Morphological characteristics of Fructus Cnidii is an annual herb with a height of 30 ~ 80 cm. The stem is erect, branched, with longitudinal grooves on the surface and sparsely villous. Leaves alternate, with 2 ~ 3 pinna splitting, and finally the lobes are linear-lanceolate, and the apex is sharp; Basal leaves have a long stalk, and the base of the stalk expands into a sheath. Compound umbel terminal or axillary; Involucral bracts 8 ~10, linear; The flowers are white, the style base is short and conical, and the style is slender and reflexed. Saussurea involucrata is wide and oval, with winged fruit edges. The flowering period is from April to July, and the fruit period is from June to August.
Administration and dosage of Fructus Cnidii: decoction, 3-9g; Or in pill or powder. External use: appropriate amount, decoction and fumigation; Or made into medicated seat or suppository; Or finely ground and applied.
Precautions of Fructus Cnidii: Those with damp heat in the lower energizer, or deficiency of kidney yin, easy movement of fire and unstable essence should not take it.
① Notes on Materia Medica: evil peony, croton and Fritillaria.
2 "Herbal Classics": Do not take it if there is fire in the kidney and heat in the lower part.
3 "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": Kidney fire is easy to move, and those who are strong in yang and weak in essence should not take it.
Efficacy and function of Fructus Cnidii: Warming kidney and strengthening yang; Eliminating dampness and killing insects; Dispel wind and relieve itching. The main man is impotent; Scrotum is wet and itchy; Female infertility due to palace cold; Cold and wet belt; Yin itching and swelling; Rheumatalgia; Wet sores and scabies. Used for impotence, cold uterus, leukorrhagia due to cold and dampness, and lumbago due to dampness; External treatment of vulvar eczema, women pruritus; Trichomonal vaginitis
① Classic: The housewife suffers from swelling and pain in the yin, while the man suffers from impotence and wet itching, which can relieve arthralgia, benefit joints, epilepsy and malignant trauma.
② Bielu: Warming the middle and lowering the qi makes women dirty and hot, men strong in yin, good in color, and people have children.
③ Theory of Medicinal Properties: Treating male and female asthenia, damp arthralgia, toxic wind, intractable pain, and removing male low back pain. Bathing men in the shade, getting rid of the wind and cooling, is a great thing for Yiyang. The main wind is itchy, and the soup bath is awkward. Treat toothache and infantile epilepsy.
④ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": Treating sudden cold, warming husband's yang, helping women's yin, relieving blood stasis, waist and hip pain, yin, sweat, tinea, stubborn limbs, red and white discharge, and reducing defecation. ?
⑤ "Essential Herbs": Apply sores to relieve itching, and wash the wounds.
⑥ "Changsha Yaoxie": blowing ears.
