What is the water bamboo leaves?
The water bamboo leaf is an annual or perennial herb. It flowers from September to October every year, with pink, blue-purple or purple petals, and bears fruit in mid- to late-October, with short columnar seeds that are slightly flattened and reddish-gray in color. Bamboo leaves are usually harvested in summer and fall and dried in the sun. It grows in shady areas, near water or in rice paddies. It is one of the major weeds in rice fields, and it is highly adaptable, drought-resistant, heat-resistant, water-resistant, and can grow not only in paddy fields, but also in dry fields.
At the same time, we also need to remind you that the water bamboo leaves grow in the paddy field, will compete with the rice for fertilizer and water, which seriously affects the normal growth of rice, resulting in a reduction in rice production. We can cultivate rice 4 to 5 days before the wheat harvest, usually per mu can be used 10% glyphosate 500 ml, add 100 grams of laundry detergent, plus 40 kg of water and spray, prevention and eradication of the effect is very good, can prevent the water bamboo leaves into the rice field to bring harm.
Effectiveness and function of water bamboo leaves
The whole grass of water bamboo leaves can be used for medicine, water bamboo leaves taste sweet, sexuality, usually into the liver and spleen two meridians. It has diuretic, decongestive, detoxification effects, mainly for lung fever, cough, sore throat, red and white dysentery, dysuria, carbuncle boils and other patients with good efficacy.
Usage: For internal use, take 3 to 5 dollars of water bamboo leaves (1 to 2 taels for fresh products) in a decoction. Externally, the leaves are crushed into powder and applied to the affected area.
Water bamboo leaves for pneumonia, high fever and cough
Method: take fresh water bamboo leaves five to eight money, and then add the right amount of water decoction, mix with honey to take, twice a day.
Water bamboo leaves for intestinal fever and dysentery
Method: take one or two fresh water bamboo leaves. Wash clean and take in decoction, mix with a little brown sugar and take internally.
Water bamboo leaves for dysuria
Method: take one to two fresh water bamboo leaves. Then add the right amount of water to take decoction, can be mixed with a little rock sugar to take, twice a day.
Water bamboo leaves for mouth sores and tongue rot
Method: take two fresh water bamboo leaves pounded into juice, mixed into a cup of boiling water for gargling, about five to six minutes to gargle once, a few times a day.
Water bamboo leaves for sores
Method: take fresh water bamboo leaves three two, rock sugar five money. Stewed soup to serve, at the same time you can apply the dregs of the medicine to the affected area.
Bamboo leaves for corns
Usage: Take fresh bamboo leaves and winter honey in appropriate amounts, mashed to the affected area, two to three times a day.
What are the effects of lotus flowers?
The lotus is a perennial aquatic plant, life is also a very common flower, the lotus is very beautiful, has a high ornamental value, and now many parks and public **** occasions have lotus, ancient poets and now many writers are also very obsessed with the lotus, poetry, articles can be seen in the words of the lotus, the lotus, although the common, but its role is irreplaceable, then the lotus The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal on the price of the product.
Lotus in our country since ancient times have been planted, Henan Zhengzhou unearthed in the Spring and Autumn period of the lotus root copper pot cast on the shape of the lotus, has been more than three thousand years ago. There is also a poem in the Classic of Poetry about the slopes of Pi Ze, where there are bushes and lotuses.
There are more than 150 varieties of lotus, divided into three categories: flower lotus, seed lotus and lotus root. The flower lotus is also known as ornamental lotus, which has the parallel lotus, the four seasons lotus, red lotus, etc.; child lotus has Xianglian, Jianlian and sunflower lotus, etc.; Lotus root lotus in the flower lotus, flower lotus and so on.
The lotus has always been not only admired by the literati, but also loved by the general public. People take it as the embodiment of beauty, symbol of good luck and love. And the lotus flower is a medicine, all have a wide range of medical value.
The efficacy of each part of the lotus flower:
Lotus flower: warm, bitter taste, sweet. It can dispel dampness and eliminate wind, treat bruises and vomit blood.
Lianfang: warm in nature, bitter and astringent in flavor. Functions: eliminate blood stasis, stop bleeding, remove dampness. Treatment of excessive menstruation, abdominal pain with blood stasis, hemorrhage, hemorrhoids and so on.
Lianshu (lotus stamen): flat, sweet and astringent flavor. Functions: clear the heart, benefit the kidney, astringent, stop bleeding. It can be used to treat dreaming, spermatorrhea, hematemesis, epistaxis, and so on.
