Abelmoschus root

Abelmoschus root

(compendium)

[source] it is the root of Malvaceae plant Abelmoschus manihot. The plant morphology is detailed in the section of Abelmoschus manihot.

[collection] in autumn.

[chemical composition] it contains about 16% mucilaginous substance and is composed of arabinose 12.30%, galactan 13.19%, rhamnose 8.08%, starch 16.03%, protein 6.38% and calcium oxalate 17.61%.

[flavor] sweet and bitter, cold.

① "Gangmu": "sweet, cold, slippery, non-toxic. "

② "Bitter, cold" in the collection of herbs in the south of the Five Ridges. "

③ Yunnan Chinese herbal medicine: "bitter and pungent, slightly cold. "

[function indications] diuresis, blood stasis, detumescence, detoxification. Treatment of gonorrhea, edema, milk barrier, mumps, carbuncle.

① "Gangmu": "treatment of carbuncle, diuresis, five Lin, edema, difficult to produce, through milk. "

② "Collection of commonly used folk herbal medicine": "ventilating and moving stagnation, transforming swelling, treating toothache. "

③ "Antitussive" in Chinese medicine and plant Atlas. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1-3 yuan (fresh 0.5-1 Liang). External use: tamping or frying and washing.

[should avoid] pregnant women should not take it.

[selection] 1. Treatment of drenching disease: the root of Abelmoschus manihot is five to twelve five yuan, fried in water.

② Eliminate sores and discharge pus: root of Abelmoschus manihot, mash and apply.

③ Treatment of chancre, hemorrhoids: Abelmoschus root, fried and washed. (1) the following prescriptions are published in the collection of herbs in the south of the five ridges.)

④ Cure lung heat cough: root of Abelmoschus manihot seven money. Decoct in water, drink with rock sugar. (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)

⑤ Milk: okra root one or two. Boiled soybeans or pork leg clothes (Jiangxi herbal medicine manual)

[clinical application] ① treatment of mumps

Take 5 buckwheat root (dry product) and 3 buckwheat gamboge, grind them into fine powder respectively, put in 500 ml 95% alcohol, and apply the supernatant to the swelling part, 2-3 times a day. Among 263 cases, 75% were cured in 1-2 days and 25% in 3-4 days. The best effect is to apply the medicine at the beginning of the disease. The liquid medicine is highly toxic. You must pay attention to it when you use it. Do not enter it.

② Treatment of otitis media

Take 3 g of okra (dry product, root, stem and shell), add 300 ml of water, fry until 100 ml, and filter. For ear drops, 2-3 drops each time, 3 times a day for 2 weeks; external auditory canal secretion should be cleaned before dropping. In 60 cases of tympanic membrane perforation with secretions, 25 cases were cured, 12 cases were improved, and 9 cases were ineffective. Combined with systemic treatment, the effect is better.