Shihua

Shihua

(Cao Mu Bian Fang)

[synonyms] shitaihua (herbal formula), Ruhua (manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in the North), lichen (Jilin Chinese herbal medicine), daolik (Mongolian name).

[source] it is the whole family of Physalis.

[plant morphology] Physalis quinquefolia

Leaf lichen, surface grayish green to grayish brown, smooth, back dark brown; all of them are deeply divided radially, lobes 1-3 mm wide, apex and margin 2 forked or irregularly divergent; most of the fruit organs are scattered, dish shaped, 1-4 mm in diameter; the ascospores are brown; the ascospores are oval, stick shaped, endophytic with 8 five colored ascospores; the spores are oval, 10-16 x 5-7 μ m long. The pollen apparatus is buried in the lichen body. It is needle shaped and 5-7x1 μ m long.

It was born on a rock. It is distributed in most parts of the country.

In addition, there are also cowhide leaves of the family calycidae, which are leaf-shaped, all of them are irregular oval, 20 cm long, with brown surface, concave convex network, reddish brown fruit organs, and black punctate male organs. On rocks or trees in the mountains. It is also used as medicine.

[collection] it can be collected all year round. It can be removed from the stone and dried in the sun.

[chemical constituents] physalic acid was found in Physalis praecox. Its variety contains black tea stain, usnic acid and a large amount of Shihua acid. Cowhide leaves contain Tricholoma acid and so on.

[pharmacological action] black tea extract is toxic to fish. The acidic components of cowhide leaves are bitter and have strong astringency.

Sweet and cold.

① "Shanxi Traditional Chinese medicine annals": "slightly sweet, non-toxic. "

② Chongqing herbal medicine: "bitter taste, cold nature, non-toxic. "

Functions and indications: nourishing blood, improving eyesight, tonifying kidney, diuresis, clearing heat, detoxification. It is used to treat blurred vision, hematemesis, blood avalanche, waist and knee pain, hot urination pain, turbidity, leucorrhea, and fire injury caused by soup.

① "Cao Mu Bian Fang" can improve eyesight, benefit essence, resolve phlegm, relieve heat and toxin, generate fluid and quench thirst. Moisten throat, apply frostbite, soup fire injury. "

② Shanxi Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "clear diaphragm heat, benefit urination, remove phlegm and gall, invigorate blood and eyesight, benefit spirit and increase marrow. "

③ Chongqing herbal medicine: "treating knife wounds. "

④ "Shandong Chinese herbal medicine manual": "tonifying the kidney, strengthening the muscles and bones. "

⑤ Manual of commonly used Chinese herbal medicine in North China: "nourishing blood, improving eyesight, benefiting essence, strengthening muscles and bones, and dissolving accumulation. For blurred vision, lumbocrural pain, abdominal mass, hepatitis. "

⑥ "Jilin Chinese herbal medicine": "Buzhong Yiqi, Qushi diuretic, Qingre Huatan. Treatment of bladder damp heat, jaundice, golden sores, waist and leg cold, blood collapse. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 2-3 yuan, grind powder or soak wine. External use: grind and apply.

[selected prescriptions] ① for hematemesis and red collapse: Shihua, heichahua and Yanshanhong. Grind it into fine powder, mix it with boiling water or boiling water. Three dollars at a time.

② Treatment of men's urination pain, turn into white: stone powder three money. Fry in boiling water and take the dregs.

③ Treatment of women's urination pain, turn into leucorrhea: stone flower powder three money, fried water, mixed rice drink soup Chong egg flower clothing. (1) Chongqing herbal medicine

④ Treatment of kidney deficiency waist and knee cold pain: Shihua three money, Buguzhi four money, Eucommia five money, Achyranthes bidentata four money, medlar four money. Take it in water. (Shandong Handbook of Chinese herbal medicine)

⑤ Treatment of kidney deficiency toothache: stone five money, pork four Liang. Cook together. (Shandong Handbook of Chinese herbal medicine)

Cure rheumatism lumbago: Stone Flower 42, Baijiu two Jin. After seven days, drink two cups a night. (Jilin Chinese herbal medicine)

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