Speaking of a Chinese patent medicine, I don't think many people have heard of it, but in some northern and southern areas, especially in mountainous areas, everyone must have seen wild bananas or fried in August. This is a kind of melon and fruit, called Zhikouzi, which can be soaked in water at ordinary times and is also helpful for many diseases. It can promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, relieve constipation and diuresis, and has good insecticidal effect.

Plant morphology: deciduous or semi-evergreen rattan. Palmately compound leaves alternate, with 5 leaflets, obovate or long obovate, 3 ~ 6 cm long, round, slightly concave or mucronate at the apex, entire. Flowers unisexual, racemes axillary; Female flowers are born in the upper part of inflorescence, perianth segments 3, lavender, stamens 6, female flowers are born in the lower part of inflorescence, perianth 3, staminodes 6, pistil 6. The fruit is fleshy, oblong and round at both ends, and cracks along the abdominal seam when it matures. The flowering period is April-May, and the fruiting period is August.

Efficacy and function of precocious children

Soothing the liver and regulating qi, promoting blood circulation and relieving pain, diuresis and killing insects. Used for epigastric pain, amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, dysuria and snake bite.

Usage and dosage of precooker

Oral administration: decoct ointment or take pills. External use: grinding and dressing.

Taboo attention of the precognitor

Materia Medica: "Anyone who has diarrhea due to spleen deficiency should take it urgently."

Predictor's choice

1. Treat abdominal moth-eaten caused by strong wind, causing skin sores, voice changes and drooping eyebrows and temples: Zhizi 22 (mashed), Realgar 22 (ground) and Frankincense 32 (ground). First, put a barrel of frankincense powder into water, put it in a silver pot and fry it to five liters with slow fire, add August Zagreb and Realgar, simmer it to a paste, and put it into porcelain. Mix a teaspoon of warm wine in the hollow every day, and then bugs like horses will follow the stool. ("Sheng Huifang" fried with frankincense).

2. To treat heart deficiency, weak will, mental trance, language errors, anxiety, sadness, emotional fear, forgetfulness, lack of sleep, dreaminess at night, insomnia, which is shocking, or madness, I don't know people, and I should take: Lycium barbarum (clean), Poria cocos (peeled) and Polygonatum sibiricum (steamed). More than a dozen flavors, mashed into fine powder, refined into honey pills, as big as longan seeds, wrapped in cinnabar. Take one pill at a time, chew it up and take the soup, regardless of time. ("Fang Ju" advance knowledge pill).