Pinyin Name Màn Tuó Luó Zǐ
English Name Datura Seed
Alias Drunken Grapes, Celestial Eggplant, Hu Eggplant, Dog Walnut, Wind Eggplant Fruit, Warbler's Fruit, Yankee Cannabis Seed, Mountain Cannabis Seed, Fushigaru Eggplant, Drunken Immortal Peach
Origin
Origin p>Medicinal base: the fruit or seeds of white mandarins and hairy mandarins of the Solanaceae family.
Latin botanical and animal mineral name: Datura metel L. D. innoxia Mill.
Harvesting and storage: harvested in summer and fall when the fruit production is ripe, can also be dried to the seeds.
Original form
An annual herb, 30-100cm tall, nearly glabrous throughout. Stem erect, cylindrical, base woody, upper forked branches, green, surface with irregular wrinkles, young branches 4-angled, purplish, pubescent. Leaves alternate, upper leaves subopposite; petiole 2-5cm long; leaf blade broadly ovate, long ovate or heart-shaped, 5-20cm long, 4-15cm wide, apex acuminate or acute, base asymmetric, margins irregularly short-dentate, or entire and undulate, both surfaces glabrous or sparsely short hairy, abaxial veins of the leaf elevated. Flowers solitary among branch forks or in leaf axils; pedicel ca. 1 cm, erect or obliquely extended, white pubescent; calyx tubular, 4-6 cm long, 1-1.5 cm in diam., yellowish green, apex 5-lobed, lobes triangular, neat or untidy, apex pointed, calyx tube circumscissile and falling off from near the base after anthesis, base of the calyx tube remaining persistent, enlarged in fruit to be discoid, 2.5-3 cm in diam. Corolla tube funnelform, 14-20 cm long, 5-7 cm in diameter at the limb, tapering in diameter in the lower part, expanding upward into a couch, white, 5-angled, 5-lobed, lobes 5, lobes 5, triangular, apex long pointed; stamens 5, borne in the corolla tube, anthers linear, flattened, inserted at the base; pistil 1, ovary bead-shaped, 2-loculed, sparsely short spiny hairs, ovules numerous, styles filiform, 11-16 cm long, stigma shield-shaped. Stigma peltate. Capsule globose or compressed globose, about 3cm in diameter, sparsely covered with short spines, pale brown when ripe, irregularly 4-valved. Seeds numerous, flattened, slightly triangular, brown when ripe. Flowering period March-November, fruiting period April-November.
Annual herb, 1-2 m tall, with a bad odor, white fine glandular hairs and pubescent throughout. Stem stout, erect, terete, basally woody, distally much forked-branched, gray-green. Leaves alternate or subopposite; leaf blade broadly ovate, 8-20 cm long, 5-12 cm wide, apex acute, base obliquely cordate, entire or sinuolate, abaxial leaf veins elevated. Flowers large, erect or obliquely ascending, 15-20cm long, 7-8cm in diameter, corolla white or lilac, 5-angled; calyx tube 5-angled, apex 5-lobed, breaking off from near the base after flowering, the persistent part ellipsoidal and enlarged and reflexed outward. Capsule borne on pendulous fruiting pedicel, suborbicular, densely covered with pliable needlelike spines and densely pubescent, apex irregularly split when ripe. Seeds numerous, reniform, pale brown or yellow-brown. Fl. May-Sep, fr. June-Oct.
Traits
Trait Identification (1) White mandarins Capsule subglobose or oblate, about 3cm in diameter, with a shallow disk-shaped persistent calyx and short fruit stalk on the stem. Surface yellowish green, sparsely thick short spines. Pericarp lignified, irregularly 4-valved at maturity. Seeds numerous, flattened, triangular, about 3mm wide, light brown. Gas peculiar, taste slightly bitter. Toxic.
(2) Mauwendrazi Capsule nearly pearl-shaped or ovoid, 3-4cm in diameter, the base of the persistent calyx is slightly pentagonal, to the place of spines fine and tough. The pericarp is irregularly lobed from the upper part. Seeds compressed reniform, about 5mm long, about 3mm wide, light brown.
The fruit is full, the number of seeds, ripe is preferred.
Chemical composition
White mandrake seeds contain hyoscyamine, scopolamine[1], cycloeucalenol, 31-norlanost-9(11)-enol, 31-norlanost-9(11)-enol and 31-norlanost-8-enol. lophenol), α1-sitosterol (citrostadienol)[2].
The seed oil contains oleic acid, linoleic acid [3].
