maesa japonica

maesa japonica

(Ben Cao Tu Jing)

[synonyms] tuhengshan (compendium), Ta Tianqiao, shuimaye (Hunan medical records), shanqie (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual).

[source] it is the root and leaf of Dioscoreae.

[plant morphology] duzhushan

Evergreen shrubs, 1-3 m high, few branched, sometimes climbing, all bare. Leaves alternate, nearly leathery, oblong or narrowly elliptic, 5-15 cm long and 2-5 cm wide, apex acuminate, base cuneate or obtuse, entire or entire, sparsely serrate above middle; petiole 0.5-1 cm long. Raceme axillary, 1-3 cm long; yellow white flowers on short stalks; bracteoles broadly ovate to reniform; calyx and corolla 5-lobed, corolla tube 3-4 mm long, about 3 times as long as sepals; stamen 5; pistil 1. Berry globose or ovate, calyx persistent. Seeds numerous, black. It blooms in spring.

Most of them are under evergreen broad-leaved forest. Distributed in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River to Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places.

[collection] all year round.

[chemical constituents] the fruit contains daucosterone.

[nature and taste] Ben Cao Tu Jing: "bitter, cold. "

Functions and indications: dispelling wind, relieving epidemic and toxin, reducing swelling and swelling. Treatment of cold, headache, dizziness, cold, heat, thirst, edema, lumbago.

① "The book of materia medica:" the main warm miasma, cold and heat, intermittent, thirsty, headache, restless. Mash the leaves, soak them in new wine, and serve them with twisted juice. Spitting out evil saliva is very effective. "

② "Hunan medicine records": "dispel wind and cold, reduce swelling. For lumbago, cold, headache and dizziness. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 0.5-1 Liang. External use: tamping.

[selection] 1. Treatment of edema: duzhushan, Paulownia, Tongcao, decoct in water to remove the residue, and take it with tofu. (Hunan medical records)

② Treatment of jaundice and ascites: one or two from the root of Dujing mountain, one or two from the root of dieggplant, one or two from yehuangmaicai and one or two from Nepenthes. Fried in water, with green shell duck eggs as the guide. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)

③ Treatment of skin wind poison: Du stem root and sugar, fried. (list of plants in Guangxi)

④ Hemostasis, detumescence and pain: the stems and leaves of duzhushan, mash and apply. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)