Sweet potato root

Sweet potato root

(Cao Mu Bian Fang)

[source] it is the root of sweet potato. For plant morphology, please refer to "sweet potato vine".

[flavor] bitter and astringent, cool.

① "Diannan Materia Medica": "it is cool in nature and bitter in taste. "

② "Cao Mu Bian Fang": "bitter, slightly cold in nature. "

Functions and indications: clearing away heat and promoting diuresis. Treat diarrhea, dysentery, jaundice, scrofula, spermatorrhea, leucorrhea, hemorrhoids.

① "Diannan Materia Medica": "treating spermatorrhea and smoothing spermatozoa. "

② "Cao Mu Bian Fang": "benefit water, clear heat, detumescence, pass milk. Treatment of jaundice, closed month, under the belt, toothache, falls. "

③ "Classification of herbal medicine": "treatment of scrofula, itch, diarrhea, leucorrhea. Under the milk, fill deficiency. "

④ Chongqing herbal medicine: "it can treat damp heat, dysentery, jaundice and hemorrhoids. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-2 Liang.

[formula selection] ① for diarrhea and red dysentery: sweet potato root, red clover root and Ailanthus altissima root, each two. Take it orally in boiling water.

② For a long time no treatment of the disease: sweet potato root two liang, Mai Dou grass two liang, fo Ding Zhu two Liang. Stew pig heart and lung with sugar.

③ Treatment of internal and external hemorrhoids: fresh sweet potato root 1 jin, Sophora flavescens 2 liang, climbing wall fruit 2 liang. Stewed pig large intestine.