2. Hairy mandrake Seeds contain α and β scopo don-nine (α-, β-scopo don-nine) [4], scopoletin, scopolamine, daturaine (meteloidine), mandrake terpene diol (daturadiol), mandrake terpene daturaolone (daturaolone) [5], atropine (atropine) [ 6]. 6]. Plant lectin (lectin) Ⅰ Ⅰ seed oil contains linoleic and oleic acid [5].
The seeds of the congener Mandragora contain atropine, aspalathamine i.e. scopolamine [8], scopoletin [9], 31-norcycloartenol, cycloeucalenol, 4α-methylcholest-8-enol [10]. ),31-norlanosterol, 31-norlanost-9(11)-enol [(31-norlanost-9(11)-enol], obtusanol, 4-methyl-7-enylcholestanol, citrostadienol [2], lanost-8-en-3β-ol (lanost-8-en-3beta-ol)[3], citrostadienol[4], citrostadienol[5], citrostadienol[6], citrostadienol[7], citrostadienol[8], citrostadienol[8], citrostadienol[9 lanost-8-en-3β-ol), cycloartenol, 24-methylenecycloartenol, β-amyrin, daturaolone, daturadiol, daturadiol, and daturadiol. daturadiol)[10], and fatty acids[11], among others.
Pharmacological effect of pupil-scattering effect: spiropyra seed infusion has pupil-scattering paralytic effect.
Concoction Yin dry, spare.
Orgasmic flavor: pungent; bitter; warm; poisonous
Attributive meridians: Liver; Spleen meridians
Functions and Indications: calms asthma; dispels wind; relieves pain. Panting and coughing; epilepsy; wind-cold and dampness paralysis; prolapse of anus; bruises; sores
Use and dosage Internal use: decoction, 0.15-0.3g; or soaked in wine. External use: appropriate amount, decoction of water to wash; or soaked in wine to rub.
Note "Sichuan Chinese Medicine Journal": no stasis, body weakness is contraindicated.
Ancillary prescription ① treatment of prolapse: Mandragora flower seeds (with shell) a pair of oak bowl sixteen. On the crushed, water decoction three, five boiling; into the Park Nitrogen hot wash. ("Rumon事亲")② treatment of bruises: mandarins a penny, soak six taels of wine. Each time to take three dollars. ("Compendium of Commonly Used Herbs in Folklore") ③ Remedy for rheumatic pain: drunken peach two, soaked in sorghum wine a catty. Drink the wine after ten days, one to two times a day, not more than one cent each time. (Shanghai Commonly Used Chinese Herbs)
Discussions of various schools
1. Classified Herbal Medicinal Properties: treating bruises and injuries, expelling blood stasis, and opening the meridians.
2. Guizhou Folk Medicine Collection: smoked to treat toothache.
3. "Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine": it can dispel wind and dampness, asthma and swelling. It can be used to treat wind-cold and dampness paralysis, joint swelling and pain, eclampsia and prolapse of anus, bruises and diarrhea and dysentery.
Clinical application
1.Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis: 1 portion of mandarins, 4 portions of the root of So Shan Hu (rhododendron rhododendron), roasted and powdered, and made into tablets, 0.3g per tablet, 1-2 tablets each time, 3 times a day. 15 days for a course of treatment, asked to take a break of 5-7 days to give the second course of treatment. In the course of treatment, it can reduce joint pain, make joint swelling subside, and improve joint movement, but it is ineffective for those with joint ankylosis.
2. For pupil dilation using different concentrations of mandarins submerged liquid and 1% after Matropine for control observation. Through 24 cases of pupil dilation test, proved that the mandarins submerged solution has pupil dilation and paralysis regulation, but the pupil dilation effect of the appearance of the pupil to the disappearance of the pupillary response to the light and the regulation of the time of recovery, are slower than the post-matropin) on the intraocular pressure and atrial aqueous humor flow ease of the C-value of the impact of the two are not big differences. The recovery time after pupil dilation with Mandrake submerged solution was about half of that with atropine. The concentration of the infusion is 50-60%. In addition, a decoction of the whole herb of Mandragora and a solution of Mandragora extract have been used for cataract needle-dialing surgery.
2.1. Decoction; Mandragora whole herb 1 catty washed, add 1-1.5 catty of purified water, boil for about 1 hour, gauze 3-4 layers of filtration for 3-4 times, the filtrate will be concentrated to 100 ml, add the appropriate amount of antiseptic, divided into sterilized eye-drop bottles for spare.
