Table of Contents 1 Pinyin 2 Origin 3 Pinyin 4 Alias of Xiangpu 5 Source 6 Form 7 Chemical Composition 8 Functions and Indications 9 Usage and Dosage of Xiangpu 10 Supplementary Formulas 11 Remarks 12 Excerpts Attachment: 1 Formulas of Xiangpu 2 Xiangpu in Ancient Chinese Texts 1 Pinyin

xiāng pú

2 Origin

Ben Jing (本經)

3 Pinyin

Xiānɡ Pú

4 The Chinese character for "fragrant bushes", "香蒲" and "香蒲". (Tianbao Ben Cao), gold hairpin grass (Modern Practical Chinese Medicine), reed candle, reed oil candle (Min Dong Ben Cao).

5 Sources

It is the whole grass of the plant of the family of Fragrant bushes, including long-bracted bushes, narrow-leaved bushes, broad-leaved bushes, or many plants of the same genus.

6 Forms

①Longbracted sweetbrier

Perennial herb, 1.5-3 meters high. The rhizome is horizontal, with fibrous roots. Stem erect. Leaves are narrowly linear, 7-12 mm wide, sometimes up to 15-20 mm wide, leaf sheaths cylindrical, semi-clasping. Flowers small, unisexual, monoecious, aggregated into terete fertile spikes; female and male inflorescences free, male inflorescences in upper part, female inflorescences in lower part, ca. 3 cm apart; perianths of both male and female flowers reduced to scales or fuzzy; male flowers with stamens 3, hairs longer than anthers, pollen grains solitary; female flowers with bracteoles, spatulate, as long as stigmas, bracteoles and styles longer than white hairs. Fruiting spikes highly variable in length, usually shorter than male inflorescences, ca. 15 cm long, 15-30 mm in diameter, ochre-brown. Nut tiny, not sulcate. Flowering period August to September. Fruiting September to October.

Born in ponds and marshes, near water. It occurs in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan, Jiangxi, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Nei Mongol.

②Narrow-leaved cattail

Perennial herb, 1.5-3 meters high. The rootstock is creeping, with many fibrous roots. Leaves narrowly linear, 5-8 mm wide, sparse 10 mm. Flowers small, unisexual, monoecious, spikes, long terete, brown; androgynous inflorescences free, male inflorescences in the upper part, 20-30 cm long, female inflorescences in the lower part, 9-28 cm long, with leafy bracts, caducous; male flowers with 2-3 stamens, the basal hairs longer than the anthers, apical part single or 2-5-forked, pollen grains solitary; female flowers with bracteoles, spatulate, shorter than the stigmas, velutinous hairs caducous, ca. equaling bracteoles. Female flowers with bracteoles, spatulate, shorter than stigma, velutinous early falling, ca. as long as bracteoles, stigma linear or linear-oblong. Fruiting spikes 10-15 mm in diam., nut tiny and not sulcate, indehiscent, exocarp not separating. Flowering period June-July. Fruiting period July to August.

Born in shallow water. It is distributed in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Shanxi, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Nei Mongol.

③ Wide-leafed Pandanus

A perennial herb, 1~2.5 meters tall. The rhizome is stout and transverse. Leaves broad linear, about 1 meter long, 10 to 15 mm wide, apex long pointed, base sheath-like, clasping. Flowers unisexual, monoecious, spikes cylindrical; male and female inflorescences closely connected, male inflorescences on top, 8-15 cm long, or slightly shorter, 1.5-2 cm in diameter at maturity; female inflorescences ca. 10 cm long, ca. 1.5 cm in diameter, with 2-3 leafy bracts, caducous; male flowers with 3-4 stamens, filaments filamentous, basal white hairs shorter than anthers, sometimes apically forked, pollen yellow, pollen grains set as a Pollen yellow, pollen grains set into a 4-compound; female flowers basally ebracteate, with an ovary stalk, basal hairs often slightly shorter than stigma. Fruiting spikes thick, ca. 2 cm in diam., nut minute and sulcate, often dehiscent in water, exocarp separate. Flowering period July-August. Fruiting in September.

Born on the banks of rivers, pools and marshes, and other places near the water, as well as in shallow water in desert areas. It is distributed in Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Jilin, Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Inner Mongolia.

The rhizomes (Pu Jiao), pollen (Pu Huang), and fruiting spikes (Pu Bang) of the above plants with part of the young stems are also used for medicine, as described in the special article.

7 Chemical constituents

The whole plant contains a lot of vitamins B1, B2 and C. It is very low in calcium.

8 Functions and Indications

Treatment of dysuria, canker sores.

"Materia Medica": "Moistening dryness and cooling the blood, removing ambient fire in the spleen and stomach."

9 Usage and dosage

Internal: decoction, 1 ~ 3 money; powder or burnt ash into pills, bulk. External use: pounding compress.

10 Appendix

① Treatment of urinary incontinence: seven points of bushel ash, three points of talc. The above two flavors pestle and mortar for loose. Drink a square inch dagger, three times a day. ("The Golden Chamber" Pu ash scattered)

② treatment of Guange up and down, diaphragm in the sense of obstruction, want to rise not to rise, want to descend not to descend, elevation can not be, diet does not go, stools do not come out: the end of one or two of the real fragrant bushes, half of the Xia Qu six money, five dollars of the Sichuan shellfish mother, four dollars of the Su Zi, Poria three money, atractylodis Macaca two money, Hovenia, sedum incense each one money. All for the very fine powder, condensed honey pills, such as corn big. Each empty heart to take two money, tofu syrup sent down. ("Materia Medica Huiyan")

③ treatment of postpartum jealousy of milk and carbuncle: Pu Huang grass, cooked and pounded, compressing the swelling on the day three degrees of easy, and the leaves of the decoction of juice to drink is also good, food is also obtained. ("Jing effect production treasure")

11 Remarks

In addition to the above varieties, there are the following plants of the same genus of the whole plant is also equal to the medicine:

① line-leafed pandanus, male and female inflorescences are not connected, male inflorescences longer than the female inflorescences; leaf width of 2-3 mm, leaf sheaths up to the middle of the stem and above.

② small sweetbrier, male and female inflorescences are not connected, the middle distance of 0.5-3 cm, female inflorescences 3-3.5 cm; leaf width 2-3 mm, leaf sheaths more near the stem base.

③ Oriental balsam, male and female inflorescences tightly connected; leaves narrowly linear, 6 to 8 mm wide.

12 Excerpts

"* Dictionary"

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Pu Ash San

Convenience is the water down the line, the reverse qi down. 2. "Golden Chamber Essentials Heart Dictionary": Pu, Pu, can remove dampness and heat, and facilitate urination, combined with talcum stone for clearing urination of the right way.

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