Lotus seed: flat in nature, sweet in flavor. Containing a lot of starch and protein, phosphorus, iron and so on. Functions: nourish the heart, benefit the kidney, tonify the spleen, astringent intestines. Treatment of dreaming, dysentery, gonorrhea and so on.
Lotus heart: cold, bitter flavor. Functions: clearing the heart, removing heat, stopping bleeding, astringent, lowering blood pressure. Treatment of heartburn, thirst, spermatorrhea, vomiting blood, eye redness and swelling pain, hypertension.
Lotus leaf: flat, bitter taste. Functions: clearing summer heat, diuresis, elevating Qing Yang, stopping bleeding. Treatment of summer dampness and diarrhea, dizziness, thunder head wind, blood in stool.
Lotus leaf: flat, sweet and bitter flavor. Functions: Clearing heat and dampness, and blood to stabilize the fetus. Treatment of bloody diarrhea, diarrhea, pregnancy and fetal restlessness. Lotus root: cold in nature, sweet in flavor. Containing starch, protein, asparagine, vitamin C and so on. Functions: raw with heat, cool blood, dissipate blood stasis, treatment of fever and thirst, vomiting blood, etc.; cooked with the spleen, stomach, blood, muscle, diarrhea, etc., treatment of indigestion, diarrhea.
Lotus root: flat, sweet, astringent flavor. Function to stop bleeding, dissipate blood stasis. Treatment of coughing blood, vomiting blood, blood in urine, blood in stool, hematochezia and so on.
Simple prescription:
Lotus japonica rice porridge: 15g of dried lotus powder, 90g of japonica rice. wash the japonica rice, porridge, fast heat into the lotus powder, and then cook two or three boiled into. Eat this porridge, can eliminate heat, fitness, beauty. Lotus flower powder: dry lotus flower powder, 1 to 2 times a day, each time the wine sent to serve a tablespoon. Treatment of fall damage and vomiting blood, heart and stomach vomiting blood.
Fresh lotus flower paste: fresh lotus petals a, paste the affected area, 1 to 2 times a day. Treatment of blistering wet sores.
Lotus leaf paste: newborn lotus leaves, mashed, into the salt a little, external application of the affected area, once a day. The treatment of the red swim fire Dan.
What are the effects and functions of cloves?
First, the flavor and efficacy
taste pungent, warm. Efficacy: regulating qi and lowering rebelliousness, warming the middle and relieving pain, warming the kidneys.
Traditional application
It is used for treating cold pain in the epigastrium and abdomen, eructation, nausea and vomiting; impotence due to insufficiency of kidney yang, and cold-dampness and subluxation of the belt.
This drug is often used in the following traditional formulas: ① Clove Persimmon Tee Soup ("Symptoms due to pulse treatment"): cloves, persimmon, ginseng, ginger, treatment of eruption due to cold; ② Ding Gui San ("Thousand Golden Wings"): cloves, cinnamon, treatment of prolonged cardiac pain, and bruises.
Third, the main components: mainly contains volatile oil clove oil and other ingredients.
Fourth, pharmacological effects
(a) the effect on the digestive system
1, anti-gastric ulcer: can inhibit the formation of experimental gastric ulcer in rats. Clove volatile oil and eugenol can make gastric mucus secretion increased significantly, while the acidity does not increase. Eugenol may be the active ingredient of anti-ulcer.
2, stomach: can relieve abdominal flatulence, enhance digestion, reduce nausea and vomiting.
3, inhibit intestinal excitation: its aqueous decoction can inhibit the spontaneous contraction of isolated rabbit intestines, and can counteract the excitatory effects of acetylcholine, histamine and other excitatory effects on the isolated intestinal tubes.
4, anti-diarrhea: its aqueous extract and eugenol can antagonize senna or castor oil-induced colonic diarrhea and intestinal fluid.
(B) anesthesia, analgesia, antipyretic, anti-inflammatory
1, anesthesia: eugenol has anesthesia for young shrimp, carp and so on. Eugenol can inhibit the composite action potential of the rat vagus nerve A, B, c fibers, which may be one of the mechanisms of eugenol to stop teeth. Eugenol can block the bullfrog sciatic nerve transmission, but does not affect the muscle postsynaptic membrane response, showing the role of selective anesthesia nerve fibers.
Rabbit intravenous injection of eugenol can produce anesthesia and anticonvulsant effect, but can inhibit respiration and reduce blood pressure. Therefore, clinically, eugenol is only used for local anesthesia, not for general anesthesia.
2, analgesic: mice infused with its aqueous decoction has an analgesic effect.