2.2.30% mandelic solution (not prepared with purified crystalline powder): half an hour before cataract needle dialysis, use one of the above two preparations in the eye drops, once every 5 minutes, ****4-5 times. About 20-30 minutes the pupil is open and fixed, about 7-8mm size can be cut said into the needle. This drug only paralyzes the effect of shrinking the pupil muscle, but no excitement dilation of the role of the pupil muscle. In the process of dialysis surgery, if the needle touches the iris too much, the individual patient pupil will be slightly narrowed, so should try to avoid touching the iris. The decoction is dark soy sauce color, there are fine particles, stored for a long time, easy to produce large flocculent precipitation a mouthful of this liquid will be boiled and filtered, the effect of dilation of the pupil is not reduced.
Excerpt from "Chinese Materia Medica" From "Modern Practical Chinese Medicine"
Pinyin Name Màn Tuó Luó Yè
English Name Datura Leaf
Origin
Origin of the herb: Leaves of white mandarins and hairy mandarins of the family Solanaceae.
Latin Botanical and Animal Mineral Name: Datura metel L. Datura innoxia Mill.
Harvesting and Storage: Harvested in July-August, used in children, can also be dried in the sun or dried.
Original form
An annual herb, 30-100cm tall, nearly glabrous throughout. The stem is erect, cylindrical, woody at the base, forked and branched at the upper part, green, with irregular wrinkles on the surface, and the young branches are 4-angled, purplish and pubescent. Leaves alternate, upper leaves subopposite; petiole 2-5cm long; leaf blade broadly ovate, long ovate or heart-shaped, 5-20cm long, 4-15cm wide, apex acuminate or acute, base asymmetric, margins irregularly short-dentate, or entire and undulate, both surfaces glabrous or sparsely short hairy, abaxial veins of the leaf elevated. Flowers solitary among branch forks or in leaf axils; pedicel ca. 1 cm, erect or obliquely extended, white pubescent; calyx tubular, 4-6 cm long, 1-1.5 cm in diam., yellowish green, apex 5-lobed, lobes triangular, neat or untidy, apex pointed, calyx tube circumscissile and falling off from near the base after anthesis, base of the calyx tube remaining persistent, enlarged in fruit to be discoid, 2.5-3 cm in diam. Corolla tube funnelform, 14-20 cm long, 5-7 cm in diameter at the limb, tapering in diameter in the lower part, expanding upward into a couch, white, 5-angled, 5-lobed, lobes 5, lobes 5, triangular, apex long pointed; stamens 5, borne in the corolla tube, anthers linear, flattened, inserted at the base; pistil 1, ovary bead-shaped, 2-loculed, sparsely short spiny hairs, ovules numerous, styles filiform, 11-16 cm long, stigma shield-shaped. Stigma peltate. Capsule globose or compressed globose, about 3cm in diameter, sparsely covered with short spines, pale brown when ripe, irregularly 4-valved. Seeds numerous, flattened, slightly triangular, brown when ripe. Flowering period March-November, fruiting period April-November.
Annual herb, 1-2 m tall, with a bad odor, white fine glandular hairs and pubescent throughout. Stem stout, erect, terete, basally woody, distally much forked-branched, gray-green. Leaves alternate or subopposite; leaf blade broadly ovate, 8-20 cm long, 5-12 cm wide, apex acute, base obliquely cordate, entire or sinuolate, abaxial leaf veins elevated. Flowers large, erect or obliquely ascending, 15-20cm long, 7-8cm in diameter, corolla white or lilac, 5-angled; calyx tube 5-angled, apex 5-lobed, breaking off from near the base after flowering, the persistent part ellipsoidal and enlarged and reflexed outward. Capsule borne on pendulous fruiting pedicel, suborbicular, densely covered with pliable needlelike spines and densely pubescent, apex irregularly split when ripe. Seeds numerous, reniform, pale brown or yellowish brown. Flowering period May-September, fruiting period June-October.
Traits
Trait Identification (1) White mandrake leaves Leaves more wrinkled and curled, gray-green or gray-brown, the intact ones are ovate or broadly ovate when flattened, 8-20cm long, 6-14cm wide, the apex acuminate, the base is slightly rounded or nearly truncate, not shifted, the whole or each side with 3-4 shallow sawtooth, the base is slightly rounded or nearly truncated, asymmetric, whole or each side with 3-4 shallow serrations, lateral veins 6-4 shallow serrations, the whole or each side with 3-4 shallow serrations. Asymmetric, entire or with 3-4 shallow serrations on each side, lateral veins 4-6 pairs, at an angle of about 45° away from the midvein to near the margin and curved upward, the midvein and lateral veins protruding below; petiole subterete, 2-3 cm long, with shallow grooves in the upper center. Gas slightly sour odor, taste bitter.
