flower of hyacinth dolichos

flower of hyacinth dolichos

(Ben Cao Tu Jing)

[synonym] nandouhua (Guangdong traditional Chinese Medicine II).

[source] lentil, a leguminous plant. See "lentil" for details.

[collection] from July to August, the flowers that were not fully opened were harvested and dried in the sun or in the shade.

The dried flowers are flat and irregular triangular. The lower part has green brown bell shaped calyx, calyx tooth 5, outside is covered with white short hair. Petals 5, wrinkled, yellowish white or yellowish brown, veined. The unopened flower is wrapped by the flag petal, which turns outward after opening. The wing petals are located on both sides, and the keel petals are falcate; the stamens are 10, of which 9 are united at the base; there is a yellowish green columnar pistil inside, which is curved, and the apex can be seen white plush. Soft and light. It is slightly fragrant and tasteless. It is better to have big, white and dry flowers.

It is produced in most parts of the country. It is mainly produced in Zhejiang, Anhui and Henan.

[processing] remove the handle, screen the soil, and pick up the impurities and black flowers.

[nature and taste] 1. Shandong traditional Chinese medicine: sweet in taste. "

② Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it is mild in nature, sweet in taste and non-toxic. "

Functions and indications: invigorate the spleen and stomach, eliminate heat and remove dampness. Treatment of dysentery, diarrhea, red and white belt.

① "The book of Materia Medica" says: "the lady is red and white, dry and dry, rice and kimono. "

② According to the compendium of Medical Sciences, it is said that "baking, researching and taking medicine can cure the collapse belt; making Wonton Food can cure the diarrhea; drinking water can relieve all the drugs and poisons in the traditional Chinese medicine. It's the same as lentils. "

③ "Lingnan medicine collection record" and "Application of falls and injuries, removing blood stasis and generating new, detumescence and dispersing green and black". "

④ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "harmonizing stomach, strengthening spleen, clearing heat and removing dampness. It can cure summer heat, dizziness, dampness stagnation, middle energizer, dysentery, purulent blood, summer mouth diarrhea and leucorrhea. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1.5-3 yuan; or grinding powder. External use: tamping.

[prescription selection] ① treat all diarrhea: for those with white lentil flowers in full bloom, choose not to wash them. Cook them in boiling soup, and mix them with pork fillet, onion, pepper and sauce. Then cook them with bean flower juice and bread. (BI Yong Shi Zhi Fang)

② To cure women's white avalanche: white bean curd (purple ones are not used) is baked at the end, fried rice is boiled, salt is added, hollow clothes are taken. (wonderful recipe)

[clinical application] treatment of bacillary dysentery

Dried white lentil flower 100 grams, made into 100% decoction. The oral dose is 0.5-1 ml per kilogram of body weight, once every 6 hours, 7 days as a course of treatment. 13 cases were observed. After 3-7 days of treatment, 7 cases were cured (clinical symptoms disappeared. Stool culture was negative for two consecutive times), 3 cases were improved (clinical symptoms partially disappeared or relieved), and 3 cases were ineffective. There was no side effect in the course of treatment. According to the experiment, 62.5mg/ml of lentil flower decoction can inhibit the growth of Shigella sonnei and Shigella freundii in vitro.

According to Ben Cao Bian Du, the flower of lentils can also enter the blood to release blood stasis, and the white one can enter the Qi to release Qi. All flowers disperse, so it can dissipate heat and pathogenic factors to treat diarrhea in summer and moon. "