Dry moss

Dry moss

(dietotherapy materia medica)

[alias] seaweed (Ben Cao Hui Yan), seaweed (Yao Kecheng's food Ben Cao).

[source] it is the algae of Ulva.

[plant morphology] Enteromorpha prolifera

The algal body is bright green or dark green, and its height can reach about 40 cm. It has many slender branches, usually 2-3 branches, sometimes hairy or wide branches. The cells are arranged in a row from the base to the top. The thickness is 26-70 μ M.

Most of them grow in the middle tidal zone and the mud bottom of Inner Bay, and the growth is more prosperous in the low-lying marshes of intertidal zone. It is distributed in the coastal areas of Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan and Guangdong.

Dry moss is also used as food in the folk. There are many kinds of dry moss. In addition to the above-mentioned Enteromorpha, there are Yuzhi Enteromorpha (distributed all over the coastal areas of China), flat Enteromorpha (common in the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea, also produced in Taiwan), Enteromorpha (distributed all over the northern and southern coastal areas of China), etc.

[collection] in winter and spring.

[flavor] salty, cold.

① Jiayou materia medica: "salty, cold. "

② Ben Cao Hui Yan: "salty, slightly cold, with little poison. "

[function indications] it can soften and firm, eliminate knots and resolve phlegm. It can cure gall, gall, fever and epistaxis.

① Tao Hongjing: "treating gall and forming Qi. "

② Meng Shen: "treat hemorrhoids, kill insects. Cholera vomiting, boiling juice. "

③ In the collection of Materia Medica, it is said that "if you are upset, you can grind cold water like mud and drink it. "

④ Daily use materia medica: "Xiao Cha Ji. "

⑤ "Compendium": "burn the powder and blow the nose to stop bleeding; soak the soup and tamp the back of the hand. "

⑥ "Suixiju diet spectrum": "Qingdan, Xiaohuang, gall, distension, phlegm, treatment of acclimatization. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction. External use: tamping.

[should avoid] 1. Meng Shen said: "there is a lot of food in the preserved moss, and there is a lot of scabies, which makes people yellow and less bloody. "

② "Daily use Materia Medica": "people with cough should not eat. "