(2) Hairy Mandragora leaves Leaves broadly ovate, 6-28cm long, 4-24cm wide, apex acuminate, base rounded or truncate or cuneate, less broadly cuneate, conspicuously asymmetric, rarely symmetric, entire or irregularly pinnately lobed, lobes triangular, ciliate, sparsely white-pilose above, denser on the veins, densely white-pilose below, dense with white-pilose, densely keeled on the veins, with 7-10 pairs of lateral veins at a 60° -80° angle away from the midvein straight to the apex of the lobes, the midvein and lateral veins protruding below; petiole subterete, 2-16cm long, purplish, densely white pilose. It has a slight odor and bitter taste.
Microscopic identification Powder Characteristics: (1) White mandrake leaves light green or yellowish green. Calcium oxalate cluster crystals numerous, diameter 14-28μm; sand crystals less; small prismatic crystals rare. ② epidermal cells perpendicular wall microwave-like curved, stomata unequal, lower epidermal stomata often deflated, as its characteristic. (iii) Multicellular nonglandular hairs are rare, often broken, with warty walls. ④Glandular hairs are rare, glandular heads multicellular, stipe unicellular. ⑤ Stipe of leaf broken in fragments, with unequal faceted configuration, fenestrated cells in 1 column.
(2) Hairy mandrake leaves Brownish green. (1) Calcium oxalate cluster crystals mostly, diameter to more than 28μm. ② epidermal cells pericyclic wall more or less curved, stomata unequal. ③ Multicellular nonglandular hairs have obvious warty protrusions except for the basal cells. ④There are two kinds of glandular hairs: those with unicellular glandular head and 2-4 cells of stalk are numerous; those with 3-4 cells of glandular head and unicellular stalk are less common. ⑤ Transverse fragments of the lobe are seen as clusters of crystals present in the spongy tissue adjacent to the fenestrated tissue.
Chemical composition
1.White mandrake Leaves contain hyoscyamine, scopolamine, hyoscine[1,2], datumetine, atropine[3], datumetelin. datumetelin) [4], leukomandelin C, D, E, F, G [5], leukomandelin (datumelin), [6], daturilie (daturilie) [7, 8], daturilinol (daturilinol) [9], weicha-white mandarine (withametelin) [10], weicha-white mandarine withametelin) [10], withametelin B [11], C, D, E [12], secowithametelin [13], 12-deoxywithastramonolide, physalindicanol A [11] and N-(p-hydroxyphenethyl)-p-hydroxypeglumine [14]. -hydroxypegfamide [N-(p-hydroxyphenyle-thyl)p-hydroxycinnamamide] [12].
The whole herb contains leucomandelin A and B [14].
2. Hairy mandarins Leaves contain scopolamine, scopoletin, drospine (meteloi-dine) and flavonoids: quercetin-7-glucose-3-sophoroside (quercetin-7-glu-cosideo-3-sophoroside), quercetin-7-glucose-3-glucose galactoside (quercitin-7-glucose-3-glucose), quercetin-7-glucose-3-glucose galactoside (quercetin-7-glucose-3-glucose galactoside), quercetin-7-glucose-3-glucose galactoside (quercetin-7-glucose-3-glucose galactoside) [12]. quercitin-7-glucoside-3-glucogalactoside) and its caffeic acid, p-coumarate. Kaempferol-7-glucosi-do-3-glucogalactoside[15] and its caffeic acid ester. It also contains tyramine, apoatropine, aposcopolamine [16].
The leaves of the same plant contain levoscyamine (hyoscyamine), levoscyamine (seopolamine), levoscopolamine (hyoscine), racemic tropic acid (troic acid) [1], cuscohy-grine [18], mandrake sterolide (naturalactone) [19]. (naturalactone), vitas-mandelic acid (vitsa-grine)[18,mandelic acid (naturalactone), vitas-mandelic acid (vitas-tramonolide)[19], kaempferol (kaempferol), and the salicinone constituents: quercetin ( quercetin, kaempferol, chrysin, naringenin, licorice glycoside, liquiritigemin [20]. The whole herb contains tensinamine, tensinine or scopoletin, atropine, tropine, tigloiline, 3α,6β-ditigloyloxytro-pane, 3α,6β-dicarbamoyloxyscopolan-7-β-ol, 3α,6β-ditigloyloxytro-pane, 3α,6β-ditigloyloxytro-pane, 3α,6β-ditigloyloxytro-pane, 3α,6β-ditigloyloxytro-pane, 3α,6β-ditigloyloxytro-pane, 3α,6β-ditigloyloxytro-pane. ditigloyloxytro-pane-7-β-ol) [21]. It also contains apohyoscine, α-bellabonnine, β-belladonnine, 2,6-dihydroxytopane, skimmianine, atropine, noratropine, and noratropine[21]. （Atropine, noratropine, norhyoscyamine[23] and hyoscine N-oxide[24].
