The efficacy and role of the azaleas
By the mature fruit of the labiatae plant motherwort air-dried and become. It has the function of activating blood circulation and regulating menstruation, clearing the liver and brightening the eyes. After frying, it has the effect of activating blood circulation and regulating menstruation.
Alias: motherwort seeds, kunjiaozi, small houma (Hubei, Shandong, Shanghai and other places).
Source: dry mature fruit of motherwort.
Origin: produced throughout the country.
Identification of properties: nutlets are trigonous, slightly broad at one end, like a flat truncation, his tip is narrow and blunt, about 2-3 mm long, about 1.5 mm wide. The surface is gray-brown, with dark pigmented spots, without luster. The pericarp is thin, broken open, the inner kernel is white, oily. Gas is absent, bitter flavor. The best is the one with full grains and clean.
Main components: Containing three kinds of alkaloid, named Azadirachta indica I, II, III, and Azadirachta indica oil (the main component is oleic acid) and vitamin A substances.
Concoction: raw.
Taste: sweet, slightly cold.
Functions and effects: function and motherwort is basically the same, but in the break blood stasis and some astringent effect. In the blood at the same time also has a certain tonic effect, suitable for the treatment of excessive menstruation or hemorrhagic more than, often with the bleeding medicine such as blood charcoal, angelica charcoal used together. In addition, it can remove wind-heat, remove cataracts, and improve eyesight (probably related to the vitamin A content).
Dosage: 9-15g.
Prescription example: represented by Cnidium Monnieri Pill ("review yao huan"): Cnidium Monnieri, Ze Xie Zi, 4.5g each, Chuan Lian Zi, Qi Zi, Hovenia Hedges, Celosia Argentea, Sheng Di, 30g each, Calculus Vitex, Maitake, Xin Xin, Psyllium Che Xian Zi, 60g each, ground to fine powder, made of honey, such as wutong zi big, 9g each, after food, rice soup and water, to cure the weakness of infectious disease, and also can be used for the treatment of eye blurring and darkness and cataracts, and to improve eyesight (possibly related to vitamin A-like substances). Blurred eyes and cataracts.
Note: The azalea should not be taken more than one, overdose is easy to poison. There are reports that the service azizi powder about 70g, can cause symptoms of poisoning, general weakness, soreness and numbness pain, or even sweating and defecation, to serve red beans, mung beans, licorice soup detoxification.
Description of C. sativus
Part of the medicine
The dried mature fruit of the plant.
Taste and odor
Pungent, bitter, slightly cold.
Meridian
Attributed to the pericardium and liver meridians.
Effects
Promotes blood circulation and regulates menstruation, clears liver and eyesight.
Indications
It is used for menstrual disorders, dysmenorrhea, eye redness and cataract, dizziness and bloating pain.
Related compositions
1, breast pain and malignant pain: with Azadirachta indica pounded and take the juice. ("Pu Ji Fang")
2, pediatric chancre hemorrhoidal dysentery: C. azalea boiled food. (Pu Ji Fang)
Dosage
5 ~ 10g, decoction.
Contraindications
Use with caution if pupils are dilated.
Concoctions
Collection and processing
Autumn fruit ripening cut the ground part of the sun, sun-drying, hit the fruit, remove impurities.
Concoctions
Rhizoma Azadirachta indica: take the original herb, remove impurities, wash and dry.
Frying of azalea: take the net azalea, according to the method of stir-frying until there is a popping sound.
Properties
The product is trigonous, 2-3mm long, about 1.5mm wide, the surface gray-brown to gray-brown, dark spots, one end is slightly wide, truncated, and the other end is narrowed and bluntly pointed. Pericarp thin, cotyledon white, rich in oil. Gas slightly, taste bitter.
Physiological Characteristics
Annual or biennial herbs, 60-100cm high. stems erect, 4-angled, puberulent. Leaves opposite; leaf shape various; petiole length 0.5～8cm. annual plant basal leaves with long petiole, leaf blade slightly rounded, 4～8cm in diameter, 5～9-lobed, lobes with 2～3 obtuse teeth, base cordate; stem middle leaves with short petiole, 3-sect, lobes nearly lanceolate, central lobe often re-3-lobed, both sides of the lobe again 1～2-lobed, the final slice is usually more than 3mm wide, the apex is acuminate, the edge sparsely serrate or subentire; the most extreme part is the most short-petiolate, the most long-limbed, the most long-limbed, the most long-petiolate, the most long-petiolate. or subentire; uppermost leaves undivided, linear, subsessile, green above, strigose, light green below, sparsely pilose and glandular punctate. Verticillasters axillary, with 8-15 flowers; bracteoles needlelike, sessile; calyx campanulate, outside adnate-puberulent, apex 5-toothed, spinose-acuminate, lower 2 teeth longer than upper 2, persistent; corolla labellate, light red or purplish-red, 9-12 mm long, outside pilose, upper lip and lower lip several times as long as the upper lip, upper lip oblong, entire, margins ciliate, lower lip 3-lobed, central lobe larger, obcordate. Stamens 4, didynamous, inserted near middle of inner face of corolla, filaments sparsely covered with scalelike hairs, anthers 2-loculed; pistil 1, ovary 4-lobed, style filiform, slightly longer than stamens, stigma 2-lobed. Nutlets brown, three-angled, apex broader and truncated, base cuneate, 2-2.5mm long, about 1.5mm in diameter, flowering from June to September, fruiting from July to October.
Growth and environment
Born in the mountains, riverbanks, grass and streamside wet place. It is widely distributed throughout the country.
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