Holly seed

Holly seed

(notes on materia medica)

Another name: dongqingshi (the book of Materia Medica) and lengqingshuzi (the simplified prescription of Linhu Collection).

[source] it is the fruit of Ilex.

[plant morphology] Holly (materia medica of Tang Dynasty), also known as frozen green and frozen green (materia medica Collection), Holly wood (materia medica Atlas), wannianzhi (qunfangpu? Mubu), big leaf frozen green (yilinzuoyao), and Sijiqing.

Evergreen trees, up to 12 m tall. Bark gray or grayish, glabrous. Leaves alternate, leathery, usually narrow elliptic, 6-10 cm long and 2-3.5 cm wide, apex acuminate, base cuneate, rarely rounded, margin sparsely serrate, dark green and glossy above, purplish red in winter, midrib raised below; petiole 5-15 mm long. Flowers unisexual, dioecious, cymes inserted in or outside leaf axils; calyx 4-lobed; petals 4, lavender; stamens 4; ovary superior. The drupe is oval, 6-10 mm long, red, containing 4 nuclei, and the peduncle is about 5 mm long. The flowering period is May. The fruit ripens in October.

In the forest. It is distributed in the south of Changhui basin.

The bark (Holly bark) and leaf (holly leaf) of this plant are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] the fruits are picked and dried in winter.

[nature and taste] Compendium: "sweet and bitter, cool, non-toxic. "

[Guijing] 1. Bencao Huiyan: "entering foot Jueyin meridian. "

② "Into the liver and kidney. "

[function indications] Qufeng. Tonifying deficiency. Treatment of rheumatic arthralgia, hemorrhoids.

① "The book of Materia Medica" says: "soak wine, remove wind and replenish blood. "

② "Seeking truth from Materia Medica": "invigorate the liver and tendons, invigorate the kidney and bones. "

③ "Treatment of rheumatism and arthralgia" in "records of Jiangsu medicinal materials". "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 1.5-3 yuan; or soak in wine.

[selection] treatment of hemorrhoids: on the winter solstice day, take the frozen green tree seeds, soak them in salt and wine for one night, steam them for nine days, sun them for nine days, and collect them in bottles. Swallow 70 pills of hollow wine every day, and take it when you lie down. (Linhu jijianfang)