Drug name: Gallium
Spelling: MOSHIZI
Source: The larva of gallbee, an insect of Gallinaceae, parasitic on the young branches of Quercus infectoria Olivier, a plant of FAGACEAE.
Efficacy: Fixing qi, astringing essence, astringing lung and stopping bleeding.
Main treatment: treating deficiency and slippery large intestine, diarrhea, hematochezia, nocturnal emission, sweating, cough, hemoptysis, toothache, traumatic bleeding, and chronic ulcer.
Tropism of nature and taste: bitter and warm. ① "Tang Herbal Medicine": "Bitter, warm and nontoxic." ② "Materia Medica of Haiyao": "Warm and non-toxic." Enter the lung, spleen and kidney meridians. ① "Medicinal Solution to the Jade Sorbus": "Entering the Kidney with Deficiency of Yin in Foot and the Liver Meridian with Jueyin in Foot." ② "Seeking Truth from Materia Medica": "Entering the kidney, entering the spleen and stomach." ③ "Meeting Medical Mirror": "Entering the lung and kidney."
Usage and dosage: oral administration: decoction, 2 ~ 4 yuan; Or into the pill, scattered. External use: grind, sprinkle or apply.
Avoid medication: those who have diarrhea at the beginning, damp-heat stagnation or stagnation should not take it. ① "Ben Cao Jing Shu": "Red and white dysentery should not be used because of damp-heat stagnation in the stomach and intestines." 2 "Materia Medica from the New": "The nature is partial and astringent, so it is not appropriate to use it alone."
Other names: Moshizi (The Theory of Leigong's Processing), Wugui (The Theory of Medicinal Properties), Wushizi (The Secret Records of Mother and Child), Wushizi (The Miscellany of Youyang), Ma? Ze (Fang Yuzhi)
Prescription name: gallus domesticus, gallus domesticus, and gallus domesticus.
Trade name: Gallium, preferably large, unperforated, free of impurities such as branches, and dry and clean.
Collection and storage of medicinal materials: usually in August-September, the unpunctured galls are collected and dried.
Latin name: protozoan gallbee Cynips gallae-tinctoriae Olivier
Processing method: cleaning, drying and mashing.
Examination: from "Haiyao Materia Medica"; "Tang Materia Medica": "Going out to Xirong. Clouds are born in the sand, and trees are like rafts. "
Identification of raw medicinal materials: dry gall, slightly spherical, with short handle; Diameter1~ 2.5 cm, gray or taupe in appearance, with verrucous protrusions. Thick, uneven section, yellowish white or light yellow, shiny. There are often dead young bees. If the worm has flown out, there is a hole in the middle, which is connected with the small hole on the surface, and there is a worm shell inside. Odorless, astringent and bitter. It is better to be large, heavy and gray, and the quality of the perforated one is inferior. Produced in Greece, Turkey, Iran and other places.
Chemical composition of traditional Chinese medicine: contains 50-70% of Tur-Kish gallotannin, 2-4% of gallic acid, gallic acid, resin, etc.