Holly leaf

Holly leaf

(bielu)

[synonym] Abelmoschus vulgaris seedling leaf (Ben Cao Tu Jing), Qicai Baba leaf (Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine), winter amaranth (Chongqing herbal medicine).

[source] it is the tender seedling or leaf of Malvaceae. For the plant morphology, please refer to "dongkuizi".

[chemical composition] the leaves contain mucilaginous substance.

Sweet and cold.

① Tao Hongjing: "lengli. "

② Qianjin Shizhi: "sweet, cold, slippery, non-toxic. "

③ Yilin zuanyao: "sweet, salty, cold, slippery. "

Functions and indications: heat clearing, water circulation and bowel smoothing. Treatment of lung heat, cough, heat toxin, diarrhea, jaundice, two then impassable, erysipelas, golden sores.

① "On medicinal properties": "leaf: burn ash and pound dry leaf powder, treat golden sores. Boiling juice, can smooth small intestine, single boiling juice, indications when yellow disease. "

② Cui Yuxi's "the book of food" said: "food can nourish the liver, courage, and eyesight. It is mainly used for internal heat and thirst quenching, but the drinkers are confused by the heat. "

③ According to the book of materia medica: "if a pregnant woman cooks leaves and eats them in labor, the fetus will be slippery and easy to give birth. "

④ Wang Ying's "food Materia Medica": "in addition to guest heat, cure evil sores, disperse pus and blood, women take it, children's heat toxin, dysentery, erysipelas, and appropriate to eat. "

⑤ Yilin zuanyao: "Yixin, Xieshen, Huachang. To knot line water, milk. "

⑥ "Kunming medicine plant investigation report": "treat abdominal distension. "

⑦ "The prescription of Guizhou for promoting the whole body swelling and defecation: promoting the whole body swelling and defecation to slow down"

⑧ "Chongqing herbal medicine": "Miao ye: treatment of lung fire, cough, tuberculosis, cough, night sweats. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-2 Liang; or mash juice. External use: tamping, grinding, or gargling.

[should avoid] it should not be taken if the spleen is deficient and the intestines are slippery. Pregnant women should take it with caution.

① Bielu: "his heart hurts. "

② Qianjin? Shizhi: "eating raw sunflower makes people not eat and suffer from persistent diseases. "

③ "Materia medica Huiyan:" deficiency in the stomach, cold people; and wind disease, chronic disease, salt taboo. "

[selection] ① treatment of pneumonia: Winter amaranth cooked porridge. (Chongqing herbal medicine)

② Treatment of jaundice: Dongkui whole grass two liang, day coriander three Liang, zihuadiding grass two liang, plantain grass one or two, refined meat three Liang. Stewed clothes in water

③ It can treat children's hair spot, disperse poisonous gas, produce sunflower leaves, wring juice, and take less. (Sheng Hui Fang)

④ Treatment of sore throat: holly leaves, flowers, dried in the shade, fried water gargle. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)

⑤ Treatment of flaccidity: first, clean the swill and wash it warm, then wipe the water with cotton, and take sunflower leaves to warm the sores and induce pus, which is only two or three hundred leaves. When the pus is gone, the flesh will grow. Avoid miscellaneous fish, garlic, rooms, etc. (Meng Bi Xiao Fang)

⑥ Treatment of soup fire: sunflower for the end of the application. (food materia medica by Wang Ying)

⑦ Treatment of snake and scorpion sting: mash the sunflower to get the juice. (Qian Jin Fang)

⑧ To cure mistakenly swallowing money and mistakenly swallowing needle: no matter how many sunflower vegetables, wring juice, cold drink. (Puji Fang)