Poria cocos: Function and indications: diuresis, dampness absorption, spleen strengthening and heart calming. It can be used for edema, oliguria, dizziness due to phlegm retention, anorexia due to spleen deficiency, loose stool diarrhea, anxiety, palpitation and insomnia.
Smilacis Glabrae: Function and indications: detoxification, dehumidification and joint dredging. Used for limb contracture and muscle pain caused by syphilis and mercury poisoning; Damp-heat drenching turbidity, leukorrhagia, carbuncle swelling, scrofula, scabies.
2. What does Smilax glabra look like?
Smilax glabra is a perennial evergreen climbing shrub of Liliaceae, which is mostly born on hillsides or forests, and is 1-4mm long. The stems are smooth and spineless. Rhizomes are thick and massive, often connected by stolons, 2-5cm thick. Leaves alternate; The petiole is 5- 15(-20)mm long, accounting for about 3/5- 1/4 of the total length, with a narrow sheath and often 2 slender tendrils, and the shedding point is near the top; Leaf blade is thinly leathery, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate to narrowly ovate-lanceolate, 6- 12(- 15)cm long and 1-4(-7)cm wide, with a tapered apex and a rounded or obtuse base, and usually light green below. Umbellies are solitary in leaf axils, usually with more than 10 flowers; The total peduncle of male inflorescence is 2-5mm long, which is usually obviously shorter than the petiole, and rarely nearly as long as the petiole. There is 1 bud between the total peduncle and petiole. Inflorescence receptacle expands, and together with most persistent bracteoles, it is somewhat rosette-shaped, 2-5mm wide, with green and white flowers, hexagonal spherical and about 3 mm in diameter; The outer tepals of male flowers are nearly oblate, about 2mm wide, pocket-shaped, with longitudinal grooves in the center of the back, and the inner tepals are nearly round, about 1mm wide, with irregular teeth at the edges; Male flowers are close together, nearly as long as inner perianth segments, and filaments are extremely short; The total peduncle of the female inflorescence is about 1cm. The female flower is similar to the male flower in appearance, but the inner perianth has no teeth and has three staminodes. Berries are 6-8mm in diameter, black when ripe and frosted. The flowering period is 5- 1 1 month, and the fruiting period is 1 1 month to April of the following year. It tastes sweet and light, and belongs to liver, stomach and spleen meridians. It has the functions of detoxifying, removing dampness, and benefiting joints, and is mainly used for treating syphilis, stranguria, muscle and bone pain, beriberi, furuncle, sore, carbuncle and scrofula. Only the dried rhizome is selected for the medicinal part.
Special note: This medicine should be taken with caution for patients with liver and kidney yin deficiency.
3. What is Smilax glabra?
China Pharmacopoeia: Smilax glabra
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English name: RHIZOMA SMILACIS GLABRAE.
Source This product is the dried rhizome of Smilax glabra Roxb. of Liliaceae. Digging in summer and autumn, removing fibrous roots, washing and drying; Or cut into thin slices while fresh and dry.
Characteristics This product is slightly cylindrical, slightly flat or irregular, with nodular uplift and short branches, with a length of 5 ~ 2～5cm and a diameter of 2 ~ 5 cm. The surface is yellowish brown or grayish brown, uneven, with hard fibrous root residues, round bud marks at the top of branches, irregular cracks on some skins and residual scales. Hard. Slices are oblong or irregular, with a thickness of1~ 5 mm and irregular edges; The section is white to reddish brown, powdery, with punctate vascular bundles and most small bright spots; It is slightly tough, with dust flying when it is broken, and it feels sticky and slippery after being wetted with water. Odorless, slightly sweet and astringent.
Identify the powder of this product as light brown. There are many starch granules, single granule is spherical, polygonal or square, with a diameter of 8 ~ 48 μ m, and the umbilical point is cracked, star-shaped, trigeminal or punctate, and large granules can be layered; Compound granules consist of 2 ~ 4 fractions. The needle crystal bundles of calcium oxalate exist in mucous cells or are scattered. The needle crystal length is 40 ~144 μ m and the diameter is about 5 μ m.. The stone cells are oval, square or triangular, with a diameter of 25 ~128 μ m and fine pores and grooves. There are also dark brown stone cells, which are long, about 50μm in diameter, with extremely thick walls on three sides and thin walls on one side. The fibers are bundled or scattered, with a diameter of 22 ~ 67 μ m. Ducts and tracheids with marginal pits are common, and most marginal pits are extended into a ladder shape.
