Category: Antiemetic

Pinyin: HUAIJIAO

Latin: Fructussophorae

Alias: Sophora solidus, Sophora japonica, Sophora japonica, Sophora japonica, Sophora japonica beans, Sophora japonica beans

Growth cycle: perennial plant, generally planted 8-10 years after the blossoming, fruit.

Medicinal part: fruit

Harvesting and processing: winter harvest. Remove impurities and dry.

Concoction: honey acacia horn: first take the acacia horn in the pot with a gentle fire fried until bulging, sprayed into the honey, and then fried until the outer skin shiny, not sticky to the degree, take out and let cool. (Each acacia horn 100 pounds, with refining hot honey 5 pounds) acacia horn charcoal: the net acacia horn in the pot, the fire fried to the appearance of burnt black, within the old yellow to the degree that removed and cooled.

Taste and attribution: bitter, cold. Attributed to the liver, large intestine meridian.

Functions and Indications: Clearing heat and diarrhea, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. Used for intestinal heat and blood in stool, hemorrhoid swelling and bleeding, liver-heat headache, dizziness and redness.

Use and dosage: Internal use: decoction, 6-15g; or into pills, bulk; or young horns pounded juice. External use: appropriate amount of water to wash; or grinding mixed or oil dressing.

Contraindications: cold spleen and stomach, loose food and pregnant women should not be taken.

Storage: in a dry and ventilated place, moth-proof.　　

Introduction of herbs

Sophora japonica (Figure 3)

Sophora japonica is the dried flowers and buds, ripe fruits of Sophora japonica, family Leguminosae. For the Chinese people's *** and the country Pharmacopoeia, 1990 edition contained. Medicinal commodities will be flowers called acacia flowers, flower buds called acacia rice, fruit called acacia horn.

China's application and cultivation of acacia has a long history. The earliest explanation of the meaning of the word monograph "Er Ya" is recorded: "There are several kinds of acacia, large and black leaves rafter acacia, day and night open the name of the Shougong acacia, the leaves are fine and green but called the acacia, its function is not to say that there are differences between the ...... today's medical doctor with the acacia the most".

As a medicinal first contained in the Eastern Han Dynasty "Shennong Materia Medica", classified as the top grade, the fruit is called acacia, that is, today's acacia horn. Later generations of the herb are recorded, Liang Tao Hongjing cloud: "Sophora son to be connected with more than one for good"; North and South Dynasty Lei

cloud: "Sophora fruit, where the harvested, go to a single child and five children, only take two, three children. ...... Where to make, with a copper hammer to break, with a cow's milk soaked overnight, steamed over with"; Song. "Tujing Ben Cao" contains: "Sophora japonica fruit born in Henan Pingze, now everywhere. The wood is very tall ......"; "Food Therapy Materia Medica" also contains: "Sophora fruit Lord of evil, childbirth, absolute injury. Early spring leaves can also be eaten, the main addiction rash, teeth wind pain. Sophora flowers are first seen in the "Rihuazi Materia Medica" (that is, "Daming Materia Medica"). Subsequent generations of medicinal books are contained. Ming. The Materia Medica Pinhui Essentials" recorded: "the flower is not open good" ...... ancient use of parts are referred to the buds.

Sophora cultivation can be traced back to the Han Dynasty, according to the "three auxiliary yellow map" Volume 1 records: "Han Chang'an old capital. Han old instrument" recorded: "Chang'an city in ...... trees suitable for acacia and elm, pine, cypress luxuriant"; "Jin Book" in the "Fu Jian Jieji" has: "Wang Mang neat customs, from Chang'an to the states, are clamped on the road tree acacia, willow Guanlong song said: Chang'an Street, clip tree acacia". Description of the acacia tree, more than 2,000 years ago in the Han Dynasty capital, has been planted in large areas, and all over the city; to 351-385 years AD the pre-Qin period, the development of the road to become a street tree.

Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty on the locust of the seasonal period, traits, food, dyeing, etc. made a general summary, said: "locust of the birth is also, the seasonal spring five days and rabbit eyes, ten days and mouse ears, and more time and the beginning of the rules, twenty years and the leaf into the first shoots, can be dish cooked water amalgamated over the food, can also be used as a drink instead of tea, or acacia seed seeding beds, picking the seedling to eat it is also good, and the timber is strong and heavy, with a green-yellow-white-black, the flower is not open, like the shape of the road, the road is the same as a road. Its flowers are not open, like rice grains, fried fried water, dyed yellow is very fresh, in fact, for pods Lianzhu, there are ink, to the son connected to more than one is good, Zhou Liqiu take acacia sandalwood fire, huainanzi: the old acacia fire, Tianyuan main thing thing thingy thin cloud, the old acacia Dan, acacia of the God is different so ".