The auxiliary prescription of Fructus Cnidii: Semen Cuscutae, Fructus Cnidii and Fructus Schisandrae Chinensis are equally divided. On the three flavors, at the end, honeyed pills are like wuzi. Take 30 pills, three days. (Qian Jin Fang)
② Treatment of leucorrhea due to cold and dampness: Fructus Cnidii 82, Fructus Corni 62, Fructus Schisandrae 42, Semen Plantaginis 32, Rhizoma Cyperi 22 (both stir-fried with vinegar), dried alum 50, and blood deer glue 50. * * * is fine powder, and yam is big enough to paste pills. Every morning, empty clothes cost five yuan, and white soup is served. ("Authentic Fang Mai")
(3) Treating women's yin cold, taking medicine in warm yin: Fructus Cnidii kernel, blindly at the end, with a little white powder, is obtained in harmony, such as jujube, wrapped in cotton, and naturally warm. ("Synopsis of the Golden Chamber" Fructus Cnidii Powder)
(4) Treating women's pruritus: one or two cnidium fruits and two alum. Wash the soup frequently. ("Simple Prescription of Lakeside Collection")
⑤ Treatment of postpartum vaginal prolapse: One liter of Fructus Cnidii, wrapped in cloth and ironed, also treats postpartum pain in the vagina. (Qian Jin Fang)
⑥ Curing women's dirty breasts: one liter of Fructus Cnidii and 27 pieces of preserved plums. Five liters of water, boiling two and a half liters, washing it, ten days later. ("Monk Shen Ji Fang" snake bed washing prescription)
⑦ Treatment of trichomonal vaginitis: one cnidium fruit and five dollars, decoction and vaginal lavage. (Jiangxi Herbal Manual) Two Fructus Cnidii and One Liang, Cortex Phellodendri and San Qian. A suppository (2g in weight) is made of glycerol gelatin, and one suppository is placed in vagina every day. (Selected Materials of New Medical Law of Chinese Herbal Medicine in Inner Mongolia)
⑧ Treatment of men's vaginal swelling pain: Fructus Cnidii powder, chicken applied in Huang Tiao. ("Yong lei zhong Fang")
Pet-name ruby treatment of scrotal eczema: Fructus Cnidii five money, decocted with water to wash the genitals. (Jiangxi Herbal Manual)
Attending treatment of tinea in children: snake bed, mashed, and pig fat. (Qian Jin Fang)
⑾ Treatment of children's malignant sores: three points for greasy powder and one point for Rhizoma Coptidis (removing beard). Three points of fructus cnidii. The medicine is pounded into powder, and each time it is used, the sore is washed with warm salt soup to make it clean, wiped dry and coated with raw oil. ("Shenghuifang")
⑿ Treat children's lip and mouth fat sores, as well as ear sores, head sores and carbuncle sores: one or two pieces of alum (burnt ash) and one or two pieces of Fructus Cnidii. For the end, dry mixed with sores. ("General Micro-discussion Formula for Children's Health")
(13) For eczema, allergic dermatitis, Rhus verniciflua allergy and tinea manus and pedis, appropriate amounts of Fructus Cnidii, Eucalyptus leaves, Melia azedarach bark, Yajiaomu, Radix Sophorae Flavescentis and Kochia scoparia are used to wash the affected area twice a day. (Jiangxi Herbal Manual)
[14] For the treatment of swelling and pain of throat obstruction in winter, it is impossible to prescribe medicine: Fructus Cnidii burns smoke in a bottle, smokes with a bottle mouth in his mouth, and his phlegm comes out spontaneously. ("Shenghuifang")
⒂ Treating women and children is dirty and remote. Cold knot without children: 90g of Fructus Cnidii and 90g of Daphne genkwa. Put 2 flavors on the sieve, take jujube, fill it with sandbags, and leave it in the door. If the bag is short and long, you must go when you go, lie down at will, and be careful of the wind and cold. In the prescription, Fructus Cnidii warms the kidney and strengthens the yang, which is the monarch drug. ("The Secret of Foreign Taiwan" is a prescription)
⒃ Treatment of eczema, allergic dermatitis, Rhus verniciflua allergy, tinea of hands and feet: Fructus Cnidii, Eucalyptus leaves, Melia azedarach bark, Yajiaomu, Radix Sophorae Flavescentis and Kochia scoparia. In the prescription, Fructus Cnidii is the monarch drug for eliminating dampness and killing insects. (Handbook of Jiangxi Herbs)
⒄ Treatment of leucorrhea due to cold and dampness: Fructus Cnidii 240g, Fructus Corni meat 180g, Fructus Schisandrae Chinensis 120g, Semen Plantaginis 90g, Rhizoma Cyperi 60g (all stir-fried with vinegar), Alumen 15g, and blood deer glue (quenched with fire and wine)1. * * * for fine powder, yam paste pills, buttonwood, each serving 15g, early hollow white soup. In the prescription, Fructus Cnidii warms kidney, strengthens yang, dries dampness and kills insects, which is the monarch medicine. ("Authentic Fang Mai")