3, antipyretic: rabbit oral eugenol has antipyretic effect, and stronger than acetaminophen. Its mechanism of action is to produce antipyretic effect through pG synthesis in the brain.
4, anti-inflammatory: mice can inhibit the swelling of the ear shell and capillary permeability increase by dosing ether and water extracts of clove. Rats can inhibit experimental foot and metatarsal swelling.
Its analgesic, antipyretic, and anti-inflammatory mechanisms may be related to antioxidant, free radical scavenging, and inhibition of cyclooxygenase and lipoxygenase activity.
(C) Anti-polymerization, anti-coagulation and anti-thrombosis
1, anti-polymerization: eugenol and acetyl eugenol can inhibit arachidonic acid-induced aggregation of rabbit and human platelets and whole blood aggregation, and inhibit the release of ATp. The mechanism of anti-aggregation is the inhibition of TXB synthesis in platelets.
2, anticoagulation: mice infused with its aqueous extract can prolong plasma prothrombin time, prothrombin time, factor VIII time, shorten plasminogen depletion time and factor V time.
3, anti-thrombosis: mice infused with its aqueous extract can prolong the time of electrical stimulation of carotid artery thrombosis.
(D) Antipathogens
1, antibacterial, antiviral: clove oil and eugenol have a broad-spectrum antibacterial effect. Ellagitannins in cloves have anti-herpes simplex virus effect.
2, antifungal: its aqueous decoction or ethanol extract has a broad-spectrum antifungal effect, or killing effect. Eugenol has a significant killing effect on Candida albicans and Cryptococcus neoformans.
3, kill parasites: its aqueous extract can kill dog and pig roundworm. The effect of clove oil is stronger than that of the aqueous decoction.
4, kill Trichomonas: clove oil, eugenol and acetosyringol have a strong killing effect on Trichomonas.
(E) other
1, inhibition of smooth muscle: clove oil, eugenol and acetyl eugenol and eugenol aqueous solution are able to inhibit the contraction of vascular smooth muscle, intestinal smooth muscle, guinea pig tracheal smooth muscle, isolated uterine smooth muscle.
2, its ammonia aqueous extract can enhance insulin activity.
3, which ellagitannins can reduce the concentration of urea in the blood.
4, eugenol is a testosterone 5-reductase inhibitor, can be used to combat hair loss.
V. Clinical applications
1, the treatment of eructation, gastric discomfort, generalized vomiting, loss of appetite.
2, clove oil used locally to treat toothache.
3, clove decoction for external use to treat skin ringworm.
VI. Dosage and Usage
Pharmacopoeia dose: 1 ~ 3g.
Clinical dose: 1 ~ 3g.
High dose: should not be used in large doses.
Methods of use: decoction of water, powder or into the pill, bulk swallowed, soaked in wine, internal use, external application.
VII. Clinical experience
(A) on the treatment of eruption and gastric discomfort
This product is traditionally used for the treatment of eruption. Diaphragmatic spasm caused by cold irritation and eructation is mostly functional. Cloves boiled or infused in boiling water to warm the center and stomach are mostly effective in treating hiccups. After radiotherapy for esophageal cancer, the eructation is also functional. For its mild symptoms, cloves, persimmon and other medicines are effective, due to the warm nature of cloves, after radiotherapy, it often injures the yin and fluids, and it must be used with yin and fluids generating medicines, such as dendrobium, rehmannia, and other medicines.
"Typhoid fever" syncopated yin disease has retch evidence, i.e., eruption, for the stomach qi has been extinguished for the extreme deficiency of evidence. In advanced tumors such as liver cancer, stomach cancer, pancreatic cancer, the cancer mass has eroded the diaphragm and does not want to eat, if there is a sign of danger of illness such as retching, cloves and persimmon tisane used together with ginseng, ginger and knife bean seeds can improve the symptoms temporarily.
Cloves on suffering from chronic gastritis, ulcer disease, gastric discomfort, stomach pain, loss of appetite, stuffiness, nausea, generalized desire to vomit and other symptoms, also has a certain effect. It is often used with cardamom.
(B) on pain
The ancient formula Ding Gui San, cloves and cinnamon used together, can be taken internally, can be applied externally, the treatment of cold and damp lumbago, lumbago, lumbago, lumbar pain, lumbar and knee pain and cold; external application of the foot Yongquan point for sciatica, have a better effect. Clove is a better herbal medicine for anesthesia and pain relief.
Clove oil local use of anesthesia for pain relief, has been widely used by the dental clinic.
The analgesic as well as anticoagulant and antithrombotic effects of this product, from the traditional theory of understanding, there should also be blood circulation and stasis effect. However, there is no record of this in the Materia Medica Compendium and other herbal works.