Taste and odor: bitter; pungent; warm; poisonous
Functions: Suppressing cough and asthma; relieving pain and extracting pus. Cough; paralysis; foot fungus; prolapse of anus; carbuncle sores
Use and dosage Internal use: decoction, 0.3-0.6g; or soaked in wine. External use: appropriate amount, decoction of water to wash; or pounded juice to apply.
Accessory prescription ① Treatment of asthma: a few leaves of Mandragora, and smoke in a single, inhaling its smoke. ("Modern Practical Chinese Medicine") ② treatment of intractable ulcers: Mandragora fresh leaves, with a silver needle, dense prick fine holes, and then used in water or rice soup, and then paste the affected area, change twice a day. ("Fujian Folk Herbal Medicine" ③ external treatment of itchy skin blisters: fresh leaves of mandarins in appropriate quantities, mashed juice wipe the affected area. ("South Fujian folk herbal medicine")
Discussions
1. "Modern Practical Chinese Medicine": the leaves of the infusion, spasmodic cough, wheezing, chronic bronchial branching cough effective.
2. New Edition of Traditional Chinese Medicines: It is effective in treating hernia pain, hyperacidity, liver pain, bulging intestines, nocturnal sweating of lung germanium, and dysmenorrhea in women.
3. "Compilation of Commonly Used Folk Herbs": decoction and wash, treatment of phoenix, cold and dampness, foot fungus, prolapse of the anus. Analgesic.
Clinical application for the treatment of chronic bronchitis. Mandragora leaves on the fistula hole has the effect of sucking pus and stimulate the growth of granulation. Method to take the mandala leaves with cold boiled water, wash, in the leaf with a needle drilled into most of the small holes, set the leaf in a sterilized bowl, with boiled rice soup brewed and prepared for the corner. Sterilize the wound according to surgical routine, according to the fistula situation stick on the above treatment of mandala leaves, if you require more suction pus, take the back of the leaf (i.e., vein protrusion surface) to contact with the wound; require more growth of granulation, take the front of the leaf (i.e., meticulous surface) to contact with the wound, and then cover with gauze, change the medication 1-2 times a day, try on 7 cases of chronic osteomyelitis combined with fistula, the duration of the disease is short for half a month, the longest for 14 years, most of the patients who have used bone scratching. The shortest duration of the disease was half a month, the longest was 14 years, and most of them had been ineffectively treated with bone scratching and antimicrobials. With this method of treatment results, 4 cases cured, 3 cases significantly effective, the shortest course of 7 days.
Originally from Lu Chuan Ben Cao (陆川本草)
拼音名Màn Tuó Luó Gēn
英文名Datura Root
Originality
Medicinal origin: the root of white mandarins or hairy mandarins of the family Solanaceae.
Latin Botanical and Animal Mineral Name: Datura innoxia Mill.
Harvesting and Storage: Dug up in summer and fall, washed, fresh or dried.
Original form
An annual herb, 30-100cm tall, nearly glabrous throughout. The stem is erect, cylindrical, woody at the base, forked and branched at the upper part, green, with irregular wrinkles on the surface, and the young branches are 4-angled, purplish and pubescent. Leaves alternate, upper leaves subopposite; petiole 2-5cm long; leaf blade broadly ovate, long ovate or heart-shaped, 5-20cm long, 4-15cm wide, apex acuminate or acute, base asymmetric, margins irregularly short-dentate, or entire and undulate, both surfaces glabrous or sparsely short hairy, abaxial veins of the leaf elevated. Flowers solitary among branch forks or in leaf axils; pedicel ca. 1 cm, erect or obliquely extended, white pubescent; calyx tubular, 4-6 cm long, 1-1.5 cm in diam., yellowish green, apex 5-lobed, lobes triangular, neat or untidy, apex pointed, calyx tube circumscissile and falling off from near the base after anthesis, base of the calyx tube remaining persistent, enlarged in fruit to be discoid, 2.5-3 cm in diam. Corolla tube funnelform, 14-20 cm long, 5-7 cm in diameter at the limb, tapering in diameter in the lower part, expanding upward into a couch, white, 5-angled, 5-lobed, lobes 5, lobes 5, triangular, apex long pointed; stamens 5, borne in the corolla tube, anthers linear, flattened, inserted at the base; pistil 1, ovary bead-shaped, 2-loculed, sparsely short spiny hairs, ovules numerous, styles filiform, 11-16 cm long, stigma shield-shaped. Stigma peltate. Capsule globose or compressed globose, about 3cm in diameter, sparsely covered with short spines, pale brown when ripe, irregularly 4-valved. Seeds numerous, flattened, slightly triangular, brown when ripe. Flowering period March-November, fruiting period April-November.
