The purple flowers are the dried grass of Violayedoensis Makino, a plant of the family Corydaceae. Produced in China's lower reaches of the Yangtze River to the southern provinces. Harvested in spring and fall, remove impurities, washed, chopped, fresh or dried raw.
Bitter, pungent, cold. Attributed to the heart and liver meridians.
Effects Clearing heat and removing toxins, cooling blood and subduing swellings.
Applications
1. Boils and swellings, carbuncle and intestinal carbuncle. This product is bitter and pungent, cold can clear heat, into the heart and liver blood, so it can clear heat and detoxification, cool the blood to eliminate swelling, eliminate carbuncle knot, for the treatment of blood heat, carbuncle sores and poison, redness, swelling and heat pain of the commonly used medicines, especially for the treatment of furuncle for its specialty. With the treatment of carbuncles, boils, dengtoxin, etc., can be used alone with the juice of the fresh products pounded internal, to the dregs of the external; can also be used with honeysuckle, dandelion, wild chrysanthemum and other heat detoxification products, such as five flavors disinfectant drink ("Medical Zongjinjian"); with the treatment of carbuncles, often with dandelion, decoction of soup for internal consumption, and with the dregs of the external, or boiled paste paste on the affected area, are effective; with the treatment of intestinal carbuncles, often used in the same way with rhubarb, red vines, and white snake snakeweed.
2. Snake bites. This product can also be detoxified snake venom, the treatment of snake bites, can be freshly pounded juice for internal use, can also be used with a little Xionghuang, pounded and applied externally.
In addition, it can also be used for liver fever, eye redness, swelling and pain, as well as exogenous fever.
Use and dosage: Decoction, 15-30 g. Externally, fresh product in appropriate amount, mashed and applied to the affected area.
Use of attention to the body of cold people should not take.
Abstracts of ancient books
1. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "treating all carbuncles, boils and scrofula, nameless swellings and poison, and evil sores.
2. "Justice of the Materia Medica": "Di Ding is specially used as a general medicine for carbuncles, boils and poisons." "However, the pungent cool swelling, long in the fever, but blood heat congestion, red _ hair outside the ulcer is appropriate, if it is said that the general treatment of yin gangrene hair back cold condensation of the evidence, is not appropriate."
Modern research
1. Chemical composition: this product contains glycosides, flavonoids. The whole herb contains palmitic acid, trans-p-hydroxy cinnamic acid, butanedioic acid, twenty-four phthalate p-hydroxyphenylethylamine, kaempferol-3-O-rhamnopyranoside and wax, wax contains saturated acid, unsaturated acid, alcohols and hydrocarbons.
2. Pharmacological effects: the product has obvious antibacterial effect. It has inhibitory effect on Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Mycobacterium dysenteriae, Staphylococcus aureus, pneumococcus, skin fungi and Leptospira. There is a definite antiviral effect. Experiments have proved that its extract has a direct destructive effect on endotoxin. It also has antipyretic, anti-inflammatory and decongestive effects.
3. Clinical studies: It is reported that Zihuadidin is used with other purgative and detoxifying medicines, decocted with water for the treatment of acute tonsillitis, acute pneumonia, pulmonary heart disease, lung infection, and surgical suppurative inflammation. For example, it is used to treat 36 cases of purulent tenosynovitis with wild chrysanthemum, honeysuckle, soapberry and other medicines, and all of them were cured (Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1998, 4:229).
Other Chinese Pharmacopoeia, 2000 edition, designates the above drug as the genuine product of Zihuadidin herb. The medicinal commodities of this product are more complicated, and there are many products with the same name of different substances. In different regions, there is also the legume GueldenstaedtiamultifloraBunge and millet pocket G. verna (Georgi) Boriss. of the whole grass is also used as purple flowers Ding, also known as sweet Ding. Another poppy plant, CorydalisbungeanaTurcz. is used as bitter dicotyledonin, which does not belong to this category and should be identified.
Efficacy
1, clearing heat and detoxification
Purple flowers, cold, bitter, pungent, bitter main diarrhea, pungent main dispersal, cold can be cleared of heat, into the blood, can play a blood fever, swelling and pain in the effect of the attack on toxicity to dissipate the knot and blood and can also facilitate the dampness and heat to pass the watercourses, for the clearing of heat and cool the blood, detoxification of carbuncle essential medicines.
2, the antidote to snake venom
Purple flowers can clear heat and cool the blood detoxification, hemolytic snake venom also has a very good inhibition effect, with fresh purple flowers of dianzhu pounded juice for internal use, local fresh purple flowers of dianzhu and a small amount of malicolous pounded external compress, can treat snake venom.
3, antibacterial and antiviral
Modern medicine shows that Zihuadidin has an inhibitory effect on bacillus, dysentery bacillus, staphylococcus aureus, pneumococcus, skin fungi, and leptospirosis viruses, and it is often used for clearing up heat, reducing swelling, and anti-inflammatory.
4, anticancer
Purple flowers of the whole herb contains flavonoids, can promote the transformation of healthy human lymphocytes, enhance the body's anti-cancer effect, commonly used in the treatment of gum cancer, breast cancer, esophageal cancer, appendix tumors, gastric cancer, as well as reproductive system cancer.
5, the edible value of Zihua Ding
Zihua Ding contains 29.27g of protein per 100g of dry matter, containing 2.38g of soluble sugar, 33.95mg of amino acids and a variety of vitamins. Each 1g of dry Zihuadidin contains 354.8μg of iron, 30.3μg of manganese, 22.2μg of copper, 55.8μg of zinc, 11.3μg of barium, 87.3μg of strontium, 69.0μg of chromium, 60.0μg of molybdenum, 9.7μg of cobalt, and 3.9μg of calcium, and it is possible to take the seedling or the stem of the Zihuadidin, and blanch it in boiling water, then change the water for soaking for 3-5min to stir-fry, to make soup, to make noodles, or to cook vegetable porridge. Steaming or cooking vegetable porridge can be.