Processing to remove impurities; If not sliced, soak, wash, moisten thoroughly, slice and dry.
Sexual taste is sweet, light and flat.
Meridian tropism belongs to liver and stomach meridians.
Functions: dehumidification, detoxification and joint dredging. Used for limb contracture and muscle pain caused by damp-heat stranguria, leukorrhagia, carbuncle swelling, scrofula, scabies, syphilis and mercury poisoning.
Usage and dosage15 ~ 60g.
4. What is the taste and taste of Smilax glabra soaked in water?
Smilax glabra is a medicine for clearing away heat and detoxifying, and poria cocos is a medicine for diuresis and eliminating dampness. Because poria cocos is sweet and light, Smilax glabra is also considered sweet and light. In fact, this is its true taste. It has no taste, so it tastes bitter, which mainly shows its performance. In fact, Smilax glabra has no taste when it is tasted, but it is really sweet and light.
5. What are the leaves of Smilax glabra?
rhizoma smilacis glabrae
Smilax glabra Roxb.
Smilacaceae Smilacaceae Smilacaceae.
Alias: Smilax glabra, Smilax glabra, white surplus grain, rattan grass, Yu surplus grain, thorn polyporus rice ball, root dog, lang head dog, Lao potato, light Smilax glabra, red Smilax glabra, red Smilax glabra, rattan flower, rattan flower. Mountain legacy grain mountain legacy pig manure 18 tuo Tu Tu Fu Qin Tu Ling Immortal for immortal legacy grain hard rice head Yu Yu Liang Smilax grass Yu surplus grain smooth Smilax bare leaves Smilax nine Niu Li cold rice rattan thousand tail root mountain chestnut soil Fu Tu Fu Ling.
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6. Is Smilax glabra the same as Smilax glabra?
rhizoma smilacis glabrae
The source is the dried rhizome of Smilax glabra Roxb. of Liliaceae.
Sexual taste is sweet, light and flat. Liver and stomach meridians entered.
Functions: dehumidification, detoxification and joint dredging. It can be used for treating limb contracture, muscle contracture pain, scrofula and sores caused by damp-heat stranguria, leukorrhagia, carbuncle, scabies, syphilis and mercury poisoning.
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It is a fungus parasitic on the roots of pine trees, shaped like sweet potato, with dark brown skin and white or pink inside. Chinese medicine has diuretic and sedative effects.
7, the role and taboo of Smilax glabra.
Suggestion: Hello: Smilax glabra is used for limb contracture and muscle pain caused by damp-heat stranguria, leukorrhagia, carbuncle swelling, scrofula, scabies, syphilis and mercury poisoning. It can play its greatest role when matched with honeysuckle, rhizoma Dioscoreae Septemlobae and astragalus!
8. Can Smilax glabra be boiled and drunk? What role?
The function of Smilax glabra: diuresis, expelling wind and detoxification. Treat nephritis edema, urinary tract infection, scrofula (mouse sore), syphilis, wet sore, carbuncle swelling, muscle contracture pain and mercury poisoning. Decoct15-30g.
9. The difference between Smilax glabra and vest head
The vest head is called in Hakka dialect, and its scientific name is Smilax China, also known as Smilax China, which is a perennial vine with fallen leaves and clings to plants. The stem of vest head is called Jinganggen, which is used to make wine and medicine.
Tufu is called Smilax glabra, and it is often called hard rice head in Hakka area. It is a perennial evergreen climbing plant, which is mostly born on hillsides or deep underground under forests. Only its dried roots are selected for medicinal use. It is often dug in summer and autumn to remove fibrous roots, washed and dried in the sun, which is used to make soup to remove damp heat, detoxify and cool blood. Or fresh, sliced, dried and used as medicine.