Red fungus

Red fungus

(Shaanxi Chinese herbal medicine)

[source] it is the fruiting body of the family umbilicaceae.

[plant morphology] red belly navel coat, also known as red belly stone ear and yellow bottom stone ear.

Lichen body is leaf-shaped, irregular in outline, 13-28 mm in diameter, with deep marginal lobes, close to many leaves, often perforated, and the lobes curl up slightly, brittle and fragile after drying. The upper surface is pale gray to dark gray, the edge is generally deep, and the old one is slightly brown gray; it is flat or has irregular protuberance, the umbilicus is protuberant, the color is lighter, and it shrinks into a raised and irregular ridge. The lower surface is orange red, slightly yellowish brown, the edge is dark brown, without false roots, often with small depressions, and some small reticular pits. The diameter of umbilicus is 2.5-3 mm.

On the rocks. Distributed in Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places.

In addition, there are the following two kinds of medicine, the same as medicine. Disc-shaped stone ear, dark brown on the surface, brown inside. The coat is made of vermilion leather. It is gray white on the surface and yellowish brown inside.

[collection] harvest after rain and dry in the sun.

[chemical constituents] there are more than 10 kinds of amino acids in the shell of vermilion leather.

[flavor] light, slightly bitter, flat.

Functions and indications: invigorate the stomach and eliminate food, promote diuresis and distension, and expel insects. Treatment of dyspepsia, abdominal pain, dysentery, infantile malnutrition, swelling, ascariasis, leucorrhea.

[usage and dosage] oral: decoction, 3-5 yuan.

[prescription selection] 1. For infantile malnutrition, swelling and Ascaris lumbricoides: red stone ear for two to five yuan, soaked in boiling water, fried with vegetable oil, boiled in boiling water, and served in soup.

② Treatment of dyspepsia, stomach pain: red stone ear five money, too white rice, too Qiang Huo each two money, peach ear seven or eight points, decoction.

③ Cure dysentery abdominal pain, malnutrition: red stone ear three money, cinnabar seventy-two money, Taibai rice five points, water decoction, brown and white sugar for lead.