Pinyin name Yě Yu Ye

English name Leaf of Taro

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The source of medicinal materials: leaves of Araceae wild taro.

Latin plant and animal mineral name: Colocasia antiquorum Schott

Harvest and storage: spring and summer harvest, rarely used or dried.

Wild taro in original form, wet herb. Tubers are spherical with many fibrous roots; Stolons often extend from the outside of the tuber base, long or short, with small bulbs. Basal leaves, thick petiole, erect, up to1.2m long; Leaf blade peltate, ovoid, thin leathery, slightly shiny surface, more than 50cm long, sharp apex, ear-shaped base, 2-lobed, front lobe broadly ovoid, acute, rear lobe ovoid, obtuse, entire and undulate. Inflorescence stalk is shorter than petiole; The spathe is pale yellow, with a length of 15-25cm, and the tube is light green and oblong, which is1/2-1/5; The eaves are long and narrow, linear and lanceolate, and the apex is tapering; Spike is shorter than spathe; The female inflorescence is as long as the sterile male inflorescence; Fertile male inflorescence and adnexa are each 4-8 cm long; Ovary with extremely short style. Flowering in August.

Habitat distribution

Ecological environment: Born in shady and humid places under the forest.

Resource distribution: China is distributed in the south of the Yangtze River Basin. Also cultivated.

Pungent in nature; Cold nature; poisonous

Meridian meridian and lung meridian

Function indication: clearing away heat and toxic materials; Reduce swelling and relieve pain. Mainly treat sores and swelling; Snakes and insects bite.

Usage and dosage for external use: appropriate amount, tamping.

Note that this product is toxic and should not be taken orally.

Attached prescription 1 Finger therapy: appropriate amount of fresh wild taro leaves, a little alum, add pig bile as appropriate, and mash it like mud and apply it to the affected area. 2. Treatment of nameless swelling and poisoning begins: fresh wild taro leaves are applied to the affected area. Those who have not developed pus can make them disappear internally. 3 treatment of poisonous snake bites: fresh wild taro leaves and fermented grains pound the wound. 4. Treatment of poison bee sting: fresh wild taro is smeared on the affected area. Selected Prescriptions (Jiangxi Folk Herbal Prescriptions)

Various schools discuss "Compendium": when the poison swelling begins, it will disappear. Also treat bee stings and apply them.

Excerpt from Chinese materia medica