Eichhornia crassipes

Eichhornia crassipes

(essential preparation of raw herbs)

[synonyms] pinpoguo (Ling Wai Dai DA), jiucenpi (mirror of scholar's Academy), luohuangzi (compendium), pan Anguo (essential preparation of raw herbs), qijieguo and fuguizi (flora of Guangzhou).

[source] is the seed of Wutong.

[plant morphology] pingpo

Trees, up to 10 m high. The bark is brown. Leaves papery, oblong to oblong elliptic, 8-25 cm long, 5-15 cm wide, apex acuminate or obtuse, base obtuse, bald; petiole 2.5-5 cm long. Panicle drooping, 8-28 cm long; flowers miscellaneous, without corolla; calyx pink, 5-lobed to middle, lobes triangular, pubescent; stamen style weak, curved; female flowers few, ovary hairy, petiolate, 5-lobed, style curved. Very leathery, ovoid, 4-8 cm long, 2.5-3.5 cm wide, beaked, dark red at maturity, covered with short villi. Seeds 1-5, ellipsoid, dark chestnut. The flowering period is May. The fruit period is from June to July (Guizhou).

It is also cultivated in wild hillside forests or shrubs. Distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou and other places.

The shell of this plant is also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

Sweet and warm.

① Yao Kecheng's food materia medica: "sweet, warm. "

② "The nature of raw herbal medicine preparation": Gan, Ping. "

It has the function of warming the stomach. It is used to treat abdominal pain, vomiting and colic.

① Yao Kecheng's food materia medica: "it can cure insects in the viscera and children's eating soil, abdominal pain, and hard lump accumulation. It can nourish liver and gallbladder, improve eyesight, remove haze, relieve cough and fever, relieve pathogenic wind, eliminate trouble and reduce fire. "

② "Preparation of the nature of raw herbal medicine": "it is used to treat the nature of children's shengtianpo (children's rotten head ulcers), to open the oil, to eliminate heat, and to cook meat. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction or powder. External use: calcined, preserved, processed and mixed.

[prescription selection] 1. It is used to treat Ascaris lumbricoides in the abdomen. The heart is in great pain and wants to die. There are white spots on the face: seven pieces of luohuangzi and seven pieces of Petunia. Take it in water.

② For stomach turning and vomiting, it comes out immediately after eating; or morning food vomiting, evening food vomiting: seven pieces of luohuangzi. Calcined storage, daily wine under the inch dagger, service for the degree.

③ Treatment of colic: luohuangzi seven. Fried in wine. (Yao Kecheng's food materia medica)