Pinyin name d and n Dīnɡ Xiānɡ You
English name Clove Oil
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The source of medicinal materials: volatile oil obtained by distillation of dried flower buds of Syringa oblata of Myrtaceae.
Latin plant and animal mineral name: syzygium aromaticum (L.) Merr.et Perry.
Clove in its original form, evergreen tree, up to 10 meter. Leaves opposite; Petiole is obvious; Leaf blade is oblong or oblong-obovate, 5- 10cm long and 2.5-5cm wide, the apex is acuminate or acute, and the base is narrow and often descends into a stalk. The flowers are fragrant and form terminal thyrses, and the flower diameter is about 6 mm; Calyx is thick, turns purple after green, long tubular, with 4-lobed apex and triangular lobes; Corolla white, slightly purplish, short tube prostrate, 4-lobed; Stamens are numerous, anthers are longitudinally split; The ovary is inferior, connate with calyx tube, with thick style and inconspicuous stigma. Berry is reddish brown, oblong, 1- 1.5cm long, 5-8mm in diameter, with sepals at the apex. The seeds are rectangular.
It is light yellow or colorless clear oily liquid with special fragrance of clove. Exposed to the air or stored for a long time, it will gradually thicken and turn brown. Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol, ether or glacial acetic acid. The specific gravity is 1.038- 1.060.
See clove strips for pharmacological action.
Pungent in nature; Gan; Sexual fever
Meridian and spleen; Stomach; Kidney meridian
The function is to warm the stomach; Descending the inverse; Wet kidney. Main stomach cold and pain; Hiccup; Vomiting and diarrhea; Arthralgia; Hernia pain; Bad breath; odontia
Administration and dosage for oral administration: drop a little into decoction or drink with wine. External use: rub.
Attachment 1. For patients with stomach cold, hiccup and vomiting: clove oil, rubbed through the Intermediate People's Court. 2. Treating cold and stomachache: clove oil, good wine and kimono. 3. Warm abdomen, except for diarrhea: clove oil coated with warm navel paste. 4. loose swelling: clove oil is applied to the navel. 5. Treatment of arthralgia: clove oil rubs the pain. 3. Cure bad breath: wipe your teeth with clove oil. 5. Xiexie poison: a drop of clove oil, with ginger soup. (1. The following is the compendium) 8. Treatment of insect-eaten toothache (non-inflammatory toothache): a little clove oil, dipped in a small cotton ball, embedded in the wormhole. (Jiangsu)
Various discussions 1. "Zhu Mu Shi Xiao Fang": clove oil is used to treat scrofula, and it is used in the nuclear ointment. Its fragrance is strong and straight through the meridians, and it is pungent and stagnation. 2. "Compendium": clove oil, through the customs, dispel cold, faster than clove. 3. "Drug Test": strengthening yang and warming kidney. Treat hernia and yin cold. 4. Wang Dianxiang's Pharmacognosy: used for flatulence, colic, indigestion, nausea and vomiting; Rheumatalgia, neuralgia, toothache.
Excerpt from Chinese materia medica