is longer than filament. The capsule is oblate and contains many kinds of seeds. Flowers bloom in summer and autumn.

Born in the bushes on the hillside. Distributed in Yunnan and Guizhou.

Excavate in autumn, wash away sediment, slice and dry.

Most of the dried roots of medicinal materials have been cut into discs with a thickness of about 5 mm, with yellow and white sections, powder, loose texture and dry shrinkage wrinkles. The surrounding roots are thin, and the appearance is reddish brown or yellowish white and rough. Slight breath, slightly sweet taste. Dry, white and unbreakable is preferred.

Produced in Yunnan.

Sexual taste "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica": "Sweet, flat."

Return to the book "Herbal Medicine in Southern Yunnan": "Red soil melons enter the spleen and stomach. White people enter the lung meridian. "

The function is mainly to clear liver and promote gallbladder,

Runfei cough

. Treat jaundice,

chronic hepatitis

cough with lung heat

, bleeding,

Lactation

Take it off,

Infantile malnutrition

(1) South Yunnan Materia Medica: "There are two kinds: red and white. Red dominates women.

Red, white and leucorrhea

Fever during menstruation; Treat cough and carbuncle caused by lung meridian heat, and also treat female breast depression, regardless of yin and yang, uterine deficiency and cold, and male essence and cold; It can also strengthen the spleen and stomach, promote fluid production and stop vomiting, and cure hunger; Strengthening spleen and stopping diarrhea

stomach heat

Broad-minded, diuretic, large intestine hemostasis: white people treat lung heat, quench thirst, and facilitate urination; manage

Carbuncle of lung

Cough and milk discharge. "

② Identification of Morphological Experience in Traditional Chinese Medicine: "calming the liver and clearing the liver heat."

Oral administration and dosage: decocted, 4 ~ 5 yuan; Still born. External use: tamping.

Prescription 1 treatment of chronic hepatitis: one or two red soil melons. Take brown sugar or honey as the guide and decoct in water. (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)

(2) Treatment of bladder pain, or a hard one: potato skin is decocted with water and wine. (southern Yunnan materia medica)

③ Treatment of malnutrition and hernia in children: red-soil melon San Qian. Decoct with water. (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)

④ Treatment of fire burn: bright red.

Tuguagen

Pulverizing and externally applying to the affected part. (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine)