gorgon fruit

Chinese name (compendium)

[category] seed

[synonyms] egg Ling (Guanzi), chicken paralysis (Zhuangzi), chicken head and wild goose beak (Benjing), chicken head, wild goose head and Aconitum (dialect), Chenzi (Tao Hongjing), Hongtou (Han Yu), shuishuihuang (Dongpo Zaji), shuijitou (experience prescription), Zhaoshi, cilianou (Guangxi Traditional Chinese veterinary medicine plant), daoqianshi, jitouguo, Suhuang, Huangshi (Jiangsu medicine record) In this paper, the author introduces the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).

[source] it is the mature seed kernel of Euryale ferox.

[plant morphology] Qian (Zhou Li), also known as Yu (dialect), Zhi (Cui Bao's ancient and modern notes).

Annual aquatic herb with white fibrous roots and inconspicuous stems. The primary leaves are submerged and arrow shaped; the secondary leaves are floating on the water surface with long petioles and hollow cylinders. There are many spines on the surface. The leaves are oval kidney shaped or round shield shaped, 65-130 cm in diameter. The surface is dark green, with wax quilt and many protuberances. The veins have sharp spines at divergent points. The back is dark purple, and the veins are protuberant and fluffy. Flowers solitary; pedicel thick and long, spiny, protruding from the water; sepals 4, erect, lanceolate, fleshy, green outside, spiny inside, purple inside; petals numerous, arranged in 3 rounds, purple inside; stamens numerous; ovary semi inferior, 8-locular, stylar, stigma red. Berry globose, spongy, purplish red, prickly, with persistent sepals. Seeds globose, black, hard, with aril. The flowering period is from June to September. The fruit period is from July to October.

Born in lakes. It is distributed in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Taiwan, Guangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guangdong, Yunnan and Guizhou.

The root (Euryale ferox root), flower stem (Euryale ferox stem) and leaf (Euryale ferox leaf) of this plant are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] when the seeds mature from September to October, cut the fruits, smash the peel, take out the seeds, remove the hard shell and dry them in the sun.

[medicinal material] the dried seeds are spherical in shape, about 6 mm in diameter. One end is white, accounting for about 1 / 3 of the whole, with round depression, the other end is brown red, accounting for about 2 / 3 of the whole. The surface is smooth and patterned. It is hard and brittle. After breaking, it has uneven section, white color and powdery. Odorless, light taste. It is better to have full and uniform granules, enough powder, no crumbs and shell.

It is mainly produced in Jiangsu, Hunan, Hubei and Shandong. In addition, it is also produced in Fujian, Hebei, Henan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Sichuan.

[chemical composition] the seeds contain a lot of starch. Every 100 g contains 4.4 G protein, 0.2 g fat, 32 g carbohydrates, 0.4 g crude fiber, 0.5 g ash, 9 mg calcium, 110 mg phosphorus, 0.4 mg iron, 0.40 mg thiamine, 0.08 mg riboflavin, 2.5 mg nicotinic acid, 6 mg ascorbic acid and trace carotene.

[processing] stir fry Euryale ferox seeds: stir fry the bran in the pot until the smoke rises, then pour in the net Euryale ferox seeds, stir fry until yellowish, take out, sieve the bran, and let cool.

Meng Shen: "you can use (Euryale ferox seeds), steam them, crack them in the hot sun, or pound them with flour. "

[flavor] sweet and astringent, flat.

① Ben Jing: "it tastes sweet and flat."

② Bielu: "non toxic. "

③ "Gangmu": "sweet, flat, astringent, non-toxic. "

④ "Medicine Huayi": "sweet taste, dry and warm nature, fresh and cool. "

[Guijing] into the spleen and kidney.

① "Lei Gong's treatment of medicinal properties": it enters the heart, kidney, spleen and stomach four meridians. "

② "Medicine Huayi": entering the spleen, stomach and liver. "

Functions and indications: strengthening kidney and astringent essence, tonifying spleen and stopping discharge. Treatment of spermatorrhea, drenching, bring down, can't help urinating, diarrhea.

(1) Jianpi Zhixie: it is used for diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, and is often combined with.

(2) Astringent essence tourniquet: used for spermatorrhea, excessive leucorrhea, frequent urination or urinary incontinence, often with.

① "Ben Jing" says: "it can control the dampness, block the pain of waist, spine and knee, tonify the middle, eliminate the violent diseases, benefit the essence and Qi, strengthen the will, and make the ears and eyes smart. "

② Rihuazi materia medica: "appetizer helps Qi. "

③ Compendium: "quench thirst and benefit kidney. Treatment of urination can not help, spermatorrhea, white turbidity, with the next. "

④ Materia Medica from the new: invigorate the spleen and kidney, help Qi astringent essence. It is used to treat the symptoms of dreamy spermatorrhea, relieve heat and alcohol poison, treat turbid diarrhea and urinate. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 3-5 yuan; or into pills, powder.

[taboo] "diet with rest": before and after exogenous infection, malaria, dysentery, malnutrition, hemorrhoids, qi stagnation, constipation, food not moving and new postpartum should be avoided. "

[formula selection] ① Zhimeng essence: chicken head minced meat, lotus flower minced pistil, (bieyan) and meat (baked). The last piece of boiled yam paste is a pill, as big as a chicken head. Take one pill for each, warm wine and salt soup, hollow. (jade lock pill in Yang's family collection)

② It can't help but cure the essence and smoothness: Shayuan (stir fried), Euryale ferox (steamed), lotus whiskers, keel (crispy fried), oysters (boiled in brine for one day and one night, calcined powder) each one or two. Total for the end, lotus seed powder paste for the ball, salt soup. (Jinsuo Gujing pill in Yifang Jijie)

③ Treatment of turbid disease: Euryale ferox seed powder, white powder. Yellow wax into honey and pill, big seed. Take 100 pills and salt soup. (qiyuanfang fenqing pill)

④ Treatment of spleen and kidney deficiency heat and chronic dysentery: Euryale ferox seed, yam, Poria cocos, Atractylodes macrocephala, lotus meat, < U > < / u > each four Liang, one or two. All fried dry for the end, white soup tune service. (Fang Mai Zheng Zong)

⑤ Frequency of urination and spermatorrhea. With, white Poria cocos, Euryale ferox seed, lotus seed each two, altogether grinds for the end. Add steamed jujube into a ball, as big as Wuzi. Each take 30 pills, hollow service, salt soup sent down. This prescription is called "Si Jing Wan".

⑥ It's cloudy. Use euryale seed powder and white Poria cocos powder. Turn yellow wax and honey into balls. As big as Wuzi. Take 100 pills and salt soup. This Fang Dian "fen qing Wan".

The above is the detailed explanation of Euryale ferox. I believe you must know something about Euryale ferox.

Chinese PinYin : Qian Shi