Effects and functions of Milk Tree
Origin from "Lingnan Caiyao Record"
Pinyin Name Ni? Nǎi Sh?
Alias Milk Mamou, Milk Nim, Pork Mother Tea, Pig's Milk Tree, Cow's Milk Medicine, Big Milk, Duo Nuosu, Nim Shui Donggua, Iron Cow into the Stone, Milk Male Tree
Origin
Medicinal Herbal Source: The roots, barks, barks of Bupleurum f. f., are of Moraceae family. The roots, bark or stems and leaves of Ficus benjamina, family Moraceae.
Latin plant animal mineral name: Ficus hisPida L?f?
Harvesting and storage: can be harvested throughout the year. Roots washed and dried, skin removed from the outer skin, take two layers of skin; leaves brushed to remove the hairs with.
Taste sweet; slightly bitter; cool
Functions and Indications wind relief; eliminate accumulation of phlegm; strengthen the spleen to remove dampness; qi dispersal stasis. Mainly used in treating colds and fever; conjunctivitis; bronchitis; dyspepsia; dysentery; deficiency of the spleen; lactation; bruises; rheumatism and paralysis
Usage and dosage for internal use: decoction of 15-30 g. For external use: appropriate amount, pounding or decoction of water to wash.
The treatments
1. Lingnan Caiyaozhu (Record of medicinal herbs of Lingnan): treating armpit sores by pounding the seeds and leaves.
2. Color Atlas of Commonly Used Chinese Herbs: Clearing away heat and dampness, eliminating phlegm, promoting circulation of Qi and dispersing blood stasis. It is used for treating cold, fever, cough, bronchitis, rheumatic arthritis, conjunctivitis, dyspepsia, dysentery, bruises, swelling and pain, and pain in gas knot.
3. Guangzhou Air Force "Handbook of Commonly Used Chinese Herbs": treatment of spotted fever.
Excerpts from "Chinese Materia Medica"
Milk Tree Introduction
Alias
Milk numbness, milk ripple, pig mother tea, pig milk tree, cow milk medicine, big milk, more glutinous tree, ripple water winter melon, iron cow into the stone, milk male tree.
Medicinal Part
Roots, bark or stems and leaves.
Taste and odor
Sweet, slightly bitter, cool in nature.
Meridian
Attributes to the spleen, lung and large intestine meridians.
Effects
Dispersing wind and clearing heat, eliminating phlegm, strengthening the spleen and removing dampness, promoting circulation of Qi and dispersing blood stasis.
Indications
It is used in treating colds and fever, conjunctivitis, bronchitis, dyspepsia, dysentery, deficiency of the spleen, lactation, bruises, swelling and pain, rheumatism and paralysis.
Related compatibility
1, the treatment of armpit sores: pounded milk tree leaves. (Lingnan medicine book)
2, treatment of fatigue and tiredness: Ficus benjamina root or stem 30-60g, cuttlefish root 1 (without bones). Decoction until the cuttlefish is cooked, and then add yellow wine to take. (Fujian Drug Journal)
Dosage
Internal use: decoction, 15-30g. external use: appropriate amount, pounded compress or decoction wash.
Note on Use
Guangxi Ethnic Medicine Compendium: ? Used for lack of milk, avoid eating radish, acid and other foods.
Gathering and processing
It can be harvested all year round, fresh or dried.
Morphological features
Shrubs or small trees, 3-5 m high. whole plant with milky sap; young branches are bristly, hollow. Single leaves usually opposite; petiole 1-4.5cm long, covered with short coarse hairs; stipules 2, broad lanceolate, about 1.5cm long, on leafless and ficus fruiting branches, often 4 in a ring, early fall; leaf blade leathery or papery, ovate-oblong elliptic or obovate-oblong, 6-20cm long, 4-12cm wide, apex mucronate or caudate-acuminate, base rounded or cuneate, entire or irregularly serrulate, both surfaces Short setose, denser below. Inflorescences cryptogamous, with receptacles (ficus) inserted in pairs in leaf axils or clustered on trunks and leafless branches, obovate, turbinate-shaped, nearly pear-shaped, yellow when mature, 1.3-3cm in diam. Perianth conspicuous, style subterminal; female flowers without perianth, style lateral, hairy. Achenes ovoid. Achenes ovate.
Habitat
It grows in open fields, valleys, and sparse forests at low elevations, or in moist places along water banks. It is distributed in South China, Guizhou and Yunnan.
Related articles
1. Guangdong Traditional Chinese Medicine: ? Clearing heat and removing heat stagnation. Treating stagnation, cold and flu, cough.
2. National Compendium of Chinese Herbal Medicine: ? Clearing heat and removing dampness, eliminating stagnation and resolving phlegm. Mainly treats colds, bronchitis, dyspepsia, dysentery, rheumatoid arthritis.
3, "Guangxi ethnic medicine compendium":? Root decoction to treat leucorrhea, leucorrhoea, lactation, weakness after illness; and pig lungs boiled to treat postpartum milkless; bark decoction to treat dysentery; leaves and hot wine to treat leucorrhoea, leucorrhoea.