(C) cloves warm kidney what
"Compendium of Materia Medica" records: cloves treatment of kidney gas, dolphin gas, yin pain, abdominal pain, aphrodisiac, warm waist and knees. These should refer to the effect of warming the kidneys. Cloves have antioxidant, free radical scavenging and anti-hair loss effects. This aspect can be utilized in contemporary anti-aging and anti-hair loss.
The Materia Medica has an accompanying prescription for the use of minced female cloves to be incorporated into the yin, to cure a woman's yin cold, and the disease will be gone. Cloves have the effect of killing trichomonas, may be related to this.
Eight, side effects
(a) traditional literature
"Materia Medica": non-toxic.
(B) toxicological tests
1, LD50: intraperitoneal injection of its decoction of the LD50 is l, 8g / kg. clove oil mice infused with the LD50 is 1, 6g / kg. eugenol mice orally LD50 3g / kg, the rat's LD50 for 2, 68g / kg.
2, toxic reactions: mice infused with its aqueous extract of l20g (raw medicine) / kg, did not cause any toxicity. raw drug)/kg, does not cause death. Symptoms of poisoning are respiratory depression, weakness of hind limbs, and loss of reflexes.
Oral administration of clove oil to dogs 2g / kg can occur vomiting, oral administration of 5g / kg can occur vomiting and death.
Clove phenol has quinone methyl compounds and phenoxy radicals, which are its intermediate metabolites in hepatocytes. These two substances bind to cellular proteins *** valence bonds and produce cytotoxic effects.
3, pathological examination Oral clove oil dead dogs, microscopic examination of the liver and kidney petechiae, turbid swelling, part of the hepatocyte necrosis, myocardial turbid swelling.
This indicates that the toxicity of the decoction is very small. Clove oil has some toxic reactions.
(C) Clinical observation
Non-toxic. There is no uncomfortable reaction in the regular dose of water decoction. Long-term decoction of water also has no obvious side effects. There have been reports of clove oil, eugenol topical use, occasional individual allergic reactions.
Although the efficacy and function of clove is very powerful and irreplaceable, but when using it, you must pay attention and be clear about its side effects.
What are the benefits and effects of goldenrod tea?Golden flower tea can be used as medicine, can cure blood in the stool and women's excessive menstruation, can also be used as edible dyes. Leaves in addition to tea as a beverage, but also has medicinal value, gold tea for the regulation of human blood lipids, blood sugar, cholesterol, enhance the body's immune system has a significant effect, can improve the hypertension caused by a variety of uncomfortable symptoms, and anti-bacterial anti-inflammatory, detoxification, diuretic swelling, enhance the vitality of the liver and kidneys, to prevent blood arteriosclerosis, cancer inhibition of tumor growth, and so on. Upon investigation, Jinhua tea has been used in folklore to refresh the mind, clear liver fire, detoxify heat, and nourish vital energy. Compendium of Guangxi Ethnic Medicine", "Guangxi Chinese herbal medicine standard", "China Fangcheng Golden Flower Tea International Symposium Proceedings", "China Guangxi Golden Flower Tea International Symposium Proceedings", "Chinese Zhuang Pharmacology", "Dictionary of Medicinal Plants", etc. There are records of the pharmacology of Golden Flower Tea.
Health effects
1, anti-cancer effects:
Se:It can prevent the formation of free radicals. It can destroy the epoxide formed by carcinogens in the body.Na2SeO3 can inhibit the synthesis of DNA in murine hepatocellular carcinoma cells and reduce the synthesis of DNA in the human rectal adenocarcinoma cell line HR8348.Se can also selectively act with many biochemical metabolisms of the tumor cells to achieve the anticancer effect.
Ge: It is known that every organ in the human body has its fixed potential. The potential of cancer cells is both high and highly variable, and Ge may control and lower the potential of cancer cells through dehydrogenation.
Mn: it has anti-chemical carcinogenicity ---- the carcinogenic effect of benzo(a)pyrene
Tea polyphenols: the Japanese Cancer Society experts believe that it can control the proliferation of cancer cells.
2, lower cholesterol and szlig; lipoprotein effect:
V: It is related to the metabolism of lipids and cholesterol. It can promote hematopoietic function and significantly reduce plasma cholesterol. V-deficient animals have increased serum triglycerides and increased cholesterol levels.
Mn: It improves lipid metabolism in patients with atherosclerosis. Prevent experimental atherosclerosis.
Golden Flower Tea contains more than 400 beneficial chemical components.