Chinese medicine name caraway husui
Alias coriander, coriander, coriander.
English name HerbaCoriandriSativi
SourceThe dried rooted whole herb of Coriandrum sativum L., family Umbelliferae.
Plant FormAnnual or biennial herb, 30-100 centimeters high. The whole plant is glabrous, with strong fragrance. Roots slender, with most slender branch roots. Stem erect, much branched, striped. Basal one- to two-pinnatisect; pinnae broadly ovate or flabellate-cleft, 1-2 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide, margins obtusely serrate, notched, or y cleft; upper cauline leaves three- to many-pinnatisect, ultimate segments narrowly linear, apex obtuse, entire. Umbels terminal or opposite to leaves; ebracteolate; rays 3 to 8; involucral bracteoles 2 to 5, linear, entire; umbellules with flowers 3 to 10, white or lilac, calyx teeth of unequal size, ovate-triangular or long ovate; petals obovate, with concave ligule at apex; radial petals entire, with 3r5 veins. Fruit subglobose. Dorsal primary ribs and adjacent secondary ribs conspicuous, endosperm ventrally concave, vittae inconspicuous, or 1 located below secondary ribs. Flowering and fruiting period from April to November.
Origin and distribution are cultivated throughout China.
Harvesting and processing throughout the year, washed, dried.
Traits of the herb is 50-100 centimeters long. Residual root conical, 4 ~ 8 cm long, root head with fine links, the lower part of the branch root scars. Stem round, 1 ~ 4 mm in diameter, multi-branched, surface grass yellow, lower stem slightly darker color, smooth, with longitudinal stripes. Leaves mostly crumpled and curled, some leaf blades fall off, leaving petiole sheaths at the nodes. Apically compound umbellate peduncle, with a few fruit remains. The texture is crunchy, and the white color of the section is not neat. The smell is fresh and fragrant, the taste is sweet and slightly spicy.
Taste and flavor attributed to the meridian warm, taste pungent. Attributed to the lung, spleen and liver meridians.
Effects and UsesExpelling and transmitting rash, eliminating food and appetizing, relieving pain and detoxifying. It is a pungent, warming and antiexpressive drug classified under the category of antiexpressive drugs.
Clinical application: internal use: decoction, 9-15 grams, fresh 15-30 grams; or pounded juice. External use: appropriate amount, decoction soup wash; or pounded compress; or twisted juice. Indications: wind-cold and flu, measles, pox rash, poor penetration, food accumulation, distension and pain in the abdomen and stomach, vomiting, headache, toothache, prolapse of the anus, dengtoxin, sores and swellings at the beginning, snakebite.
Pharmacological studies can enhance gastrointestinal gland secretion, but also promote bile secretion. The volatile oil contained in the seeds has certain antifungal effects
Chemical composition of this product mainly contains coriander isocoumarin, dihydrocoriander isocoumarin, coriander isocoumarinone, citrus aurantium lactone, European foreneck carrot lactone, quercetin-3-glucuronide and a variety of vitamins and other ingredients.
Contraindications for use Rash out of the self-transparent, or although not transmissible but the heat and toxicity congestion, non-wind-cold outside the bundle is prohibited to take.
Preparation
①Treatment of wind-cold cold, headache and nasal congestion: 6 grams of Su Ye, 6 grams of ginger, 9 grams of coriander. Water decoction. ("Gansu herbal medicine manual")
② treatment of hemoptysis: caraway, seaweed, etc. wash sediment, add the right amount of oil and salt boiled for 3 to 4 hours, eat 3 times a day, 1 bowl each time. ("Hunan Drug Journal")
③ treatment of indigestion, abdominal distension: 30 grams of fresh caraway herb. Water decoction. ("Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine")
④ Treatment of cold stomach pain: fresh caraway 15 to 24 grams. Decoction with water. ("Fujian Chinese Herbal Medicine")
⑤ Treatment of cold stomach pain: 15 grams of caraway, 15 grams of pepper, 6 grams of mugwort. Water decoction. ("Sichuan Chinese Medicine Journal" 1979)
6 treatment of anal prolapse: caraway (cut) a liter, fried, to smoke the anus. ("Zi Mu Secret Record")
7 treatment of anal itching: caraway powder, plus cooked egg yolks, *** mashed, transfer sesame oil into the anus, even with 3 times. ("Hunan drug state")
Specific role
1. Measles:
C胡荽连须3株, water chestnut 3, comfrey velvet 3 grams, add water to the big half bowl, fry for 15 minutes and then filter the juice, divided into 2 times to serve, every 4 hours to serve in the time of the rash will be served, to prevent complications; or caraway 500 grams, water boiled, will be caraway boil 1 to 2 boiling can be, and then the water is poured into the Basin, first to the hot air fumigation, and then wash hands and feet with water, can cure measles should be out of not out or rash out of impermeable.
2. stomach cold pain:
Caraway leaves 1000 grams, 500 milliliters of wine, caraway immersed in, 3 days after the leaves to drink wine, when the pain served 15 milliliters.
3. Hemorrhoids swelling and pain and prolapse:
Caraway boiled soup, with this soup fumigation of the affected area.
4. Dyspepsia, loss of appetite
Coriander seeds (fruit) 6 grams, Chenpi, six quatrefoil 9 grams each, 3 slices of ginger, water decoction.
5. Hypertension:
10 grams of fresh, plus 10 grams of Pueraria lobata decoction, morning and evening 1 time, each serving 50 ml, serving 10 days for a course of treatment, for the treatment of high blood pressure has auxiliary efficacy.
6. Erthe:
6 grams of basil leaves (fresh leaves doubled), 3 slices of ginger, boiling water bubble or decoction of a boil, while hot.
7. Chest and diaphragm full of stuffiness:
Coriander seeds powder, 3 grams each time, boiled water and swallowed.
8. Vomiting:
Appropriate amount of fresh herb antipasto pounded juice of one spoon, two spoons of sugar cane juice, add warm service, twice a day.
9. corneal cataracts:
Seeds 1-2, washed, into the eye contiguous, close the eyes for a few moments, the seeds are wet and swollen, adhering to the eye search out.
10. Cold and flu:
30 grams of caraway, 15 grams of caramelized sugar, add half a bowl of rice soup, sugar steam dissolved and served.