Annual herb, 1-2 m tall, with a bad odor, white fine glandular hairs and pubescent throughout. Stem stout, erect, terete, basally woody, distally much forked-branched, gray-green. Leaves alternate or subopposite; leaf blade broadly ovate, 8-20 cm long, 5-12 cm wide, apex acute, base obliquely cordate, entire or sinuolate, abaxial leaf veins elevated. Flowers large, erect or obliquely ascending, 15-20cm long, 7-8cm in diameter, corolla white or lilac, 5-angled; calyx tube 5-angled, apex 5-lobed, breaking off from near the base after flowering, the persistent part ellipsoidal and enlarged and reflexed outward. Capsule borne on pendulous fruiting pedicel, suborbicular, densely covered with pliable needlelike spines and densely pubescent, apex irregularly split when ripe. Seeds numerous, reniform, pale brown or yellowish brown. Flowering period May-September, fruiting period June-October.
Chemical constituents
1.White mandrake Root contains total alkaloids 0.35%[1], 0.37%[2], including hyoscine, hyoscyamine, tropine, pseudotropine, etc.[3].
2. Hairy mandrake Roots contain 0.15%-0.48% of total alkaloids[4], up to 0.541%. Alkaloids are mainly tensinamine [5], the rest are tensinine (16% of the total alkaloids) [4], levulinic 3α,6β-dicarbamoyloxytropane (3α,6β-dit-igloyloxytropane) [6,7], dolmenine (meteloidine), 7-hydroxy-3,6-bis-marzanoyl scopoletin (7-hydroxy-3,6-bis-marzanoyl scopoletin) [6], meteloidine, 7-hydroxy-3,6-bis-marzanoyl scopoletin (7-hydroxy-3,6-bis-marzanoyl scopoletin)[6]. hydroxy-3,6-bis(tigloyloxy)tropane), pseudotropine, tropine [7].
Companion ① Omandanus root contains alkaloids 0.214% [8], 0.15% [9], 0.19%-0.26% in the wild [10]; alkaloids such as tensinamine, tensinine, cuscohygrine, 7-hydroxy-3,6-bis(tigloyloxy)scopoletin [11], atropine, etc. [12]. ), etc [12]. In the later stages of plant growth, the roots contain atropine esterase (at-ropine esterase), which catalyzes the change of atropine to tropine and tropic acid [13]. (ii) Violet mandrake root contains the least amount of total alkaloids [13]. It also contains esterase enzyme that hydrolyzes alkaloids [14].
Taste and odor taste pungent; bitter; warm; poisonous
Functions and Indications Suppressing cough; relieving pain; pulling out pus. Cough; rheumatic paralysis; boils, ringworm; sores; rabid dog bite
Use and dosage Internal: decoction, 0.9-1.5 g. External: appropriate amount, decoction, fumigation; or grinding and mixing coating.
Accompanying prescription ① psoriasis: peeling the root bark of Mandragora, drying, research, add vinegar and alum to rub the affected area. ("Guangxi Chinese medicine") ② treatment of palm broken itch flow yellow water: mandarins fresh root three money, three money andrographis paniculata, alum three money. Appropriate amount of water, decoction several boiling take up. Make the patient at a suitable temperature when the affected area immersed in the water, the longer the better, day for one or two. ("Minnan folk herbal medicine") ③ treatment of musculoskeletal pain: mandarins dry root one or two, soaked in wine half a catty. Drink the wine after ten days, one or two times a day, not more than one cent each time. ("The main poisonous plants in the south")
Discussions of various schools
1. "Guangzhou Botanical Records": treatment of mad dog bite.
2. Lu Chuan Materia Medica: treating malignant sores.
Excerpts from the Chinese Materia Medica